Date:    12/23/97  2:24 PM

     Dear Chmn. Leavitt:
     
     We are stockholders in several American companies.
     
     We particularly feel that corporate management all 
     too often is more concerned with their own position 
     and power, especially pay and "benefits", than with
     the welfare of the world at large, or the share owners.
     
     We have attended annual meetings where questions from 
     those shareholders in attendance are ignored, cut off, 
     or fluffed over.
     
     One of the few effective (and already too difficult) 
     ways to get managements attention is by putting share- 
     holder proposals on the annual ballot.
     
     We hereby request that you make it *easier*, not harder, 
     to place, and maintain, shareholder proposals on the 
     annual corporate ballot.
     
     Thank you,
     Emily P. Hoffman
     Richard A. Hoffman