Lépine's responsibilities as Paris's prefect of police included not only law and order but also street and river traffic, train schedules, telecommunications, fire-fighting, the food supply, waste disposal and public health.
Its units also make electrical and electronic components, undersea telecommunications equipment, fire protection and security systems.
Tyco, a conglomerate that makes electrical and electronic parts for telecommunications and fire protection systems, said the purchase would expand the company's product line and improve efficiency in manufacturing, research, marketing and other areas.
PAGE A20 Nortel Fires 3 Executives Nortel Networks, the telecommunications equipment maker, fired its chief executive, chief financial officer and controller and said it would cut its 2003 earnings.
Tyco, which also makes telecommunications, medical and fire-protection products, had operating income of $1.1 billion, or 64 cents a diluted share, before special items, compared with $782.7 million, or 46 cents a diluted share, in the year-earlier quarter.
Mr. Leverett suggested a guide, Eleanor Tillinghast, who lives in the tiny town of Mount Washington (population 135, normal temperature in July, 68 degrees) and has helped scientists document the unusual ecosystem of Mount Everett's summit to oppose a state plan to put telecommunications equipment on a fire tower.
Other municipal deployments have come under fire from telecommunications companies, who say the city is taking away their business.
There have been shortcomings of indoor coverage which has caused some agencies to retain use of the old systems Formerly, Norway had three separate systems for telecommunications within the police, fire departments and paramedics, all based on analog radio.
Nortel Networks, the troubled Canadian telecommunications equipment maker, has fired seven more financial managers as it continued to sort out the accounting scandal that led to the dismissal of its president this year.
The region's main telecommunications tower was evacuated as treetop fires spread near Black Mountain overlooking the city.
First, the source: Patrick Joseph was the head of Haiti's national telecommunications company (Teleco) until he was fired by then President Aristide for corruption in 2003.
