	us study discusses dropped comsat contel merger a congressional study today said the proposed but now apparently abandoned merger of the communications satellite corp cq and contel corp ctc would technically be legal but could violate the spirt of the law setting up comsat two weeks ago before the study was completed contel announced it would seek to terminate the proposed merger the study by the non partisan congressional research service crs said the proposed merger appears to comply technically with the mandates or letter of statutes if may nevertheless violate the spirit of the law comsat created by a act of congress and contel a corporation of local telephone and communications firms filed with the federal communications commission last november an application for merger several firms had protested the proposed merger in an analysis of the law the research service issued several critical comments about the structure of the new firm and said apparent domination by contel of a restructured comsat would have broken the spirit of the law setting up comsat comsat is the u s arm of intelstat the international satellite communications firm reuter m 
