But, after an inexplicable four-year delay in reaching a decision, two Ninth Circuit judges stopped it.

Russia will ask for a four-year delay in meeting a global ban on ozone-destroying gases scheduled to start in 1996, Interfax news agency said today.

Mr. Esnard said city lawyers had advised him that the four-year delay was unconstitutional.

However, the works was involved in heavy freight locomotive construction for the war effort, resulting in a four-year delay.

He said that Transcontinental originally wanted to install the entire project by the end of this year, but later asked for the four-year delay to finish its biggest piece.

Administrative blunders and a four-year delay in settling the dispute were described yesterday as a scandal by union leaders involved in the battle.

In the end, the votes of the Mormon Republicans were only one of several factors behind the confirmation of Judge Paez, which came after a four-year delay.

Many officers said the four-year delay had reinforced their impression that the city did not intend to come after them for the money at all.

Mr. Manna and others blame the four-year delay in acting against the mine largely on understaffing: Eight mining inspectors patrol more than 2,000 state mines.