William Thomas
                  1440 N Street N.W.,  Apt. 410
                     Washington, D.C.  20005

                        December 8, 1988

1031 Garden Drive 
Villa 7
New Port Richey, Flordia,  34652

Dear Mom:

     Yup, a lot has happened in the last year.

     You're back two weeks already.  I though you just left.  Was
surprised that you've returned so quickly.

     That was entirely Dandi's idea.  You met him while you were
here.  Dandi's no longer in D.C..  He's gone to Vermont to live
with a community of religiously minded folks.  But he wrote to
Kaylene so I'll ask her to note your appreciation when she writes
him.  

     I've been very tired lately also, maybe it's something that's
going around.

     Things are going well here.  

     After all these years Judge Oberdorfer finally dismissed the
old civil suit, "without prejudice," which means we can file it
again.  Which we've already done.  The new case is in front of
Judge Joyce Hens Green.  Judge Green presided of seven days of
government testimony in a trial of seven of us in 1984.  When the
governemnt rested its case Judge Green acquitted us with the
immortal observation:  "to continue any further with this matter
would turn prosecution into persecution."

     Both Ellen and I have always thought of J. Green as being
considerably more reasonable than J. Oberdorfer.  So far she is
doing much, much better than Oberdorfer ever did in moving the case
along.  We feel that if we can't get a fair shake from this judge,
it isn't very likely that we'll ever find a judge who'll give us
one.

     Donn could be doing better, but I don't really have the time
to get into it.  I think he's got a few problems that he needs to
work out.

     Love to Bruce, the cousins and aunts when you contact them. 
I really do mean to write to Brad,  but I've misplaced his address
again.

                         Love,