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...Britain and now Japan, 1984 has been the twilight year for telephone giants. First, on New Year's Day the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph became effective. Then, in early December, Britain sold majority control of the government-owned British Telecom to private investors in the largest stock sale ever. Last week the Japanese Diet joined the trend. It voted to end the state monopoly of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (fiscal 1983 sales: $18.4 billion), the country's phone company. Beginning in April the government will offer half of NTT's shares for sale over a five...
...breakup of NTT's monopoly could prove a boon to Japanese telephone users. The 32-year-old NTT has been slow to innovate, sometimes leaving customers with costly service. The price for a call between Tokyo and Osaka, which is currently 40? for 45 seconds, could soon be slashed in half...
...Lions marched right back and only a brilliant Tim Kotkiewicz breakup of a potential Columbia scoring pass with no time remaining saved the game for the hosts...
Nonetheless, the main group chose the Susitna. On the gray afternoon of April 29, they ignored the warnings of townspeople in Talkeetna that the spring breakup was imminent, and began to cross the mile-wide river. They pushed and pulled their overloaded house trailers across. At times the water above the ice reached their knees. But by late afternoon they had hauled their trailers ashore on the west bank...
...such a man long rule a nation so vast and complex? The question was being asked last week by India's friends and enemies alike. Referring to the murder of Mrs. Gandhi, a British Cabinet member said flatly, "It is a great tragedy that could lead to the breakup of the Indian nation." At the moment the separatist pressure is coming from Punjab; at other times it has been centered in Assam to the northeast, in Jammu and Kashmir to the north, and elsewhere...