SALOMON INC
S-3/A, 1996-04-05
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     AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON APRIL 5, 1996
    
 

                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-01807

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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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                                AMENDMENT NO. 2
    
  
                                       TO
                                    FORM S-3

 
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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                                  SALOMON INC
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
 
               DELAWARE                                22-1660266
       (STATE OF INCORPORATION)           (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)
 
                            SEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER
                            NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10048
                                 (212) 783-7000
  (ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF
                   REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

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                       ARNOLD S. OLSHIN, ESQ., SECRETARY
                                  SALOMON INC
                            SEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER
                            NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10048
                                 (212) 783-7000
 (NAME, ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE,
                             OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

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                                   COPIES TO:
 
          JOHN W. WHITE, ESQ.                     ALAN L. BELLER, ESQ.
        CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE            CLEARY, GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON
           825 EIGHTH AVENUE                        ONE LIBERTY PLAZA
       NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019                 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10006
 
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     APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE OF THE SECURITIES TO THE
PUBLIC: At such time (from time to time) after the effective date of this
Registration Statement as agreed upon by Salomon Inc and the Underwriters in
light of market conditions.

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     If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box.  / /
 
     If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box.  /x/
 
     If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective
registration statement for the same offering.  / /________
 
     If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering.  / /_______
 
     If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box.  /x/

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     Pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
'Securities Act'), the Prospectuses and Prospectus Supplements included in this
Registration Statement also relate to (i) the Debt Securities and Warrants to
Purchase Debt Securities previously registered under the Registrant's
Registration Statements on Form S-3 (Nos. 33-41932, -49136, -57922, -51269,
- -54929), (ii) the Preferred Stock previously registered under the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 33-48199) and (iii) the
Index Warrants previously registered under the Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-56481). This Registration Statement constitutes
Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
S-3 (No. 33-57922), Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-49136), Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-51269), Post-Effective
Amendment No. 3 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No.
33-41932), Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registrant's Registration Statement
on Form S-3 (No. 33-48199), Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-54929) and Post-Effective Amendment
No. 1 to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-56481).

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     THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR
DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL
FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID
SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE.
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                               INTRODUCTORY NOTE
 
     This Registration Statement contains (i) a form of Prospectus relating to
Debt Securities, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Common Stock, Warrants to
Purchase Debt Securities, Preferred Stock and Common Stock and Index Warrants
(the 'Basic Prospectus'), (ii) a form of Prospectus relating to the Notes,
Series G (the 'Series G Prospectus'), (iii) a form of Prospectus Supplement to
the Basic Prospectus relating to the offering by Salomon Inc of its Medium-Term
Notes, Series D and E, in registered form (the 'Registered Prospectus
Supplement') and (iv) a form of Prospectus Supplement to the Basic Prospectus
relating to the offering by Salomon Inc of its Medium-Term Notes, Series D and
E, in bearer form (the 'Bearer Prospectus Supplement'). The Registered
Prospectus Supplement and the Bearer Prospectus Supplement are forms which may
be used, among others, by Salomon Inc to offer its Debt Securities and Warrants
to Purchase Debt Securities under the Registration Statement and will not be
used as a supplement to the Series G Prospectus. Although the amount of
securities shown on the cover page of the Basic Prospectus, the Series G
Prospectus, the Registered Prospectus Supplement and the Bearer Prospectus
Supplement exceeds in the aggregate the amount of securities registered under
this Registration Statement, the aggregate amount offered and sold hereunder
will not exceed the aggregate amount registered under this Registration
Statement.



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                   SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED APRIL 5, 1996
    

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(To Prospectus Dated April   , 1996)

$10,000,000,000
SALOMON INC
MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES D AND SERIES E
DUE MORE THAN NINE MONTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE
 
Salomon Inc (the 'Company') may from time to time offer pursuant to this
Prospectus Supplement its Medium-Term Notes, Series D (the 'Series D Notes'),
and its Medium-Term Notes, Series E (the 'Series E Notes' and, together with the
Series D Notes, the 'Notes'), with an aggregate initial public offering price or
purchase price of up to $10,000,000,000, or the equivalent thereof in one or
more foreign or composite currencies (including the European Currency Unit
('ECU')), subject to reduction as a result of the sale of other securities under
the Registration Statement of which this Prospectus Supplement and the
accompanying Prospectus form a part or under a Registration Statement to which
this Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus relate. The amount of
Notes sold of either series will reduce the amount of Notes of the other series
that may be sold. In addition to the Notes in registered form ('Registered
Notes') being offered hereby in the United States, the Company may offer Notes
in bearer form ('Bearer Notes') in a concurrent offering outside the United
States. The amount of Bearer Notes sold will reduce the amount of Registered
Notes that may be sold hereunder. See 'Description of Registered
Notes--General'.
 
The Series D Notes will be issued as Senior Indebtedness, and the Series E Notes
will be issued as subordinated debt. Subordinated debt will be subordinated to
all Senior Indebtedness. See 'Description of Debt Securities--Subordinated Debt'
in the Prospectus.
 
Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, each Registered
Note will mature on a Business Day more than nine months from its date of issue
(the 'Stated Maturity'), which maturity date may be subject to extension at the
option of the Company. Each Registered Note may also be subject to redemption at
the option of the Company, or to repayment at the option of the Holder, prior to
maturity. Each Registered Note will be denominated in the currency designated by
the Company (the 'Specified Currency'). See 'Important Currency Information' and
'Currency Risks'. A Registered Note may bear interest at a fixed rate (a 'Fixed
Rate Note'), which may be zero in the case of certain Discount Notes, or at a
floating rate (a 'Floating Rate Note') determined by reference to LIBOR, the CD
Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the Treasury Rate or
any other Base Rate, as selected by the purchaser and agreed to by the Company,
adjusted by the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, applicable to such Note.
Such fixed rate, Spread or Spread Multiplier may be subject to change as
described in the applicable Pricing Supplement. Unless otherwise indicated,
interest on each Fixed Rate Note will be payable semiannually in arrears on each
March 15 and September 15 (each an 'Interest Payment Date') and at Stated

Maturity. A Registered Note may be issued as an amortizing note (an 'Amortizing
Note') on which a portion or all the principal amount is payable prior to Stated
Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or by
reference to an index. A Registered Note may be issued as an indexed note (an
'Indexed Note') on which the amount of any interest payment, in the case of an
Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount payable at maturity, in the case
of an Indexed Principal Note, will be determined by reference to the level of
prices, or changes in prices, or differences between prices, of securities,
currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or by application of a
formula. See 'Description of Registered Notes--Indexed Notes'. The Specified
Currency, interest rate or interest rate formula, reset provisions, Issue Price,
Stated Maturity, Interest Payment Dates, redemption, repayment and extension
provisions and certain other terms with respect to each Registered Note will be
established at the time of issuance and set forth in a pricing supplement to
this Prospectus Supplement (a 'Pricing Supplement').
 
Each Registered Note will be represented either by a Global Security registered
in the name of a nominee of The Depository Trust Company, as Depositary (a
'Book-Entry Note'), or, if specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, by a
certificate issued in temporary or definitive form (a 'Certificated Note').
Beneficial interests in Global Securities representing Book-Entry Notes will be
shown on, and transfers thereof will be effected only through, records
maintained by the Depositary and its participants. Book-Entry Notes will not be
issuable as Certificated Notes except under the circumstances described herein.
 
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE
ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT, ANY PRICING SUPPLEMENT
HERETO OR THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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                       PRICE TO         AGENT'S                  PROCEEDS TO THE
                       PUBLIC(1)        COMMISSION(2)            COMPANY(2)(3)
Per Registered Note... 100.000%         .125%-.750%              99.250%-99.875%
Total(4).............. $10,000,000,000  $12,500,000-$75,000,000  $9,925,000,000-$9,875,000,000
 
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(1) Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the price
    to public will be 100% of the principal amount.
 
(2) The Company will pay to Salomon Brothers Inc (the 'Agent') a commission of
    from .125% to .750% of the principal amount of any Registered Note,
    depending upon its Stated Maturity, sold through the Agent.
 
(3) Before deduction of expenses payable by the Company estimated at $4,525,000,
    including reimbursement of certain expenses of the Agent.
 

(4) Or the equivalent thereof in foreign or composite currencies.
 
The Registered Notes are being offered on a continuous basis by the Company
through the Agent, which has agreed to use its reasonable efforts to solicit
orders to purchase Registered Notes. The Company may also sell Registered Notes
at a discount to the Agent for its own account or for resale to one or more
purchasers at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of
resale or, if set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement, at a fixed public
offering price, as determined by the Agent. In addition, the Agent may offer
Registered Notes purchased by it as principal to other dealers. Unless otherwise
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, any Registered Note purchased by
the Agent as principal will be purchased at 100% of the principal amount thereof
less a percentage equal to the commission applicable to an agency sale of a
Registered Note of identical maturity. The Registered Notes will not be listed
on any securities exchange, and there can be no assurance that the maximum
amount of Registered Notes offered by this Prospectus Supplement will be sold or
that there will be a secondary market for the Registered Notes. The Company
reserves the right to withdraw, cancel or modify the offer made hereby without
notice. The Company or the Agent may reject any order to purchase Registered
Notes, whether or not solicited, in whole or in part. See 'Plan of
Distribution'.
 

This Prospectus Supplement, the related Pricing Supplement and the accompanying
Prospectus may be used by the Company, the Agent, a wholly owned subsidiary of
the Company, or other affiliates of the Company in connection with offers and
sales related to secondary market transactions in the Registered Notes offered
hereby and approximately $4,219,135,125 of Registered Notes initially sold
pursuant to earlier prospectuses, as described herein. The Agent or other such
Company affiliates may act as principal or agent in such transactions. Such
sales will be made at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the
time of sale.

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SALOMON BROTHERS INC
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The date of this Prospectus Supplement is April   , 1996.


Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A
registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be  sold nor may
offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes
effective. This prospectus and any prospectus supplement shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to  buy nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such State.


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     IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, THE AGENT MAY OVER-ALLOT OR EFFECT
TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICE OF THE NOTES OFFERED
HEREBY AT A LEVEL ABOVE THAT WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE PREVAIL IN THE OPEN MARKET.
SUCH STABILIZING, IF COMMENCED, MAY BE DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.
 

     Pursuant to a Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement each dated February 25,
1992 (and applicable Pricing Supplements), filed with the Commission under
Registration No. 33-41932, a Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement each dated
February 12, 1993 (and applicable Pricing Supplements), filed with the
Commission under Registration Statement No. 33-57922, a Prospectus and
Prospectus Supplement each dated December 14, 1993 (and applicable Pricing
Supplements) filed with the Commission under Registration Statement 33-51269,
and a Prospectus and Prospectus Supplements each dated October 12, 1994 (and
applicable Pricing Supplements) filed with the Commission under Registration
Statement No. 33-54929 the Company had outstanding as of March 31, 1996
approximately $6,082,166,841 of its Medium-Term Notes, Series D and E, of which
approximately $4,219,135,125 were Registered Notes and approximately
$1,863,031,716 were Bearer Notes. The Registered Notes offered by this
Prospectus Supplement are part of the same series of Notes as the Notes
described in the preceding sentence.

 
                                  SALOMON INC
 

     Salomon Inc was incorporated in 1960 under the laws of the State of
Delaware. Salomon Inc conducts global investment banking, global securities and
commodities trading, and U.S. oil refining and gathering activities. Investment
banking activities are conducted by Salomon Brothers Holding Company Inc and its
subsidiaries ('Salomon Brothers'), including Salomon Brothers Inc. Salomon
Brothers provides capital raising, advisory, trading and risk management
services to its customers, and executes proprietary trading strategies on its
own behalf. Salomon Inc's commodities trading activities are conducted by the
Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Phibro Inc. and its subsidiaries. Oil
refining and gathering activities are conducted by Basis Petroleum, Inc.

 
                         IMPORTANT CURRENCY INFORMATION
 
     Purchasers are required to pay for each Registered Note in the Specified
Currency for such Note. If requested by a prospective purchaser of a Registered
Note having a Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars, the Agent may at its
discretion arrange for the exchange of U.S. dollars into such Specified Currency
to enable the purchaser to pay for such Note. Each such exchange will be made by
the Agent on such terms and subject to such conditions, limitations and charges
as the Agent may from time to time establish in accordance with its regular
foreign exchange practice. All costs of exchange will be borne by the purchaser.
 
     References herein to 'U.S. dollars' or '$' are to the lawful currency of
the United States.
 
                        DESCRIPTION OF REGISTERED NOTES

 
     The following description of the particular terms of the Registered Notes
supplements, and to the extent inconsistent therewith replaces, the description
of the general terms and provisions of the Debt Securities set forth in the
Prospectus, to which description reference is hereby made.
 
GENERAL
 
     The Series D Notes are a series of Debt Securities issued under the Senior
Debt Indenture, and the Series E Notes are a series of Debt Securities issued
under the Subordinated Debt Indenture. At the date of this Prospectus
Supplement, the Notes offered pursuant to this Prospectus Supplement are limited
to an aggregate initial public offering price or purchase price of up to
$10,000,000,000 or the
 
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equivalent thereof in one or more foreign or composite currencies, which amount
is subject to reduction as a result of the sale of other securities under the
Registration Statement of which this Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying
Prospectus form a part or under a Registration Statement to which this
Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus relate. In addition, the
Company had outstanding as of March 31, 1996 approximately $4,219,135,125 of
Series D Registered Notes and approximately $1,863,031,716 of Series D Bearer
Notes sold pursuant to earlier prospectuses. The aggregate amount of Notes may
be increased from time to time to such larger amount as may be authorized by the
Company. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase
price of a Note having a Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars will be
determined on the basis of the noon buying rate in New York City for cable
transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York (the 'Market Exchange Rate') for such Specified
Currency on the applicable issue date. Such determination will be made by the
Company or its agent, as exchange rate agent for both series of Notes (the
'Exchange Rate Agent').

 

     The Series D Notes will constitute part of the Senior Indebtedness of the
Company and will rank pari passu with all other unsecured debt of the Company
except subordinated debt. The Series E Notes will be subordinate and junior in
the right of payment, to the extent and in the manner set forth in the
Subordinated Debt Indenture, to all Senior Indebtedness of the Company. See
'Description of Debt Securities--Subordinated Debt' in the Prospectus. As of
December 31, 1995, the aggregate principal amount of Senior Indebtedness
outstanding was $114.2 billion, consisting of the following: $13.0 billion of
term debt, $.8 billion in commercial paper and $100.4 billion in other
short-term borrowings.

 
     The Notes will consist of Registered Notes and Bearer Notes, each of which
will be offered on a continuous basis. Registered Notes will be issued in fully
registered form only, without coupons. Registered Notes may not be exchanged for
Bearer Notes.

 
     Each Registered Note will be issued initially as either a Book-Entry Note
or, if specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, a Certificated Note.
Except as set forth in the Prospectus under 'Description of Debt
Securities--Global Securities', Book-Entry Notes will not be issuable as
Certificated Notes. See 'Book-Entry System' below.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
authorized denominations of Registered Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be
$1,000 and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000, and the
authorized denominations of Registered Notes having a Specified Currency other
than U.S. dollars will be the approximate equivalents thereof in the Specified
Currency.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, each
Registered Note will mature on a Business Day more than nine months from its
date of issue, as selected by the purchaser and agreed to by the Company (the
'Stated Maturity'), which maturity date may be subject to extension at the
option of the Company. Each Registered Note may also be subject to redemption at
the option of the Company, or to repayment at the option of the Holder, prior to
its Stated Maturity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Registered Note having
a Specified Currency of Japanese yen will have a Stated Maturity of not less
than one year from its Original Issue Date (as defined below), and will not be
subject to optional redemption or repayment prior to such time. Each Registered
Note having a Specified Currency of Pounds Sterling will mature in compliance
with such regulations as the Bank of England may promulgate from time to time.
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to a Registered Note will describe the
following terms: (i) the Specified Currency for such Note; (ii) whether such
Note is a Fixed Rate Note, a Floating Rate Note, an Amortizing Note and/or an
Indexed Note; (iii) the price (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate
principal amount or face amount thereof) at which such Note will be issued (the
'Issue Price'); (iv) the date on which such Note will be issued (the 'Original
Issue Date'); (v) the date of the Stated Maturity; (vi) if such Note is a Fixed
Rate Note, the rate per annum at which such Note will bear interest, if any, and
whether and the manner in which such rate may be changed prior to its Stated
Maturity; (vii) if such Note is a Floating Rate Note, the Base Rate, the Initial
Interest Rate, the Interest Reset Period or the
 
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Interest Reset Dates, the Interest Payment Dates, and, if applicable, the Index
Maturity, the Maximum Interest Rate, the Minimum Interest Rate, the Spread or
Spread Multiplier (all as defined below), and any other terms relating to the
particular method of calculating the interest rate for such Note and whether and
the manner in which such Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior to
Stated Maturity; (viii) whether such Note is an Original Issue Discount Note (as
defined below); (ix) if such Note is an Amortizing Note, the terms for repayment
prior to Stated Maturity; (x) if such Note is an Indexed Note, in the case of an
Indexed Rate Note, the manner in which the amount of any interest payment will
be determined or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, its Face Amount and
the manner in which the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity will be
determined; (xi) whether such Note may be redeemed at the option of the Company,
or repaid at the option of the Holder, prior to Stated Maturity as described

under 'Optional Redemption, Repayment and Repurchase' below and, if so, the
provisions relating to such redemption or repayment, including, in the case of
an Original Issue Discount Note or Indexed Note, the information necessary to
determine the amount due upon redemption or repayment; (xii) whether such Note
is subject to an optional extension beyond its Stated Maturity as described
under 'Extension of Maturity' below; and (xiii) any other terms of such Note not
inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture under which such Note will be
issued.
 
     'Business Day' with respect to any Registered Note means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is (i) not a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of
New York or (b) if the Specified Currency for such Note is other than U.S.
dollars, the financial center of the country issuing such Specified Currency
(which, in the case of ECU, shall be Brussels, Belgium) and (ii) if such Note is
a LIBOR Note (as defined below), a London Banking Day. 'London Banking Day' with
respect to any Registered Note means any day on which dealings in deposits in
the Specified Currency of such Note are transacted in the London interbank
market.
 
     'Original Issue Discount Note' means (i) a Registered Note, including any
such Note whose interest rate is zero, that has a stated redemption price at
Stated Maturity that exceeds its Issue Price by at least 0.25% of its stated
redemption price at Stated Maturity, multiplied by the number of full years from
the Original Issue Date to the Stated Maturity for such Note and (ii) any other
Registered Note designated by the Company as issued with original issue discount
for United States Federal income tax purposes.
 
     A 'basis point' or 'bp' equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point.
 
PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
 
     The principal of and any premium and interest on each Registered Note are
payable by the Company in the Specified Currency for such Note. If the Specified
Currency for a Registered Note is other than U.S. dollars, the Company will
(unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement) arrange to
convert all payments in respect of such Note into U.S. dollars in the manner
described in the following paragraph. The Holder of a Registered Note having a
Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars may (if the applicable Pricing
Supplement and such Note so indicate) elect to receive all payments in respect
of such Note in the Specified Currency by delivery of a written notice to the
Trustee for such Note not later than fifteen calendar days prior to the
applicable payment date, except under the circumstances described under
'Currency Risks--Payment Currency' below. Such election will remain in effect
until revoked by written notice to such Trustee received not later than fifteen
calendar days prior to the applicable payment date.
 
     In the case of a Registered Note having a Specified Currency other than
U.S. dollars, the amount of any U.S. dollar payment in respect of such
Registered Note will be determined by the Exchange Rate Agent based on the
highest firm bid quotation expressed in U.S. dollars received by the Exchange
Rate Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second
Business Day preceding the applicable payment date (or, if no such rate is
quoted on such date, the last date on which such rate was quoted), from three

(or, if three are not available, then two) recognized foreign exchange dealers
in
 
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The City of New York (one of which may be the Agent and another of which may be
the Exchange Rate Agent) selected by the Exchange Rate Agent, for the purchase
by the quoting dealer, for settlement on such payment date, of the aggregate
amount of such Specified Currency payable on such payment date in respect of all
Registered Notes denominated in such Specified Currency. All currency exchange
costs will be borne by the Holders of such Notes by deductions from such
payments. If no such bid quotations are available, such payments will be made in
such Specified Currency, unless such Specified Currency is unavailable due to
the imposition of exchange controls or to other circumstances beyond the
Company's control, in which case such payments will be made as described under
'Currency Risks--Payment Currency' below.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, U.S.
dollar payments of interest on Registered Notes (other than interest payable at
Stated Maturity) will be made, except as provided below, by check mailed to the
Registered Holders of such Notes (which, in the case of Global Securities
representing Book-Entry Notes, will be a nominee of the Depositary); provided,
however, that, in the case of a Registered Note issued between a Regular Record
Date and the related Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified in the
related Pricing Supplement, interest for the period beginning on the Original
Issue Date for such Note and ending on such Interest Payment Date shall be paid
on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date to the Registered Holder of such
Note on the related Regular Record Date. A Holder of $10,000,000 (or the
equivalent thereof in a Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars) or more in
aggregate principal amount of Registered Notes of like tenor and term shall be
entitled to receive such U.S. dollar payments by wire transfer of immediately
available funds, but only if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been
received in writing by the Trustee for such Notes not later than fifteen
calendar days prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date. Simultaneously with
the election by any Holder to receive payments in a Specified Currency other
than U.S. dollars (as provided above), such Holder shall provide appropriate
wire transfer instructions to the Trustee for such Notes. Unless otherwise
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, principal and any premium and
interest payable at the Stated Maturity of a Registered Note will be paid in
immediately available funds upon surrender of such Note at the corporate trust
office or agency of the Trustee for such Note in The City of New York.
 
     Any payment required to be made in respect of a Registered Note on a date
(including the day of Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day for such Note
need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business
Day with the same force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional
interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed payment.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, if the
principal of any Discount Note is declared to be due and payable immediately as
described under 'Description of Debt Securities--Events of Default' in the
Prospectus, the amount of principal due and payable with respect to such Note
shall be limited to the aggregate principal amount (or face amount, in the case
of an Indexed Principal Note) of such Note multiplied by the sum of its Issue

Price (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate principal amount) plus the
original issue discount amortized from the date of issue to the date of
declaration, which amortization shall be calculated using the 'interest method'
(computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in effect
on the date of declaration).
 
     The Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date for a
Floating Rate Note or for an Indexed Rate Note shall be the date (whether or not
a Business Day) fifteen calendar days immediately preceding such Interest
Payment Date, and for a Fixed Rate Note (unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement) shall be the March 1 or September 1 (whether or
not a Business Day) immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.
 
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FIXED RATE NOTES
 
     Each Fixed Rate Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date, or
from the last Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, at the rate per annum stated in the applicable Pricing Supplement
until the principal amount thereof is paid or made available for payment, except
as described below under 'Subsequent Interest Periods' and 'Extension of
Maturity', and except that if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
the rate of interest payable on certain Fixed Rate Notes may be subject to
adjustment from time to time as described in such Pricing Supplement. Unless
otherwise set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement, interest on each Fixed
Rate Note will be payable semiannually in arrears on each March 15 and September
15 (each such day being an 'Interest Payment Date') and at Stated Maturity.
Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, if an Interest
Payment Date with respect to any Fixed Rate Note would otherwise be a day that
is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall not be postponed;
provided, however, that any payment required to be made in respect of such Note
on a date (including the day of Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day for
such Note need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such date, and no
additional interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed payment. However,
if with respect to any Fixed Rate Note, 'Accrue to Pay' is specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, and any Interest Payment Date with respect to
such Fixed Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such
Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day.
Each payment of interest in respect of an Interest Payment Date shall include
interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment Date. Unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, interest on Fixed Rate
Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months
('30 over 360').
 
FLOATING RATE NOTES
 
     From its Original Issue Date to but not including the first Interest Reset
Date (the 'Initial Interest Period'), each Floating Rate Note will bear interest
at the Initial Interest Rate set forth, or otherwise described in the Pricing
Supplement. From each Interest Reset Date to but not including the following
Interest Reset Date (each such period, an 'Interest Reset Period'; and together
with the Initial Interest Period, the 'Interest Periods'), the interest rate for

each Floating Rate Note will be determined by reference to an interest rate
basis (the 'Base Rate'), plus or minus the Spread, if any, or multiplied by the
Spread Multiplier, if any. The 'Spread' is the number of basis points that may
be specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement as being applicable to such
Note, and the 'Spread Multiplier' is the percentage that may be specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement as being applicable to such Note, except in each
case as described below under 'Subsequent Interest Periods' and 'Extension of
Maturity', and except that if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
the Spread or Spread Multiplier on certain Floating Rate Notes may be subject to
adjustment from time to time as described in such Pricing Supplement. The
applicable Pricing Supplement will designate one of the following Base Rates as
applicable to a Floating Rate Note: (i) LIBOR (a 'LIBOR Note'), (ii) the
Commercial Paper Rate (a 'Commercial Paper Rate Note'), (iii) the Treasury Rate
(a 'Treasury Rate Note'), (iv) the Federal Funds Rate (a 'Federal Funds Rate
Note'), (v) the CD Rate (a 'CD Rate Note') or (vi) such other Base Rate as is
set forth in such Pricing Supplement and in such Note. The 'Index Maturity' for
any Floating Rate Note is the period of maturity of the instrument or obligation
from which the Base Rate is calculated. 'H.15(519)' means the publication
entitled 'Statistical Release H.15(519), 'Selected Interest Rates' ', or any
successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System. 'Composite Quotations' means the daily statistical release
entitled 'Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities'
published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
 
     As specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, a Floating Rate Note may
also have either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per
annum on a simple interest basis): (i) a
 
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maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the rate at which interest may accrue during
any interest period ('Maximum Interest Rate') and (ii) a minimum limitation, or
floor, on the rate at which interest may accrue during any interest period
('Minimum Interest Rate'). In addition to any Maximum Interest Rate that may be
applicable to any Floating Rate Note, the interest rate on a Floating Rate Note
will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, as
the same may be modified by United States law of general application. The Notes
will be governed by the law of the State of New York and, under such law as of
the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the maximum rate of interest under
provisions of the penal law, with certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a
simple interest basis. Such maximum rate of interest only applies to obligations
that are less than $2,500,000.
 
     The Company will appoint, and enter into agreements with, agents (each a
'Calculation Agent') to calculate interest rates on Floating Rate Notes. Unless
otherwise specified in a Pricing Supplement, Citibank, N.A. shall be the
Calculation Agent for each Series D Floating Rate Note and Bankers Trust Company
shall be the Calculation Agent for each Series E Floating Rate Note. All
determinations of interest by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the holders of the
Floating Rate Notes.
 
