The Clinton administration suspended intelligence gathering flights over Peru and Colombia for a month in 1994 because of concerns that American officials could face criminal liability in accidents like the one last Friday that killed an American missionary and her newly adopted infant daughter.
The anthrax attacks in the United States focused international attention on germ weapons, but the countries meeting here to strengthen the global pact banning those weapons were so divided on how to proceed that today they suspended the gathering for a year rather than allow their effort to collapse.
It was not what he said that mattered, but that he was saying it to a group of Labour members and supporters on the day that party headquarters had suspended official gatherings.
The move could enrage supporters of the government: The cabinet has been told to report to the military, TV broadcasting is suspended, political gatherings are banned and a nationwide overnight curfew is in force.
Also Monday, the Iraqi police raided the Baghdad offices of Al Arabiya, an Arab-language television station based in Dubai, forcing it to suspend its news-gathering operations inside the country.
Mr. Paniagua immediately went on television to deny the charge, and the network suspended its news gathering activities after several journalists resigned in protest.
TV broadcasting has been suspended and political gatherings are banned.
The declaration of a state of emergency gives the military the power to suspend certain civil liberties and ban public gatherings of more than five people.
But after Mexico decided to limit public gatherings, the embassy said it would suspend the processing of thousands of tourist visas this week.
The gathering of the Primates has no power to "suspend" a member church, in any event.
