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Another setback for Ma Bell...
With some 40 antitrust lawsuits pending against it, the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (assets: $125 billion) is fast becoming one of the nation's most familiar courtroom defendants. Charged by competitors with service delays and unfair pricing to drive out competition, Ma Bell has entered into several agreements and is currently appealing a $1.8 billion antitrust award to MCI Communications Corp., which successfully argued that A T & T stalled in supplying telephone hookups needed for MCI to operate a rival long-distance telephone network...
...strictly legal terms, the Litton decision has no bearing on the biggest antitrust case of all against Ma Bell-the U.S. Government's suit to break up A T & T, in part by spinning off its equipment manufacturing division, Western Electric. But the adverse Litton decision may nonetheless make it politically more difficult for the Reagan Administration to drop the case, as both the Commerce Department and the Pentagon have urged. They maintain that the nation's economy and security require a strong...
Even so, as they crossed the eastern bank of the Gulf of Aqaba and began to climb over the nearby rocky red mountains, the higher-flying F-15s were picked up by Jordanian radar based at Ma'an. The station radioed the planes in Arabic, using international emergency frequencies. The Israelis were
Steven Bach, 41, film maker, after being ousted as head of production at United Artists: "We'll find out how badly I was hurt if I can't get a table any more at Ma Maison. Then I'm in disgrace...