21.   An Intelsat VII satellite that will relay telephone and television signals around the world was launched into orbit early Tuesday, the Washington-based consortium said.

22.   Repairs to the Channel tunnel damaged by a fire last month will not be completed until mid-May, the Eurotunnel consortium said Thursday.

23.   The Airbus Industrie consortium said the jet was carrying seven crew members.

24.   The consortium said in a communique issued in Paris that it was asking Lazard Freres New York to handle the sale.

25.   The consortium says it hopes to pump four billion barrels of oil from Azerbaijani fields.

26.   The consortium said the well has flowed continuously for two days.

27.   The consortium says the train would provide long-term job growth as opportunity existed for Australia to be licensed to manufacture and export to Asia.

28.   The foreign consortium said its members had invested their own money in developing the housing project and moved staff and personnel from overseas to Islamabad.