1.   California Attorney General Dan Lungren also will make antitrust Decisions in several weeks regarding both merger proposals, the regulators said.

2.   Last week, Mattel disclosed that its stock-for-stock merger proposal had been turned down by Hasbro.

3.   The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public.

4.   TWO Northern companies were in the limelight last week as Tyne Tees Television recommended to its shareholders that they accept merger proposals with Yorkshire TV.

5.   However, union officials believed more merger proposals were in the pipeline.

6.   Analyst David Adelman of Dean Witter said shareholders might back a merger proposal that includes a Nabisco spinoff.

7.   At least two other larger credit unions are expected to submit competing merger proposals.

8.   Australian investors reacted with caution and confusion to the unprecedented merger proposal.

9.   Besides Wellpoint, two other California companies, Foundation Health Corp. and FHP International Corp. had approached Health Systems independently with merger proposals last year.