61.   The IMF suspended further payments, saying it wants the government to put forward a credible economic plan and evidence it is being implemented.

62.   The IMF suspended payment of the bailout fund to Indonesia, saying that the government was dragging its feet over reforms.

63.   The prosecutor ordered an audit of Life Choice last July, shortly after the company suspended payments to its shareholders.

64.   The turmoil led Argentina to suspend payments on its foreign debt and forced a steep devaluation of the peso in January.

65.   He also made it clear he would not reverse a decision to suspend payments on the crippling public debt.

66.   He suspended all payments in both national and foreign currency made by the Bank of Zaire from state accounts, it said.

67.   Albania has been shaken by violent demonstrations since two pyramid investment schemes suspended payments, leaving an estimated one million Albanians facing financial ruin.

68.   Argentina declared the biggest default in history last month, suspending payments on its massive foreign debt after nearly four years of recession.

69.   There was high volume in the shares of cross-Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel, which suspended interest payments on its debt to the banks.

70.   Vivendi Universal later insisted it had never suspended payments.