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(ooh, finally an M-2 question I can answer!)

NEW and DISPOSE, if your compiler has them, will be part of the
SYSTEM module.

I say "if your compiler has them" because Wirth's latest M-2 spec
does not include NEW and DISPOSE--instead, use the ALLOCATE and
DEALLOCATE procedures from STORAGE, along with the SYSTEM procedure
TSIZE, which gives the size of a declared type.  The pseudo-declaration
for TSIZE looks like this:

PROCEDURE TSIZE(<any type>): INTEGER;

Like I said, it's in SYSTEM also.

Kenneth Herron