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Sponsor: MasterCard International Incorporated. 2000 Purchase S.reel, Purchase, NY 10577. Promoter Profec, Suppr^T I foO Ml' CT 0667 3-3106. HOUSTON (AP) Pennzoil-Quaker State Co.,tit nation’s largest motor oil mala and parent company ofmos than 2,000 Jiffy Lube oi change service stations aero the country, is becomingpani Royal Dutch/Shell Group u, deal worth $1.8 billion. The agreement announced Monday night • Houston, where both Pennzo Quaker State and Shell’s L operations are based. While officials at bo: firms said the fai Pennzoil and Quaker Si: brands, the nation’s two be selling motor oils, will vive, some jobs will not. “We do expect some redi tions in staff,” Gail Schutz Shell spokesperson said. She estimated 15 perceni- or some 1,230 jobs — would! eliminated “within the combir: work force of Shell Lubnc and Pennzoil-Quaker State.' Shell has about 7,000 wot ers in Houston and Lubricants Group empl: about 800 people. Penim said no su Quaker State has a worlds work force of about 7,400. Discussions that lec Monday's announcement stz ed about a month ago wh Shell officials Pennzoil-Quaker State e« lives, both companies a Pennzoil-Quaker spokesperson Ray Scippas. no other oil companies w involved. The deal, approved Mono by Pennzoil-Quaker’s board, expected to close in the seo Opinion Ed News Ed. News Ed. half of this year. It still m the approval of sharehofe and regulators. For the Houston econor Managing Ed the new job losses come speculation of addiM employment cuts with amerj of Hewlett-Packard Co. " fellow computer giant Comp Computer Corp., based Houston. There’s also ado" turn in the oil patch, wbei exploratory drilling jj declined by some 40 I79)345-2647 from a year ago. “It comes at a bad timf Bill Gilmer, a Houston ecor mist with the Federal Res eri Bank of Dallas, said. This wee Aggies ha always an ment. 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Inc. 1351 ini S e lf t| ,■ np The class-action laws" ; 5tro the nation s th r ®" ‘. r ^, rr j Sl Hi country companies — Pnihp atne atrnri+; c Reynolds Tobacco C°-a ^ Jrica ns imn 0r t f Williamson Corp. - and a » L tions of consumer P r0 ^ the |2L Ned with the Tobacco companies say i M suits have no merit. K. 3 bt a winajuryawaraoT^--^ ligh Philip Morris Cos. Inc. last w ^ ltv , en ha Z ' nd wh cigareut; mu.. „ ' n pted fn terms like “ full ;f’f 0 J’ if feren^ eH P theface of anH "ultra lights t° dl etter treatm spoKesman - , cigarette manufacturer^ and duu ‘ultra lights" to strength of taste an tar and nicotine. iourf Er^ithlhe ' l0n s. The —- suits have no rneni, „''TLjtz 52| e/ ^ n glos stole spokesman Seth _ Mds„ ed and ^ pre ienl