1. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman last week urged federal regulators to prevent Union Pacific from temporarily suspending shipments through Laredo. 2. First, they voluntarily suspended their shipments. 3. Germany, Switzerland and Sweden have suspended shipments of spent fuel that was to be reprocessed at Sellafield. 4. IBM said it was suspending shipments of its personal computers containing the Pentium chip. 5. In addition, the Energy Department said Friday that it had suspended all shipments of nuclear materials and nuclear waste because of the terrorist attacks. 6. Iraq suspended oil shipments in early December in order to negotiate a new plan to speed up delivery of humanitarian supplies. 7. It said it was suspending its shipments from the factory until it completes its own investigation. 8. Japan wants Britain to take back nuclear fuel shipped with such documents and Germany suspended new shipments of spent fuel. 9. Regular aid shipments have been suspended since bombing began and the area is desperately short of food, medicine and irrigation equipment. 10. Shipments were suspended by bureaucratic and political disputes within Russia. |