     The interest rate on each Floating Rate Note will be reset daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (each day on which the interest

rate is reset, an 'Interest Reset Date'), as specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
Interest Reset Dates will be, in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset
daily, each Business Day; in the case of Floating Rate Notes (other than
Treasury Rate Notes) that reset weekly, Wednesday of each week; in the case of
Treasury Rate Notes that reset weekly, Tuesday of each week (except as provided
below under 'Treasury Rate Notes'); in the case of Floating Rate Notes that
reset monthly, the third Wednesday of each month; in the case of Floating Rate
Notes that reset quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset
semiannually, the third Wednesday of each of two months of each year specified
in the applicable Pricing Supplement; and, in the case of Floating Rate Notes
that reset annually, the third Wednesday of one month of each year specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement; provided, however, that in all instances
involving Floating Rate Notes issued prior to September 16, 1994 the interest
rate in effect for the ten days immediately prior to Stated Maturity will be
that in effect on the tenth day preceding Stated Maturity. If an Interest Reset
Date for any Floating Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business
Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business
Day, except that, in the case of a LIBOR Note, if such Business Day is in the
next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date shall be the
immediately preceding Business Day.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the rate
of interest that goes into effect on any Interest Reset Date shall be determined
on a date (the 'Rate Determination Date') preceding such Interest Reset Date, as
further described below. Such Rate Determination Date may be referred to below
as a 'CD Rate Determination Date' in the case of a CD Rate Note, a 'Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date' in the case of a Commercial Paper Rate Note, a
'Federal Funds Rate Determination Date' in the case of a Federal Funds Rate
Note, a 'LIBOR Determination Date' in the case of a LIBOR Note or a 'Treasury
Rate Determination Date' or a 'Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination
Date' in the case of a Treasury Rate Note.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, interest
payable in respect of Floating Rate Notes shall be the accrued interest from and
including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been
paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment Date.
In the case of a Floating Rate Note that resets daily or weekly, interest
payable shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date
or the last date to which interest has been accrued and paid, as the case may
be, to but excluding the Record Date immediately preceding the applicable
Interest Payment Date, except that, at Stated Maturity, interest payable will
include interest accrued to but excluding the date of Stated Maturity.
 
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     With respect to a Floating Rate Note with more than one Interest Reset Date
during any period for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued
interest shall be calculated by multiplying the principal amount of such Note
(or, in the case of a Floating Rate Note that is an Indexed Principal Note, its
Face Amount) by an accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor will be
computed by adding the interest factors calculated for each day in the period
for which accrued interest is being calculated. The interest factor (expressed

as a decimal calculated to seven decimal places without rounding) for each such
day is computed, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, by dividing the interest rate in effect on such day by 360 ('Actual
over 360'), in the case of LIBOR Notes, Commercial Paper Rate Notes, Federal
Funds Rate Notes and CD Rate Notes, or by the actual number of days in the year
('Actual over Actual'), in the case of Treasury Rate Notes. For purposes of
making the foregoing calculation, the interest rate in effect on any Interest
Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such date. With respect to
all other Floating Rate Notes, accrued interest shall be calculated by
multiplying the principal amount of such Note (or, in the case of a Floating
Rate Note that is an Indexed Principal Note, its Face Amount) by the interest
rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being calculated,
and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing the number of
days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated by 360, in the
case of LIBOR Notes, Commercial Paper Rate Notes, Fedral Funds Rate Notes and CD
Rate Notes, or by the actual number of days in the year, in the case of Treasury
Rate Notes.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, all
percentages resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest on a Floating
Rate Note will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1%
(.0000001), with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and
all currency amounts used in or resulting from such calculation on Floating Rate
Notes will be rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a
unit being rounded upward).
 
     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Pricing Supplement and except
as provided below, interest will be payable, in the case of Floating Rate Notes
that reset daily, weekly or monthly, on the third Wednesday of each month or on
the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December of each year, as
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement; in the case of Floating Rate
Notes that reset quarterly, on the third Wednesday of March, June, September,
and December of each year; in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset
semiannually, on the third Wednesday of each of two months of each year
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement; and, in the case of Floating
Rate Notes that reset annually, on the third Wednesday of one month of each year
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement (each such day being an 'Interest
Payment Date'). If an Interest Payment Date with respect to any Floating Rate
Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment
Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except that, in the
case of a LIBOR Note, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar
month, such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business
Day; provided, however, if with respect to any Floating Rate Note, the
applicable Pricing Supplement provides that the Note does not Accrue to Pay, if
an Interest Payment Date with respect to such Floating Rate Note would otherwise
be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall not be
postponed; provided, further, that any payment required to be made in respect of
a Floating Rate Note that does not Accrue to Pay on a date (including the day of
Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day for such Note need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on such dates, and no additional interest shall
accrue as a result of such delayed payment.
 
     Upon the request of the Holder of any Floating Rate Note, the Calculation

Agent for such Note will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if
determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date with respect to such Floating Rate Note.
 
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CD Rate Notes
 
     Each CD Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the 'CD
Rate' for each Interest Reset Period shall be the rate as of the second Business
Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a 'CD Rate
Determination Date') for negotiable certificates of deposit having the Index
Maturity designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as published in
H.15(519) under the heading 'CDs (Secondary Market)'. In the event that such
rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation
Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination Date, then the
'CD Rate' for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such CD Rate
Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index Maturity
designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as published in Composite
Quotations under the heading 'Certificates of Deposit'. If by 3:00 p.m., New
York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in
either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'CD Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be calculated by the Calculation Agent for such CD Rate Note
and will be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market offered rates as of
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD Rate Determination Date of three
leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar certificates of deposit in The
City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such CD Rate Note for
negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States money center banks of
the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable certificates of
deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity designated in
the Pricing Supplement in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however, that
if the dealers selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting
offered rates as mentioned in this sentence, the 'CD Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any CD Rate Determination Date shall
be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or, if such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.
 
Commercial Paper Rate Notes
 
     Each Commercial Paper Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper
Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in
the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the

'Commercial Paper Rate' for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent for such Commercial Paper Rate Note as of the second Business
Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a
'Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date') and shall be the Money Market Yield
(as defined below) on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate
for commercial paper having the index Maturity specified in the applicable
Pricing Supplement, as such rate shall be published in H.15(519) under the
heading 'Commercial Paper'. In the event that such rate is not published prior
to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date, then the
'Commercial Paper Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market
Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for
commercial paper of the specified Index Maturity as published in Composite
Quotations under the heading 'Commercial Paper'. If by 3:00 p.m., New York City
time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either
H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'Commercial Paper Rate' for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic mean of
the offered rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial paper in
The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such
 
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Commercial Paper Rate Note for commercial paper of the specified Index Maturity
placed for an industrial issuer whose bonds are rated 'AA' or the equivalent by
a nationally recognized rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the 'Commercial Paper Rate' for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate).
 
     'Money Market Yield' shall be a yield calculated in accordance with the
following formula:

 
                                   D X 360
          Money Market Yield = ---------------  X 100
                                360 - (D X M)  

 
where 'D' refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and 'M' refers to the actual
number of days in the specified Index Maturity.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.
 
  Federal Funds Rate Notes
 
     Each Federal Funds Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate

and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the
applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
'Federal Funds Rate' for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate
on the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a 'Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date') for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the
heading 'Federal Funds (Effective)'. In the event that such rate is not
published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as
defined below) pertaining to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the
'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such
Federal Funds Rate Determination Date as published in Composite Quotations under
the heading 'Federal Funds/Effective Rate'. If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time,
on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or
Composite Quotations, then the 'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset
Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made
publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent
to the rate which appears in H.15(519) under the heading 'Federal Funds
(Effective)'; provided, however, that if such rate is not made publicly
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City
time, on such Calculation Date, the 'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate). In the case of a Federal Funds Rate Note that resets
daily, the interest rate on such Note for the period from and including a Monday
to but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset by the Calculation Agent
for such Note on such second Monday (or, if not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the average of the Federal Funds
Rates in effect with respect to each such day in such week.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
 
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  LIBOR Notes
 
     Each LIBOR Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.
 
     'LIBOR' for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Notes as follows:
 
          (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
     for such Interest Reset Period (a 'LIBOR Determination Date'), the
     Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the offered rates for
     deposits in the Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity
     specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, commencing on such Interest
     Reset Date, which appear on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately
     11:00 a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date. If 'LIBOR
     Telerate' is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, 'Designated
     LIBOR Page' means the display designated as page '3750' on the Dow Jones

     Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page '3750' on such
     service or such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers'
     Association for the purpose of displaying the London interbank offered
     rates of major banks), and LIBOR for such Interest Reset Period will be the
     relevant offered rate as determined by the Calculation Agent. If 'LIBOR
     Reuters' is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, 'Designated
     LIBOR Page' means the display designated as page 'LIBO' on the Reuters
     Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO
     page on such service or such other service as may be nominated by the
     British Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank
     offered rates of major banks) provided that at least two such offered rates
     appear on the Designated LIBOR Page, in which case, 'LIBOR' for such
     Interest Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as
     determined by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.
 
          (ii) If LIBOR cannot be determined as above (either because the
     Designated LIBOR Page is no longer available or because less than two rates
     appear on page 'LIBO' on the Reuters Monitor Money Rate Services) on such
     LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will
     request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
     London interbank market selected by such Calculation Agent to provide such
     Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the Specified
     Currency for the period of the specified Index Maturity, commencing on such
     Interest Reset Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market at
     approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and
     in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the
     approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is
     representative of a single transaction in such market at such time. If at
     least two such quotations are provided, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset
     Period will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two
     such quotations are provided, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period will
     be the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of
     New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note at
     approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination
     Date for loans in the Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the
     period of the specified Index Maturity, commencing on such Interest Reset
     Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than
     $1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency
     that is representative of a single transaction in such market at such time;
     provided, however, that if fewer than three banks selected as aforesaid by
     such Calculation Agent are quoting rates as mentioned in this sentence,
     'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as LIBOR for the
     immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such
     Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).
 
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  Treasury Rate Notes
 
     Each Treasury Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period
at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the
applicable Pricing Supplement.
 

     Unless 'Constant Maturity' is specified or unless otherwise specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement, the 'Treasury Rate' for each Interest Reset
Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury Rate Determination
Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of direct obligations of
the United States ('Treasury securities') having the Index Maturity specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement, as such rate shall be published in H.15(519)
under the heading 'U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction average
(investment)' or, in the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction average rate (expressed as
a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and
applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate Determination Date as otherwise
announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. In the event that the
results of the auction of Treasury securities having the specified Index
Maturity are not published or reported as provided above by 3:00 p.m., New York
City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such auction is held on such
Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the 'Treasury Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation Agent for such Treasury Rate
Note and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond equivalent on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis)
of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of approximately
3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, of
three leading primary United States government securities dealers selected by
such Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury securities with a remaining
maturity closest to the specified Index Maturity; provided, however, that if the
dealers selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting bid
rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the 'Treasury Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury Rate for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).
 
     The 'Treasury Rate Determination Date' for each Interest Reset Period will
be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset
Period falls on which Treasury securities would normally be auctioned. Treasury
securities are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that day
is legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the following
Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday. If, as
the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding Friday,
such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to the
Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction date
shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead be the Business
Day immediately following such auction date.
 
     If 'Constant Maturity' is specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
the 'Treasury Rate' for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate that is set
forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite the caption
'U.S. Government/Securities/Treasury Constant Maturities/' in the Index Maturity
with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination
Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the 'Constant
Maturity--Treasury Rate' shall be the rate that was set forth on Telerate Page
7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation Agent), on the
applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date opposite the
applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the Constant

Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be established by
the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will contact the Federal
Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate, in the applicable
Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date. If
the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such information, then the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean
of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of yield, reported by three leading
U.S. government securities dealers (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc),
 
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according to their written records, as of 3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S.
Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less
than exactly the Index Maturity and for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that
is nearest in maturity to the Index Maturity, but not more than exactly the
Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent shall calculate the Constant Maturity
Treasury Rate by interpolating to the Index Maturity based on an actual/actual
date count basis, the yield on the two Treasury Notes selected. If the
Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such adjusted quotations, the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean
of all such quotations, or if only one such quotation is obtained, such
quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all events, the Calculation
Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one adjusted yield quotation
can be determined.
 
     'The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date' shall be the tenth
Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable Interest Reset
Period.
 
     The Treasury constant maturity rate for a Treasury security maturity (the
'CMT Rate') as published in H.15(519) as of any Business Day is intended to be
indicative of the yield of a U.S. Treasury security having as of such Business
Day a remaining term to maturity equivalent to such maturity. The CMT Rate as of
any Business Day is based upon an interpolation by the U.S. Treasury of the
daily yield curve of outstanding Treasury securities. This yield curve, which
relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based on the
over-the-counter market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities. Such
yields are calculated from composites of quotations reported by leading U.S.
government securities dealers, which may include Salomon Brothers Inc. Certain
constant maturity yield values are read from the yield curve. Such interpolation
from the yield curve provides a theoretical yield for a Treasury security having
ten years to maturity, for example, even if no outstanding Treasury security has
as of such date exactly ten years remaining to maturity.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Treasury Rate Determination Date
or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, shall be the tenth
calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or Constant Maturity
Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is not a Business Day,
the next succeeding Business Day.
 
SUBSEQUENT INTEREST PERIODS
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Registered Note will indicate

whether the Company has the option to reset the interest rate (in the case of a
Fixed Rate Note) with respect to such Registered Note or the Spread or Spread
Multiplier (in the case of a Floating Rate Note) with respect to such Registered
Note and, if so, the date or dates on which such interest rate or such Spread or
Spread Multiplier, as the case may be, may be reset (each an 'Optional Reset
Date').
 
     The Company shall notify the Trustee for a Registered Note whether or not
it intends to exercise such option with respect to such Registered Note at least
45 but not more than 60 days prior to an Optional Reset Date for such Registered
Note. Not later than 40 days prior to such Optional Reset Date, the Trustee for
such Registered Note will mail to the Holder of such Registered Note a notice
(the 'Reset Notice'), first class, postage prepaid, indicating whether the
Company has elected to reset the interest rate (in the case of a Fixed Rate
Note) or the Spread or Spread Multiplier (in the case of a Floating Rate Note)
and if so, (i) such new interest rate or such new Spread or Spread Multiplier,
as the case may be; and (ii) the provisions, if any, for redemption during the
period from such Optional Reset Date to the next Optional Reset Date or, if
there is no such next Optional Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of such
Registered Note (each such period a 'Subsequent Interest Period'), including the
date or dates on which or the period or periods during which and the price or
prices at which such redemption may occur during such Subsequent Interest
Period.
 
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to an Optional
Reset Date for a Registered Note, the Company may, at its option, revoke the
interest rate (in the case of a Fixed Rate Note) or the Spread or Spread
Multiplier (in the case of a Floating Rate Note) provided for in the Reset
Notice with respect to such Optional Reset Date and establish a higher interest
rate (in the case of a
 
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Fixed Rate Note) or a higher Spread or Spread Multiplier (in the case of a
Floating Rate Note) for the Subsequent Interest Period commencing on such
Optional Reset Date by causing the Trustee for such Registered Note to mail
notice of such higher interest rate or higher Spread or Spread Multiplier, as
the case may be, first class, postage prepaid, to the Holder of such Registered
Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to
which the interest rate or Spread or Spread Multiplier is reset on an Optional
Reset Date will bear such higher interest rate (in the case of Fixed Rate Notes)
or higher Spread or Spread Multiplier (in the case of Floating Rate Notes),
whether or not tendered for repayment.
 
     The Holder of a Registered Note will have the option to elect repayment of
such Note by the Company on each Optional Reset Date at a price equal to the
principal amount thereof, plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In
order for a Registered Note to be repaid on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder
thereof must follow the procedures set forth below under 'Optional Redemption,
Repayment and Repurchase' for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery of such Registered Note or notification to the Trustee for such
Registered Note shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to such
Optional Reset Date, and except that a Holder who has tendered a Registered Note
for repayment pursuant to a Reset Notice may, by written notice to the Trustee

for such Registered Note, revoke any such tender for repayment until the close
of business on the tenth day prior to such Optional Reset Date.
 
AMORTIZING NOTES
 
     The Company may from time to time offer Registered Notes ('Amortizing
Notes') on which a portion or all the principal amount is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an Index (as defined below). Further information concerning
additional terms and conditions of any Amortizing Notes, including terms for
repayment thereof, will be set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
INDEXED NOTES
 
     The Company may from time to time offer Registered Notes ('Indexed Notes')
on which certain or all interest payments (in the case of an 'Indexed Rate
Note'), and/or the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier
redemption or retirement (in the case of an 'Indexed Principal Note'), is
determined by reference to the principal amount of such Notes (or, in the case
of an Indexed Principal Note, to the amount designated in the applicable Pricing
Supplement as the 'Face Amount' of such Indexed Note) and by reference to
prices, changes in prices, or differences between prices, of securities,
currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or by such other
objective price, economic or other measures as are described in the applicable
Pricing Supplement (the 'Index'). A description of the Index used in any
determination of an interest or principal payment, and the method or formula by
which interest or principal payments will be determined by reference to such
Index, will be set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     In the case of a Fixed Rate Note, Floating Rate Note or Indexed Rate Note
that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest payment will
be determined by reference to the Face Amount of such Indexed Note unless
specified otherwise in the applicable Pricing Supplement. In the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any
earlier redemption or repayment of the Indexed Note may be different from the
Face Amount.
 
     If the determination of the Index on which any interest payment or the
principal amount of an Indexed Note is calculated or announced by a third party,
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such
third party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or
changes the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes
consistent with policies in effect at the time such Indexed Note was issued and
permitted changes described in the applicable Pricing Supplement), then such
Index shall be calculated for purposes of such Indexed Note by another third
party selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company, subject to the same conditions and controls as applied
to the original third party. If for
 
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any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the
same conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the
indexed interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of such

Indexed Note shall be calculated in the manner set forth in the applicable
Pricing Supplement. Any determination of such third party shall in the absence
of manifest error be binding on all parties.
 
BOOK-ENTRY SYSTEM
 
     Upon issuance, and subject to the rules of the Depositary, all Fixed Rate
Book-Entry Notes having the same Original Issue Date and otherwise identical
terms will be represented by a single Global Security. Each Global Security
representing Book-Entry Notes will be deposited with, or on behalf of, The
Depository Trust Company, New York, New York (the 'Depositary'), and registered
in the name of a nominee of the Depositary. Book-Entry Notes will not be
exchangeable for Certificated Notes and, except under the circumstances
described in the Prospectus under 'Description of Debt Securities--Global
Securities', will not otherwise be issuable as Certificated Notes.
 
     The Depositary has advised the Company and the Agent as follows: The
Depositary is a limited-purpose trust company organized under New York Banking
Law, a 'banking organization' within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a
member of the Federal Reserve System, a 'clearing corporation' within the
meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a 'clearing agency'
registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended. The Depositary was created to hold securities of its
participants and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities
transactions among its participants in such securities through electronic
book-entry changes in accounts of the participants, thereby eliminating the need
for physical movement of securities certificates. The Depositary's participants
include securities brokers and dealers (including the Agent), banks, trust
companies, clearing corporations, and certain other organizations, some of whom
(and/or their representatives) own the Depositary. Access to the Depositary's
book-entry system is also available to others, such as banks, brokers, dealers
and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with
a participant, either directly or indirectly.
 
     A further description of the Depositary's procedures with respect to Global
Securities representing Book-Entry Notes is set forth in the Prospectus under
'Description of Debt Securities-Global Securities'. The Depositary has confirmed
to the Company, the Agent and the Trustees that it intends to follow such
procedures.
 
EXTENSION OF MATURITY
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Registered Note will indicate
whether the Company has the option to extend the Stated Maturity of such Note
for one or more periods of whole years from one to five (each an 'Extension
Period') up to but not beyond the date (the 'Final Maturity') set forth in such
Pricing Supplement.
 
     The Company may exercise such option with respect to a Registered Note by
notifying the Trustee for such Registered Note at least 45 but not more than 60
days prior to the old Stated Maturity of such Registered Note. Not later than 40
days prior to the old Stated Maturity of such Registered Note, the Trustee for
such Registered Note will mail to the Holder of such Registered Note a notice
(the 'Extension Notice'), first class, postage prepaid. The Extension Notice

will set forth (i) the election of the Company to extend the Stated Maturity of
such Registered Note; (ii) the new Stated Maturity; (iii) in the case of a Fixed
Rate Note, the interest rate applicable to the Extension Period or, in the case
of a Floating Rate Note, the Spread or Spread Multiplier applicable to the
Extension Period; and (iv) the provisions, if any, for redemption during the
Extension Period, including the date or dates on which or the period or periods
during which and the price or prices at which such redemption may occur during
the Extension Period. Upon the mailing by such Trustee of an Extension Notice to
the Holder of a Registered Note, the Stated Maturity of such Registered Note
shall be extended automatically, and, except as modified by the Extension Notice
and as described in the next paragraph, such Registered Note will have the same
terms as prior to the mailing of such Extension Notice.
 
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     Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to the old
Stated Maturity of such Registered Note, the Company may, at its option, revoke
the interest rate (in the case of a Fixed Rate Note) or the Spread or Spread
Multiplier (in the case of a Floating Rate Note) provided for in the Extension
Notice for such Registered Note and establish a higher interest rate (in the
case of a Fixed Rate Note) or a higher Spread or Spread Multiplier (in the case
of a Floating Rate Note) for the Extension Period, by causing the Trustee for
such Registered Note to mail notice of such higher interest rate or higher
Spread or Spread Multiplier, as the case may be, first class, postage prepaid,
to the Holder of such Registered Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All
Registered Notes with respect to which the Stated Maturity is extended will bear
such higher interest rate (in the case of Fixed Rate Notes) or higher Spread or
Spread Multiplier (in the case of Floating Rate Notes) for the Extension Period,
whether or not tendered for repayment.
 
     If the Company extends the Stated Maturity of a Registered Note, the Holder
of such Registered Note will have the option to elect repayment of such
Registered Note by the Company on the old Stated Maturity at a price equal to
the principal amount thereof, plus interest accrued to such date. In order for a
Registered Note to be repaid on the old Stated Maturity once the Company has
extended the Stated Maturity thereof, the Holder thereof must follow the
procedures set forth below under 'Optional Redemption, Repayment and Repurchase'
for optional repayment, except that the period for delivery of such Registered
Note or notification to the Trustee for such Registered Note shall be at least
25 but not more than 35 days prior to the old Stated Maturity and except that a
Holder who has tendered a Registered Note for repayment pursuant to an Extension
Notice may, by written notice to the Trustee for such Registered Note, revoke
any such tender for repayment until the close of business on the tenth day
before the old Stated Maturity.
 
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Registered Note will indicate
either that such Note cannot be redeemed prior to its Stated Maturity or that
such Note will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part,
and the date or dates (each an 'Optional Redemption Date') on which such Note
may be redeemed and the price (the 'Redemption Price') at which (together with
accrued interest to such Optional Redemption Date) such Note may be redeemed on
each such Optional Redemption Date. The Company may exercise such option with

respect to a Registered Note by notifying the Trustee for such Note at least 45
days prior to any Optional Redemption Date. Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to
the date of redemption, such Trustee shall mail notice of such redemption, first
class, postage prepaid, to the Holder of such Registered Note. In the event of
redemption of a Registered Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the
unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued to the Holder thereof upon the
cancellation thereof. The Registered Notes will not be subject to any sinking
fund.
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Registered Note will also indicate
whether the Holder of such Note will have the option to elect repayment of such
Note by the Company prior to its Stated Maturity, and, if so, such Pricing
Supplement will specify the date or dates on which such Note may be repaid (each
an 'Optional Repayment Date') and the price (the 'Optional Repayment Price') at
which, together with accrued interest to such Optional Repayment Date, such Note
may be repaid on each such Optional Repayment Date.
 
     In order for a Registered Note to be repaid, the Trustee for such
Registered Note must receive, at least 30 but not more than 45 days prior to an
Optional Repayment Date (i) such Registered Note with the form entitled 'Option
to Elect Repayment' on the reverse thereof duly completed, or (ii) a telegram,
telex, facsimile transmission or letter from a member of a national securities
exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial
bank or trust company in the United States setting forth the name of the Holder
of such Registered Note, the principal amount of such Registered Note to be
repaid, the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of such
Registered Note, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being
exercised thereby and a guarantee that the Registered Note to be repaid with the
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the Registered Note duly completed will be received by such Trustee not later
than five Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile
transmission or letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the
preceding sentence is followed, then such Registered Note and form duly
completed must be received by such Trustee by such fifth Business Day. Any
tender of a Registered Note by the Holder for repayment (except pursuant to a
Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment option
may be exercised by the Holder of a Registered Note for less than the entire
principal amount of such Note provided that the principal amount of such Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such
partial repayment, such Registered Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount thereof shall be issued in the name of
the Holder of such repaid Note.
 
     If a Registered Note is represented by a Global Security, the Depositary's
nominee will be the Holder of such Note and therefore will be the only entity
that can exercise a right to repayment. In order to ensure that the Depositary's
nominee will timely exercise a right to repayment with respect to a particular
Registered Note, the beneficial owner of such Note must instruct the broker or
other direct or indirect participant through which it holds an interest in such
Note to notify the Depositary of its desire to exercise a right to repayment.

Different firms have different cut-off times for accepting instructions from
their customers and, accordingly, each beneficial owner should consult the
broker or other direct or indirect participant through which it holds an
interest in a Registered Note in order to ascertain the cut-off time by which
such an instruction must be given in order for timely notice to be delivered to
the Depositary.
 

     Notwithstanding anything in this Prospectus Supplement to the contrary, if
a Registered Note is an Original Issue Discount Note (other than an Indexed
Note), the amount payable on such Note in the event of redemption or repayment
prior to its Stated Maturity (other than pursuant to an optional redemption by
the Company at a stated Redemption Price) shall be the Amortized Face Amount of
such Note as of the date of redemption or the date of repayment, as the case may
be. The Amortized Face Amount of a Note on any date shall be the amount equal to
(i) the Issue Price set forth on the face of the applicable Pricing Supplement
plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated
principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond
Yield to Maturity set forth on the face of the applicable Pricing Supplement or
(y) if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the Bond Yield to Call
set forth on the face thereof (computed in each case in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided,
however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its
stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of a Pricing
Supplement shall be computed on the basis of the first occuring Optional
Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such
Optional Redemption Date. In the event that any such Note is not redeemed on
such first occuring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occuring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

 
     The Company may at any time purchase Registered Notes at any price in the
open market or otherwise. Registered Notes so purchased by the Company may, at
the discretion of the Company, be held or resold or surrendered to the Trustee
for such Notes for cancellation.
 
DEFEASANCE
 
     The defeasance provisions described in the Prospectus will not be
applicable to the Registered Notes.
 
