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Shareholders of Nynex Corp. overwhelmingly approved the regional phone company’s proposed $23-billion marriage with Bell Atlantic Corp. . . . German chemicals maker Henkel launched a hostile tender offer to buy the 65% of Hartford, Conn.-based Loctite Corp. shares it doesn’t own for more than $1.1 billion. . . . Police in Paris shut down the Hard Rock Cafe for two weeks, saying it had imported beef from Britain in defiance of a ban imposed due to the “mad cow disease� scare. The restaurant said it would appeal.