1.   The government halted its policy of returning Zimbabwean asylum seekers to their homeland.

2.   Opposition groups claimed, however, that the government had halted voting in areas where the Parti dmocratique gabonais appeared close to defeat.

3.   The UN, the US embassy in Khartoum and other foreign embassies were reported to have appealed to the government to halt the relocation programme.

4.   The abrogation is to take effect unless the Czechoslovak government halts work on the project by the end of April.

5.   The government halted the distribution of petrol and the Committees for the Defence of the Republic began distributing arms.

6.   Brazilian Brady bonds rose as investors bet the government would halt a long, possibly disruptive senate investigation into the failure of a bank, traders said.

7.   A socialist government would halt the sale of assets by the state, he said.

8.   Diplomats, led by Americans, thought that if the government halted their attacks, the rebels would honor a cease-fire, allowing negotiations.

9.   Feinstein also called on the Israeli government to voluntarily halt the proposed export of weapons.