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                                 CURRENCY RISKS
 
EXCHANGE RATES AND EXCHANGE CONTROLS
 
     An investment in a Registered Note having a Specified Currency other than
U.S. dollars entails significant risks that are not associated with a similar
investment in a security denominated in U.S. dollars. Such risks include,
without limitation, the possibility of significant changes in rates of exchange

between the U.S. dollar and such Specified Currency and the possibility of the
imposition or modification of foreign exchange controls with respect to such
Specified Currency. Such risks generally depend on factors over which the
Company has no control and which cannot be readily foreseen, such as economic
and political events and the supply of and demand for the relevant currencies.
In recent years, rates of exchange between the U.S. dollar and certain
currencies have been highly volatile, and such volatility may be expected in the
future. Fluctuations in any particular exchange rate that have occurred in the
past are not necessarily indicative, however, of fluctuations in the rate that
may occur during the term of any Registered Note. Depreciation of the Specified
Currency for a Registered Note against the U.S. dollar would result in a
decrease in the effective yield of such Note below its coupon rate and, in
certain circumstances, could result in a substantial loss to the investor on a
U.S. dollar basis.
 
     Governments have from time to time imposed, and may in the future impose,
exchange controls that could affect exchange rates as well as the availability
of a Specified Currency for making payments in respect of Registered Notes
denominated in such currency. At present, the Company has identified the
following currencies in which payments of principal, premium and interest on
Registered Notes may be made: Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, Danish
kroner, English pounds sterling, French francs, German deutsche marks, Hong Kong
dollars, Italian lire, Japanese yen, New Zealand dollars, U.S. dollars and ECU.
However, the Company may determine at any time to issue Registered Notes with
Specified Currencies other than those listed. There can be no assurances that
exchange controls will not restrict or prohibit payments of principal, premium
or interest in any Specified Currency. Even if there are no actual exchange
controls, it is possible that, on a payment date with respect to any particular
Registered Note, the currency in which amounts then due in respect of such Note
are payable would not be available to the Company. In that event, the Company
will make such payments in the manner set forth under 'Description of Registered
Notes--Payment of Principal and Interest' above.
 
     THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS DO NOT DESCRIBE
ALL THE RISKS OF AN INVESTMENT IN REGISTERED NOTES DENOMINATED IN A CURRENCY
OTHER THAN U.S. DOLLARS, AND THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY TO ADVISE
PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF SUCH RISKS AS THEY EXIST AT THE DATE OF THIS
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR AS SUCH RISKS MAY CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME. PROSPECTIVE
PURCHASERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN FINANCIAL AND LEGAL ADVISORS AS TO THE RISKS
ENTAILED BY AN INVESTMENT IN REGISTERED NOTES DENOMINATED IN A CURRENCY OTHER
THAN U.S. DOLLARS. SUCH NOTES ARE NOT AN APPROPRIATE INVESTMENT FOR PERSONS WHO
ARE UNSOPHISTICATED WITH RESPECT TO FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS.
 
     The information set forth in this Prospectus Supplement is directed to
prospective purchasers of Registered Notes who are United States residents, and
the Company disclaims any responsibility to advise prospective purchasers who
are residents of countries other than the United States with respect to any
matters that may affect the purchase or holding of, or receipt of payments of
principal, premium or interest in respect of, Registered Notes. Such persons
should consult their own advisors with regard to such matters.
 
     Any Pricing Supplement relating to Registered Notes having a Specified
Currency other than U.S. dollars will contain a description of any material
exchange controls affecting such currency and any other required information

concerning such currency.
 
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PAYMENT CURRENCY
 
     Except as set forth below, if payment in respect of a Registered Note is
required to be made in a Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments in respect of such Note shall be made in U.S.
dollars until such currency is again available or so used. The amounts so
payable on any date in such currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the
basis of the most recently available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or
as otherwise indicated in the applicable Pricing Supplement. Any payment in
respect of such Note made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will not
constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture under which such Note shall
have been issued.
 
     If payment in respect of a Registered Note is required to be made in ECU
and ECU are no longer used in the European Monetary System, then all payments in
respect of such Note shall be made in U.S. dollars until ECU are again so used.
The amount of each payment in U.S. dollars shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of ECU in U.S. dollars, determined as described below, as of the
second Business Day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
 
     The equivalent of ECU in U.S. dollars as of any date (the 'Day of
Valuation') shall be determined for Series D Notes by the Trustee for such Notes
and for Series E Notes by the Exchange Rate Agent, on the following basis. The
component currencies of ECU for this purpose (the 'Components') shall be the
currency amounts that were components of ECU as of the last date on which ECU
were used in the European Monetary System. The equivalent of ECU in U.S. dollars
shall be calculated by aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the
Components. The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by such Trustee or such Exchange Rate Agent, as the case may be, on
the basis of the most recently available Market Exchange Rates for such
Components or as otherwise indicated in the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     If the official unit of any component currency is altered by way of
combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a Component
shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more component
currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of those
currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such single currency
equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component currencies
expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is divided into two
or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component shall be replaced
by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall be equal to the
amount of the former component currency divided by the number of currencies into
which that currency was divided.
 
     All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee for the Series D
Notes or the Exchange Rate Agent, as the case may be, shall be at its sole

discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all
purposes and binding on holders of Registered Notes.
 
FOREIGN CURRENCY JUDGMENTS
 
     The Notes will be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of
the State of New York. Courts in the United States customarily have not rendered
judgments for money damages denominated in any currency other than the U.S.
dollar. A 1987 amendment to the Judiciary Law of the State of New York provides,
however, that an action based upon an obligation denominated in a currency other
than U.S. dollars will be rendered in the foreign currency of the underlying
obligation and converted into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange prevailing on
the date of the entry of the judgment or decree.
 
                             RISKS OF INDEXED NOTES
 
     An investment in Indexed Notes may entail significant risks that are not
associated with a similar investment in a debt instrument that has a fixed
principal amount, is denominated in U.S. dollars and bears interest at either a
fixed rate or a floating rate determined by reference to nationally published
 
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interest rate references. The risks of a particular Indexed Note will depend on
the terms of such Indexed Note, but may include, without limitation, the
possibility of significant changes in the prices of securities, currencies,
intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or of other objective price,
economic or other measures making up the relevant Index (the 'Underlying
Assets'). Such risks generally depend on factors over which the Company has no
control and which cannot readily be foreseen, such as economic and political
events and the supply of and demand for the Underlying Assets. In recent years,
currency exchange rates and prices for various Underlying Assets have been
highly volatile, and such volatility may be expected in the future. Fluctuations
in any such rates or prices that have occurred in the past are not necessarily
indicative, however, of fluctuations that may occur during the term of any
Indexed Note.
 
     In considering whether to purchase Indexed Notes, investors should be aware
that the calculation of amounts payable in respect of Indexed Notes may involve
reference to an Index determined by an affiliate of the Company or to prices
which are published solely by third parties or entities which are not subject to
regulation under the laws of the United States.
 
     THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS DO NOT DESCRIBE
ALL THE RISKS ON AN INVESTMENT IN INDEXED NOTES, AND THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADVISE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF SUCH RISKS AS THEY EXIST AT
THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR AS SUCH RISKS MAY CHANGE FROM TIME TO
TIME. THE RISK OF LOSS AS A RESULT OF THE LINKAGE OF PRINCIPAL OR INTEREST
PAYMENTS ON INDEXED NOTES TO AN INDEX AND TO THE UNDERLYING ASSETS CAN BE
SUBSTANTIAL. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN FINANCIAL AND LEGAL
ADVISORS AS TO THE RISKS ENTAILED BY AN INVESTMENT IN INDEXED NOTES. AN INDEXED
NOTE IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE INVESTMENT FOR PERSONS WHO ARE UNSOPHISTICATED WITH
RESPECT TO TRANSACTIONS IN THE UNDERLYING ASSETS OF ANY INDEX RELEVANT TO THAT
INDEXED NOTE.

 
                        UNITED STATES TAX CONSIDERATIONS
 
     The following is a summary of the principal U.S. Federal income tax
consequences resulting from the beneficial ownership of Registered Notes by
certain persons. This summary does not purport to consider all the possible U.S.
Federal tax consequences of the purchase, ownership or disposition of the
Registered Notes and is not intended to reflect the individual tax position of
any beneficial owner. It deals only with Registered Notes held as capital
assets. Moreover, except as expressly indicated, it addresses initial purchasers
and does not address beneficial owners that may be subject to special tax rules,
such as banks, insurance companies, dealers in securities or currencies,
purchasers that hold Registered Notes (or currencies or composite currencies
other than U.S. dollars ('Foreign Currency')) as a hedge against currency risks
or as part of a straddle with other investments or as part of a 'synthetic
security' or other integrated investment (including a 'conversion transaction')
comprised of a Registered Note and one or more other investments, or purchasers
that have a 'functional currency' other than the U.S. dollar. Except to the
extent discussed below under 'Non-U.S. Holders', this summary is not applicable
to non-United States persons not subject to U.S. Federal income tax on their
worldwide income. This summary is based upon the U.S. Federal tax laws and
regulations as now in effect and as currently interpreted and does not take into
account possible changes in such tax laws or such interpretations, any of which
may be applied retroactively. It does not include any description of the tax
laws of any state, local or foreign governments that may be applicable to the
Registered Notes or holders thereof and it does not discuss the tax treatment of
Registered Notes denominated in certain hyperinflationary currencies or dual
currency Registered Notes. Persons considering the purchase of Registered Notes
should consult their own tax advisors concerning the application of the U.S.
Federal tax laws to their particular situations as well as any consequences to
them under the laws of any other taxing jurisdiction.
 
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U.S. HOLDERS

PAYMENTS OF INTEREST
 
     In general, interest on a Registered Note, whether payable in U.S. dollars
or a Foreign Currency (other than certain payments on a Discount Note, as
defined and described below under 'Original Issue Discount'), will be taxable to
a beneficial owner who or which is (i) a citizen or resident of the United
States, (ii) a corporation created or organized under the laws of the United
States or any State thereof (including the District of Columbia) or (iii) a
person otherwise subject to United States Federal income taxation on its
worldwide income (a 'U.S. Holder') as ordinary income at the time it is received
or accrued, depending on the holder's method of accounting for tax purposes. If
an interest payment is denominated in or determined by reference to a Foreign
Currency, then special rules, described below under 'Foreign Currency Notes',
apply.
 
ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT
 

     The following discussion summarizes the United States Federal income tax
consequences to U.S. Holders of Registered Notes issued with original issue
discount ('OID'). U.S. Holders of Registered Notes issued with OID generally
will be subject to special tax accounting rules provided in the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the 'Code'). Treasury Department regulations (the 'OID
Regulations') illustrate the rules provided by the Code.
 
     Special rules apply to OID on a Discount Note that is denominated in
Foreign Currency. See 'Foreign Currency Notes--Foreign Currency Discount Notes'.
 
     General.  A Registered Note will be treated as issued with OID (a 'Discount
Note') if the excess of the Registered Note's 'stated redemption price at
maturity' over its issue price is greater than a de minimis amount (set forth in
the Code and the OID Regulations). Generally, the issue price of a Registered
Note (or any Registered Note that is part of an issue of Registered Notes) will
be the first price at which a substantial amount of Registered Notes that are
part of such issue of Registered Notes are sold (other than to underwriters,
placement agents or wholesalers). Under the OID Regulations, the 'stated
redemption price at maturity' of a Registered Note is the sum of all payments
provided by the Note that are not payments of 'qualified stated interest'. A
'qualified stated interest' payment includes any stated interest payment on a
Registered Note that is unconditionally payable at least annually at a single
fixed rate (or at certain floating rates) that appropriately takes into account
the length of the interval between stated interest payments.
 
     In general, if the excess of a Registered Note's stated redemption price at
maturity over its issue price is less than 1/4 of one percent of the Note's
stated redemption price at maturity multiplied by the number of complete years
to maturity, then such excess constitutes 'de minimis OID'. Under the OID
Regulations, unless the election described below under 'Election to Treat All
Interest as Original Issue Discount' is made, such a Note will not be treated as
issued with OID (in which case the following paragraphs under 'Original Issue
Discount' will not apply) and a U.S. Holder of such a Note will recognize
capital gain with respect to such de minimis OID as stated principal payments on
the Note are made. The amount of such gain with respect to each such payment
will equal the product of the total amount of the Registered Note's de minimis
OID and a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of the principal
payment made and the denominator of which is the stated principal amount of the
Registered Note.
 
     In certain cases, Registered Notes that bear stated interest and are issued
at par may be deemed to bear OID for Federal income tax purposes, with the
result that the inclusion of interest in income for Federal income tax purposes
may vary from the actual cash payments of interest made on such Notes, generally
accelerating income for cash method taxpayers. Under the OID Regulations, a
Registered Note may be a Discount Note where, among other things, (i) a Note
bearing interest at a floating rate (a 'Floating Rate Note') provides for a
maximum interest rate or a minimum interest rate that is reasonably expected as
of the issue date to cause the yield on the debt instrument to be significantly
less, in the case of a maximum rate, or more, in the case of a minimum rate,
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determined without the maximum or minimum rate, as the case may be; (ii) a
Floating Rate Note provides for significant front-loading or back-loading of
interest; or (iii) certain Registered Notes bear interest at a floating rate in
combination with one or more other floating or fixed rates. Notice will be given
in the applicable Pricing Supplement when the Company determines that a
particular Registered Note will be a Discount Note.
 
     The Code and the OID Regulations provide rules that require a U.S. Holder
of a Discount Note having a maturity of more than one year from its date of
issue to include OID in gross income before the receipt of cash attributable to
such income, without regard to the holder's method of accounting for tax
purposes. The amount of OID includible in gross income by a U.S. Holder of a
Discount Note is the sum of the 'daily portions' of OID with respect to the
Discount Note for each day during the taxable year or portion of the taxable
year in which the U.S. Holder holds such Discount Note ('accrued OID'). The
daily portion is determined by allocating to each day in any 'accrual period' a
pro rata portion of the OID allocable to that accrual period. Under the OID
Regulations, accrual periods with respect to a Note may be any set of periods
(which may be of varying lengths) selected by the U.S. Holder as long as (i) no
accrual period is longer than one year and (ii) each scheduled payment of
interest or principal on the Note occurs on the first day or final day of an
accrual period.
 
     The amount of OID allocable to an accrual period equals the excess of (a)
the product of the DIscount Note's adjusted issue price at the beginning of the
accrual period and the Discount Note's yield to maturity (determined on the
basis of compounding at the close of each accrual period and properly adjusted
for the length of the accrual period) over (b) the sum of any payments of
qualified stated interest on the Discount Note allocable to the accrual period.
In the case of a Discount Note that is a Floating Rate Note, both the yield to
maturity and the qualified stated interest will be determined for these purposes
as though the Note will bear interest in all periods at a fixed rate generally
equal to the rate that would be applicable to interest payments on the Note on
its date of issue or, in the case of certain Floating Rate Notes, the rate that
reflects the yield that is reasonably expected for the Note. (Additional rules
may apply if interest on a Floating Rate Note is based on more than one interest
index). The 'adjusted issue price' of a Discount Note at the beginning of the
first accrual period is the issue price and at the beginning of any accrual
period thereafter is (x) the sum of the issue price of such Discount Note, the
accrued OID for each prior accrual period (determined without regard to the
amortization of any acquisition premium or bond premium, which are discussed
below), and the amount of any qualified stated interest on the Note that has
accrued prior to the beginning of the accrual period but is not payable until a
later date, less (y) any prior payments on the Discount Note that were not
qualified stated interest payments. If a payment (other than a payment of
qualified stated interest) is made on the first day of an accrual period, then
the adjusted issue price at the beginning of such accrual period is reduced by
the amount of the payment. All payments on a Discount Note (other than a payment
of qualified stated interest) generally will be viewed first as payments of
previously accrued OID (to the extent thereof), with payments made for the
earliest accrual periods first, and then as a payment of principal. If a portion
of the initial purchase price of a Registered Note is attributable to interest
that accrued prior to the Note's issue date, the first stated interest payment
on the Note is to be made within one year of the Note's issue date and such

payment will equal or exceed the amount of pre-issuance accrued interest, then
the issue price will be decreased by the amount of pre-issuance accrued
interest, in which case a portion of the first stated interest payment will be
treated as a return of the excluded pre-issuance accrued interest and not as an
amount payable on the Registered Note.
 
     The OID Regulations contain certain special rules that generally allow any
reasonable method to be used in determining the amount of OID allocable to a
short initial accrual period (if all other accrual periods are of equal length)
and require that the amount of OID allocable to the final accrual period equal
the excess of the amount payable at the maturity of the Discount Note (other
than any payment of qualified stated interest) over the Discount Note's adjusted
issue price as of the beginning of such final accrual period. In addition, if an
interval between payments of qualified stated interest on a Discount Note
contains more than one accrual period, then the amount of qualified stated
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end of such interval is allocated pro rata (on the basis of their relative
lengths) between the accrual periods contained in the interval.
 
     U.S. Holders of Discount Notes generally will have to include in income
increasingly greater amounts of OID over the life of the Notes.
 
     Acquisition Premium.  A U.S. Holder that purchases a Discount Note for an
amount in excess of its issue price but less than its stated redemption price at
maturity (any such excess being 'acquisition premium'), and that does not make
the election described below under 'Original Issue Discount--Election to Treat
All Interest as Original Issue Discount', is permitted to reduce the daily
portions of OID by a fraction, the numerator of which is the excess of the U.S.
Holder's purchase price for the Note over the issue price, and the denominator
of which is the excess of the sum of all amounts payable on the Note after the
purchase date, other than payments of qualified stated interest, over the Note's
issue price. Alternatively, a U.S. Holder may elect to compute OID accruals as
described under 'Original Issue Discount-General' above, treating the U.S.
Holder's purchase price as the issue price.
 
     Optional Redemption.  If the Company has an option to redeem a Discount
Note, or the Holder has an option to cause a Note to be repurchased, prior to
the Discount Note's stated maturity, such option will be presumed to be
exercised if, by utilizing any date on which such Note may be redeemed or
repurchased as the maturity date and the amount payable on such date in
accordance with the terms of such Note (the 'redemption price') as the stated
redemption price at maturity, the yield on the Discount Note would be (i) in the
case of an option of the Company, lower than its yield to stated maturity, or
(ii) in the case of an option of the Holder, higher than its yield to stated
maturity. If such option is not in fact exercised when presumed to be exercised,
the Discount Note would be treated solely for OID purposes as if it were
redeemed or repurchased, and a new Discount Note were issued, on the presumed
exercise date for an amount equal to the Discount Note's adjusted issue price on
that date.
 
     Short-Term Notes.  Under the Code, special rules apply with respect to OID

on Registered Notes that mature one year or less from the date of issuance
('Short-Term Notes'). In general, a cash basis U.S. Holder of a Short-Term Note
is not required to include OID in income as it accrues for United States Federal
income tax purposes unless it elects to do so. Accrual basis U.S. Holders and
certain other U.S. Holders, including banks, regulated investment companies,
dealers in securities and cash basis U.S. Holders who so elect, are required to
include OID in income as it accrues on Short-Term Notes on a straight-line basis
or, at the election of the U.S. Holder, under the constant yield method (based
on daily compounding). In the case of U.S. Holders not required and not electing
to include OID in income currently, any gain realized on the sale or retirement
of Short-Term Notes will be ordinary income to the extent of the OID accrued on
a straight-line basis (unless an election is made to accrue the original issue
discount under the constant yield method) through the date of sale or
retirement. U.S. Holders who are not required and do not elect to include OID on
Short-Term Notes in income as it accrues will be required to defer deductions
for interest on borrowings allocable to Short-Term Notes in an amount not
exceeding the deferred income until the deferred income is realized.
 
     Any U.S. Holder of a Short-Term Note can elect to apply the rules in the
preceding paragraph taking into account the amount of 'acquisition discount', if
any, with respect to the Note (rather than the OID with respect to such Note).
Acquisition discount is the excess of the stated redemption price at maturity of
the Short-Term Note over the U.S. Holder's purchase price therefor. Acquisition
discount will be treated as accruing on a ratable basis or, at the election of
the U.S. Holder, on a constant yield basis.
 
     For purposes of determining the amount of OID subject to these rules, the
OID Regulations provide that no interest payments on a Short-Term Note are
qualified stated interest, but instead such interest payments are included in
the Short-Term Note's stated redemption price at maturity.
 
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NOTES PURCHASED AT A PREMIUM
 
     Under the Code, a U.S. Holder that purchases a Registered Note for an
amount in excess of its stated redemption price at maturity will not be subject
to the OID rules and may elect to treat such excess as 'amortizable bond
premium', in which case the amount of qualified stated interest required to be
included in the U.S. Holder's income each year with respect to interest on the
Registered Note will be reduced by the amount of amortizable bond premium
allocable (based on the Note's yield to maturity) to such year. Any election to
amortize bond premium is applicable to all bonds (other than bonds the interest
on which is excludible from gross income) held by the U.S. Holder at the
beginning of the first taxable year to which the election applies or thereafter
acquired by the U.S. Holder, and may not be revoked without the consent of the
Internal Revenue Service ('IRS'). See also 'Original Issue Discount--Election to
Treat All Interest as Original Issue Discount'.
 
NOTES PURCHASED AT A MARKET DISCOUNT
 
     A Registered Note, other than a Short-Term Note, will be treated as issued
at a market discount (a 'Market Discount Note') if the amount for which a U.S.
Holder purchased the Registered Note is less than the Note's issue price,

subject to a de minimis rule similar to the rule relating to de minimis OID
described under 'Original Issue Discount--General'.
 
     In general, any gain recognized on the maturity or disposition of a Market
Discount Note will be treated as ordinary income to the extent that such gain
does not exceed the accrued market discount on such Note. Alternatively, a U.S.
Holder of a Market Discount Note may elect to include market discount in income
currently over the life of the Market Discount Note. Such an election applies to
all debt instruments with market discount acquired by the electing U.S. Holder
on or after the first day of the first taxable year to which the election
applies and may not be revoked without the consent of the IRS.
 
     Market discount accrues on a straight-line basis unless the U.S. Holder
elects to accrue such discount on a constant yield to maturity basis. Such an
election is applicable only to the Market Discount Note with respect to which it
is made and is irrevocable. A. U.S. Holder of a Market Discount Note that does
not elect to include market discount in income currently generally will be
required to defer deductions for interest on borrowings allocable to such Note
in an amount not exceeding the accrued market discount on such Note until the
maturity or disposition of such Note.
 
     The market discount rules do not apply to a Short-Term Note.
 
ELECTION TO TREAT ALL INTEREST AS ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT
 
     Any U.S. Holder may elect to include in gross income all interest that
accrues on a Registered Note using the constant yield method described above
under the heading 'Original Issue Discount-General,' with the modifications
described below. For purposes of this election, interest includes stated
interest, OID, de minimis OID, market discount, acquisition discount, de minimis
market discount and unstated interest, as adjusted by any amortizable bond
premium or acquisition premium.
 
     In applying the constant yield method to a Registered Note with respect to
which this election has been made, the issue price of such Note will equal the
electing U.S. Holder's adjusted basis in the Note immediately after its
acquisition, the issue date of the Note will be the date of its acquisition by
the electing US. Holder, and no payments on the Note will be treated as payments
of qualified stated interest. This election is generally applicable only to the
Registered Note with respect to which it is made and may not be revoked without
the consent of the IRS. If this election is made with respect to a Registered
Note with amortizable bond premium, the electing U.S. Holder will be deemed to
have elected to apply amortizable bond premium against interest with respect to
all debt instruments with amortizable bond premium (other than debt instruments
the interest on which is excludible from gross income) held by such electing
U.S. Holder as of the beginning of the taxable year in which the election is
made or any debt instruments acquired thereafter. The deemed election with
respect to amortizable bond premium may not be revoked without the consent of
the IRS.
 
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     If the election described above to apply the constant yield method to all
interest on a Registered Note is made with respect to a Market Discount Note, as

defined above, then the electing U.S. Holder will be treated as having made the
election discussed above under 'Notes Purchased at a Market Discount' to include
market discount in income currently over the life of all debt instruments held
or thereafter acquired by such U.S. Holder.
 
PURCHASE, SALE AND RETIREMENT OF THE NOTES
 
     General.  A U.S. Holder's tax basis in a Registered Note will generally
equal its U.S. dollar cost (which, in the case of a Note purchased with a
Foreign Currency, will be the U.S. dollar value of the purchase price on the
date of purchase), increased by the amount of any OID or market discount (or
acquisition discount, in the case of a Short-Term Note) included in the U.S.
Holder's income with respect to the Note and the amount, if any, of income
attributable to de minimis OID included in the U.S. Holder's income with respect
to the Note, and reduced by the sum of (i) the amount of any payments that are
not qualified stated interest payments, and (ii) the amount of any amortizable
bond premium applied to reduce interest on the Note. A U.S. Holder generally
will recognize gain or loss on the sale or retirement of a Registered Note equal
to the difference between the amount realized on the sale or retirement and the
U.S. Holder's tax basis in such Note. The amount realized on a sale or
retirement for an amount in Foreign Currency will be the U.S. dollar value of
such amount on the date of sale or retirement. Except to the extent described
above under 'Original Issue Discount--Short Term Notes' or 'Market Discount' or
below under 'Foreign Currency Notes--Exchange Gain or Loss', and except to the
extent attributable to accrued but unpaid interest, gain or loss recognized on
the sale or retirement of a Registered Note will be capital gain or loss and
will be long-term capital gain or loss if the Note was held for more than one
year.
 
FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTES
 
     Interest Payments.  If an interest payment is denominated in or determined
by reference to a Foreign Currency, the amount of income recognized by a cash
basis U.S. Holder will be the U.S. dollar value of the interest payment, based
on the exchange rate in effect on the date of receipt, regardless of whether the
payment is in fact converted into U.S. dollars. Accrual basis U.S. Holders may
determine the amount of income recognized with respect to such interest payments
in accordance with either of two methods. Under the first method, the amount of
income recognized will be based on the average exchange rate in effect during
the interest accrual period (or, with respect to an accrual period that spans
two taxable years, the partial period within the taxable year). Under the second
method, an accrual basis U.S. Holder may elect to translate interest income into
U.S. dollars at the spot exchange rate in effect on the last day of the accrual
period or, in the case of an accrual period that spans two taxable years, at the
exchange rate in effect on the last day of the partial period within the taxable
year. Upon receipt of an interest payment (including a payment attributable to
accrued but unpaid interest upon the sale or retirement of a Note) determined by
reference to a Foreign Currency, an accrual basis U.S. Holder will recognize
ordinary income or loss measured by the difference between the exchange rate
used to accrue such income and the exchange rate in effect on the date of
receipt, regardless of whether the payment is in fact converted into U.S.
dollars. Additionally, under the second method, if a payment of interest is
actually received within 5 business days of the last day of the accrual period
or taxable year, an accrual basis U.S. Holder applying the second method may

instead translate such accrued interest into U.S. dollars at the spot exchange
rate in effect on the day of actual receipt (in which case no exchange gain or
loss will result). Any election to apply the second method will apply to all
debt instruments held by the U.S. Holder at the beginning of the first taxable
year to which the election applies or thereafter acquired by the U.S. Holder and
may not be revoked without the consent of the IRS.
 
