echo arbitrary text in autotest?

[Daily, Jeff A]

I want to dump some environment variables near the top of my tests suite since 
these variables affect my tests.  In my local.at file I have:
AT_INIT
AS_ECHO(["tests use seq $NP_START $NP_INC $NP_STOP"])

But it doesn't make it into my suite script at all.  I would like for the echo 
to go to both stdout and the suite.log file.  How can I do this?