TELECOMMUNICATIONS

PacTel Shareholders Reject Rain Forest Measure: The resolution proposed by environmentalists called on San Francisco-based Pacific Telesis Group to stop using wood from “ancient rain forests” as paper for its phone books. Shareholders rejected the measure by 91% to 9%. The closely watched resolution was proposed by the Cloyoquot Rainforest Coalition. It called on Pacific Bell Directory to stop using paper products “derived from clear-cut ancient rain forests” to make the millions of phone books it distributes each year. It said Pacific Bell bought 29,000 tons of paper a year from Canadian company MacMillan Bloedel. PacTel, which opposed the proposal, said in its proxy statement that “MacMillan’s harvests are . . . conducted in an ecologically sound manner.”