     Exchange of Amounts in Other than U.S. Dollars.  Foreign Currency received
as interest on a Note or on the sale or retirement of a Note will have a tax
basis equal to its U.S. dollar value at the time such interest is received or at
the time of such sale or retirement, as the case may be. Foreign Currency
 
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that is purchased will generally have a tax basis equal to the U.S. dollar value
of the Foreign Currency on the date of purchase. Any gain or loss recognized on
a sale or other disposition of a Foreign Currency (including its use to purchase
Notes or upon exchange for U.S. dollars) will be ordinary income or loss.
 
     Foreign Currency Discount Notes.  OID for any accrual period on a Discount
Note that is denominated in a Foreign Currency will be determined in the Foreign
Currency and then translated into U.S. dollars in the same manner as stated
interest accrued by an accrual basis U.S. Holder. Upon receipt of an amount
attributable to original issue discount (whether in connection with a payment of
interest or the sale or retirement of a Note), a U.S. Holder may recognize
ordinary income or loss.
 
     Amortizable Bond Premium.  In the case of a Registered Note that is
denominated in a Foreign Currency, bond premium will be computed in units of
Foreign Currency, and amortizable bond premium will reduce interest income in
units of the Foreign Currency. At the time amortized bond premium offsets
interest income, a U.S. Holder may realize ordinary income or loss, measured by
the difference between exchange rates at that time and at the time of the
acquisition of the Registered Notes.
 
     Market Discount.  Market discount is determined in units of the Foreign
Currency, accrued market discount that is required to be taken into account on
the maturity or earlier disposition of a Registered Note is translated into U.S.
dollars at the exchange rate on the maturity or the disposition date, as the
case may be (and no part is treated as exchange gain or loss), accrued market
discount currently includible in income by an electing U.S. Holder is translated
into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rate for the accrual period (or the
partial accrual period during which the U.S. Holder held the Registered Note)
and exchange gain or loss is determined on maturity or disposition of the
Registered Note (as the case may be) in the manner described in 'Foreign
Currency Notes--Interest Payments', above, with respect to the computation of
exchange gain or loss on the receipt of accrued interest by an accrual method
holder.
 
     Exchange Gain or Loss.  Gain or loss recognized by a U.S. Holder on the
sale or retirement of a Registered Note that is attributable to changes in
exchange rates will be treated as ordinary income or loss. However, exchange
gain or loss is taken into account only to the extent of total gain or loss
realized on the transaction.

 
INDEXED NOTES
 
     The tax treatment of a U.S. Holder of an Indexed Note will depend on
factors including the specific index or indices used to determine indexed
payments on the Note and the amount and timing of any noncontingent payments of
principal and interest. Tax considerations relevant to holders of Indexed Notes
will be discussed in the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
NON-U.S. HOLDERS
 
     Subject to the discussion of backup withholding below, payments of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including OID) by the Company or
any agent of the Company (acting in its capacity as such) to any holder of a
Note that is not a U.S. Holder (a 'Non-U.S. Holder') will not be subject to U.S.
Federal withholding tax, provided, in the case of interest (including OID), that
(i) the Non-U.S. Holder does not actually or constructively own 10% or more of
the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company entitled
to vote, (ii) the Non-U.S. Holder is not a controlled foreign corporation for
U.S. tax purposes that is related to the Company (directly or indirectly)
through stock ownership and (iii) either (A) the Non-U.S. Holder certifies to
the Company or its agent under penalties of perjury that it is not a United
States person and provides its name and address or (B) a securities clearing
organization, bank or other financial institution that holds customers'
securities in the ordinary course of its trade or business (a 'financial
institution') and holds the Registered Note certifies to the Company or its
agent under penalties of perjury that such statement has been received from the
Non-U.S. Holder by it or by another financial institution and furnishes the
payor with a copy thereof.
 
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     If a Non-U.S. Holder is engaged in a trade or business in the United States
and interest (including OID) on the Registered Note is effectively connected
with the conduct of such trade or business, the Non-U.S. Holder, although exempt
from the withholding tax discussed in the preceding paragraph (provided that
such holder furnishes a properly executed IRS Form 4224 on or before any payment
date to claim such exemption), may be subject to U.S. Federal income tax on such
interest (or OID) in the same manner as if it were a U.S. Holder. In addition,
if the Non-U.S. Holder is a foreign corporation, it may be subject to a branch
profits tax equal to 30% of its effectively connected earnings and profits for
the taxable year, subject to certain adjustments. For purposes of the branch
profits tax, interest (including OID) on a Note will be included in the earnings
and profits of such holder if such interest (or OID) is effectively connected
with the conduct by such holder of a trade or business in the United States.
 
     Any capital gain, market discount or exchange gain realized on the sale,
exchange, retirement or other disposition of the Registered Note by a Non-U.S.
Holder will not be subject to U.S. Federal income or withholding taxes if (i)
such gain is not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of the
Non-U.S. Holder and (ii) in the case of an individual, such Non-U.S. Holder (A)
is not present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of
the sale, exchange, retirement or other disposition or (B) does not have a tax
home (as defined in Section 911(d)(3) of the Code) in the United States in the

taxable year of the sale, exchange, retirement or other disposition and the gain
is not attributable to an office or other fixed place of business maintained by
such individual in the United States.
 
     Registered Notes held by an individual who is neither a citizen nor a
resident of the United States for U.S. Federal tax purposes at the time of such
individual's death will not be subject to U.S. Federal estate tax, provided that
the income from such Notes was not or would not have been effectively connected
with a U.S. trade or business of such individual and that such individual
qualified for the exemption from U.S. Federal withholding tax (without regard to
the certification requirements) described above.
 
     PURCHASERS OF REGISTERED NOTES WHO ARE NON-U.S. HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT
THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE POSSIBLE APPLICABILITY OF UNITED
STATES WITHHOLDING AND OTHER TAXES UPON INCOME REALIZED IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES.
 
BACKUP WITHHOLDING AND INFORMATION REPORTING
 
     For each calendar year in which the Notes are outstanding, the Company is
required to provide the IRS with certain information, including the holder's
name, address and taxpayer identification number (either the holder's Social
Security number or its employer identification number, as the case may be), the
aggregate amount of principal and interest paid (including OID, if any) to that
holder during the calendar year and the amount of tax withheld, if any. This
obligation, however, does not apply with respect to certain U.S. holders,
including corporations, tax-exempt organizations, qualified pension and profit
sharing trusts and individual retirement accounts.
 
     In the event that a U.S. holder subject to the reporting requirements
described above fails to supply its taxpayer identification number in the manner
required by applicable law, provides an incorrect taxpayer identification number
that is used by a payor on an information return or underreports its tax
liability, the Company, its agents or paying agents or a broker may be required
to 'backup' withhold a tax equal to 31 percent of each payment of interest
(including OID) and principal (and premium, if any) on the Notes. This backup
withholding is not an additional tax and may be credited against the U.S.
holder's U.S. Federal income tax liability, provided that the required
information is furnished to the IRS.
 
     Under current Treasury Regulations, backup withholding and information
reporting will not apply to payments made by the Company or any agent thereof
(in its capacity as such) to a holder of a Note that is not a U.S. person if
such holder has provided the required certification that it is not a U.S. person
as set forth in clause (iii) in the first paragraph under 'Non-U.S. Holders'
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established an exemption (provided that neither the Company nor its agent has
actual knowledge that the holder is a U.S. person or that the conditions of any
exemption are not in fact satisfied).
 
     Payment of the proceeds from the sale of a Note to or through a foreign
office of a broker will not be subject to information reporting or backup

withholding, except that if the broker is a U.S. person, a controlled foreign
corporation for U.S. tax purposes or a foreign person 50 percent or more of
whose gross income from all sources for the three-year period ending with the
close of its taxable year preceding the payment was effectively connected with a
U.S. trade or business, information reporting may apply to such payments.
Payment of the proceeds from a sale of a Note to or through the U.S. office of a
broker is subject to information reporting and backup withholding unless the
holder or beneficial owner certifies as to its taxpayer identification number or
otherwise establishes an exemption from information reporting and backup
withholding.
 
                              PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
     The Registered Notes are being offered on a continuous basis by the Company
through the Agent, which has agreed to use its reasonable efforts to solicit
orders to purchase Registered Notes. The Company will have the sole right to
accept orders to purchase Registered Notes and may reject proposed purchases in
whole or in part. The Agent shall have the right, in its discretion reasonably
exercised and without notice to the Company, to reject any proposed purchase of
Registered Notes in whole or in part. The Company will pay the Agent a
commission of from not more than .125% to not more than .750% of the principal
amount of Registered Notes sold through it, depending upon the Stated Maturity.
 
     The Company may also sell Registered Notes at a discount to the Agent for
its own account or for resale to one or more purchasers at varying prices
related to prevailing market prices at the time of resale or, if set forth in
the applicable Pricing Supplement, at a fixed public offering price, as
determined by the Agent. After any initial public offering of Registered Notes
to be resold to purchasers at a fixed public offering price, the public offering
price and any concession or discount may be changed. In addition, the Agent may
offer Registered Notes purchased by it as principal to other dealers. Registered
Notes sold by the Agent to a dealer may be sold at a discount and, unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, such discount allowed
will not be in excess of the discount received by the Agent from the Company.
Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, any Registered
Note purchased by the Agent as principal will be purchased at 100% of the
principal amount or face amount thereof less a percentage equal to the
commission applicable to an agency sale of a Registered Note of identical
maturity.
 
     No Registered Note will have an established trading market when issued. The
Registered Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange. The Agent may
make a market in the Registered Notes, but the Agent is not obligated to do so
and may discontinue any market-making at any time without notice. There can be
no assurance of a secondary market for any Registered Notes, or that the
Registered Notes will be sold. The Agent, whether acting as agent or principal,
may be deemed to be an 'underwriter' within the meaning of the Securities Act.
The Company has agreed to indemnify the Agent against certain liabilities,
including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments
that the Agent may be required to make in respect thereof.
 

     The Registered Notes have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities and Exchange Law of Japan (the 'Securities and Exchange Law').

Accordingly, the Agent will represent and agree that it has not, directly or
indirectly, offered or sold and will not, directly or indirectly, offer or sell
any Registered Notes in Japan or to a resident of Japan except pursuant to an
exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance
with the Securities and Exchange Law and other relevant laws and regulations of
Japan. As used in this paragraph, 'resident of Japan' means any person resident
in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of
Japan or located in Japan.

 
                                      S-28
<PAGE>
     In addition to the Registered Notes being offered through the Agent as
described herein, Bearer Notes that may have terms identical or similar to the
terms of the Registered Notes may be concurrently offered by the Company on a
continuous basis outside the United States by Salomon Brothers International
Limited, Salomon Brothers AG or Salomon Brothers Hong Kong Limited pursuant to
the Global Selling Agency Agreement between the Company, the Agent, Salomon
Brothers International Limited, Salomon Brothers AG and Salomon Brothers Hong
Kong Limited (the 'Selling Agency Agreement'). Pursuant to the Selling Agency
Agreement, Salomon Brothers International Limited, Salomon Brothers AG and
Salomon Brothers Hong Kong Limited may also purchase Bearer Notes as principal
for their own accounts or for resale. Any Bearer Notes so offered and sold will
reduce correspondingly the maximum aggregate principal amount of Registered
Notes that may be offered by this Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus.
 
                                      S-29


<PAGE>

NO DEALER, SALESPERSON OR ANY OTHER PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GIVE ANY
INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THE
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT (INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT) AND THE
PROSPECTUS IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFER CONTAINED HEREIN AND, IF GIVEN OR MADE,
SUCH INFORMATION OR REPRESENTATIONS MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN
AUTHORIZED BY THE COMPANY OR THE AGENT. NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT (INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT AND THE PROSPECTUS)
NOR ANY SALE MADE HEREUNDER SHALL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, CREATE AN
IMPLICATION THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY SINCE
THE DATES AS OF WHICH INFORMATION IS GIVEN IN THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT) AND THE PROSPECTUS. THIS
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT (INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT) AND THE
PROSPECTUS DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION BY ANYONE IN ANY
JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS NOT AUTHORIZED OR IN WHICH
THE PERSON MAKING SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS NOT QUALIFIED TO DO SO OR TO ANY
PERSON TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION.
 
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                             PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
Salomon Inc................................................................  S-2
Important Currency Information.............................................  S-2
Description of Registered Notes............................................  S-2
Currency Risks............................................................. S-18
Risks of Indexed Notes..................................................... S-19
United States Tax Considerations........................................... S-20
Plan of Distribution....................................................... S-28

                                   PROSPECTUS
                             (Selected Provisions)

Available Information......................................................    2
Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference............................    2
Salomon Inc................................................................    3
Use of Proceeds............................................................    3
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges and Earnings to Fixed Charges and
  Preferred Dividends......................................................    4
Description of Debt Securities.............................................    4
Description of Warrants....................................................   22
Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Securities and Bearer Warrants...........   28
Plan of Distribution.......................................................   29
ERISA Matters..............................................................   30
Experts....................................................................   31
Legal Opinions.............................................................   31
</TABLE>

 
$10,000,000,000
 
SALOMON INC
 
MEDIUM-TERM NOTES,
SERIES D AND SERIES E
DUE MORE THAN NINE
MONTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE


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     Salomon Brothers Inc
     -----------------------------------

 

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
DATED APRIL  , 1996



<PAGE>

   
                   SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED APRIL 5, 1996
    

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(To Prospectus Dated April   , 1996)

U.S.$10,000,000,000
SALOMON INC
MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES D AND SERIES E
DUE MORE THAN NINE MONTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE

 
Salomon Inc (the 'Company') may from time to time offer pursuant to this
Prospectus Supplement its Medium-Term Notes, Series D (the 'Series D Notes'),
and its Medium-Term Notes, Series E (the 'Series E Notes' and, together with the
Series D Notes, the 'Notes'), with an aggregate initial public offering price or
purchase price of up to U.S.$10,000,000,000, or the equivalent thereof in one or
more other currencies, including the European Currency Unit ('ECU'), subject to
reduction as a result of the sale of other securities under the Registration
Statement of which this Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus
form a part or under a Registration Statement to which this Prospectus
Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus relate. The amount of Notes sold of
either series will reduce the amount of Notes of the other series that may be
sold. In addition to the Notes in bearer form ('Bearer Notes') being offered
hereby, the Company may offer Notes in registered form ('Registered Notes') in
the United States. Any Registered Notes sold will reduce the amount of Bearer
Notes that may be sold hereunder. See 'Description of Bearer Notes--General'.
 
The Series D Notes will be issued as Senior Indebtedness, and the Series E Notes
will be issued as subordinated debt. Subordinated debt will be subordinated to
all Senior Indebtedness. See 'Description of Debt Securities--Subordinated Debt'
in the Prospectus.
 
Each Bearer Note will not, in connection with its original issuance, or during
the period of 40 days after its Original Issue Date, be offered, sold or
delivered, directly or indirectly, within the United States or to U.S. Persons,
except to the extent permitted under U.S. Treasury regulations. See 'Plan of
Distribution'. All Bearer Notes that have the same Original Issue Date and
otherwise identical terms will be represented initially by a Temporary Global
Note to be delivered to a common depositary outside the United States for
Euroclear and CEDEL. Beneficial interests in a Temporary Global Note will be
exchangeable for beneficial interests in a Permanent Global Note or for
individual Bearer Notes only in the manner and upon compliance with the
procedures described under 'Description of Bearer Notes--Denomination, Form and
Transfer'.
 
Payments in respect of Bearer Notes will be made without deduction for United
States withholding taxes to the extent described herein. Each Bearer Note may be
redeemed in whole, at the Redemption Price thereof, if certain events occur
involving United States withholding taxes or information reporting requirements.
See 'Tax Redemption' and 'Special Tax Redemption' under 'Description of Bearer

Notes'.
 

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, each Bearer
Note will mature on a Business Day more than nine months from its date of issue
(the 'Stated Maturity'), with the final maturity to be agreed upon by the
Company and the purchaser at the time of issuance. Each Bearer Note having a
Specified Currency of German deutsche marks will not include provisions
permitting redemption prior to the second anniversary of the Original Issue Date
of the Notes. Each Bearer Note may be subject to redemption at the option of the
Company, or to repayment at the option of the Holder, prior to maturity. Each
Bearer Note will be denominated in the currency, which may be U.S. dollars or
other currencies (including ECU), designated by the Company (the 'Specified
Currency'). See 'Currency Risks'. A Bearer Note may bear interest at a fixed
rate (a 'Fixed Rate Note'), which may be zero in the case of certain Discount
Notes, or at a floating rate (a 'Floating Rate Note') determined by reference to
LIBOR, the CD Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the
Treasury Rate or any other Base Rate, as selected by the purchaser and agreed to
by the Company, adjusted by the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, applicable
to such Note. Such fixed rate, Spread or Spread Multiplier may be subject to
change as described in the applicable Pricing Supplement. Unless otherwise
indicated, interest on each Fixed Rate Note will be payable annually in arrears
on each September 15 (each an 'Interest Payment Date') and at Stated Maturity. A
Bearer Note may be issued as an amortizing note (an 'Amortizing Note') on which
a portion or all the principal amount is payable prior to Stated Maturity in
accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or by reference to an
index. A Bearer Note may be issued as an indexed note (an 'Indexed Note') on
which the amount of any interest payment, in the case of an Indexed Rate Note,
and/or the principal amount payable at maturity, in the case of an Indexed
Principal Note, will be determined by reference to the level of prices, or
changes in prices, or differences between prices, of securities, currencies,
intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or by application of a formula. See
'Description of Bearer Notes--Indexed Notes'. The Specified Currency, interest
rate or interest rate formula, Issue Price, Stated Maturity, Interest Payment
Dates, redemption and repayment provisions and certain other terms with respect
to each Bearer Note will be established at the time of issuance and set forth in
a pricing supplement to this Prospectus Supplement (a 'Pricing Supplement').

 
In accordance with guidelines set by the German central bank, Salomon Brothers
AG has agreed to act as the arranger of all Bearer Notes denominated or payable
in, or linked to, German deutsche marks and has confirmed that it is an
authorized credit institution in accordance with the current guidelines of the
German central bank. Application has been made to list the Bearer Notes on the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange. The amount of Bearer Notes that may be listed on the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange is limited to the U.S.$10,000,000,000 described in the
first paragraph above plus U.S.$           of Bearer Notes sold pursuant to
earlier prospectuses.
 
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE
ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT, ANY PRICING SUPPLEMENT
HERETO OR THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A

CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

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<CAPTION>
                   PRICE TO             AGENT'S                          PROCEEDS TO THE
                   PUBLIC(1)            COMMISSION(2)                    COMPANY(2) (3)
<S>                <C>                  <C>                              <C>
Per Bearer Note... 100.000%             .125%-.750%                      99.250%-99.875%
Total(4).......... U.S.$10,000,000,000  U.S.$12,500,000-U.S.$75,000,000  U.S.$9,925,000,000-U.S.$9,987,500,000
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the price
    to public will be 100% of the principal amount.
 
(2) The Company will pay to Salomon Brothers International Limited, Salomon
    Brothers AG and Salomon Brothers Hong Kong Limited (each an 'Agent') a
    commission of from .125% to .750% of the principal amount of any Bearer
    Note, depending upon its Stated Maturity, sold through the Agent.
 
(3) Before deduction of expenses payable by the Company estimated at
    U.S.$4,525,000, including reimbursement of certain expenses of the Agent.
 
(4) Or the equivalent thereof in other currencies (including ECU).
 
The Bearer Notes are being offered on a continuous basis by the Company through
the Agents, each of which has agreed to use its reasonable efforts to solicit
orders to purchase Bearer Notes. The Company may also sell Bearer Notes at a
discount to an Agent for its own account or for resale to one or more purchasers
at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of resale or,
if set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement, at a fixed public offering
price, as determined by the Agent. In addition, an Agent may offer Bearer Notes
purchased by it as principal to other dealers. Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, any Bearer Note purchased by an Agent as
principal will be purchased at 100% of the principal amount thereof less a
percentage equal to the commission applicable to an agency sale of a Bearer Note
of identical maturity. There can be no assurance that the maximum amount of
Bearer Notes offered by this Prospectus Supplement will be sold or that there
will be a secondary market for the Bearer Notes. The Company reserves the right
to withdraw, cancel or modify the offer made hereby without notice. The Company
or an Agent may reject any order to purchase Bearer Notes, whether or not
solicited, in whole or in part. See 'Plan of Distribution'.
 

This Prospectus Supplement, the related Pricing Supplement and the accompanying
Prospectus may be used by the Company, the Agents, each of which is a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Company, or other affiliates of the Company in
connection with offers and sales related to secondary market transactions in the
Bearer Notes offered hereby and approximately U.S.$1,863,031,716 of Bearer Notes
sold pursuant to earlier prospectuses, as described herein. The Agents or other
such Company affiliates may act as principal or agent in such transactions. Such

sales will be made at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the
time of sale.

 
SALOMON BROTHERS HONG KONG LIMITED

                     SALOMON BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
                                                             SALOMON BROTHERS AG
 

The date of this Prospectus Supplement is April   , 1996.



Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A
registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be  sold nor may
offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes
effective. This prospectus and any prospectus supplement shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to  buy nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such State.


<PAGE>

     IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, ANY ONE OF THE AGENTS MAY OVER-ALLOT OR
EFFECT TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICE OF THE NOTES
OFFERED HEREBY AT A LEVEL ABOVE THAT WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE PREVAIL IN THE OPEN
MARKET. SUCH STABILIZING, IF COMMENCED, MAY BE DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.

 
     No dealer, salesperson or any other person has been authorized to give any
information or to make any representations other than those contained in this
Prospectus Supplement (including the accompanying Pricing Supplement) and the
accompanying Prospectus (the 'Prospectus') in connection with the offer
contained herein and, if given or made, such information or representations must
not be relied upon as having been authorized by the Company or an Agent. Neither
the delivery of this Prospectus Supplement (including the accompanying Pricing
Supplement) and the Prospectus nor any sale made hereunder shall, under any
circumstances, create an implication that there has been no change in the
affairs of the Company since the dates as of which information is given in this
Prospectus Supplement (including the accompanying Pricing Supplement) and the
Prospectus. This Prospectus Supplement (including the accompanying Pricing
Supplement) and the Prospectus do not constitute an offer or solicitation by
anyone in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is not authorized
or in which the person making such offer or solicitation is not qualified to do
so or to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.
 
     References herein to 'U.S. dollars' or 'U.S.$' are to the lawful currency
to the United States.
 

     Pursuant to a Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement each dated February 25,
1992 (and applicable Pricing Supplements), filed with the Commission under
Registration Statement No. 33-41932, and a Prospectus and Prospectus Supplements
each dated February 12, 1993 (and applicable Pricing Supplements), filed with
the Commission under Registration Statement No. 33-57922, a Prospectus and
Prospectus Supplements each dated December 14, 1993 (and applicable Pricing
Supplements) filed with the Commission under Registration Statement No.
33-51269, and a Prospectus and Prospectus Supplements each dated October 12,
1994 (and applicable Pricing Supplements), filed with the Commission under
Registration Statement No. 33-54929, the Company had outstanding as of March 31,
1996 approximately U.S. $6,082,166,841 of its Medium-Term Notes, Series D and E,
of which approximately U.S. $1,863,031,716 were Bearer Notes and approximately
U.S. $4,219,135,125 were Registered Notes. The Bearer Notes offered by this
Prospectus Supplement are part of the same series of Notes as the Notes
described in the preceding sentence.

 
                               TABLE OF CONTENTS
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                           PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT                            PAGE
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<S>                                                                         <C>
Incorporation of Certain Documents
  by Reference............................................................. S-3

Salomon Inc................................................................ S-4
Selected Financial Information............................................. S-5
Directors and Officers of the Company...................................... S-6
Capitalization............................................................. S-7
Description of Bearer Notes................................................ S-8
Currency Risks............................................................. S-25
Risks of Indexed Notes..................................................... S-28
Taxation in the United States.............................................. S-29
Plan of Distribution....................................................... S-30
General Information........................................................ S-31
 
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                     PROSPECTUS (SELECTED PROVISIONS)                       PAGE
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<S>                                                                         <C>
Available Information......................................................   2
Incorporation of Certain Documents
  by Reference.............................................................   2
Salomon Inc................................................................   3
Use of Proceeds............................................................   3
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
  and Earnings to Fixed Charges
  and Preferred Dividends..................................................   4
Description of Debt Securities.............................................   4
Description of Warrants....................................................  22
Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Securities and Bearer Warrants...........  28
Plan of Distribution.......................................................  29
ERISA Matters..............................................................  30
Experts....................................................................  31
Legal Opinions.............................................................  31
</TABLE>
 
                                      S-2

<PAGE>
                INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
 

     The following documents, filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant
to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 'Exchange Act') (File
No. 1-4346), are incorporated herein by reference and shall be deemed to be
disclosed herein: (i) the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 1995 (the '1995 10-K'); and (ii) the Current Reports on Form 8-K dated
January 23, 1996, February 1, 1996 and February 12, 1996. All documents filed by
the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and prior to the termination of the
offering of the Securities (including the Bearer Notes) shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein.

 
     Any statement contained in the Prospectus or this Prospectus Supplement or
in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus or this Prospectus Supplement shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of the Prospectus and this Prospectus Supplement to the
extent that a statement contained in the Prospectus or this Prospectus
Supplement or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to
be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or this Prospectus Supplement
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of the Prospectus and this Prospectus Supplement.
 

     Copies of any documents incorporated herein by reference will be available
free of charge at the office of Kredietbank S.A. Luxembourgeoise (the 'Listing
Agent'), 43 Boulevard Royal, Luxembourg City 2955, Luxembourg. Any person
receiving a copy of this Prospectus Supplement may obtain, without charge, upon
written or oral request, a copy of any document incorporated by reference
herein, except for the exhibits to such documents (unless such exhibits are
specifically incorporated by reference). Written or oral requests should be
addressed to Salomon Brothers International Limited, Victoria Plaza, 111
Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0SB (telephone: 44-171-721-3625).

 

     This Prospectus Supplement may be used for the offer, sale (including in
secondary market transactions) and listing of Bearer Notes with an aggregate
initial public offering price or purchase price of up to U.S.$10,000,000,000 or
the equivalent thereof in other currencies, subject to reduction as a result of
the sale of other securities under the Registration Statement of which this
Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus form a part or under a
Registration Statement to which this Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying
Prospectus relate. Pursuant to the Global Selling Agency Agreement between the
Company, the Agents and Salomon Brothers Inc (the 'Selling Agency Agreement'),
the Company will represent to the Agent that as of the Original Issue Date of
any Bearer Note, neither the Prospectus nor any amendment thereof or supplement
thereto will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (subject to certain

exceptions contained in the Selling Agency Agreement). The Company has given an
undertaking in connection with the listing of the Bearer Notes on the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange to the effect that, so long as any Bearer Notes are issued by the
Company, in the event of any material adverse change in the business or
financial position of the Company and in the terms and conditions of the Notes
that is not reflected in the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented, the
Company will prepare an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or publish a
new Prospectus for use in connection with any subsequent offering and listing by
the Company of Bearer Notes.

