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To: Investor2 who wrote (19320)	8/15/1998 4:07:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

TOUCHSTONE FRIDAY Talk of soup and tea parties took up a lot of space in this week's Drippy columns. Jeff has a review of all the happenings and a quick look at the three holdings. fool.com RELATIVE STRENGTH TEST Yesterday, Robert took a look at how monthly rebalancing would affect the Keystone Growth model. Tonight, the same test on Relative Strength. fool.com by 6:30 p.m.GO WITH THE FLOW Al Levity has been discussing debt the last few days and today he looks at your personal flow ratio. fool.com -- YOUCH! The bandwidth enhancement technology company got hammered for 24% today after pre-announcing earnings. Plus, Dale Wettlaufer talks about big banks. fool.com by 7 p.m.FOOL PORT IN REVIEW Tonight, Jeff Fischer has the Fool Port week in review. He'll discuss Trump's fall, AT&T, and Innovex's 10% surge. fool.com

To: Investor2 who wrote (19320)	8/15/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Nice to see this report very encouraging indeed-- Looking at CUBE I think I would think that this is a good buy I like STM for long time and as you know INTC was ''upgraded'' by us at 68$'s we have always taken a line opposite to what people have to say in general even Mr Kurlack- I make my own judgment after reading a lot, issue my call, get into position and wait-- ofcourse all this is a part of investment game. The following is very interesting excerpts from todays newspapers-- if MO and other laggards start moving we may see a good momentum. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times all lead with tobacco's latest triumph: A federal appeals court in Richmond, VA, ruled Friday that the Food and Drug Administration cannot regulate nicotine as a drug without explicit Congressional authorization. Nor, by extension, can the FDA regulate cigarettes. The judges' 2-1 decision deals a crippling blow to the FDA's efforts to curb the targeting of underage smokers. It effectively overturns an FDA plan that required anyone under 26 to show identification before buying cigarettes, banned cigarette vending machines from most public places, and kept tobacco billboards away from schools. The Clinton Administration has vowed to appeal the decision, and the current FDA regulations will remain in effect until the appeal is resolved. The WP notes that "very little" of the FDA plan had been put into effect anyhow. The Lewinsky scandal is relegated to page A14 in the LAT, but nabs the WP off-lead and side-by-side NYT front-pagers. There's no new news today, only endless speculation. The LAT and the WP are busy catching up to yesterday's big NYT story about Clinton's contemplated fudge-the-definition-of-sex defense strategy. The WP assesses Clinton's options in addressing the nation. While calling a nationally televised address "the most likely choice," the WP says that some Clinton's lawyers advocate a written statement instead. A NYT piece paints Clinton as bleakly alone: With Washington evacuated as usual in August (except for the press jackals), only Hillary and Chelsea are around to keep his spirits up. The other NYT front-page Lewinsky story trots out the Ordinary People refrain--end this scandal soon, please. A NYT front page story recounts in depth the extraordinary tale of a top Iraqi scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, after working for decades on Iraq's efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Khidhir Abdul Abas Hamza, who has been debriefed by the CIA, paints a chilling picture of Iraq's successful deceptions against the international community, coupled with U.S. ignorance about Iraq's swift progress. The research conditions Hamza describes are appalling: Immense pressure is reinforced by torture, and all operations are overseen by a controlling but "illiterate" ogre--Saddam Hussein. According to another WP front-page story, starting today AT&T will begin assessing a mandatory $3 minimum fee to new customers. This move, which will bring AT&T into line with other long distance carriers, will help staunch the $300 million in annual losses incurred because 10 million of AT&T's 70 million customers don't even reach this $3 minimum. AT&T will exempt low-income customers from the regulations. Recent terrorist threats have caused the U.S. to shut down routine operations at its embassy in Albania, say both the NYT and the WP inside. Albania has become a terrorist hotbed in recent months: The three (NYT) or four (WP) Egyptians arrested there during June and July have been identified as likely affiliates of Saudi terrorist financier Osama Bin Ladin, whose name has surfaced repeatedly in connection with the Africa bombings.