Subject: attn jonathan katz, file # S7-25-97 : please don't weaken sh 

Date:    11/22/97 3:38 PM
     
     
Please do not weaken the rights of shareholders to bring resolutions onto  
company ballots, as you are proposing to do.  We shareholders are supposedly  
owners of the corporations.  we need the right to introduce resolutions
that are not necessarily supported by management in order to keep management  
honest and ethical.  the proposed rules raise the threshhold of votes needed to
 an unacceptably high level.  it is important that we shareholders have the
ability to bring before the whole body of shareholders, resolutions 
that challenge management's priorities.  
     
Please do not weaken the current standards which allow a shareholder with $1000 of
stock to place a resolution on the ballot; and to successuvely keep it
on the ballot if it receives 3%, 6% and 10% of the vote.  your proposed raises 
of the threshhold and requirement that 3% put it on the first ballot if
the company refuses to do so, will effectively kill this option.  please 
do not do so
     
     
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Joel Weisberg
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
http://physics.carleton.edu/Faculty/Joel/joelhome.html 
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