Mount Sinai, a world leader in using healthy people as live donors for adults who need liver transplants, halted the operations after Mr. Hurewitz's death and said it would not resume them until its own investigation and the state's were finished.
Meanwhile on Monday, Vales pain became more pronounced after it reported that it halted the operations at two of its pellet plants located at the port of Tubarao, in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo.
A state judge in Staten Island refused yesterday to halt the operation of a new mini-power plant in the borough.
Using a secret agent they had recruited who was in close contact with the bin Laden organization, Mr. Mubarak said, his intelligence chiefs tried unsuccessfully to halt the operation.
In a filing late Monday, District Attorney Ken Buck and Sheriff John Cook of Weld County also said a judge erred in halting the operation.
After Mr. Bush called on Israel to halt the operation, Mr. Sharon continued it for a month without damaging his relationship with Washington.
Japan also expressed strong concern, saying Algeria had failed not only to advise of the operation ahead of time, but to heed its request to halt the operation because it was endangering the hostages.
A South Korean newspaper, the Chosun Ilbo, reported Monday that North Korea had offered to halt the operation of the five-megawatt reactor at its main nuclear complex while allowing monitoring by the international weapons inspectors.
Mr. Fischer said he tried to halt the operation on Sunday because the high winds trailing the storm added to an already potent combination of stinging insects, heights and chain saws.
