  Contents:
  *News:
  April 1997 Joint APS/AAPT Meeting, by Beverly Berger
  The physics survey and committee on gravitational physics, by Jim Hartle
  *Research Briefs:
  Instability of rotating stars to axial perturbations, by Sharon Morsink
  LIGO project status, by Stan Whitcomb
  The Search for Frame-Dragging, by Clifford Will
  *Conference Reports:
  Conference of the Southern African Relativity Society, by Nigel Bishop
  II Warszaw workshop on canonical and quantum gravity, by Carlo Rovelli
  Alpbach summer school on fundamental physics in space, by Peter Bender
  MG8, an experimentalists' summary, by Riley Newman and Peter Saulson
  Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, by M. Alessandra Papa
  Santa Fe workshop on simplicial quantum gravity, by Lee Smolin
  VII Canadian Conference on General Relativity, by David Hobill