 
                                      S-3
<PAGE>
                                  SALOMON INC
 
GROUP PROFILE
 

     Salomon Inc was incorporated in 1960 under the laws of the State of
Delaware. Salomon Inc conducts global investment banking, global securities and
commodities trading, and U.S. oil refining and gathering activities. Investment
banking activities are conducted by Salomon Brothers Holding Company Inc and its
subsidiaries ('Salomon Brothers'), including Salomon Brothers Inc. Salomon
Brothers provides capital raising, advisory, trading and risk management
services to its customers, and executes proprietary trading strategies on its
own behalf. Salomon Inc's commodities trading activities are conducted by the
Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Phibro Inc. ('Phibro') and its subsidiaries.
Oil refining and gathering activities are conducted by Basis Petroleum, Inc.
('Basis Petroleum').

 
     The Company's principal executive offices are located at Seven World Trade
Center, New York, New York 10048 (telephone (212) 783-7000). Its registered
office in Delaware is c/o Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801.
 
SALOMON BROTHERS
 

     Salomon Brothers is an international investment banking firm that provides
a variety of capital raising, market making and brokerage services to its
clients worldwide, and engages in proprietary trading activities for its own
account. Salomon Brothers has branches, subsidiaries or representative offices
in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan,
Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan,
Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States, and affiliate relationships
in Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia and Korea. Salomon Brothers provides various
services for its government, financial institution and corporate clients
including fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange trading,
emerging markets activities, fixed income and equity market research, investment
banking and funds management. Salomon Brothers also executes trading and
arbitrage strategies for its own account using debt, equity, and related
derivative instruments. Principal operating subsidiaries of Salomon Brothers
Holding Company Inc are Salomon Brothers Inc in New York, Salomon Brothers

International Limited in London, Salomon Brothers Asia Limited in Tokyo, Salomon
Brothers AG in Frankfurt with a branch in Tokyo, Salomon (International) Finance
AG in Zug, Switzerland, and Salomon Swapco Inc in New York.

 
PHIBRO
 

     Phibro conducts a global commodities dealer business through its principal
offices in Westport (Connecticut), London and Singapore. Commodities traded
include crude oil, refined oil products, natural gas, electricity, metals,
petrochemicals, ethanol, plastics, coal, coke, fertilizers, sugar, cocoa, grains
and coffee. Phibro makes extensive use of futures markets and is a participant
in the OTC derivatives market.

 
BASIS PETROLEUM
 
     Basis Petroleum, with headquarters in Houston, Texas, owns and operates
three oil refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast area, with a combined design crude
oil throughput capacity of approximately 272,000 barrels per day and additional
throughputs of purchased feedstocks of approximately 39,000 barrels per day.
 
                                      S-4


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                         SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 

     The following selected financial information of the Company and its
consolidated subsidiaries with respect to the years 1991 through 1995 has been
derived from audited financial statements contained in the 1995 10-K. Such
information should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial
statements and related notes contained in the 1995 10-K, which is incorporated
herein by reference.



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<CAPTION>
                                                         YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                      --------------------------------------------------------------
                                        1995        1994          1993          1992          1991
                                      --------    --------      --------      --------      --------
                                                        (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
<S>                                   <C>         <C>           <C>           <C>           <C>
Consolidated revenues, net of
  interest expense.................   $  3,151    $  1,386      $  4,199      $  3,859      $  3,527
Income (loss) before taxes and
  cumulative effect of change in
  accounting principles by segment:
  Salomon Brothers.................   $    704        (963)        1,575 (1)     1,390 (2)     1,036 (3)
  Phibro...........................         85          81           (15)(1)      (194)           47
  Basis Petroleum..................        (91)         18           (46)(1)       (47)          (80)
  Corporate and Other..............         10          33           (49)(1)       (93)          (84)
                                      --------    --------      --------      --------      --------
Consolidated income (loss) before
  taxes and cumulative effect of
  changes in accounting
  principles.......................   $    708    $   (831)     $  1,465 (1)  $  1,056      $    919
Consolidated net income (loss).....   $    457    $   (399)     $    827      $    550      $    507
 
<CAPTION>
 
                                                             AT DECEMBER 31,
                                      --------------------------------------------------------------
                                        1995        1994          1993          1992          1991
                                      --------    --------      --------      --------      --------
                                                        (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
<S>                                   <C>         <C>           <C>           <C>           <C>
 
Total assets.......................   $188,428    $172,452      $184,835      $159,459      $ 97,424
Term debt..........................     13,045      15,202        11,692         8,533         7,082
Redeemable preferred stock.........        560         700           700           700           700
Stockholders' equity:
  Preferred........................        312         312           312           112           112
  Common...........................      3,831       3,480         4,234         3,519         3,255
</TABLE>


 
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(1) Does not include a $65 million charge that is the cumulative effect of a
    change in accounting principles. The charge is allocated as follows: Salomon
    Brothers $35 million; Phibro Division $1 million; Phibro USA $6 million and
    Corporate and Other $23 million.
 
(2) Salomon Brothers' 1992 results include a $185 million pretax charge related
    to the settlement with U.S. government authorities of investigations into
    the U.S. Treasury auction matters.
 

(3) Salomon Brothers' 1991 results include a $200 million pretax charge related
    to the establishment of a reserve associated with the U.S. Treasury auction
    and related matters.

 
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                     DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY
 
     The directors of the Company, together with their principal occupations,
are:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
NAME                    OCCUPATION
- ----------------------- --------------------------------------------------------
<S>                     <C>
Dwayne O. Andreas...... Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of Archer
                          Daniels Midland Company
Warren E. Buffett*..... Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of
                          Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Robert E. Denham*...... Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company
Claire M. Fagin........ Leadership Professor, School of Nursing, University of
                          Pennsylvania
John L. Haseltine...... Managing Director of Salomon Brothers Inc
Gedale B. Horowitz..... Executive Vice President of the Company
Deryck C. Maughan...... Executive Vice President of the Company and Chairman and
                          Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Brothers Inc
David O. Maxwell....... Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Federal
                          National Mortgage Association
William F. May*........ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Statue of
                          Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Charles T. Munger...... Vice Chairman of the Board of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Shigeru Myojin......... Vice Chairman of Salomon Brothers Inc
Louis A. Simpson*...... President and Chief Executive Officer, Capital
                          Operations, of GEICO Corporation
Robert G. Zeller*...... Retired investment banker
</TABLE>
 
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* Executive committee member.
 
     The officers of the Company, in addition to those directors who serve as
officers of the Company, are:
 

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
NAME                    TITLE
- ----------------------- --------------------------------------------------------
<S>                     <C>
Jerome H. Bailey....... Chief Financial Officer
 
Walter E. Baker........ Senior Vice President
 
Richard J. Carbone..... Controller
 
Linda Descano Nelson... Vice President--Environmental Affairs
 

William J. Jennings.... Senior Vice President
 
Thomas W. Jasper....... Treasurer
 
Robert H. Mundheim..... Executive Vice President and General Counsel
 
Gerald P. Nagy......... Vice President--Taxes
 
Arnold S. Olshin....... Secretary
</TABLE>

 
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                                 CAPITALIZATION
 

    The following table sets forth the capitalization of the Company and its
consolidated subsidiaries as of December 31, 1995. The largest component of
short-term capitalization is securities sold under agreements to repurchase,
which are collateralized principally by U.S. government and agency securities.
There have been no material changes to the capitalization of the Company as a
result of the issuance of securities, including the Notes, since December 31,
1995, other than the following. On February 13, 1996, the Company issued 500,000
shares of 8.40% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series E. In the normal course of
business, the Company's short-term borrowings outstanding may vary significantly
at any particular point in time.

 

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                   (MILLIONS OF
                                                                   U.S. DOLLARS)
<S>                                                                <C>
Short-term borrowings:
    Securities sold under agreements to repurchase..............     $  91,813
    Bank borrowings.............................................         3,856
    Securities loaned...........................................         1,040
    Deposit liabilities.........................................         1,347
    Commercial paper............................................           797
    Other.......................................................         2,304
                                                                   -------------
         Total short-term borrowings............................     $ 101,157
                                                                   -------------
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Collateralized mortgage obligations.............................     $   2,337
                                                                   -------------
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Term debt.......................................................     $  13,045
                                                                   -------------
                                                                   -------------
Redeemable preferred stock, without par value (700,000 Series A

  cumulative convertible shares, redeemable at assigned value,
  issued and outstanding)(1)....................................     $     560
                                                                   -------------
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Stockholders' equity:
    Preferred stock, without par value (consisting of (a)
      225,000 Series C cumulative shares issued and outstanding,
      represented by 4,500,000 Depositary Shares, each
      representing a one-twentieth interest in a share of such
      Preferred Stock, redeemable only at the Company's option
      at any time on or after June 30, 1996, at a price of $500
      per share, and (b) 400,000 Series D cumulative shares
      issued and outstanding, represented by 8,000,000 De-
      positary Shares, each representing a one-twentieth
      interest in a share of such Preferred Stock, redeemable
      only at the Company's option at any time after March 31,
      1998 at a price of $500 per share)(1).....................     $     312
    Common stock, par value $1 per share (250,000,000 shares
      authorized; 155,642,470 shares issued)....................           156
    Additional paid-in capital..................................           296
    Retained earnings...........................................         5,001
    Cumulative translation adjustments..........................            13
    Common stock held in treasury, at cost (49,194,744
      shares)...................................................        (1,635)
                                                                   -------------
         Total stockholders' equity.............................     $   4,143
                                                                   -------------
                                                                   -------------
</TABLE>

 
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    In addition to the items included in the table above, the Company's
liabilities at December 31, 1995 included financial and commodities-related
instruments sold, not yet purchased, and other contractual commitments of $57.5
billion, and payables and accrued liabilities of $9.7 billion. The Company
repurchased approximately 41,000 shares of its common stock during 1995 at an
aggregate cost of $1.6 million under a share repurchase program authorized by
the Company's Board of Directors. As of December 31, 1995, the Company was
authorized to repurchase approximately 9.8 million shares of common stock under
such program.

 
(1) The Company is authorized to issue an aggregate of 5,000,000 shares of
preferred stock.
 

    See Note 9 to the Company's consolidated financial statements incorporated
herein by reference from the Company's 1995 10-K for a description of the
preferred share purchase rights outstanding and the authorization of a series of
preferred stock purchasable upon exercise of such rights.

 

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                          DESCRIPTION OF BEARER NOTES
 
     The following description of the particular terms of the Bearer Notes
supplements, and to the extent inconsistent therewith replaces, the description
of the general terms and provisions of the Debt Securities set forth in the
Prospectus, to which description reference is hereby made. Numerical references
in parentheses below are to sections in the Senior Debt Indenture and the
Subordinated Debt Indenture. Wherever particular sections or defined terms of
the Indentures are referred to, such sections or defined terms are incorporated
herein by reference as part of the statement made, and the statement is
qualified in its entirety by such reference.
 
GENERAL
 

     The Series D Notes are a series of Debt Securities issued under the Senior
Debt Indenture, and the Series E Notes are a series of Debt Securities issued
under the Subordinated Debt Indenture. At the date of this Prospectus
Supplement, the Notes offered pursuant to this Prospectus Supplement are limited
to an aggregate initial public offering price or purchase price of up to U.S.
$10,000,000,000 or the equivalent thereof in one or more other currencies
(including ECU), which amount is subject to reduction as a result of the sale of
other securities under the Registration Statement of which this Prospectus
Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus form a part or under a Registration
Statement to which this Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus
relate. In addition, the Company had outstanding as of March 31, 1996
approximately U.S. $1,863,031,716 of Series D Bearer Notes and approximately
U.S. $4,219,135,125 of Series D Registered Notes sold pursuant to earlier
prospectuses. The aggregate amount of Notes may be increased from time to time
to such larger amount as may be authorized by the Company. The U.S. dollar
equivalent of the public offering price or purchase price of a Note having a
Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars will be determined on the basis of
the noon buying rate in New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies
as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the
'Market Exchange Rate') for such Specified Currency on the applicable issue
date. Such determination will be made by the Company or its agent, as exchange
rate agent for both Series of Notes (the 'Exchange Rate Agent').

 
     The Notes will consist of Bearer Notes and Registered Notes, each of which
will be offered on a continuous basis. In connection with their original
issuance or during the period of 40 days after their Original Issue Dates,
Bearer Notes will not be offered, sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, to
a U.S. Person or to any person within the United States, except to the extent
permitted under U.S. Treasury regulations, as more fully set forth under 'Plan
of Distribution'. As used herein, 'United States' means the United States of
America and its possessions, and 'U.S. Person' means a citizen or resident of
the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity created or
organized in or under the laws of the United States, or an estate or trust the
income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless

of its source.
 
     Payments in respect of Bearer Notes will be made without deduction for
United States withholding taxes to the extent described under 'Payment of
Additional Interest' below. Each Bearer Note may be redeemed at the Redemption
Price applicable thereto, if certain events occur involving United States
withholding taxes or information reporting requirements. See 'Tax Redemption'
and 'Special Tax Redemption' below. Other than in such event, Bearer Notes may
not be redeemed by the Company prior to Stated Maturity (as defined below)
unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement. See 'Optional
Redemption, Repayment and Repurchase' below. The Bearer Notes will not be
subject to any sinking fund.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, each
Bearer Note will mature at par on a Business Day more than nine months from its
Original Issue Date (as defined below), as selected by the purchaser and agreed
to by the Company (the 'Stated Maturity'). Each Bearer Note may also be subject
to redemption at the option of the Company, or to repayment at the option of the
Holder, at a price specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement prior to its
Stated Maturity.
 
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Bearer Note having a Specified Currency of
Japanese yen will have a Stated Maturity of not less than one year from its
Original Issue Date, and will not be subject to optional redemption or repayment
prior to such time. Each Bearer Note having a Specified Currency of German
deutsche marks will have a Stated Maturity of not less than two years from the
Original Issue Date and will not be subject to optional redemption or repayment
prior to such time. Each Bearer Note having a Specified Currency of Pounds
Sterling will mature in compliance with such regulations as the Bank of England
may promulgate from time to time. No Bearer Note will be issued without a final
maturity.
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to a Bearer Note will describe the
following terms: (i) the Specified Currency for such Note; (ii) whether such
Note is a Fixed Rate Note, a Floating Rate Note, an Amortizing Note and/or an
Indexed Note; (iii) the price (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate
principal amount or face amount thereof) at which such Note will be issued (the
'Issue Price'); (iv) the date on which such Note will be issued (the 'Original
Issue Date'); (v) the date of the Stated Maturity; (vi) if such Note is a Fixed
Rate Note, the rate per annum at which such Note will bear interest, if any, and
whether and the manner in which such rate may be changed prior to its Stated
Maturity; (vii) if such Note is a Floating Rate Note, the Base Rate, the Initial
Interest Rate, the Interest Reset Period or the Interest Reset Dates, the
Interest Payment Dates, and, if applicable, the Index Maturity, the Maximum
Interest Rate, the Minimum Interest Rate, the Spread or Spread Multiplier (all
as defined below), and any other terms relating to the particular method of
calculating the interest rate for such Note and whether and the manner in which
such Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior to Stated Maturity; (viii)
whether such Note is an Original Issue Discount Note (as defined below); (ix) if
such Note is an Amortizing Note, the terms for repayment prior to Stated
Maturity; (x) if such Note is an Indexed Note, in the case of an Indexed Rate
Note, the manner in which the amount of any interest payment will be determined

or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, its Face Amount and the manner in
which the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity will be determined; (xi)
whether such Note may be redeemed at the option of the Company, or repaid at the
option of the Holder, prior to Stated Maturity as described under 'Optional
Redemption, Repayment and Repurchase' below and, if so, the provisions relating
to such redemption or repayment, including, in the case of an Original Issue
Discount Note or Indexed Note, the information necessary to determine the amount
due upon redemption or repayment; and (xii) any other terms of such Note not
inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture under which such Note will be
issued.
 
     'Business Day' with respect to any Bearer Note means any day, other than a
Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which such Note or any Coupon
relating thereto is presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency for
such Note is other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country
issuing such Specified Currency (which, in the case of ECU, shall be Brussels,
Belgium). 'London Banking Day' with respect to any Bearer Notes means any day on
which dealings in deposits in the Specified Currency of such Note are transacted
in the London interbank market.
 
     'Original Issue Discount Note' means (i) a Bearer Note, including any such
Note whose interest rate is zero, that has a stated redemption price at Stated
Maturity that exceeds its Issue Price by at least 0.25% of its stated redemption
price at Stated Maturity, multiplied by the number of full years from the
Original Issue Date to the Stated Maturity for such Note and (ii) any other
Bearer Note designated by the Company as issued with original issue discount for
United States Federal income tax purposes.
 
     A 'basis point' or 'bp' equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point.
 
STATUS
 
     The Series D Notes will be issued under the Senior Debt Indenture, will
constitute part of the Senior Indebtedness of the Company and will rank pari
passu with all other unsecured debt of the Company except subordinated debt. The
Series E Notes will be issued under the Subordinated Debt Indenture
 
                                      S-9
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and will be subordinate and junior in the right of payment, to the extent and in
the manner set forth in the Subordinated Debt Indenture, to all Senior
Indebtedness of the Company. See 'Description of Debt Securities--Subordinated
Debt' in the Prospectus. As of December 31, 1995, the aggregate principal amount
of Senior Indebtedness outstanding was U.S. $114.2 billion, consisting of the
following: U.S. $13.0 billion of term debt, U.S. $.8 billion in commercial paper
and U.S. $100.4 billion in other short-term borrowings.

 
DENOMINATION, FORM AND TRANSFER
 


     Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the minimum
aggregate principal amount of Bearer Notes that may be purchased is U.S. $25,000
or the approximate equivalent thereof in other currencies. Unless otherwise
provided in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the authorized denominations of
Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S. $10,000 and any larger
amount that is an integral multiple of U.S. $1,000, and the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a Specified Currency other than U.S.
dollars will be the approximate equivalents thereof in the Specified Currency.

 

     All Bearer Notes that have the same Original Issue Date and otherwise
identical terms will be represented initially by interests in a single temporary
Global Security in bearer form, without Coupons (a 'Temporary Global Note'), to
be deposited with a common depositary in London (the 'Depositary') for Morgan
Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels office, as operator of the
Euroclear System ('Euroclear') and Cedel Bank, Societe Anonyme ('CEDEL'), for
credit to the accounts designated by or on behalf of the purchasers thereof. On
or after the 40th day following the issuance of a Temporary Global Note (the
'Exchange Date'), and subject to the receipt of a Certificate of Non-U.S.
Beneficial Ownership, beneficial interests in that Temporary Global Note will be
exchangeable for interests in a definitive Global Security in bearer form,
without Coupons (a 'Permanent Global Note'), in a denomination equal to the
aggregate principal amount of all interests in the Temporary Global Note so
exchanged. A 'Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership' is a certificate, to
the effect that a beneficial interest in a Temporary Global Note is owned by a
person that is not a U.S. Person or is owned by or through a financial
institution in compliance with applicable U.S. Treasury regulations, that is
delivered in respect of the Exchange Date or in respect of any Interest Payment
Date prior to the Exchange Date. Each Permanent Global Note will be deposited
with the Depositary for credit to the account or accounts designated by or on
behalf of the beneficial owner or owners thereof. Interests in a Permanent
Global Note may be exchanged in whole, or if permitted by such procedures as
Euroclear or CEDEL may prescribe from time to time, in part, for one or more
individual Bearer Notes, with appropriate Coupons attached, in any authorized
denomination or denominations. No Bearer Note will be delivered in or to the
United States and its possessions. References herein to 'Bearer Notes' shall,
except where otherwise indicated, include interests in a Temporary or Permanent
Global Note as well as individual Bearer Notes and any appurtenant Coupons.

 
     Transfers of interests in a Temporary or Permanent Global Note will be made
by Euroclear or CEDEL in accordance with their customary operating procedures.
Title to individual Bearer Notes and Coupons will pass by physical delivery. The
bearer of each Coupon, whether or not the Coupon is attached to an individual
Bearer Note, shall be subject to and bound by all the provisions contained in
the individual Bearer Note to which such Coupon relates. The bearer of any
individual Bearer Note and any Coupon may, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, be treated at all times by all persons and for all purposes as
the absolute owner of such Note or Coupon, as the case may be, regardless of any
notice of ownership, theft or loss or of any writing thereon.
 
     The following legend will appear on each Global Note and on all individual
Bearer Notes and any Coupons: 'Any United States Person who holds this

obligation will be subject to limitations under the United States income tax
laws, including the limitations provided in Sections 165(j) and 1287(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code.' The sections referred to in the legend provide that,
with certain exceptions, a United States taxpayer who holds an interest in a
Global Note or an individual Bearer Note or Coupon
 
                                      S-10
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will not be permitted to deduct any loss with respect to, and will not be
eligible for capital gain treatment with respect to any gain realized on a sale,
exchange, redemption or other disposition of, an interest in such Global Note or
such individual Bearer Note or Coupon. See 'Limitations on Issuance of Bearer
Securities and Bearer Warrants' in the accompanying Prospectus.
 
     Bearer Notes may not be exchanged for Registered Notes.
 
PAYMENTS AND PAYING AGENTS
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement and except,
under certain circumstances, for Bearer Notes having Specified Currencies other
than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal of and any premium and interest on
a Bearer Note will be made only in the Specified Currency for such Note. See
'Currency Risks' below.
 
     Interest on each Temporary Global Note will be paid to each of Euroclear
and CEDEL with respect to that portion of such Temporary Global Note held for
its account, but only upon receipt as of the relevant Interest Payment Date of a
Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership and upon notation thereon of such
payment. Each of Euroclear and CEDEL will undertake in such circumstances to
credit such interest received by it to the respective accounts having an
interest in such Temporary Global Note.
 
     The principal of and any premium or interest on each Permanent Global Note
will be paid to each of Euroclear and CEDEL with respect to that portion of such
Permanent Global Note held for its account upon notation thereon of such
payment. Each of Euroclear and CEDEL will undertake in such circumstances to
credit such principal, premium and interest received by it to the respective
accounts having an interest in such Permanent Global Note. All such payments
will be made to Euroclear and CEDEL in immediately available funds.
 
     A payment in respect of an individual Bearer Note or any Coupon will be
made only against surrender of such Note or Coupon at the offices of such Paying
Agents outside the United States and its possessions as the Company may from
time to time appoint. At the direction of the Holder of such a Note or Coupon,
and subject to applicable laws and regulations, such payments will be made by
check drawn on a bank in The City of New York (in the case of a U.S. dollar
payment) or outside the United States (in the case of a payment in a currency
other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address outside the United States and its
possessions furnished by such Holder or, at the option of such Holder, by wire
transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied by such Holder) to an
account maintained by the payee with a bank located outside the United States
and its possessions. No payment in respect of an individual Bearer Note or
Coupon will be made upon presentation of such Note or Coupon at any office or
agency of either Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in

the United States and its possessions, nor will any such payment be made by
transfer to an account, or by mail to an address, in the United States and its
possessions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S. dollar payments in respect
of Bearer Notes or any Coupons at the offices of all Paying Agents outside the
United States and its possessions become illegal or are effectively precluded
because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions on the
full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be a Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.
 
     Payments of principal and interest (if any) with respect to Notes
denominated and payable in ECU will be made at the specified office of a Paying
Agent outside the United States and its possessions by credit or transfer to an
ECU account located outside the United States and its possessions specified by
the payee. Payments in a component currency (if required, as set forth under
'Currency Risks-Payment Currency' below) will be made in the Payment Currency
(as defined below) at the specified office of a Paying Agent in the country of
the Payment Currency or, if none or at the option of the holder, at the
specified office of any Paying Agent outside the United States and its
possessions either by a check drawn on, or by transfer to an account specified
by the payee with, a bank in the financial center of the
 
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country of the Payment Currency. Payments will be subject in all cases to any
fiscal or other laws and regulations applicable thereto, but without prejudice
to the provisions regarding taxation discussed below.
 

     The specified offices of the Trustees and the names and offices of the
initial Paying Agents are set forth at the end of this Prospectus Supplement.
The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or terminate the appointment
of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other Paying Agents and to
approve any change in the office through which any Paying Agent acts, provided
that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may be a Trustee) in at
least one city in Europe, which, so long as the Bearer Notes are listed on the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of that exchange shall so require, shall
include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of any
changes in the specified offices of a Trustee or any Paying Agent will be given
to the Holders of Bearer Notes in accordance with 'Notices' below.

 
     Any payment required to be made in respect of a Bearer Note on a date
(including the day of Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day for such Note
need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business
Day with the same force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional
interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed payment.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, if the
principal of any Discount Note is declared to be due and payable immediately as
described under 'Description of Debt Securities--Events of Default' in the
Prospectus, the amount of principal due and payable with respect to such Note
shall be limited to the aggregate principal amount (or face amount, in the case
of an Indexed Principal Note) of such Note multiplied by the sum of its Issue

Price (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate principal amount) plus the
original issue discount amortized from the date of issue to the date of
declaration, which amortization shall be calculated using the 'interest method'
(computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in effect
on the date of declaration).
 
FIXED RATE NOTES
 
     Each Fixed Rate Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date, or
from the last Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, at the rate per annum stated in the applicable Pricing Supplement
until the principal amount thereof is paid or made available for payment, except
that, if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the rate of interest
payable on certain Fixed Rate Notes may be subject to adjustment from time to
time as described in such Pricing Supplement. Unless otherwise set forth in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, interest on each Fixed Rate Note will be payable
annually in arrears on each September 15 (each such day being an 'Interest
Payment Date') and at Stated Maturity. Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, if an Interest Payment Date with respect to any
Fixed Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such
Interest Payment Date shall not be postponed; provided, however, that any
payment required to be made in respect of such Note on a date (including the day
of Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day for such Note need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall
accrue as a result of such delayed payment. However, if with respect to any
Fixed Rate Note, 'Accrue to Pay' is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, and any Interest Payment Date with respect to such Fixed Rate Note
would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date
shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day. Each payment of interest
in respect of an Interest Payment Date shall include interest accrued through
the day before such Interest Payment Date. Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, interest on Fixed Rate Notes will be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months ('30 over 360').
 
