Bell Atlantic's telephone subsidiaries reported small volume gains, reflecting the economy, the company said.

The company said the reductions wouldill occur mainly at Pacific Bell, its huge local telephone subsidiary in California, where 7,600 hourly workers and 3,400 managers will be eliminated.

U S West Inc. yesterday offered to buy the 19 percent of its cellular telephone subsidiary that the regional Bell company does not already own.

The bride is the associate general counsel at Bell Atlantic Mobile in Bedminster, N.J., the domestic cellular telephone subsidiary of the Bell Atlantic Corporation.

GT&E's telephone subsidiaries, meanwhile, began acquiring community-antenna television systems (CATV) franchises in their operating areas.

Its mobile telephone subsidiary, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, has been a spectacular success and has more subscribers than Deutsche Telekom.

In Europe it had telephone subsidiaries in numerous countries.

She described Pacificorp as "one of the most successfully diversified public utilities," with strong performance at its telephone subsidiary, Pacific Telecom, and its coal mining company, Nerco.

The company said that the results included an after-tax gain of $43.4 million from a stock offering in its cellular telephone subsidiary.

She is the general counsel to Verizon's long-distance telephone subsidiary in Arlington, Va.