1.   As part of the widening crackdown, Premier Zhu Rongji announced the setting up of a special force to combat growing smuggling, a crime often abetted by officials.

2.   Chinese police have questioned or detained seven dissidents in a widening crackdown on organizers of a political opposition party, a human rights group reported Saturday.

3.   Even as Chinese President Jiang Zemin promised to protect human rights in a letter marking the anniversary, police ransacked the homes of several dissidents in a widening crackdown.

4.   Four more democracy activists have been detained and their homes searched by police in a widening crackdown on dissidents in China, a human rights group said Thursday.

5.   In a widening crackdown on Islamic militants, Israeli troops scaling ladders broke into a West Bank college dormitory before dawn Friday and arrested about two dozen students.

6.   In a widening crackdown on Islamic militants, Israeli troops broke into a West Bank college dormitory before dawn Friday and arrested two dozen students, college officials said.

7.   In a widening crackdown on Islamic militants, Israeli troops scaling ladders broke into a West Bank college dormitory before dawn Friday and arrested two dozen students.

8.   The arrests are part of a widening crackdown on collusion between government and business.

9.   The Malaysian government today charged a newspaper editor with sedition and warned that more arrests were possible in a widening crackdown on opposition leaders.

10.   Xinhua said the retail market would remain closely watched under the widening crackdown.