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\F0\CARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
\CCOMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
\CSTANFORD UNIVERSITY
\CSTANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305
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						January 3, 1974




Mr. Wes Gallagher
President and General Manager
The Associated Press
50 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10020

Dear Mr. Gallagher:

\J	We were most happy to receive your letter of grant support for 
an experimental news service project.
We hope the results will be of interest and useful.

	Network users have been excluded from use of the APE program since
just before Christmas.

	I would like to visit you sometime, perhaps together with a representative
of ARPA, and work out some mutually acceptable way of putting at least some of 
the users back on.\.



						Sincerely yours,
			


						John McCarthy
						Professor of Computer Science
						Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory