Date:    03/29/2000  9:51 AM
Subject: Regulation  FD comment - File No. S7-31-99

Gentlemen/Ladies:
     
I am an investor in American companies, and as such I am 
morally entitled to the same information that anybody else 
receives.
     
There is already so much conflict of interest in the 
securities busines..... bankers and stock-brokers enriching 
themselves while purporting to represent their clients. 
Strictly speaking, those professionals should be enjoined 
from dealing in the securities that they buy and sell for 
others, but that is unlikely to happen.
     
BUT AT LEAST LET'S TRY TO LEVEL THE PLAYNG FIELD A BIT, AND 
GIVE EVERYBODY THE SAME ACCESS TO IMPORTANT CORPORATE 
INFORMATION.
     
It's outrageous to think that insiders, bankers and brokers 
might have access to information that we the general public 
is denied.
     
I strongly support any legislation that would make it a 
criminal act to disclose corporate information on a 
selective basis.
     
Norman Morrison
US citizen based in Cape Town, South Africa
     
     
     

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A True Story:
     
Albert Einstein was once asked if anything more powerful 
than the
H-bomb could ever be created.
     
"It already has been," he replied. "It's called Compound 
Interest!"
     
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