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Despite the court-ordered divestiture of American Telephone & Telegraph that took place on Jan. 1, reaching out and touching Aunt Maude in Dubuque has continued to be an expensive proposition. Ma Bell has long claimed that it was levying high rates on long-distance service as a way of keeping down the cost of local calls. Last week the Federal Communications Commission took a giant step toward rearranging that system by ordering AT&T to slash long-distance rates by 6.1% beginning May 25. The move could save American consumers up to $1.8 billion a year...
From the top of the dike the plain looked endless, colorless, with a few bare trees, a row of crooked telegraph poles, and half a dozen or so huts marking the view of the terrain but failing to interrupt its flatness and lack of color. The sound of a shepherd's reed in the distance made his small flock of sheep and goats visible. The goats separated themselves from the sheep seemingly by following the sound of their own bells. But there wasn't even a small patch of green, and what the animals fed on couldn't be anything...
...Harare last week, the Prime Minister hinted that he might impose even tighter restrictions on foreign journalists, whom he charged with a campaign to discredit his government. "It is far from being as ugly as they portray it," he said. "Zimbabwe will never die because the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Times of London and the New York Times continue to report unfavorably about us. We continue to make progress and to use whatever means are within our boundaries to survive as a nation...
When the Bell System was broken up on New Year's Day, no one expected immediate technological or managerial miracles. In that sense, no one has been disappointed. Nearly four months after Bell was turned into a new American Telephone & Telegraph and seven regional holding companies responsible for local phone service, the rewards of divestiture remain chiefly a promise, while the problems are as complex and acute as ever...
When it was broken up in January, American Telephone & Telegraph lost all its local phone companies but gained the right to invade the computer market. Last week the still giant firm (assets: $34 billion) launched its first major attack. AT&T rolled out six machines ranging from a $9,950 desktop model to a high-powered $340,000 one. Said Stephen McClellan, a data-processing industry analyst for Salomon Bros.: "A T & T's entry into computers is probably the most significant event in the industry since IBM launched its Personal Computer...