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AT&T President Resigns.(Originated from Daily News, New York)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1996 by Mannes, George

Aug. 20--AT&T's second in command hung up on the company yesterday to join a fledging local phone service, raising eyebrows in the industry and sending the phone giant's stock down.

Alex Mandl, AT&T's president and heir apparent to chairman Robert Allen, quit to run Associated Communications, a telecommunications company looking to crack the $89 billion local telephone market.

Mandl's departure comes at an awkward time for the communications behemoth, which is spinning off its equipment business and computer subsidiaries and is breaking back into the local phone market after leaving it just over a decade ago.

His exit could cause problems, analysts said.

Mandl's departure "is in the short term problematic, no matter how short the gap is,"...

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