Subject: File No. S7-25-97
 
Date:    11/23/97 9:09 PM
     
     
Dear Chairman Leavett:
     
I understand that the SEC is about to pass some rules that will make it 
more difficult for shareholders to express their views on how their 
companies may conduct business.  Please do not pass these rules.  I 
appeal to you on moral and ethical grounds.  It is hard enough these 
days for an individual citizen to effect any changes in government.  You 
and I both know that an economic vote is more powerful than political 
votes at the election poles.  Citizens have found a new way to influence 
those with power and inform them on what we care about and what kind of 
a world we wish to live in.  Please do not take our rights away.  
     
In addition, it is my understanding that being a stock holder means that 
one is a partial owner of said company.  Why should some shareholders be 
given more power than others?
     
Sincerely,
Dorothy Ruiz