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To: Gary Korn who wrote (4128)	5/10/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: Gary Korn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

CORRECTION TO PRIOR POST. PLEASE IGNORE PRIOR POST. BIG ERROR! I'm not sure how the new loan and interest payments will end up being reflected on the books, but it seems to me that net interest expense will start about the same as it was this quarter. The situation will worsen each quarter, but here is just the first quarter of the new debt load: $326,000,000 cash infusion from debt (assuming gross proceeds = net)* +$116,000,000 existing cash on hand (cash and short term invest.) - 75,000,000 pay-off of loan =$367,000,000 cash on hand on 5/1/98 How much cash is being used for the new acquisitions? 1 of these (can't recall which one) requires a cash payment. Assume $55,000,000, which is about the same as the deferred charge. (If only the amount would be disclosed, I could be more accurate about this.) $367,000,000 cash on hand - 55,000,000 acquisition payment =$312,000,000 cash on hand on 5/1/98 $326,000,000 starting face value of loan (it increases each 1/2 year) -$312,000,000 cash on hand =$ 14,000,000 net debt Interest on $14,000,000 net debt is about $350,000 per quarter, about the same as 1Q98, or 1 cent/share. Gary Korn * The $326,000,000 is gross proceeds. Anyone have any idea how much Morgan Stanley Dean Witter will take off of the top???