The panel said the planned takeover would strengthen Boeing's "existing dominant position and therefore should be prohibited."

Pro-China candidates lost consistently to members of the Democratic Party, which favors autonomy for Hong Kong after the planned takeover by China in 1997.

It said the planned takeover would strengthen Boeing's "existing dominant position and therefore should be prohibited," people familiar with the decision said.

Then in 1924 the planned takeover of National Bank of Kingston reached near-completion but was halted three days before finalisation.

And neither the Justice Department nor the European Union has yet approved the planned takeover of Honeywell International.

The planned takeover had been opposed by a vocal group of United supporters and small shareholders, with the chief executive, Martin Edwards, coming in for especially strong criticism.

If the planned takeover by Chase Manhattan is completed, it will bring together four of the six biggest banks in New York, circa 1980.

The S.E.C. said Jorge Guarjardo, who at the time was a Vitro executive, told a friend about the planned takeover earlier that summer.

There was opposition to TIA's planned takeover.

One possibility was that the European Union would escalate a planned takeover of the police training mission, in which only 46 Americans participate.