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FLOATING RATE NOTES
 
     From its Original Issue Date to but not including the first Interest Reset
Date (the 'Initial Interest Period'), each Floating Rate Note will bear interest
at the Initial Interest Rate set forth, or otherwise described in the Pricing
Supplement. From each Interest Reset Date to but not including the following
Interest Reset Date (each such period, an 'Interest Reset Period'; and together
with the Initial Interest Period, the 'Interest Periods'), the interest rate for
each Floating Rate Note will be determined by reference to an interest rate
basis (the 'Base Rate'), plus or minus the Spread, if any, or multiplied by the
Spread Multiplier, if any. The 'Spread' is the number of basis points that may
be specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement as being applicable to such
Note, and the 'Spread Multiplier' is the percentage that may be specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement as being applicable to such Note, except that, if
so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the Spread or Spread
Multiplier on certain Floating Rate Notes may be subject to adjustment from time
to time as described in such Pricing Supplement. The applicable Pricing

Supplement will designate one of the following Base Rates as applicable to a
Floating Rate Note:(i) LIBOR (a 'LIBOR Note'), (ii) the Commercial Paper Rate (a
'Commercial Paper Rate Note'),(iii) the Treasury Rate (a 'Treasury Rate Note'),
(iv) the Federal Funds Rate (a 'Federal Funds Rate Note'), (v) the CD Rate (a
'CD Rate Note') or (vi) such other Base Rate as is set forth in such Pricing
Supplement and in such Note. The 'Index Maturity' for any Floating Rate Note is
the period of maturity of the instrument or obligation from which the Base Rate
is calculated. 'H.15(519)' means the publication entitled 'Statistical Release
H.15(519), 'Selected Interest Rates' ', or any successor publication, published
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 'Composite Quotations'
means the daily statistical release entitled 'Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for
U.S. Government Securities' published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
 
     As specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, a Floating Rate Note may
also have either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per
annum on a simple interest basis): (i) a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the
rate at which interest may accrue during any interest period ('Maximum Interest
Rate') and (ii) a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest
may accrue during any interest period ('Minimum Interest Rate'). In addition to
any Maximum Interest Rate that may be applicable to any Floating Rate Note, the
interest rate on a Floating Rate Note will in no event be higher than the
maximum rate permitted by applicable law, as the same may be modified by United
States law of general application. The Notes will be governed by the law of the
State of New York and, under such law as of the date of this Prospectus
Supplement, the maximum rate of interest under provisions of the penal law, with
certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a simple interest basis. Such maximum
rate of interest only applies to obligations that are less than $2,500,000.
 
     The Company will appoint, and enter into agreements with, agents (each a
'Calculation Agent') to calculate interest rates on Floating Rate Notes. Unless
otherwise specified in a Pricing Supplement, Citibank, N.A. shall be the
Calculation Agent for each Series D Floating Rate Note and Bankers Trust Company
shall be the Calculation Agent for each Series E Floating Rate Note. All
determinations of interest by the Calculation Agents shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the holders of the
Floating Rate Notes.
 
     The interest rate on each Floating Rate Note will be reset daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (each day on which the interest
rate is reset, an 'Interest Reset Date'), as specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
Interest Reset Date will be, in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset
daily, each Business Day; in the case of Floating Rate Notes (other than
Treasury Rate Notes) that reset weekly, Wednesday of each week; in the case of
Treasury Rate Notes that reset weekly, Tuesday of each week (except as provided
below under 'Treasury Rate Notes' below); in the case of Floating Rate Notes
that reset monthly, the third Wednesday of each month; in the case of Floating
Rate Notes that reset quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September
and December of each year; in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset
semiannually, the third Wednesday of each of two months of each year specified
in the applicable Pricing Supplement; and, in the case of Floating Rate Notes
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annually, the third Wednesday of one month of each year specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement; provided, however, that in all instances
involving Floating Rate Notes issued prior to September 16, 1994 the interest
rate for the ten days immediately prior to Stated Maturity will be that in
effect on the tenth day preceding Stated Maturity. If an Interest Reset Date for
any Floating Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such
Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day,
except that in the case of a LIBOR Note, if such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date shall be the immediately
preceding Business Day.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the rate
of interest that goes into effect on any Interest Reset Date shall be determined
on a date (the 'Rate Determination Date') preceding such Interest Reset Date, as
further described below. Such Rate Determination Date may be referred to below
as a 'CD Rate Determination Date' in the case of a CD Rate Note, a 'Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date' in the case of a Commercial Paper Rate Note, a
'Federal Funds Rate Determination Date' in the case of a Federal Funds Rate
Note, a 'LIBOR Determination Date' in the case of a LIBOR Note or a 'Treasury
Rate Determination Date' or a 'Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination
Date' in the case of a Treasury Rate Note.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, interest
payable in respect of Floating Rate Notes shall be the accrued interest from and
including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been
paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment Date.
In the case of a Floating Rate Note that resets daily or weekly, interest
payable shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date
or the last date to which interest has been accrued and paid, as the case may
be, to but excluding the date 15 calendar days immediately preceding the
applicable Interest Payment Date, except that, at Stated Maturity, interest
payable will include interest accrued to but excluding the date of Stated
Maturity.
 
     With respect to a Floating Rate Note with more than one Interest Reset Date
during any period for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued
interest shall be calculated by multiplying the principal amount of such Note
(or in the case of a Floating Rate Note that is an Indexed Principal Note, its
Face Amount) by an accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor will be
computed by adding the interest factors calculated for each day in the period
for which accrued interest is being calculated. The interest factor (expressed
as a decimal calculated to seven decimal places without rounding) for each such
day is computed, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, by dividing the interest rate in effect on such day by 360 ('Actual
over 360'), in the case of LIBOR Notes, Commercial Paper Rate Notes, Federal
Funds Rate Notes and CD Rate Notes, or by the actual number of days in the year
('Actual over Actual'), in the case of Treasury Rate Notes. For purposes of
making the foregoing calculation, the interest rate in effect on any Interest
Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such date. With respect to
all other Floating Rate Notes, accrued interest shall be calculated by
multiplying the principal amount of such Note (or, in the case of a Floating
Rate Note that is an Indexed Principal Note, its Face Amount) by the interest
rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being calculated,

and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing the number of
days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated by 360, in the
case of LIBOR Notes, Commercial Paper Rate Notes, Federal Funds Rate Notes and
CD Rate Notes, or by the actual number of days in the year, in the case of
Treasury Rate Notes.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, all
percentages resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest on a Floating
Rate Note will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1%
(.0000001), with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and
all currency amounts used in or resulting from such calculation on Floating Rate
Notes will be rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a
unit being rounded upward).
 
     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Pricing Supplement and except
as provided below, interest will be payable, in the case of Floating Rate Notes
that reset daily, weekly or monthly, on the
 
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third Wednesday of each month or on the third Wednesday of March, June,
September and December of each year, as specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement; in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset quarterly, on the
third Wednesday of March, June, September and December of each year; in the case
of Floating Rate Notes that reset semiannually, on the third Wednesday of each
of two months of each year specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement; and,
in the case of Floating Rate Notes that reset annually, on the third Wednesday
of one month of each year specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement (each
such day being an 'Interest Payment Date'). If an Interest Payment Date with
respect to any Floating Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next
succeeding Business Day, except that, in the case of a LIBOR Note, if such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Payment
Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day; provided, however, if with
respect to any Floating Rate Note, the applicable Pricing Supplement provides
that the Note does not Accrue to Pay, if an Interest Payment Date with respect
to such Floating Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day,
such Interest Payment Date shall not be postponed; provided, further, that any
payment required to be made in respect of a Floating Rate Note that does not
Accrue to Pay on a date (including the day of Stated Maturity) that is not a
Business Day for such Note need not be made on such date, but may be made on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such
dates, and no additional interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed
payment.
 

     Upon the request of the Holder of any Floating Rate Note, the Calculation
Agent for such Note will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if
determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date with respect to such Floating Rate Note. In addition, such
information will be communicated to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and will be
made available at the offices of the Paying Agents in Luxembourg and at the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange as soon as possible after the determination of the
interest rate.


 
CD Rate Notes
 
     Each CD Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the 'CD
Rate' for each Interest Reset Period shall be the rate as of the second Business
Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a 'CD Rate
Determination Date') for negotiable certificates of deposit having the Index
Maturity designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as published in
H.15(519) under the heading 'CDs (Secondary Market)'. In the event that such
rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation
Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination Date, then the
'CD Rate' for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such CD Rate
Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index Maturity
designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as published in Composite
Quotations under the heading 'Certificates of Deposit'. If by 3:00 p.m., New
York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in
either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'CD Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be calculated by the Calculation Agent for such CD Rate Note
and will be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market offered rates as of
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD Rate Determination Date of three
leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar certificates of deposit in The
City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such CD Rate Note for
negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States money center banks of
the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable certificates of
deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity designated in
the Pricing Supplement in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however, that
if the dealers selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting
offered rates as mentioned in this sentence, the 'CD Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).
 
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     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any CD Rate Determination Date shall
be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or, if such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.
 
Commercial Paper Rate Notes
 
     Each Commercial Paper Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper
Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in
the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
'Commercial Paper Rate' for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent for such Commercial Paper Rate Note as of the second Business

Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a
'Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date') and shall be the Money Market Yield
(as defined below) on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate
for commercial paper having the Index Maturity specified in the applicable
Pricing Supplement, as such rate shall be published in H.15(519) under the
heading 'Commercial Paper'. In the event that such rate is not published prior
to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date, then the
'Commercial Paper Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market
Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for
commercial paper of the specified Index Maturity as published in Composite
Quotations under the heading 'Commercial Paper'. If by 3:00 p.m., New York City
time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either
H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'Commercial Paper Rate' for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic mean of
the offered rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial paper in
The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such Commercial Paper
Rate Note for commercial paper of the specified Index Maturity placed for an
industrial issuer whose bonds are rated 'AA' or the equivalent by a nationally
recognized rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers selected as
aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as mentioned
in this sentence, the 'Commercial Paper Rate' for such Interest Reset Period
will be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).
 
     'Money Market Yield' shall be a yield calculated in accordance with the
following formula:
 
                                     D X 360
          Money Market Yield = --------------- X 100
                                360 - (D X M)       
 
where 'D' refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and 'M' refers to the actual
number of days in the specified Index Maturity.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.
 
Federal Funds Rate Notes
 
     Each Federal Funds Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate
and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the
applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
'Federal Funds Rate' for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate
on the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset
 

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Period (a 'Federal Funds Rate Determination Date') for Federal Funds as
published in H.15(519) under the heading 'Federal Funds (Effective)'. In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date, the 'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date as published in
Composite Quotations under the heading 'Federal Funds/Effective Rate'. If by
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet
published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'Federal Funds
Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds
Rate Determination Date made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York which is equivalent to the rate which appears in H.15(519) under the
heading 'Federal Funds (Effective)'; provided, however, that if such rate is not
made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on such Calculation Date, the 'Federal Funds Rate' for such
Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Federal Funds Rate in effect for
the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such
Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate). In the case of a Federal
Funds Rate Note that resets daily, the interest rate on such Note for the period
from and including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset
by the Calculation Agent for such Note on such second Monday (or, if not a
Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the
average of the Federal Funds Rates in effect with respect to each such day in
such week.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
 
LIBOR Notes
 
     Each LIBOR Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.
 
     'LIBOR' for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Notes as follows:
 

          (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
     for such Interest Reset Period (a 'LIBOR Determination Date'), the
     Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the offered rates for
     deposits in the Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity
     specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, commencing on such Interest
     Reset Date, which appear on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately
     11:00 a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date. If 'LIBOR
     Telerate' is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, 'Designated
     LIBOR Page' means the display designated as page '3750' on the Dow Jones
     Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page '3750' on such
     service or such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers'
     Association for the purpose of displaying the London interbank offered
     rates of major banks), and LIBOR for Interest Reset Period will be the

     relevant offered rate as determined by the Calculation Agent. If 'LIBOR
     Reuters' is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, 'Designated
     LIBOR Page' means the display designated as page 'LIBO' on the Reuters
     Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO
     page on such service or such other service as may be nominated by the
     British Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank
     offered rates of major banks) provided that at least two such offered rates
     appear on the Designated LIBOR Page, in which case, 'LIBOR' for such
     Interest Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as
     determined by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.

 
          (ii) If LIBOR cannot be determined as above (either because the
     Designated LIBOR Page is no longer available or because less than two rates
     appear on page 'LIBO' on the Reuters Monitor Money Rate Services) on such
     LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will
     request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
     London interbank
 
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     market selected by such Calculation Agent to provide such Calculation Agent
     with its offered quotations for deposits in the Specified Currency for the
     period of the specified Index Maturity, commencing on such Interest Reset
     Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00
     a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal
     amount equal to an amount of not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the
     approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is
     representative of a single transaction in such market at such time. If at
     least two such quotations are provided, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset
     Period will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two
     such quotations are provided, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period will
     be the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of
     New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note at
     approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination
     Date for loans in the Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the
     period of the specified Index Maturity, commencing on such Interest Reset
     Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than
     U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified
     Currency that is representative of a single transaction in such market at
     such time; provided, however, that if fewer than three banks selected as
     aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are quoting rates as mentioned in this
     sentence, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as LIBOR
     for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no
     such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).
 
Treasury Rate Notes
 
     Each Treasury Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period
at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the
applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless 'Constant Maturity' is specified or unless otherwise specified in

the applicable Pricing Supplement, the 'Treasury Rate' for each Interest Reset
Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury Rate Determination
Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of direct obligations of
the United States ('Treasury securities') having the Index Maturity specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement as such rate shall be published in H.15(519)
under the heading 'U.S. Government Securities--Treasury bills--auction average
(investment)' or, in the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction average rate (expressed as
a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and
applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate Determination Date as otherwise
announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. In the event that the
results of the auction of Treasury securities having the specified Index
Maturity are not published or reported as provided above by 3:00 p.m., New York
City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such auction is held on such
Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the 'Treasury Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation Agent for such Treasury Rate
Note and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond equivalent on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis)
of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of approximately
3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, of
three leading primary United States government securities dealers selected by
such Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury securities with a remaining
maturity closest to the specified Index Maturity; provided, however, that if the
dealers selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting bid
rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the 'Treasury Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury Rate for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).
 
     The 'Treasury Rate Determination Date' for each Interest Reset Period will
be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset
Period falls on which Treasury securities would normally be auctioned. Treasury
securities are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week,
 
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unless that day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held
on the following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding
Friday. If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the
preceding Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date
pertaining to the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week.
If an auction date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest
Reset Date for a Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead
be the Business Day immediately following such auction date.
 
     If 'Constant Maturity' is specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
the 'Treasury Rate' for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate that is set
forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite the caption
'U.S. Government/Securities/Treasury Constant Maturities/' in the Index Maturity
with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination
Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the 'Constant
Maturity-Treasury Rate' shall be the rate that was set forth on Telerate Page
7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation Agent), on the

applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date opposite the
applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be established by
the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will contact the Federal
Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate, in the applicable
Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date. If
the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such information, then the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean
of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of yield, reported by three leading
U.S. government securities dealers (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc),
according to their written records, as of 3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S.
Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less
than exactly the Index Maturity and for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that
is nearest in maturity to the Index Maturity, but not more than exactly the
Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent shall calculate the Constant Maturity
Treasury Rate by interpolating to the Index Maturity based on an actual/actual
date count basis, the yield on the two Treasury Notes selected. If the
Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such adjusted quotations, the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean
of all such quotations, or if only one such quotation is obtained, such
quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all events, the Calculation
Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one adjusted yield quotation
can be determined.
 
     'The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date' shall be the tenth
Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable Interest Reset
Period.
 
     The Treasury constant maturity rate for a Treasury security maturity (the
'CMT Rate') as published in H.15(519) as of any Business Day is intended to be
indicative of the yield of a U.S. Treasury security having as of such Business
Day a remaining term to maturity equivalent to such maturity. The CMT Rate as of
any Business Day is based upon an interpolation by the U.S. Treasury of the
daily yield curve of outstanding Treasury securities. This yield curve, which
relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based on the
over-the-counter market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities. Such
yields are calculated from composites of quotations reported by leading U.S.
government securities dealers, which may include Salomon Brothers Inc. Certain
constant maturity yield values are read from the yield curve. Such interpolation
from the yield curve provides a theoretical yield for a Treasury security having
ten years to maturity, for example, even if no outstanding Treasury security has
as of such date exactly ten years remaining to maturity.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Treasury Rate Determination Date
or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, shall be the tenth
calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or Constant Maturity
Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is not a Business Day,
the next succeeding Business Day.
 
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AMORTIZING NOTES
 

     The Company may from time to time offer Bearer Notes ('Amortizing Notes')
on which a portion or all the principal amount is payable prior to Stated
Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or by
reference to an Index (as defined below). Further information concerning
additional terms and conditions of any Amortizing Notes, including terms for
repayment thereof will be set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
INDEXED NOTES
 
     The Company may from time to time offer Bearer Notes ('Indexed Notes') on
which certain or all interest payments (in the case of an 'Indexed Rate Note'),
and/or the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or
retirement (in the case of an 'Indexed Principal Note'), is determined by
reference to the principal amount of such Notes (or, in the case of an Indexed
Principal Note, to the amount designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as
the 'Face Amount' of such Indexed Note) and by reference to prices, changes in
prices, or differences between prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles,
goods, articles or commodities or by such other objective price, economic or
other measures as are described in the applicable Pricing Supplement (the
'Index'). The issuance of Indexed Notes denominated in German deutsche marks
will be made in compliance with the policy of the German Central Bank regarding
the indexation of deutsche mark denominated debt obligations. A description of
the Index used in any determination of an interest or principal payment, and the
method or formula by which interest or principal payments will be determined by
reference to such Index, will be set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     In the case of a Fixed Rate Note, Floating Rate Note or Indexed Rate Note
that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest payment will
be determined by reference to the Face Amount of such Indexed Note unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement. In the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any
earlier redemption or repayment of the Indexed Note may be different from the
Face Amount.
 
     If the determination of the Index on which any interest payment or the
principal amount of an Indexed Note is calculated or announced by a third party,
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such
third party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or
changes the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes
consistent with policies in effect at the time such Indexed Note was issued and
permitted changes described in the applicable Pricing Supplement), then such
Index shall be calculated for purposes of such Indexed Note by another third
party selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company, subject to the same conditions and controls as applied
to the original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated
on the same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to
the original third party, then the indexed interest payments, if any, or any
indexed principal amount of such Indexed Note shall be calculated in the manner
set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement. Any determination of such third
party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.
 
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Bearer Note will indicate either

that such Note cannot be redeemed (other than as provided under 'Tax Redemption'
and 'Special Tax Redemption' below) prior to its Stated Maturity or that such
Note will be redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or in part, and
the date or dates (each an 'Optional Redemption Date') on which such Note may be
redeemed and the price (the 'Redemption Price') at which (together with accrued
interest to such Optional Redemption Date) such Note may be redeemed on each
such Optional Redemption Date. The Company may exercise such option with respect
to a Bearer Note by notifying the Trustee for such Note at least 45 days prior
to any Optional Redemption Date. At least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to
 
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the date of redemption, such Trustee shall provide notice of such redemption to
the Holder of such Bearer Note in accordance with 'Notices' below. In the event
of redemption of a Bearer Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the
unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued to the Holder thereof upon the
cancellation thereof. Bearer Notes redeemed prior to Stated Maturity must be
presented for payment together with all unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto, failing which the amount of any missing unmatured Coupon will be
deducted from the sum due for payment. The Bearer Notes will not be subject to
any sinking fund.
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Bearer Note will also indicate
whether the Holder of such Note will have the option to elect repayment of such
Note by the Company prior to its Stated Maturity, and, if so, such Pricing
Supplement will specify the date or dates on which such Note may be repaid (each
an 'Optional Repayment Date') and the price (the 'Optional Repayment Price') at
which, together with accrued interest to such Optional Repayment Date, such Note
may be repaid on each such Optional Repayment Date. Bearer Notes that are to be
repaid prior to Stated Maturity must be presented for payment together with all
unmatured Coupons, if any, pertaining thereto, failing which the amount of any
missing unmatured Coupon will be deducted from the sum due for payment.
 
     In order for a Bearer Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent must
receive the Bearer Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days prior to an
Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of a Bearer Note for repayment shall be
irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder of a Bearer
Note for less than the entire principal amount of such Note, provided that the
principal amount of such Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an
authorized denomination. Upon such partial repayment, such Bearer Note shall be
cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the remaining principal amount thereof
shall be issued to the Holder of such repaid Note.
 
     If a Bearer Note is represented by a Global Security, the Depositary will
be the Holder of such Note and therefore will be the only entity that can
exercise a right to repayment. In order to ensure that the Depositary will
timely exercise a right to repayment with respect to a particular Bearer Note,
the beneficial owner of such Note must instruct the broker or other direct or
indirect participant through which it holds an interest in such Note to notify
the Depositary of its desire to exercise a right to repayment. Different firms
have different cut-off times for accepting instructions from their customers
and, accordingly, each beneficial owner should consult the broker or other
direct or indirect participant through which it holds an interest in a Bearer
Note in order to ascertain the cut-off time by which such an instruction must be

given in order for timely notice to be delivered to the Depositary.
 

     Notwithstanding anything in this Prospectus Supplement to the contrary, if
a Bearer Note is an Original Issue Discount Note (other than an Indexed Note),
the amount payable on such Note in the event of redemption or repayment prior to
its Stated Maturity (other than pursuant to an optional redemption by the
Company at a stated Redemption Price) shall be the Amortized Face Amount of such
Note as of the date of redemption or the date or repayment, as the case may be.
The Amortized Face Amount of a Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i)
the Issue Price set forth on the face of the applicable Pricing Supplement plus
(ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated
principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond
Yield to Maturity set forth on the face of the applicable Pricing Supplement or
(y) if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the Bond Yield to Call
set forth on the face thereof (computed in each case in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided,
however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its
stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of a Pricing
Supplement shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring Optional
Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such
Optional Redemption Date. In the event that any such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the

 
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amount payable on such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so
recomputed on each succeeding Opional Redemption Date until the Note is so
redeemed.

 
     The Company may at any time purchase Bearer Notes at any price in the open
market or otherwise. Bearer Notes so purchased by the Company may, at the
discretion of the Company, be held or resold (in which case the Company will
comply with applicable selling restrictions contained in the Treasury
Regulations as described herein) or surrendered to the Trustee for such Notes
for cancellation (together with any unmatured Coupons attached thereto or
purchased therewith).
 
TAX REDEMPTION
 
     The Bearer Notes of a series may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving at least 30 but not more than
60 days' notice in accordance with 'Notices' below (which notice shall be
irrevocable), at the respective Redemption Prices thereof, if the Company has or
will become obligated to pay additional interest on such Notes as described
under 'Payment of Additional Interest' below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such

laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after their respective Original Issue Dates, and such obligation cannot be
avoided by the Company taking reasonable measures available to it; provided that
no such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the
earliest date on which the Company would be obligated to pay such additional
interest were a payment in respect of such Notes then due. Prior to the
publication of any notice of redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee for the Notes to be redeemed a certificate stating
that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a
statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the
Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent counsel to the
effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such additional
interest as a result of such change or amendment (Section 1302).
 
PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL INTEREST
 
     The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations set forth
below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of a Bearer Note or Coupon that
is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be necessary so
that every net payment on such Note or Coupon, after deduction or withholding
for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or other governmental
charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the United States (or any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein), will not be less
than the amount provided in such Note or Coupon to be then due and payable.
However, the Company will not be required to make any such payment of additional
interest to such Holder for or on account of:
 
          (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not
     have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or former
     connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor or
     beneficiary of, or a person holding a power over, such Holder, if such
     Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such Holder,
     if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the United States,
     including, without limitation, such Holder (or such fiduciary, settlor,
     beneficiary, person holding a power, member or shareholder) being or having
     been a citizen or resident thereof or being or having been engaged in trade
     or business or present therein or having or having had a permanent
     establishment therein or (ii) such Holder's past or present status as a
     passive foreign investment company, a personal holding company, a foreign
     personal holding company, a controlled foreign corporation for United
     States tax purposes or a private foundation or other tax-exempt
     organization with respect to the United States or as a corporation that
     accumulates earnings to avoid United States federal income tax;
 
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          (b) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or personal
     property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;
 
          (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not
     have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of a Bearer Note
     or Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such
     payment became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly
     provided for, whichever occurred later;

 
          (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is payable
     otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on a Bearer Note
     or Coupon;
 
          (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required to be
     deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on a Bearer Note or
     Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction or withholding
     by any other Paying Agent;
 
          (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not
     have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any applicable
     certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement
     concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the
     United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of a Bearer Note or Coupon
     if, without regard to any tax treaty, such compliance is required by
     statute or regulation of the United States as a pre-condition to relief or
     exemption from such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or
 
          (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on a
     Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of the
     combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company (taking into
     account applicable attribution of ownership rules under Section 871(h)(3)
     of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the 'Code')) or is a
     controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through stock
     ownership;
 
nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on a Bearer
Note or Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the
sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of such Bearer
Note or Coupon (Section 1202).
 
     The term 'United States Alien' means any person who, for United States
federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien
individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a
foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States
federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien
individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust
(Section 101).
 
SPECIAL TAX REDEMPTION
 
     If the Company shall determine that any payment made outside the United
States by the Company or any of its Paying Agents in respect of any Bearer Note
of a series that is not a Floating Rate Note or Coupon appertaining thereto (an
'Affected Security') would, under any present or future laws or regulations of
the United States, be subject to any certification, documentation, information
or other reporting requirement of any kind, the effect of which requirement is
the disclosure to the Company, any Paying Agent or any governmental authority of
the nationality, residence or identity of a beneficial owner of such Affected
Security that is a United States Alien (other than such a requirement (a) that

would not be applicable to a payment made by the Company or any one of its
Paying Agents (i) directly to the beneficial owner or (ii) to a custodian,
nominee or other agent of the beneficial owner or (b) that can be satisfied by
such custodian, nominee or other agent certifying to the effect that the
beneficial owner is a United States Alien; provided that, in any case referred
to in clause (a) (ii) or (b), payment by the custodian, nominee or agent to the
beneficial owner is not otherwise subject to any such requirement), then the
Company shall elect either (x) to redeem such Affected Securities in whole, but
not in part, at the Redemption Price thereof, or (y) if the conditions described
in the next succeeding paragraph are
 
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satisfied, to pay the additional interest specified in such paragraph. The
Company shall make such determination as soon as practicable and publish prompt
notice thereof (the 'Determination Notice') stating the effective date of such
certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement,
whether the Company elects to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the
additional interest specified in the next succeeding paragraph and (if
applicable) the last date by which the redemption of the Affected Securities
must take place, as described in the next succeeding sentence. If the Affected
Securities are to be redeemed as described in this paragraph, the redemption
shall take place on such date, not later than one year after the publication of
the Determination Notice, as the Company shall specify by notice given to the
Trustee for the Notes to be redeemed at least 60 days before the Redemption
Date. Notice of such redemption shall be given to the Holders of the Affected
Securities at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not so redeem the Affected
Securities if the Company shall subsequently determine, at least 30 days prior
to the Redemption Date, that subsequent payments on the Affected Securities
would not be subject to any such certification, documentation, information or
other reporting requirement, in which case the Company shall publish prompt
notice of such subsequent determination and any earlier redemption notice given
as described in this paragraph shall be revoked and of no further effect. Prior
to the publication of any Determination Notice as described in this paragraph,
the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for the Notes to be redeemed a
certificate stating that the Company is obligated to make such determination and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
obligation of the Company to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the
additional interest specified in the next succeeding paragraph have occurred,
and an opinion of independent counsel to the effect that such conditions have
occurred.
 
