To the Editors of Physical Review Letters,

We have reviewed the comments of Referee A on the revised version of
manuscript LA6748. Here are our responses to Referee A's
recommendations.

-- "The usage of the word new is still somehat questionable; the word
updated would seem a much better alternative..." The title of the
manuscript has been changed to "An Improved Determination of alpha_s
From Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering" and the word "new" has been changed
to the word "improved" in the first line of the abstract.

-- "There is still lack of reference to the CDHSW experiment..." The
last sentence of the second paragraph of the paper has been changed
to: "The $\alpha _{S}$ measurement from this analysis is one of the
most precise due to the high energy and statistics of the experiment
compared to previous measurements \cite{CDHSW,Oltman}."

   The following citations have been added:

\bibitem{CDHSW}  P. Berge {\it et al., Z. Phys.} {\bf C49}: 187
(1991).

\bibitem{Oltman}  E. Oltman {\it et al., Z. Phys.} {\bf C53}: 51
(1992).

-- "Finally the authors are encouraged to publish their work in a
longer paper..." A long article is in preparation. However, we feel
that the timely nature of this result warrants a prompt publication in
Physical Review Letters.


With the changes described above, we have addressed all the issues
brought forward by Referee A.  We therefore look forward to a
favorable decision to publish the manuscript.


William Seligman
Michael Shaevitz
Wesley Smith