51. In India, the city of New Delhi became a forerunner in a new crackdown on smoking in movie theaters, parks and buses. 52. Launching a new crackdown in restive Kosovo, Serbian police sealed off several ethnic Albanian villages Thursday. 53. One of the consequences of the bombing was a new crackdown by Milosevic on opponents at home, an attempt to silence critical voices in time of war. 54. Security forces Thursday arrested two leading anti-government campaigners and dozens of other activists in what appeared to be a new crackdown on opponents of Gen. Sani Abacha. 55. Refugees said Thursday the draft orders now circulating through ethnic Albanians areas of Serbia are part of a new crackdown on enclaves previously spared the purges in nearby Kosovo. 56. Some even suggested the massacre might have been plotted in Moscow as a pretext for a new crackdown. 57. Some newspapers even suggested the massacre might have been plotted in Moscow as a pretext for a new crackdown in Chechnya. 58. Suu Kyi, largely confined to her home in recent months in a new crackdown, was not present. 59. The groups in turn accused the junta of staging the bombing as a pretext to launch a new crackdown on opponents. 60. The house demolition came a time of a new Israeli crackdown on Hamas, with dozens of activists arrested in recent days. |