1.   Analysts said the purchase, combined with asset disposals, would allow Lagardere to strengthen its leading position in military electronics.

2.   And the government is attempting to sell its stake in military electronics maker Thomson SA and its defense unit Thomson-CSF.

3.   At Racal, the Bowman project is already a bleak mark on earnings as the company attempts a shift into data communications to balance the fickle military electronics business.

4.   BIDS FOR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS UNIT Texas Instruments is said to have begun taking offers for its military electronics unit.

5.   Both have launch vehicles for nuclear missiles, both make spy satellites and both have advanced military electronics systems.

6.   But executives here are also hoping to recruit companies like Thomson CSF of France, which produces military electronics, as well as Italian partners.

7.   But while Siemens abandoned businesses in dental equipment, military electronics and personal computers, analysts complained that it had never confronted its structural problems.

8.   FRANCE IS RETAINING THOMSON-CSF France has decided not to sell its controlling stake in Thomson-CSF, the biggest military electronics company in Europe.

9.   GEC is courting Thomson-CSF, a French military electronics maker, as a partner to help it weather tough times.

10.   GEC, which makes military electronics such as radar and missiles, had been keen to merge its Marconi defense business with its bigger rival, Thomson-CSF.