MISTRAL NEWS
                              (July 1st, 1997)

        After  the  shut-down of the spectrometer at Orsay (April 7)
        and  the transportation to CERN (April 29), the installation
        of  the  set-up  on  line to the ISOLDE beam line in the new
        extension   has   taken  place.  This  installation  is  now
        completed  and  since last week, the beam from the auxiliary
        ion  source  is available . Currently, the setting-up of the
        trajectory into the spectrometer is beginning.

        During summer, the experiment will be attended continuously.
        The time schedule is the following:

        July:
        -  setting-up of the trajectory,
        -  operation  of  the  software   for  the  control  of  the
           parameters.

        August:
        -  optimization   of  the   beam  transmission  through  the
           spectrometer,
        -  setting-up   of  the  ISOLDE  beam   injection  into  the
           spectrometer (ISOLDE stable beam, week 34)

        September:
        -  operation of the softwares: data acquisition, on-line and
           off-line data analysis,
        -  survey  of  systematic  errors,  in addition to the tests
           already made in Orsay.

        October:
        -  global optimization.

        November:
        -  1st  run  for data taking with the radioactive beam (Ne):
           some beam time during weeks 47 and 48.