Date:    12/18/1999  11:27 AM

Subject: Proposed Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure)

I am in accord with SEC Chairman Levitt general sentiment that, "...the current 
system is not only bad for individual investors, but it is bad for the markets 
as a whole. The ability of companies to selectively disclose material 
information to some sources and to receive good coverage as a result makes for a
mockery of free flow of ideas and information" - (Fool.com).  My commentary 
places emphasis on the phase "public companies."  Put succinctly, information 
currently being selectively released to issuers should be released 
simultaneously to the public simply because this is how the American system 
should work.  It's a matter of basic fairness, which is the foundation of our 
democracy.
     
Ronald S. Harriott