The guards are among the main units used to suppress the opposition.
"They were shelling the buildings at the frontline all night," said Major Abu Furad, who led one of the main units in Salahedin, Katibat al-Ansar.
Furniture Brands International said yesterday that it would cut more than 1,000 jobs, merge its two main units and shut down three factories.
Siemens had planned to earn a profit equal to 12 percent of sales in its main units during the company's next financial year, which begins in September.
The main units of local government, defined by the constitution as collectivités territoriales ("territorial collectivities"), are the régions, the départements, the communes, and the overseas territories.
Sulzer A.G., the world's second-biggest maker of pumps, said yesterday that it expected operating profit to increase at its four main units as a result of improving demand and cost cutting.
The banks' three main units are wealth management, a prized division that focuses on banking for private clients; asset management; and the investment bank, where the brunt of the recent losses at the bank have occurred.
While Ford's embattled United States operation narrowed its losses in 2002, the company still needs all the help it can get from its main units, Europe and Latin America.
The wages of all 113 other executives will also be cut, while three former co-chief executives, responsible for integrating the lender's main units, resigned as advisers on Monday, the bank said.
The Interpublic Group of Companies in New York continues to reorganize after its recent acquisition of True North Communications as it merges agencies within one of its four main units, the McCann-Erickson World Group.
UFJ did not provide equivalent consolidated profit and bad-loan figures from a year earlier but as a rough comparison its main units earned a net profit of 132.2 billion yen in the same quarter last year.
