In August 2005, the Indonesian government announced random raids of nightclubs in Jakarta and Bali and mandatory urine tests for anyone found with drugs.

Hawat had taken precautions against random raids by false spice lighters.

Alleging old relations and modus operandi were founded on repression, conflict and disrespect, he ordered the state police to be refrain from random criminal-searching raids at favelas and also repressed the activities of vigilante death squads, which included policemen on leave.

And there was an older Protestant loyalist woman asking virtually the same question the morning after as she stood with singed hair by the ashes of her house after it was gasoline-bombed in a random, retaliatory raid by nationalist vandals.

Nevertheless, he saw his opportunity: he could now find out who was behind these destructive and seemingly random raids on the Xaridian colonies.

The incident sparked outcries for better protection along the route, and Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison organized the Rangers to provide a fast response to attacks, primarily as a deterrent to random American Indian raids.

LEAD: It was not just another random raid by Arab zealots.

These are flying squads who descend on social security offices to make random raids on both men and women.

I knew nothing about an invasion; we thought we had come to Xavier to babysit some paranoid colonists who had panicked over a perfectly ordinary random raid.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices have been deluged with inquiries about reports of random raids, from pizza parlors to construction sites, said Ernestine Fobbs, a spokeswoman.