41.   Operations were halted Thursday as the airline implemented new government-mandated procedures to handle cargo and hazardous materials.

42.   President Boris Yeltsin announced that major military operations would be halted at midnight Sunday in the breakaway region of Chechnya, but the war against terrorists would continue.

43.   Raket sports tabloid announced it would halt operations for at least six months, and five North Sumatra-based weeklies stopped publication last month.

44.   Postal operations were halted temporarily after the contents leaked onto a postal clerk.

45.   A fire broke out at a mine in northern Russia on Friday, filling a mine shaft with smoke and halting operations, a news report said.

46.   A local court in April ordered AUM to halt operations in the country but the religious group is appealing the ruling.

47.   A Kizu official said the credit union has not yet received any order to halt its operations.

48.   A year-old, money-losing regional airline halted operations indefinitely on Thursday until it could find more funding.

49.   After diving past darkness, they halted operations until the morning.

50.   Among the worst hit was the state-run Chinese Petroleum Corp., which said its three refineries and petrochemical plants in Kaohsiung had to halt operations.