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...national carrier, Singapore Airlines, last November, and Taiwan is considering offering stock in state steel, chemical, shipbuilding and construction operations. "The time has come for privatization," says Y.Y. Wang, vice chairman of Taiwan's Commission on National Corporations. In Japan, the government is selling majority control of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone in order to open the telecommunications market to newcomers. Japanese National Railways is next in line...
...sugar broker from the Virgin Islands named Sosthenes Behn founded International Telephone & Telegraph, hoping to link callers around the world much as AT&T had connected phone users in the U.S. For decades thereafter, Behn's successors at ITT remained true to his vision. Even when ITT's acquisitive chairman Harold Geneen began buying dozens of companies in such fields as aerospace, bakery goods and cosmetics in the 1960s and 1970s, he kept ITT firmly planted in global telecommunications...
...across a chalkboard last week in the headquarters of the Communications Workers of America. Whose victory, however, was open to question, as President Morton Bahr announced that a tentative agreement had been reached after a strike of more than two weeks by 155,000 C.W.A. members against American Telephone & Telegraph...
...idea that Times Mirror should buy the Sun was first suggested to Murphy by Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson, an old friend and colleague from the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News. "It's a beautiful fit for us," said Johnson last week. The Sun's owners, the Abell family, said that the Times Mirror offer was simply too generous to refuse. Critics wondered whether the Times was paying too much for the Sun. "Prices for media properties have been running high," admitted Times Mirror Chairman Erburu. "But if you make the right acquisition and get a satisfactory return...
WASHINGTON--Tens of thousands of long-distance telephone callers faced delays yesterday as workers rallied and walked picket lines at American Telephone & Telegraph facilities in the nation's largest strike in three years...