21.   In Paris, air traffic slowly returned to normal Tuesday afternoon after a total shutdown at Charles de Gaulle airport in the morning and a partial closure of Orly.

22.   Israel has imposed a partial closure on Gaza and the West Bank for security reasons.

23.   A bomb-alert on Sunday forced a partial closure of an underground station in the Moscow district where President Boris Yeltsin lives, police said.

24.   Disagreements over how to balance the budget have twice led to the partial closure of the government.

25.   The veto will complete a legislative process that would set in motion the partial closure of the federal government.

26.   Tokyo will also negotiate for the partial closure of the Kadena Ammunition Store and Makiminato Service Area, the sources said.

27.   Maximova accused ecologists of overestimating pollution levels but said the Irkutsk authorities were ready to finance the partial closure of the factory and create alternative uses for it.

28.   Meanwhile, the Commerce Department announced it would release no economic reports during the shutdown -- the second such partial closure in about a month.

29.   Republicans and Democrats alike are under increasing pressure to end the partial closure, as ripple effects are beginning to be felt throughout the United States and abroad.

30.   That stalemate led to the shutdowns, with the last, three-week partial closure becoming the longest in US history.