Exhibit (c) 1


News Release
GPU, Inc.


                   GPU, Inc. Comments on Third Circuit Court's
                Ruling Regarding Personal Injury Claims from TMI-2


      Morristown,  NJ -- The Court of Appeals  for the Third  Circuit  yesterday
affirmed  the  dismissal  of the ten "test  cases"  involving  the 1979  nuclear
accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2. The Court also set aside the  dismissal of
another  2000  claims  and sent them  back to the  District  Court  for  further
proceedings.

      The  District  Court  dismissed  the ten  cases  on the  grounds  that the
plaintiffs' expert witnesses were scientifically unreliable.

      "In remanding the remaining  2000 cases to the District  Court for further
proceedings,  the Court of  Appeals  held that the  District  Court had erred in
applying its summary judgment decision to dismiss the other  plaintiffs'  cases,
and in imposing on these other  plaintiffs,  the District  Court's  finding that
radiation  exposures  below 10 rems were too  speculative  to establish a causal
link to cancer.  The Court of Appeals  stated  that these  plaintiffs  should be
permitted to attempt to show that doses below this level induced or caused their
cancers.

            "We  believe  that the  Court of  Appeals  was  under  the  mistaken
impression  that the  experts  the  plaintiffs  relied on were only  serving  as
experts  for  the  "test  case"  plaintiffs,   and  that  the  summary  judgment
proceedings had not involved any plaintiffs other than the test case plaintiffs,
until the point that judgment was entered," said A. H. Wilcox,  attorney for the
defendants. In fact, both of these impressions are contradicted by the record in
the District Court,  and defendants are considering what steps might be taken to
bring this to the Court of Appeals' attention," he added.


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Contacts:

     GPU - Ned Raynolds, (973) 455-8294