****************************************************** PR # 43020 Recent ROSAT and ASCA observations of high-redshift radio loud quasars have revealed that low energy absorption is common in their X-ray spectra, suggesting different properties among low and high redshift objects. On the other side, no spectral information is available so far for the high redshift radio-quiet quasars. The proposed observations of 3 high-redshift radio-quiet quasars will allow us to obtain broad band (1-30 keV in the source rest frame) X-ray spectra of good statistical qualit ******************************************************