Subject: Rule 14a(8)
Author:  (Mary D. Hazzard) 
Date:    11/30/97 8:05 PM
     
     
Dear Jonathan Katz:
     
Please preserve Rule 14a(8), which gives shareholders a chance to express 
their opinions on corporate behavior.  Changes would effectively destroy 
the process of shareholder resolutions.
     
Sincerely yours,
     
Mary Hazzard