Aunc.1672 net.general utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb Fri Jan 8 13:07:59 1982 AT&T settles with Government AT&T and the U.S. government have settled their seven-year-old anti-trust suit out of court. Under the terms of the settlement, AT&T will divest itself of the local operating companies; it will retain AT&T Long Lines (the long distance service), Western Electric, and Bell Labs. The reorganization will be completed within 18 months. In the meantime, trading in IBM stock has been suspended pending a 3pm meeting in U.S. District Court. Sources say that a major announce- ment is pending, but no one will disclose just what it is. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.