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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1993

GOVERNOR PATTEN: I'm not gure. All right.

This is a quick one. I'm not sure that Representative

Pelosi's bill gives us any leverage. I think you know

that we reckon that there are a number of inadequate

features in that bill which were well exposed by the wall

Street Journal last Friday.

If the administration reads the Wall Street

Journal, and it is aware as we are of some of the

inadequacies in the bill, then maybe it will impel them in

an alternative direction, in which case the leverage will

have been counterleverage. So there.

MR. MORIARTY:

Is the Journal giving you any

percentages of increase in circulation?

(Laughter.)

GOVERNOR PATTEN: It's going to be even more

widely read in

MR.

CHUGANI: Pelosi says she never reads the

Wall Street Journal.

She never agrees with the Wall

Street Journal.

(Laughter.)

MR. CHUGANI: That's what she said.

GOVERNOR PATTEN: I bet she doesn't say that

about the San Francisco Chronicle. I'll quote that next

time.

VOICE: Thanks very much indeed.

QUESTION: Did you time your visit, Governor, to

fit in with when this.was going to come up?

GOVERNOR PATTEN: Yes, and I would guess that

for the Governor and the chief-executive of the SAR,

April, May, most years is going to be a good time to be in

Washington.

VOICE: Thank you.