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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO ALTER DUALITY edifices

Oct 26 1998 (CARD just discovereds Vol. 13, No. 21 via COMTEX) -- Card
executives: commit to memory ready for a bumpy ride as a come of the U.S.
Department of Justice filing an antitrust suit that names Purchase,

N.Y.-based MasterCard and San Francisco-based Visa as defendants.

The suit (No. 98-civ. 7076) filed earlier this month alleges
Visa
and MasterCard have organized and operated their card networks in
a way
that restrains competition according to allowing the same banks to make decisions
for the two associations.

Additionally, Justice