Pacific Lighting announced that its Pacific Lighting...

Pacific Lighting announced that its Pacific Lighting Mojave Co. unit has withdrawn from the Mojave Pipeline Project, which proposes to build a 383-mile natural gas pipeline in California . . . Outlet Communications reported that its management and an affiliate of Wesray Capital have completed the leveraged buyout of all of its stock from the Rockefeller Group for about $617.5 million . . . Simon & Schuster said it bought the English-language teaching programs of Pergamon Institute of English, a British-based international publisher of textbooks and reading materials for English as a second language, from Pergamon Books Ltd. of Oxford . . . Gannett said it has completed the sale of the Knoxville Journal to McKinney/McMahan Newspapers, leaving Gannett with a total of 92 daily newspapers . . . Ireland, whose currency has come under intolerable pressure because of the recent weakness of British currency, has devalued its punt by 8% within the European Monetary System.