     If and so long as the certification, documentation, information or other
reporting requirement referred to in the preceding paragraph would be fully
satisfied by payment of a backup withholding tax or similar charge, the Company
may elect to pay as additional interest such amounts as may be necessary so that
every net payment made outside the United States following the effective date of
such requirement by the Company or any of its Paying Agents in respect of any
Affected Security of which the beneficial owner is a United States Alien (but
without any requirement that the nationality, residence or identity of such
beneficial owner be disclosed to the Company, any Paying Agent or any
governmental authority), after deduction or withholding for or on account of
such backup withholding tax or similar charge (other than a backup withholding

tax or similar charge that (i) would not be applicable in the circumstances
referred to in the parenthetical clause of the first sentence of the preceding
paragraph or (ii) is imposed as a result of presentation of such Affected
Security for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such payment
became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly provided for,
whichever occurred later), will not be less than the amount provided in such
Affected Security to be then due and payable. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest as described in this paragraph, then the Company shall have
the right thereafter to redeem the Affected Securities at any time in whole, but
not in part, at the Redemption Price thereof, subject to the provisions
described in the last three sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph. If
the Company elects to pay additional interest as described in this paragraph and
the condition specified in the first sentence of this paragraph should no longer
be satisfied, then the Company shall redeem the Affected Securities in whole,
but not in part, at the Redemption Price thereof, subject to the provisions of
the last three sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph. Any redemption
payments made by the Company as described in the two immediately preceding
sentences shall be subject to the continuing obligation of the Company to pay
additional interest as described in this paragraph (Section 1302).
 
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DEFEASANCE
 
     The defeasance provisions described in the Prospectus will not be
applicable to the Bearer Notes.
 
REPLACEMENT OF BEARER NOTES AND COUPONS
 
     If an individual Bearer Note or Coupon is mutilated, destroyed, stolen or
lost it may be replaced at the specified office of the Principal Paying Agent
for such Note in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are listed on the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying Agent in
Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be incurred in
connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss, on such
terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee for such Note
may reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.
 
NOTICES
 
     All notices to Holders of Bearer Notes will be deemed to have been duly
given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London daily
newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as the
Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such
exchange so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in
Luxembourg (which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be
deemed to have been given on the date of the first such publication.
 
UNCLAIMED MONIES
 
     All monies paid by the Company to a Trustee or a Paying Agent for the
payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any Bearer Note or for the
payment of any Coupon which remain unclaimed at the end of two years after such

payments shall have become due and payable will be repaid to the Company, at its
written request, and the Holder of such Note or Coupon will thereafter look only
to the Company for payment, such payment to be made only outside the United
States.
 
GOVERNING LAW
 
     The Indenture and the Notes will be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
 
                                 CURRENCY RISKS
 
EXCHANGE RATES AND EXCHANGE CONTROLS
 
     An investment in a Bearer Note having a Specified Currency other than the
currency of the country in which a purchaser is resident or the currency
(including ECU and any other such composite currency) in which a purchaser
conducts its business or activities (the 'home currency') entails significant
risks that are not associated with a similar investment in a security
denominated in the home currency. Such risks include, without limitation, the
possibility of significant changes in rates of exchange between the home
currency and such Specified Currency and the possibility of the imposition or
modification of foreign exchange controls with respect to such Specified
Currency. Such risks generally depend on factors over which the Company has no
control and which cannot be readily foreseen, such as economic and political
events and the supply of and demand for the relevant currencies. In recent
years, rates of exchange for certain currencies have been highly volatile, and
such volatility may be expected in the future. Fluctuations in any particular
exchange rate that have occurred in the past are not necessarily indicative,
however, of fluctuations in the rate that may occur during the term of any
Bearer Note. Depreciation of the Specified Currency for a Bearer Note against
the relevant home currency would result in a decrease in the effective yield of
such Note below its coupon rate and, in certain circumstances, could result in a
substantial loss to the investor on a home currency basis.
 
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     Governments have from time to time imposed, and may in the future impose,
exchange controls that could affect exchange rates as well as the availability
of a Specified Currency for making payments in respect of Bearer Notes
denominated in such currency. At present, the Company has identified the
following currencies in which payments of principal, premium and interest on
Bearer Notes may be made: Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, Danish kroner,
English pounds sterling, French francs, German deutsche marks, Hong Kong
dollars, Italian lire, Japanese yen, New Zealand dollars, Pounds sterling, U.S.
dollars and ECU. However, the Company may determine at any time to issue Bearer
Notes with Specified Currencies other than those listed. There can be no
assurances that exchange controls will not restrict or prohibit payments of
principal, premium or interest in any Specified Currency. Even if there are no
actual exchange controls, it is possible that, on a payment date with respect to
any particular Bearer Note, the currency in which amounts then due in respect of
such Note are payable would not be available to the Company. In that event, the
Company will make such payments in the manner set forth under 'Payment Currency'
below.

 
     THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS DO NOT DESCRIBE
ALL THE RISKS OF AN INVESTMENT IN BEARER NOTES DENOMINATED IN A CURRENCY OTHER
THAN A PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER'S HOME CURRENCY, AND THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADVISE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF SUCH RISKS AS THEY EXIST AT
THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR AS SUCH RISKS MAY CHANGE FROM TIME TO
TIME. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN FINANCIAL AND LEGAL
ADVISORS AS TO THE RISKS ENTAILED BY AN INVESTMENT IN BEARER NOTES DENOMINATED
IN A CURRENCY OTHER THAN THE PURCHASER'S HOME CURRENCY. SUCH NOTES ARE NOT AN
APPROPRIATE INVESTMENT FOR PERSONS WHO ARE UNSOPHISTICATED WITH RESPECT TO
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS.
 
     Any Pricing Supplement relating to Bearer Notes having a Specified Currency
other than U.S. dollars will contain a description of any material exchange
controls affecting such currency and any other required information concerning
such currency.
 
VALUE OF ECU
 

     The ECU for the purpose of any Notes denominated or payable in ECU ('ECU')
is the same as the ECU that is from time to time used as the unit of account of
the European Communities ('EC'). Changes to the ECU may be made by the EC, in
which event the ECU will change accordingly.

 
PAYMENT CURRENCY
 
     Except as set forth below, if payment in respect of a Bearer Note is
required to be made in a Specified Currency other than U.S. dollars and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments in respect of such Note shall be made in U.S.
dollars until such currency is again available or so used. The amounts so
payable on any date in such currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the
basis of the most recently available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or
as otherwise indicated in the applicable Pricing Supplement. Any payment in
respect of such Note made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will not
constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture under which such Note shall
have been issued.
 
     If payment in respect of a Bearer Note is required to be made in ECU and
the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System, then the Trustee for
such Note shall, without liability on its part, choose a component currency (the
'Payment Currency') of the ECU in which all payments in respect of such Note and
any related Coupons shall be made until the ECU is again so used. Notice of the
Payment Currency selected by such Trustee shall be given in accordance with
'Description of Bearer Notes--Notices' above. The amount of each payment in such
Payment Currency shall be computed on
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the basis of the equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described

below, as of the fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such
payment is due. Any payment in respect of such Note made under such
circumstances in the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default
under the Indenture under which such Note shall have been issued.
 
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg business day on
which the ECU is no longer used in the European Monetary System, each Trustee
shall, without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all
payments in respect of Bearer Notes and Coupons for which such Trustee serves as
Trustee denominated in ECU having a due date prior thereto but not yet presented
for payment are to be made. The amount of each payment in such Payment Currency
shall be computed on the basis of the equivalent of the ECU in that currency,
determined as described below, as of such first Luxembourg business day. Any
payment in respect of such Notes made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture under which
such Notes shall have been issued.
 
     The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as of any date
(the 'Day of Valuation') shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on
the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this purpose (the
'Components') shall be the currency amounts that were components of the ECU when
the ECU was most recently used in the European Monetary System or for the
settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the EU. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalent of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount of U.S. dollars.
 
     The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components for each series of
Bearer Notes shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis
of the middle spot delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time
on the Day of Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one
or more major banks, selected by the Trustee for such Notes (with the approval
of the Company), in the country of issue of the Component in question.
 
     If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is altered by way
of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a
Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more
component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of
those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such single
currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.
 
     If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day of Valuation
from any of the banks selected by a Trustee (with the approval of the Company)
for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in the country of
issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing the U.S. dollar
equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall (except as
provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such Component

obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used only if
they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two Luxembourg
business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two Luxembourg
business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S. dollar
equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the middle
spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar prevailing
at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by such Trustee
(with the approval of the Company), in a country other than the country of issue
of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the
 
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basis of such cross rates if such Trustee and the Company judge that the
equivalent so calculated is more representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent
calculated on the basis of such most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise
specified by such Trustee, if there is more than one market for dealing in any
component currency by reason of foreign exchange regulations or for any other
reason, the market to be referred to in respect of such currency shall be that
upon which a non-resident issuer of securities denominated in such currency
would purchase such currency in order to make payments in respect of such
securities.
 
     All determinations referred to above made by a Trustee or the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion (except to the
extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by a Trustee is
subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on holders of Bearer Notes,
and such Trustee shall have no liability therefor.
 
FOREIGN CURRENCY JUDGMENTS
 
     The Notes will be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of
the State of New York. Courts in the United States customarily have not rendered
judgments for money damages denominated in any currency other than the U.S.
dollar. A 1987 amendment to the Judiciary Law of the State of New York provides,
however, that an action based upon an obligation denominated in a currency other
than U.S. dollars will be rendered in the foreign currency of the underlying
obligation and converted into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange prevailing on
the date of the entry of the judgment or decree.
 
                             RISKS OF INDEXED NOTES
 
     An investment in Indexed Notes may entail significant risks that are not
associated with a similar investment in a debt instrument that has a fixed
principal amount, is denominated in U.S. dollars and bears interest at either a
fixed rate or a floating rate determined by reference to nationally published
interest rate references. The risks of a particular Indexed Note will depend on
the terms of such Indexed Note, but may include, without limitation, the
possibility of significant changes in the prices of securities, currencies,
intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or of other objective price,
economic or other measures making up the relevant Index (the 'Underlying

Assets'). Such risks generally depend on factors over which the Company has no
control and which cannot readily be foreseen, such as economic and political
events and the supply of and demand for the Underlying Assets. In recent years,
currency exchange rates and prices for various Underlying Assets have been
highly volatile, and such volatility may be expected in the future. Fluctuations
in any such rates or prices that have occurred in the past are not necessarily
indicative, however, of fluctuations that may occur during the term of any
Indexed Note.
 
     In considering whether to purchase Indexed Notes, investors should be aware
that the calculation of amounts payable in respect of Indexed Notes may involve
reference to an Index determined by an affiliate of the Company or to prices
which are published solely by third parties or entities which are not subject to
regulation under the laws of the United States.
 

     THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS DO NOT DESCRIBE
ALL THE RISKS OF AN INVESTMENT IN INDEXED NOTES, AND THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADVISE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF SUCH RISKS AS THEY EXIST AT
THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR AS SUCH RISKS MAY CHANGE FROM TIME TO
TIME. THE RISK OF LOSS AS A RESULT OF THE LINKAGE OF PRINCIPAL OR INTEREST
PAYMENTS ON INDEXED NOTES TO AN INDEX AND TO THE UNDERLYING ASSETS CAN BE
SUBSTANTIAL. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN FINANCIAL AND LEGAL
ADVISORS AS TO THE RISKS ENTAILED BY AN INVESTMENT IN INDEXED NOTES. AN INDEXED
NOTE IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE INVESTMENT FOR PERSONS WHO ARE UNSOPHISTICATED WITH
RESPECT TO TRANSACTIONS IN THE UNDERLYING ASSETS OF ANY INDEX RELEVANT TO THAT
INDEXED NOTE.

 
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                         TAXATION IN THE UNITED STATES
 

     Under current United States Federal income and estate tax law, (a) payment
on a Bearer Note or Coupon by the Company or any paying agent to a holder that
is a United States Alien will not be subject to withholding of the United States
Federal income tax provided that, with respect to payments of interest,
including original issue discount, the holder does not actually or
constructively own ten percent or more of the combined voting power of all
classes of stock of the Company (taking into account the applicable attribution
of ownership rules under Section 871(h)(3) of the Code) and is not a controlled
foreign corporation related to the Company through stock ownership; (b) a holder
of a Bearer Note or Coupon that is a United States Alien will not be subject to
United States Federal income tax on gain realized on the sale, exchange or
redemption of such Note or Coupon, provided that such holder does not have a
connection with or status with respect to the United States described in clause
(a) under 'Payment of Additional Interest'; (c) a beneficial owner of a Bearer
Note or Coupon that is a United States Alien will not be required to disclose
its nationality, residence or identity to the Company, a paying agent (acting in
its capacity as such) or any United States governmental authority in order to
receive payment on such Note or Coupon from the Company or a paying agent
outside the United States (although the beneficial owner of an interest in a
Temporary Global Note will be required to provide a Certificate of Non-U.S.
Beneficial Ownership to Euroclear or Cedel in order to exchange such interest or
to receive interest payments with respect thereto, as described in 'Description
of Bearer Notes--Payments and Paying Agents' above); and (d) a Bearer Note or
Coupon will not be subject to United States Federal estate tax as a result of
the death of a holder who is not a citizen or resident of the United States at
the time of death, provided that such holder did not at the time of death
actually or constructively own ten percent or more of the combined voting power
of all classes of stock of the Company and, at the time of such holder's death,
payments of interest on such Note or Coupon would not have been effectively
connected with the conduct by such holder of a trade or business in the United
States.

 
     Special tax considerations may apply to certain Indexed Notes or any Notes
providing for contingent payments. Any such considerations will be described in
the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     United States information reporting requirements and backup withholding tax
will not apply to payments on a Bearer Note or Coupon made outside the United
States by the Company or any paying agent (acting in its capacity as such) to a
holder that is a United States Alien. Information reporting requirements and
backup withholding tax also will not apply to any payment on a Bearer Note or
Coupon outside the United States by a foreign office of a custodian, nominee or
other agent of the beneficial owner of such Note or Coupon, provided that such
custodian, nominee or agent (i) is not a U.S. Person, (ii) derives less than 50%
of its gross income for certain periods from the conduct of a trade or business
in the United States and (iii) is not a controlled foreign corporation as to the
United States (a person described in (i), (ii) and (iii) being hereinafter
referred to as a 'foreign controlled person'). Payment in respect of a Bearer
Note or Coupon outside the United States to the beneficial owner thereof by a

foreign office of any custodian, nominee or agent that is not a foreign
controlled person will not be subject to backup withholding tax, but will be
subject to information reporting requirements unless such custodian, nominee or
agent has documentary evidence in its records that the beneficial owner is a
United States Alien or the beneficial owner otherwise establishes an exemption.
 
     Information reporting requirements and backup withholding tax will not
apply to any payment of the proceeds of the sale of a Bearer Note or Coupon
effected outside the United States by a foreign office of a 'broker' (as defined
in applicable Treasury regulations), provided that such broker is a foreign
controlled person. Payment of the proceeds of the sale of a Bearer Note or
Coupon effected outside the United States by a foreign office of any broker that
is not a foreign controlled person will not be subject to backup withholding
tax, but will be subject to information reporting requirements unless such
broker has documentary evidence in its records that the beneficial owner is a
United States Alien and certain other conditions are met, or the beneficial
owner otherwise establishes an exemption.
 
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                              PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
     The Bearer Notes are being offered on a continuous basis by the Company
through the Agents, each of which has agreed to use its reasonable efforts to
solicit orders to purchase Bearer Notes. The Company will have the sole right to
accept orders to purchase Bearer Notes and may reject proposed purchases in
whole or in part. Each Agent shall have the right, in its discretion reasonably
exercised and without notice to the Company, to reject any proposed purchase of
Bearer Notes in whole or in part. The Company will pay each Agent a commission
of from not more than .125% to not more than .750% of the principal amount of
Bearer Notes sold through it, depending upon the Stated Maturity.
 
     The Company may also sell Bearer Notes at a discount to an Agent for its
own account or for resale to one or more purchasers at varying prices related to
prevailing market prices at the time of resale or, if set forth in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, at a fixed public offering price, all as
determined by the Agent. After any initial public offering of Bearer Notes to be
resold to purchasers at a fixed public offering price, the public offering price
and any concession or discount may be changed. In addition, an Agent may offer
Bearer Notes purchased by it as principal to other dealers. Bearer Notes sold by
an Agent to a dealer may be sold at a discount and, unless otherwise specified
in the applicable Pricing Supplement, such discount allowed will not be in
excess of the discount received by the Agent from the Company. Unless otherwise
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, any Bearer Note purchased by an
Agent as principal will be purchased at 100% of the principal amount or face
amount thereof less a percentage equal to the commission applicable to an agency
sale of a Bearer Note of identical maturity.
 
     In compliance with United States Federal income tax laws and regulations,
the Company and each Agent have agreed that in connection with the original
issuance of any Bearer Note and during the period ending 40 days after the
Original Issue Date of such Note they will not offer, sell or deliver such Note,
directly or indirectly, to a U.S. Person or to any person within the United
States and its possessions, except to the extent permitted under U.S. Treasury

regulations. Under those regulations, Bearer Notes may be offered and sold
during that period to international organizations, to foreign central banks and
to foreign branches of U.S. financial institutions that satisfy requirements
prescribed by the regulations. Confirmations sent by an Agent in connection with
sales of Bearer Notes need not contain certain purchaser representations.
 
     The Bearer Notes have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities and Exchange Law of Japan (the 'Securities and Exchange Law').
Accordingly, each of the Agents will represent and agree that it has not,
directly or indirectly, offered or sold and will not, directly or indirectly,
offer or sell any Bearer Notes in Japan or to a resident of Japan except
pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in
compliance with the Securities and Exchange Law and other relevant laws and
regulations of Japan. As used in this paragraph, 'resident of Japan' means any
person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized
under the laws of Japan or located in Japan.
 
     Each Agent will agree that:
 
          1. it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell prior to the
     date six months after their date of issue any Bearer Notes, having a
     maturity of one year or greater, to persons in the United Kingdom, except
     to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding,
     managing or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the
     purposes of their businesses or otherwise in circumstances that have not
     resulted and will not result in an offer to the public in the United
     Kingdom within the meaning of the Public Offers of Securities Regulations
     1995;
 
          2. it has complied with and will comply with all applicable provisions
     of the Financial Services Act 1986 with respect to anything done by it in
     relation to the Bearer Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United
     Kingdom; and
 
          3. it has only issued or passed on and will only issue or pass on in
     the United Kingdom any document received by it in connection with the issue
     of the Bearer Notes to a person who is of a kind described in Article 11(3)
     of the Financial Services Act 1986 (Investment Advertisements)
 
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     (Exemptions) Order 1995 or is a person to whom such document may otherwise
     lawfully be issued or passed on.
 
     Bearer Notes that are denominated in German deutsche marks will be offered
by the Company through Salomon Brothers AG. Each issue of Bearer Notes
denominated or payable in, or linked to, German deutsche marks will take place
only in compliance with the guidelines of the German central bank regarding the
issue of debt securities denominated in German deutsche marks. In particular,
only credit institutions domiciled in Germany will act as dealers in relation to
such Notes except in the case of a syndicated issue of Bearer Notes denominated
in German deutsche marks (where only the lead manager specified in the Pricing
Supplement need be such a credit institution). Each issue of Indexed Notes
denominated in German deutsche marks will be made in compliance with the policy

of the German central bank regarding the indexation of debt obligations
denominated in German deutsche marks of non-German issuers.
 
     There can be no assurance as to the existence of a secondary market for any
Bearer Notes, or that the Bearer Notes will be sold.
 
     An Agent, whether acting as agent or principal, may be deemed to be an
'underwriter' within the meaning of the Securities Act. The Company has agreed
to indemnify the Agents against certain liabilities, including liabilities under
the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments that the Agent may be required
to make in respect thereof.
 
     In addition to the Bearer Notes being offered through the Agents as
described herein, Registered Notes that may have terms identical or similar to
the terms of the Bearer Notes may be concurrently offered by the Company on a
continuous basis in the United States by Salomon Brothers Inc, as U.S. Agent
pursuant to the Global Selling Agency Agreement between the Company, Salomon
Brothers International Limited, Salomon Brothers AG, Salomon Brothers Hong Kong
Limited and Salomon Brothers Inc (the 'Selling Agency Agreement'). Pursuant to
the Selling Agency Agreement, Salomon Brothers Inc may also purchase Registered
Notes as principal for its own account or for resale. Any Registered Notes so
offered and sold will reduce correspondingly the maximum aggregate principal
amount of Bearer Notes that may be offered by this Prospectus Supplement and the
Prospectus.
 
                              GENERAL INFORMATION
 
     Application has been made to list the Bearer Notes on the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange. In connection with such listing, the Certificate of Incorporation and
By-Laws of the Company and a legal notice relating to the issuance of the Bearer
Notes have been deposited with the Chief Registrar of the District Court of
Luxembourg, where copies may be obtained upon request.
 

     The issuance of the Notes was authorized by action of the Board of
Directors of the Company on September 7, 1988, March 7, 1990, May 2, 1990, June
5, 1991, September 5, 1991, June 2, 1993, December 1, 1993, May 4, 1994,
December 7, 1994 and May 3, 1995, and by action of the executive committee of
the Board of Directors on July 24, 1991 and by action of an authorized officer
of the Company on February 12, 1993, December 14, 1993, October 12, 1994 and
April   , 1996.

 
     So long as the Bearer Notes of either series are listed on the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange, copies of the Pricing Supplements for such series of Notes, the
Registration Statement (and the documents incorporated by reference therein),
the annual and quarterly reports, Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of
the Company, the Indenture for such series of Notes and the Selling Agency
Agreement will be available for inspection at the office of the Listing Agent or
at the office of the Paying Agent for such series of Notes in Luxembourg during
the term of the Bearer Notes. In addition, copies of such annual and quarterly
reports and such Pricing Supplements may be obtained at such offices.
 
     Except as otherwise disclosed or incorporated by reference herein, the

Company is not involved in any litigation or arbitration proceedings relating to
claims or amounts which it believes will be material in the context of the issue
of the Bearer Notes and is not aware that any such litigation or arbitration
proceedings are pending or threatened.
 
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     Under Article 109G of the Treaty establishing the European Communities, as
amended by the treaty on European Union, the currency composition of the ECU may
not be changed. From the start of the third stage of European monetary union,
the value of the ECU as against the currencies of the member states
participating in the third stage will be irrevocably fixed, and the ECU will
become a currency of its own right.

 
     As of the date of this Prospectus Supplement, there has been no material
adverse change in the financial position of the Company since the date of the
latest audited financial statements contained or incorporated by reference in
the accompanying Prospectus.
 

     The Bearer Notes have been accepted for clearance through Euroclear and
CEDEL.

 

     Each Pricing Supplement will contain the following information in respect
of the issue of the Notes to which it relates:

 

<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
    (i)  Principal Amount or Face Amount
   (ii)  Issue Price
  (iii)  Proceeds to Company on original issuance
   (iv)  Commission or Discount on original issuance
    (v)  Salomon Brothers International Limited's capacity on original issuance
   (vi)  Original Issue Date
  (vii)  Stated Maturity
 (viii)  Specified Currency (If other than U.S. Dollars)
   (ix)  Authorized Denominations (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus
           Supplement)
    (x)  Interest Payment Dates:
           Accrue to pay:  / / Yes    / / No
   (xi)  Indexed Principal Note:  / / Yes    / / No
  (xii)  Type of Interest on Note (Fixed Rate, Floating Rate or Indexed Rate)
 (xiii)  Interest Rate (Fixed Rate Notes)
  (xiv)  Initial Interest Rate (Floating Rate Notes)
   (xv)  Base Rate
  (xvi)  Calculation Agent (If other than Citibank)
 (xvii)  Computation of Interest
(xviii)  Interest Reset Dates
  (xix)  Rate Determination Dates
   (xx)  Index Maturity
  (xxi)  Spread (+/-)
 (xxii)  Spread Multiplier
(xxiii)  Change in Spread, Spread Multiplier or Fixed Interest Rate prior to
           Stated Maturity: / / Yes    / / No

 (xxiv)  Maximum Interest Rate
  (xxv)  Minimum Interest Rate
 (xxvi)  Amortizing Note: / / Yes    / / No
(xxvii)  Optional Redemption: / / Yes    / / No
           Optional Redemption Dates
           Redemption Prices
           Redemption: / / In whole only and not in part / / May be in whole or
           in part
(xxviii) Optional Repayment: / / Yes    / / No
           Optional Repayment Dates
           Optional Repayment Prices
 (xxix)  Discount Note: / / Yes    / / No

   
           Total Amount of OID
    
           Yield to Maturity
  (xxx)  Listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange: / / Yes    / / No
</TABLE>

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                        REGISTERED OFFICE OF SALOMON INC
                            Seven World Trade Center
                            New York, New York 10048
 
      TRUSTEE FOR SERIES D NOTES               TRUSTEE FOR SERIES E NOTES
            Citibank, N.A.                        Bankers Trust Company
            120 Wall Street                        Four Albany Street
       New York, New York 10043                 New York, New York 10015
 
        PRINCIPAL PAYING AGENT                   PRINCIPAL PAYING AGENT
          FOR SERIES D NOTES                       FOR SERIES E NOTES
            Citibank, N.A.                        Bankers Trust Company
              336 Strand                       1 Appold Street, Broadgate
           London, WC2R 1HB                         London, EC2A 2HE
    
    PAYING AGENT FOR SERIES D NOTES          PAYING AGENT FOR SERIES E NOTES
      Citibank (Luxembourg) S.A.             Bankers Trust Luxembourg, S.A.
 58 Boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte                P.O. Box 807
           L-1330 Luxembourg                   14 Boulevard F.D. Roosevelt
                                                    L-2450 Luxembourg
     
     LEGAL ADVISOR TO SALOMON INC              LEGAL ADVISOR TO THE AGENTS
        Cravath, Swaine & Moore            Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
           825 Eighth Avenue                        One Liberty Plaza
         New York, N.Y. 10019                     New York, N.Y. 10006
 
                             AUDITOR TO SALOMON INC
                              Arthur Andersen LLP
                          1345 Avenue of the Americas
                              New York, N.Y. 10105
 
                                 LISTING AGENT
                        Kredietbank S.A. Luxembourgeoise
                               43 Boulevard Royal
                              Luxembourg City 2955
                                   Luxembourg



<PAGE>

   
                   SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED APRIL 5, 1996
    

PROSPECTUS

SALOMON INC
DEBT SECURITIES
PREFERRED STOCK
DEPOSITARY SHARES
COMMON STOCK AND
WARRANTS
 

    Salomon Inc (the 'Company') intends to issue from time to time (i) debt
securities ('Debt Securities'), which may be subordinated to other indebtedness
of the Company; (ii) warrants ('Debt Warrants') to purchase Debt Securities;
(iii) shares of preferred stock, without par value (the 'Preferred Stock'); (iv)
warrants to purchase shares of Preferred Stock (the 'Preferred Stock Warrants');
(v) depositary shares representing entitlement to all rights and preferences of
a fraction of a share of Preferred Stock of a specified series (the 'Depositary
Shares'); (vi) Common Stock of the Company, par value $1.00 per share (the
'Common Stock'); (vii) warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock (the 'Common
Stock Warrants'); or (viii) warrants ('Index Warrants') representing the right
to receive, upon exercise, an amount in cash or a number of securities that will
be determined by reference to prices, yields, levels or other specified
objective measures (any such measure, an 'Index'), or changes in an Index or
differences between two or more indexes all having an aggregate initial public
offering price or purchase price of up to $10,000,000,000, or the equivalent
thereof in one or more foreign or composite currencies, including the European
Currency Unit ('ECU'). The Debt Warrants, Preferred Stock Warrants and Common
Stock Warrants are referred to herein collectively as 'Warrants', and the Debt
Securities, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Common Stock, the Warrants and
the Index Warrants are referred to herein collectively as the 'Offered
Securities'. The Offered Securities may be offered separately or as units with
other Offered Securities, in separate series in amounts, at prices and on terms
to be determined at or prior to the time of sale. The sale of other securities
under the Registration Statement of which this Prospectus forms a part or under
a Registration Statement to which this Prospectus relates will reduce the amount
of Offered Securities which may be sold hereunder.

