But progress is halting, officials admit.
For now, however, plans to continue with the delivery of four F-16 warplanes will not be halted, officials said.
Without the participation of Gao Gao and Bai Yun, the breeding program would be halted, officials said.
The takeover of the permitting process is necessary, they said, to keep new construction from grinding to a halt, federal officials said.
Two recent incidents of unrest in Guiyang, in southwestern China — over a land dispute and employment — were quickly brought to a halt when officials, accompanied by police and security forces, dispersed the crowds.
The robust growth in real estate values in New York, a trend that helped fuel years of record budget surpluses and city spending, has nearly skidded to a halt, city officials said Tuesday, and that shift could bring new pressure on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to raise taxes.
Muir says that "you can read victory on the faces" of the demonstrators, but the economy has ground to a halt and officials are appealing to them to save Egypt by getting back to work.
"Of course the negotiations would halt," the official, Katsunari Suzuki, told Japanese reporters.
In a sign the central government understands public frustration with the waste, and the whiff of corruption, associated with these projects, it has ordered a five-year "across-the-board halt" to official building projects.
In addition to halting enrichment, officials said, Iran must agree to ship out its stockpiles of 20 percent uranium and to cease operations at an enrichment facility buried in a mountainside near the holy city of Qum, which Israel says could soon be impregnable to an airstrike.
