1.   Antitrust officials in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, among others, are also reviewing the merger, state officials said.

2.   Either the Federal Trade Commission or the Justice Department, which share antitrust enforcement authority, will review the merger.

3.   FCC officials made no comment other than a standard promise to review the merger carefully.

4.   Given that, he will review this merger in an effort to keep prices from rising even higher.

5.   Government regulators would have to review a merger, looking to see if too much market concentration would result.

6.   He declined to say whether the state regulators were working together to review the merger or to characterize their discussions.

7.   He has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to review the merger with this anti-competitive issue in mind.

8.   However, the Federal Trade Commission is reviewing the merger for antitrust infractions and could request changes that would kill it.

9.   In a brief delivered last month to the Justice Department, which is reviewing the merger, the medical association described concerns about the Aetna-Prudential deal.

10.   Inco spokesman Bob Purcell said the merger was being reviewed.