| Show World reaches GENEVA (AP) — Negotiators from 67 countries clinched a landmark deal Saturday to open their telecommunications markets to foreign competition declaring it would save money for iclc-- I phone customers around the world The agreement — which gives the United States a chance to expand in one of the most dynamic sectors of the world economy — was reached at the World Trade Organization only hours before a midnight deadline In Washington President Ginton said the agreement will bring “clear benefits I &vrt7’jr:rrrmultibillion-dolla- r Acting US Trade Representative Charlene Barshcfsky estimated (hat the cost of international phone calls to US consumers would drop over the next several years by 80 percent — from $1 a minute on average to 20 cents a minute The accord will liberalize trade in telephone services fax and data transmission The countries taking part in the agreement account for more than 90 percent of the $750 billion global telecommunications industry The United States already accounts about a third of that market with the European Union holding another third American workers businesses and consumers alike — new jobs new mar- - 1o Li)qtri Utah fjuiuiay Fatjruary 16 1997 — PaqB iiiosi vital scctois ol the world economy but liaJe barrier have presented tcclin i logic il gams In Mil being passed oil (o the consumer I he deal would phase out monopolies uni restrictions on competition that have allowed telephone companies to ovciihnit'c loi calls I lie di x eloping world would also gain from improved telecommunications technology said the director general of the World I rade Organization Renalo Ruggiero " I his is good news lor firms which spend more on telecommunications scr-ices than they do on oil It is also good news for families that in today's world v Japanese -TV admits contacting Peru rebels rot if are so often scpuiiied by physical lie said Washington had been the final holdout hi the negotiations ITic Clinton jdmims-liaiio- ii under pressure from Congress to drive a hard bargain hud insisted up to dis-tiM'- the last moment that other countries improve their oilers Some Congress members were unhappy at Canada's 4o7 percent cap on foreign ownership while the United States itself is offering UNI percent up from 2(1 percent I'hc countries have until Nov 30 to ratifv the agreement which would take effect Jan I IWS jwi TOKYO (AP) — A TV network passed messages from hostages at the Japanese ambas- sador's house in Peru to their families using a secret radio hookup set up when its reporter sneaked into the house TV Asahi said it severed the radio link after a warning from Japan's government that the contact could threaten negotiations to free the 72 hostages held by leftist Tupac Amaru guerrillas A TV Asahi reporter Tsuyoshi Hitomi left a radio transmitter in the ambassador’s house on orders from his superiors after he slipped into the residence Jan 7 and conducted interviews for two hours Hitomi was detained briefly by Peru authorities then ordered out of the country At the time the network did not disclose that he had left the transmitter The rebels contacted the net- work twice using the radio hookup on Jan 24 and Jan 25 TV Asahi said On the second occasion the network said it took messages from about 10 of the 12 Japanese businessmen being held and relayed them to the hostages’ families in Japan TV Asahi’s chief spokesman Masami Miyachi said the messages consisted of brief greetings A dozen Japanese diplomats are also being held but they did not leave messages When the Japanese government got wind of the secret conversa- tions it summoned TV Asahi officials and demanded that they destroy their radio equipment and make future contact impossible TV Asahi did so on Thursday said Miyachi No details were provided Double your included minutes every month up to 1998 minutes to Plus Plans Gunmen shoot kill Rwandan justice Sign New up for ATST Wireless Service and double your cellular airtime on featured -- KIGALI Rwanda (AP) — Uniformed gunmen shot and killed a Rwandan Supreme Court justice at his home his wife said Saturday IWo other people died in the W) up Home Long Distance every month for a tear MKT 99 $ Plus Free Activation 199H Digital PCS ABET Starting at month plan really gives you up to oo minutes -plans For example a for six months with cellular service Or even better choose new AIT Digital 10 and double your minutes every month up to a month AIXT Wireless Services IcdinoingY Hut sets you tree'' Visit a particiuitini’ dealer nr call: assault Three attackers opened fire as a car carrying Vincent Nkezaba-ganw- a pulled into the driveway of his home in Kigali on Friday HHAIEr 1800-IMAGIN- E night The gunmen killed his driver and a neighbor “They were wearing uniforms and fired as they ran in through Nkez-abagan- the HILL AH Ogden - 7437 6P St Btig 430 - 801 Mjr-- a 4637 S 90G Eis! 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