Program Letter 1998-6 stated that the State Planning Initiative will provide information to aid LSC in exercising its statutory responsibility to "insure that grants and contracts are made so as to provide the most economical and effective delivery of legal assistance to persons in both urban and rural areas."

There are a very small number of companies willing to insure contracts.

The Islanders and Michael Peca agreed to a five-year contract worth $20 million in part because the N.H.L.'s chief insurance provider does not insure contracts that are longer than five years, Islanders General Manager Mike Milbury, and Peca's agent, Don Meehan, said today.

Its purpose is to force economic pressure on employers to bargain in good faith and insure fair and equitable contracts.

Under these guidelines, LSC will exercise its statutory responsibility to insure that grants and contracts are made so as to provide the most economical and effective delivery of legal assistance to persons in both urban and rural areas.5 II.

"We cannot insure nonexistent contracts," he said.