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and OH absorption viewed against the bright radio continuum structure in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068. All of the detected absorption is confined to a region southwest of the radio nucleus and arises from the inner galaxian disk. We confirm the presence of an offset shock front and post-shock compression of material inside the leading edge of the stellar bar. That this shock is offset implies that the inner Lindblad resonance lies interior to the 3~kpc starburst ``ring'' and that the ring may have formed at the corotation resonance. We also report the discovery of a main line OH ``kilo-''maser roughly coincident with the faded H$_2$O ``mega-''maser. In contrast to the red-shifted H$_2$O maser, the principle OH emission feature is blue- shifted with respect to $v_{sys}$ by 300 km s$^{-1}$. Weaker OH emission is also found centered near $v_{sys}$. We consider the possibility that this OH maser might arise in a dense circumnuclear torus posited to hide the Seyfert 1 nucleus.
