111.   The work was however due to be suspended at the end of the day until Friday for the Christmas break, a police spokesman said.

112.   Trading in MMM was suspended at the same time.

113.   Trading in Sumitomo shares was meanwhile allowed to resume Monday after the stock was suspended at the end of last week.

114.   Trading in the shares of forestry and paper companies Kymmene, Repola and Rauma was suspended at the request of the companies early on Monday, market authorities said.

115.   Traffic ground to a halt, shops shut, and courses were suspended at Bir Ziet University, near Ramallah, and other colleges.

116.   To compound the misery, crime has become so widespread that President Zhelyu Zhelev has proposed enforcing the death penalty, which was suspended at the fall of communism.

117.   Trading in Sanofi shares was also suspended at the request of the company and a press statement is expected at the end of the morning.

118.   Trading in the stock had been suspended at the end of last week.

119.   Voting had to be suspended at three locations southwest of the capital after factional violence, but the morning progressed in an atmosphere of general calm.

120.   Kobe Steel Ltd., which was heavily damaged in the quake with production suspended at two works, plans to release its forecasts later this month.