 
    The specific terms of the Offered Securities with respect to which this
Prospectus is being delivered will be set forth in an accompanying supplement to
this Prospectus (a 'Prospectus Supplement'), together with the terms of the
offering of the Offered Securities and the initial price and the net proceeds to
the Company from the sale thereof. The Prospectus Supplement will include, with
regard to the particular Offered Securities, the following information: (i) in
the case of Debt Securities, the specific designation, aggregate principal
amount, ranking, authorized denomination, maturity, rate or method of
calculation of interest and dates for payment thereof, any exchangeability,
conversion, redemption, prepayment, or sinking fund provisions, the currency or

currency unit in which principal, premium or interest is payable, the
designation of the trustee acting under the applicable indenture and the initial
offering price; (ii) in the case of Preferred Stock, the designation, number of
shares, liquidation preference per share, initial public offering price,
dividend rate (or method of calculation thereof), dates on which dividends shall
be payable and dates from which dividends shall accrue, any redemption or
sinking fund provisions, any conversion or exchange provisions and whether the
Company has elected to offer the Preferred Stock in the form of Depositary
Shares; (iii) in the case of Common Stock, the number of shares and the terms of
the offering and sale thereof; (iv) in the case of Warrants, the number and
terms thereof, the designation, description and the number of securities
issuable upon exercise, the exercise price, the terms of the offering and sale
thereof and where applicable, the duration and detachability thereof; (v) in the
case of Index Warrants, the aggregate amount and offering price of such Index
Warrants, certain information regarding the relevant Index or Indexes and the
related assets by reference to which an Index is determined (the 'Underlying
Assets'), certain information regarding exercisability and certain information
regarding payment and distribution; and (vi) in the case of all Offered
Securities, whether such Offered Securities will be offered separately or as a
unit with other Offered Securities. The Prospectus Supplement will also contain
information, where applicable, about material United States federal income tax
considerations relating to, and any listing on a securities exchange of, the
Offered Securities covered by such Prospectus Supplement.
 
    THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE
ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS, ANY PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR ANY
PRICING SUPPLEMENT THERETO. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL
OFFENSE.
 
    The Offered Securities may be sold by the Company directly to purchasers,
through agents designated from time to time, through underwriting syndicates led
by one or more managing underwriters or through one or more underwriters. The
Company expects that any such agents, managing underwriters or underwriters in
the United States will include Salomon Brothers Inc. If underwriters or agents
are involved in any offering of the Offered Securities, the names of the
underwriters or agents will be set forth in the applicable Prospectus
Supplement. If an underwriter, agent or dealer is involved in any offering of
the Offered Securities, the underwriter's discount, agent's commission or
dealer's purchase price will be set forth in, or may be calculated from the
information set forth in, the applicable Prospectus Supplement, and the net
proceeds to the Company from such offering will be the public offering price of
such Securities less such discount in the case of an offering through an
underwriter, or the purchase price of such Offered Securities less such
commission in the case of an offering through an agent, and less, in each case,
the other expenses of the Company associated with the issuance and distribution
of such Offered Securities.
 
    The Company or one or more of its subsidiaries may from time to time
purchase or acquire a position in the Offered Securities and may at its option,
hold, resell, cancel or exercise, if applicable, such Offered Securities.
Salomon Brothers Inc expects to offer and sell previously issued Offered
Securities in the course of its business as a broker-dealer and may act as

principal or agent in such transactions. This Prospectus and the related
Prospectus Supplements and Pricing Supplements may be used by the Company or any
of its subsidiaries, including Salomon Brothers Inc, in connection with such
transactions.
 
    This Prospectus may not be used to consummate sales of Offered Securities
unless accompanied by a Prospectus Supplement.

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     SALOMON BROTHERS INC
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

The date of this Prospectus is April  , 1996.



Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A
registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be  sold nor may
offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes
effective. This prospectus and any prospectus supplement shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to  buy nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such State.


<PAGE>
                             AVAILABLE INFORMATION
 
     The Company is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the 'Exchange Act'), and in accordance
therewith files reports, proxy statements and other information with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'Commission'). Reports, proxy statements
and other information concerning the Company can be inspected and copied at the
public reference facilities maintained by the Commission at Room 1024, 450 Fifth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and at the Commission's Regional Offices
at Seven World Trade Center, 13th Floor, New York, New York 10048, and Citicorp
Center, 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661. Copies of
such material can be obtained upon written request addressed to the Commission,
Public Reference Section, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, at
prescribed rates. In addition, reports, proxy statements and other information
concerning the Company may be inspected at the offices of the New York Stock
Exchange, Inc., 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005 and at the offices of
the American Stock Exchange, 86 Trinity Place, New York, New York 10006.
 
     The Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on Form
S-3 (herein, together with all amendments and exhibits, referred to as the
'Registration Statement') under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
'Securities Act'), relating to the Offered Securities. This Prospectus does not
contain all the information set forth in the Registration Statement, certain
parts of which are omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
Commission. For further information, reference is hereby made to the
Registration Statement and to the exhibits thereto. Statements contained herein
concerning the provisions of certain documents are not necessarily complete, and
in each instance, reference is made to the copy of such document filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement or otherwise filed with the Commission.
Each such statement is qualified in its entirety by such reference.
 
                INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
 

     The following documents, filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant
to Section 13 of the Exchange Act (File No. 1-4346), are incorporated herein by
reference: (i) the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
1995 (the '1995 10-K'); and (ii) the Current Reports on Form 8-K dated January
23, 1996, February 1, 1996 and February 12, 1996.

 

     All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Prospectus and prior to
the termination of the offering of the Offered Securities shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Prospectus.

 
     Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to
be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein
or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such

statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Prospectus.
 
     THE COMPANY WILL PROVIDE WITHOUT CHARGE TO EACH PERSON, INCLUDING ANY
BENEFICIAL OWNER, TO WHOM A COPY OF THIS PROSPECTUS IS DELIVERED, ON THE WRITTEN
OR ORAL REQUEST OF ANY SUCH PERSON, A COPY OF ANY OR ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS
INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE, EXCEPT THE EXHIBITS TO SUCH DOCUMENTS (UNLESS
SUCH EXHIBITS ARE SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN SUCH DOCUMENTS).
WRITTEN REQUESTS FOR SUCH COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE CORPORATE SECRETARY,
SALOMON INC, SEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10048. TELEPHONE
REQUESTS FOR SUCH COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE CORPORATE SECRETARY AT (212)
783-7000.
                            ------------------------
 
     References herein to 'U.S. dollars', 'U.S.$', 'dollar' or '$' are to the
lawful currency of the United States.
 
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<PAGE>
                                  SALOMON INC
 

     Salomon Inc conducts global investment banking, global securities and
commodities trading, and U.S. oil refining and gathering activities. Investment
banking activities are conducted by Salomon Brothers Holding Company Inc and its
subsidiaries ('Salomon Brothers'), including Salomon Brothers Inc. Salomon
Brothers provides capital raising, advisory, trading and risk management
services to its customers, and executes proprietary trading strategies on its
own behalf. Salomon Inc's commodities trading activities are conducted by the
Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Phibro Inc. and its subsidiaries. Oil
refining and gathering activities are conducted by Basis Petroleum, Inc. At
December 31, 1995, the Company employed 8,439 people.

 
     The Company's principal executive offices are located at Seven World Trade
Center, New York, New York 10048 (telephone (212) 783-7000). Its registered
office in Delaware is c/o Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801.
 
                                USE OF PROCEEDS
 
     General.  The proceeds to be received by the Company from the sale of the
Offered Securities will be used for general corporate purposes, principally to
fund the business of its operating units and to fund investments in, or
extensions of credit to, its subsidiaries and to lengthen the average maturity
of liabilities, which may include the reduction of short-term liabilities or the
refunding of maturing indebtedness.
 
     Use of Proceeds Relating to Index Warrants.  All or a portion of the
proceeds to be received by the Company from the sale of each series of Index
Warrants may be used by the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries to
purchase or maintain positions in all or certain of the Underlying Assets on
which the related Index is based, or options, futures contracts, forward
contracts or swaps, or options on the foregoing, relating to such Index or

Underlying Assets, as the case may be, and, if applicable, to pay the costs and
expenses of hedging any currency, interest rate or other Index-related risk with
respect to such Index Warrants. The Company or one or more of its subsidiaries
may also take hedging positions in other types of appropriate financial
instruments that may become available in the future. To the extent that the
Company or one or more of its subsidiaries has a long hedge position in, options
contracts in, or other derivative or synthetic instruments related to, the
Underlying Assets or Index, the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries may
liquidate all or a portion of its holdings at or about the time of the maturity
of the Index Warrants. Depending on, among other things, future market
conditions, the aggregate amount and composition of such positions are likely to
vary over time. The remainder of the proceeds from the sale of Index Warrants
will be used by the Company or its subsidiaries for general corporate purposes,
as described above.
 
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                     RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES AND
               EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES AND PREFERRED DIVIDENDS
 

     The following table sets forth the Company's ratios of earnings to fixed
charges and earnings to fixed charges and preferred dividends for each of the
years 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992 and 1991.

 

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                  YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           1995    1994     1993    1992    1991
                                           ----    -----    ----    ----    ----
<S>                                        <C>     <C>      <C>     <C>     <C>
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges......   1.12    0.83*    1.32    1.25    1.16
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges and
  Preferred Dividends...................   1.10    0.81*    1.30    1.21    1.14
</TABLE>

 

     Such ratios were calculated by dividing fixed charges and tax equivalent
preferred dividends into the sum of earnings before taxes and fixed charges.
Fixed charges consist largely of interest expense, including capitalized
interest, and a portion of rental expense representative of the interest factor.
Tax equivalent preferred dividends represent the pretax earnings necessary to
cover preferred stock dividend requirements, assuming such earnings are taxed at
the Company's consolidated effective income tax rate.

 
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* For the year ended December 31, 1994, earnings as defined were inadequate to
  cover fixed charges and fixed charges, including preferred dividends. The
  amount by which fixed charges exceed earnings as defined for the year ended

  December 31, 1994 was $834 million. The amount by which fixed charges,
  including preferred dividends, exceeded earnings as defined for the year ended
  December 31, 1994 was $963 million.
 
                         DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES
 
     The Debt Securities will constitute either senior or subordinated debt of
the Company and will be issued, in the case of Debt Securities that will be
senior debt, under a senior debt indenture (as amended from time to time, the
'Senior Debt Indenture') and, in the case of Debt Securities that will be
subordinated debt, under a subordinated debt indenture (as amended from time to
time, the 'Subordinated Debt Indenture'). The Senior Debt Indenture and the
Subordinated Debt Indenture are sometimes hereinafter referred to individually
as an 'Indenture' and collectively as the 'Indentures.' The institutions named
as trustees under the Indentures are hereinafter referred to individually as a
'Trustee' and collectively as the 'Trustees.' Forms of the Indentures have been
filed with the Commission and are incorporated by reference as part of the
Registration Statement. The following summaries of certain provisions of the
Indentures and the Debt Securities do not purport to be complete and such
summaries are subject to the detailed provisions of the applicable Indenture to
which reference is hereby made for a full description of such provisions,
including the definition of certain terms used, and for other information
regarding the Debt Securities. Numerical references in parentheses below are to
sections in the applicable Indenture or, if no Indenture is specified, to
sections in each of the Indentures. Wherever particular sections or defined
terms of the applicable Indenture are referred to, such sections or defined
terms are incorporated herein by reference as part of the statement made, and
the statement is qualified in its entirety by such reference.
 
     Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Trustee under the Senior Debt Indenture will be Citibank, N.A., a national
banking association, under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988, as amended
from time to time, and the Trustee under the Subordinated Debt Indenture will be
Bankers Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, under an indenture dated
as of December 1, 1988, as amended from time to time. Copies of the respective
Indentures under which Citibank, N.A. and Bankers Trust Company serve as
Trustees have been filed with the Commission and are incorporated by reference
as part of the Registration Statement.
 
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GENERAL
 
     Neither of the Indentures limits the amount of Debt Securities that may be
issued thereunder, and each Indenture provides that Debt Securities may be
issued from time to time in series (Section 301). The Debt Securities to be
issued under either of the Indentures will be unsecured senior or subordinated
obligations of the Company as set forth below. Debt Securities of a series may
be issuable as individual securities in registered form without coupons
('Registered Securities') or in bearer form with or without coupons attached
('Bearer Securities') or as one or more global securities in registered or
bearer form (each a 'Global Security').
 
     Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement for a description of the

following terms of the Debt Securities in respect of which this Prospectus is
being delivered: (i) the title and series of such Debt Securities, whether such
Debt Securities will be senior or subordinated debt of the Company and under
which indenture such Debt Securities are being issued; (ii) the limit, if any,
upon the aggregate principal amount of such Debt Securities; (iii) the dates on
which or periods during which such Debt Securities may be issued and the dates
on which, or the range of dates within which, the principal of (and premium, if
any, on) such Debt Securities will be payable; (iv) the rate or rates or the
method of determination thereof, at which such Debt Securities will bear
interest, if any; the date or dates from which such interest will accrue; the
dates on which such interest will be payable; and, in the case of Registered
Securities, the Regular Record Dates for the interest payable on such Interest
Payment Dates; (v) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
such Debt Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions, or at
the option of a Holder, and the periods within which or the dates on which, the
prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which such Debt Securities
will be redeemed or repurchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation; (vi) the periods within which or the dates on which, the prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which such Debt Securities may be
redeemed, if any, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company; (vii) the
terms, if any, upon which the Debt Securities may be convertible into or
exchanged for Common Stock, Preferred Stock, other Debt Securities, or warrants
for Debt Securities, Preferred Stock, Common Stock or indebtedness or other
securities of any kind of the Company or any other issuer or obligor and the
terms and conditions upon which such conversion or exchange shall be effected,
including the initial conversion or exchange price or rate, the conversion or
exchange period, and any other additional provisions; (viii) if other than
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in
which such Debt Securities will be issuable; (ix) whether such Debt Securities
are to be issued as Discount Securities (as defined below) and the amount of
discount with which such Debt Securities will be issued; (x) provisions, if any,
for the defeasance of such Debt Securities; (xi) whether such Debt Securities
are to be issued as Registered Securities or Bearer Securities or both and, if
Bearer Securities are to be issued, whether Coupons will be attached thereto,
whether Bearer Securities of the series may be exchanged for Registered
Securities having the same terms and the circumstances under which and the place
or places at which any such exchanges, if permitted, may be made; (xii) whether
such Debt Securities are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or
more Global Securities and, if so, the identity of the Depositary (as defined
below) for such Global Security or Securities; (xiii) if a temporary Debt
Security is to be issued with respect to such Debt Securities, whether any
interest thereon payable on an Interest Payment Date prior to the issuance of a
definitive Debt Security of the series will be credited to the account of the
Persons entitled thereto on such Interest Payment Date; (xiv) if a temporary
Global Security is to be issued with respect to such Debt Securities, the terms
upon which beneficial interests in such temporary Global Security may be
exchanged in whole or in part for beneficial interests in a definitive Global
Security or for individual Debt Securities of the series and the terms upon
which beneficial interests in a definitive Global Security, if any, may be
exchanged for individual Debt Securities having the same terms; (xv) if other
than United States dollars, the foreign or composite currency in which such Debt
Securities are to be denominated, or in which payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and any interest on such Debt Securities will be made and the
circumstances, if any, when such currency of payment may be changed; (xvi) if

the principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest on such Debt Securities
are to be payable, at the
 
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election of the Company or a Holder, in a currency other than that in which such
Debt Securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the periods within
which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made and
the time and the manner of determining the exchange rate between the currency in
which such Debt Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the
currency in which such Debt Securities are to be paid pursuant to such election;
(xvii) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or any
interest on such Debt Securities may be determined with reference to an index
based on a currency or currencies other than that in which such Debt Securities
are stated to be payable, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(xviii) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or any
interest on such Debt Securities may be determined with reference to an index
based on the prices, changes in prices, or differences between prices, of
securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities application
of a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined; (xix) any
additional Events of Default (as defined below) or restrictive covenants
provided for with respect to such Debt Securities; (xx) whether and under what
circumstances the Company will pay additional interest on such Debt Securities
held by a Person who is not a U.S. Person in respect of any tax, assessment or
governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Company will
have the option to redeem such Debt Securities under such circumstances; (xxi)
whether and under what circumstances the Company will be obligated to redeem
such Debt Securities if certain events occur involving United States information
reporting requirements; (xxii) the terms and conditions, if any, upon which such
Debt Securities series may or shall be convertible into or exchangeable or
exercisable for or payable in, among other things, other securities,
instruments, contracts, currencies, commodities or other forms of property,
rights or interests or any combination of the foregoing; and (xxiii) any other
terms of such Debt Securities not inconsistent with the provisions of the
Indenture under which they are issued (Section 301).
 
     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, Debt
Securities will be issued only as Registered Securities in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and will be payable only in United
States dollars (Section 302).
 
     If Bearer Securities are issued, the Federal income tax consequences and
other special considerations applicable to such Bearer Securities will be
described in the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto.
 
     If the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or any
interest on Debt Securities is determined with reference to any type of index or
formula or changes in prices of particular securities, currencies, intangibles,
goods, articles or commodities, the Federal income tax consequences, specific
terms and other information with respect to such Debt Securities and such index
or formula, securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
will be described in the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto.
 
     If the principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest on Debt

Securities are payable in a foreign or composite currency, the restrictions,
elections, Federal income tax consequences, specific terms and other information
with respect to such Debt Securities and such currency will be described in the
Prospectus Supplement relating thereto.
 
     Debt Securities may be sold at a substantial discount below their stated
principal amount, bearing no interest or interest at a rate that at the time of
issuance is below market rates ('Discount Securities'). Debt Securities may be
variable rate debt securities that may be exchangeable for fixed rate debt
securities. Federal income tax consequences and other special considerations
applicable to any such Debt Securities will be described in the Prospectus
Supplement relating thereto.
 
     Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
principal of (and premium, if any) and any interest on Debt Securities will be
payable (in the case of Registered Securities) at the corporate trust office or
agency of the applicable Trustee in the City and State of New York or (in the
case of Bearer Securities) at the principal London office of the applicable
Trustee; provided, however, that payment of interest on Registered Securities
may be made at the option of the Company by check
 
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mailed to the Registered Holders thereof or, if so provided in the applicable
Prospectus Supplement, at the option of a Holder by wire transfer to an account
designated by such Holder (Section 307). Except as otherwise provided in the
applicable Prospectus Supplement, no payment on a Bearer Security will be made
by mail to an address in the United States or by wire transfer to an account
maintained by the Holder thereof in the United States.
 
     Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement,
Registered Securities may be transferred or exchanged at the corporate trust
office or agency of the applicable Trustee in the City and State of New York,
subject to the limitations provided in the applicable Indenture, without the
payment of any service charge, other than any tax or governmental charge payable
in connection therewith (Section 305). Bearer Securities will be transferable by
delivery. Provisions with respect to the exchange of Bearer Securities will be
described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement.
 
     All moneys paid by the Company to a Paying Agent for the payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest on any Debt Security that
remain unclaimed at the end of two years after such principal, premium or
interest shall have become due and payable will be repaid to the Company, and
the Holder of such Debt Security or any Coupon appertaining thereto will
thereafter look only to the Company for payment thereof (Section 1204).
 
     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
covenants contained in the Indenture and the Debt Securities would not afford
Holders protection in the event of a highly leveraged or other similar
transaction that may adversely affect Holders.
 
GLOBAL SECURITIES
 
     Debt Securities having the same issue date and the same terms may be issued

in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities that will be
deposited with, or on behalf of, a depositary (the 'Depositary') identified in
the Prospectus Supplement relating to such Debt Securities. Global Securities
may be issued in either registered or bearer form and in either temporary or
definitive form. Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for the
individual Debt Securities represented thereby, a Global Security may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such Global Security to a
nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary
or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee
to a successor of such Depositary or a nominee of such successor (Sections 303
and 305).
 
     The specific terms of the depositary arrangement with respect to any Debt
Securities of a series will be described in the Prospectus Supplement relating
to such series. The Company anticipates that the following provisions will apply
to all depositary arrangements for Debt Securities.
 
     Upon the issuance of a Global Security, the Depositary for such Global
Security will credit, on its book-entry registration and transfer system, the
respective principal amounts of the individual Debt Securities represented by
such Global Security to the accounts of institutions that have accounts with
such Depositary ('participants'). The accounts to be credited shall be
designated by the underwriters of such Debt Securities or, if such Debt
Securities are offered and sold directly by the Company or through one or more
agents, by the Company or such agent or agents. Ownership of beneficial
interests in a Global Security will be limited to participants or Persons that
may hold beneficial interests through participants. Ownership of beneficial
interests in a Global Security will be shown on, and the transfer of that
ownership will be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary
for such Global Security or by participants or Persons that hold through
participants. The laws of some states require that certain purchasers of
securities take physical delivery of such securities. Such limits and such laws
may limit the market for beneficial interests in a Global Security.
 
     So long as the Depositary for a Global Security, or its nominee, is the
owner of such Global Security, such Depositary or such nominee, as the case may
be, will be considered the sole Holder of the individual Debt Securities
represented by such Global Security for all purposes under the Indenture
governing such Debt Securities. Except as set forth below, owners of beneficial
interests in a Global Security will not be entitled to have any of the
individual Debt Securities represented by such Global
 
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Security registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive
physical delivery of any such Debt Securities and will not be considered the
Holders thereof under the Indenture governing such Debt Securities.
 
     Subject to the restrictions discussed under 'Limitations on Issuance of
Bearer Securities and Bearer Warrants' below, payments of principal of (and
premium, if any) and any interest on individual Debt Securities represented by a
Global Security will be made to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may
be, as the Holder of such Global Security. None of the Company, the Trustee for
such Debt Securities, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar for such Debt

Securities will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial interests in such
Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records
relating to such beneficial interests.
 
     The Company expects that the Depositary for any Debt Securities, upon
receipt of any payment of principal, premium or interest in respect of a
definitive Global Security representing any of such Debt Securities, will credit
immediately participants' accounts with payments in amounts proportionate to
their respective beneficial interests in the principal amount of such Global
Security as shown on the records of such Depositary. The Company also expects
that payments by participants to owners of beneficial interests in such Global
Security held through such participants will be governed by standing
instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held
for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in 'street name', and
will be the responsibility of such participants. Receipt by owners of beneficial
interests in a temporary Global Security of payments of principal, premium or
interest in respect thereof will be subject to the restrictions discussed under
'Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Securities and Bearer Warrants' below.
 
     If the Depositary for any Debt Securities is at any time unwilling or
unable to continue as depositary and a successor depositary is not appointed by
the Company within ninety days, the Company will issue individual Debt
Securities in exchange for the Global Security or Securities representing such
Debt Securities. In addition, the Company may at any time and in its sole
discretion determine not to have certain Debt Securities represented by one or
more Global Securities and, in such event, will issue individual Debt Securities
in exchange for the Global Security or Securities representing such Debt
Securities. Further, if the Company so specifies with respect to any Debt
Securities, an owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Security representing
such Debt Securities may, on terms acceptable to the Company and the Depositary
for such Global Security, receive individual Debt Securities in exchange for
such beneficial interest. In any such instance, an owner of a beneficial
interest in a Global Security will be entitled to physical delivery of
individual Debt Securities represented by such Global Security equal in
principal amount to such beneficial interest and to have such Debt Securities
registered in its name (if the Debt Securities are issuable as Registered
Securities). Individual Debt Securities so issued will be issued (i) as
Registered Securities in denominations, unless otherwise specified by the
Company, of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof if the Debt Securities are
issuable as Registered Securities, (ii) as Bearer Securities in the denomination
or denominations specified by the Company if the Debt Securities are issuable as
Bearer Securities or (iii) as either Registered or Bearer Securities, if the
Debt Securities are issuable in either form (Section 305). See, however,
'Limitations on Issuance of Bearer Securities and Bearer Warrants' below for a
description of certain restrictions on the issuance of individual Bearer
Securities in exchange for beneficial interests in a Global Security.
 
SENIOR DEBT
 
     The Debt Securities and Coupons that will constitute part of the senior
debt of the Company will be issued under the Senior Debt Indenture and will rank
pari passu with all other unsecured debt of the Company except subordinated
debt.

 
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SUBORDINATED DEBT
 
     The Debt Securities and Coupons that will constitute part of the
subordinated debt of the Company will be issued under the Subordinated Debt
Indenture and will be subordinate and junior in the right of payment, to the
extent and in the manner set forth in the Subordinated Debt Indenture, to all
'Senior Indebtedness' of the Company. The Subordinated Debt Indenture defines
'Senior Indebtedness' as the following indebtedness or obligations, whether
outstanding at the date of such Indenture or thereafter incurred, assumed,
guaranteed or otherwise created, unless in the instrument creating or evidencing
any such indebtedness or obligation or pursuant to which the same is outstanding
it is provided that such indebtedness or obligation is not superior in right of
payment to the subordinated Debt Securities and any appurtenant Coupons: (a) all
indebtedness of the Company (including indebtedness of others guaranteed by the
Company), other than the subordinated Debt Securities and any appurtenant
Coupons and other than the debt securities issuable under the indenture dated as
of July 1, 1986 between the Company and Bank of New York, as trustee, that (i)
is for money borrowed, (ii) arises in connection with the acquisition of any
business, properties, securities or assets of any kind, other than in the
ordinary course of the Company's business as heretofore conducted or (iii) is
secured, in whole or in part, by real or personal property, (b) obligations of
the Company (including obligations of others guaranteed by the Company) as
lessee under leases required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of the
lessee under generally accepted accounting principles and leases of property or
assets made as part of any sale and lease-back transaction and (c) amendments,
renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of any such indebtedness or
obligation (Subordinated Debt Indenture, Section 101). The subordinated Debt
Securities and any appurtenant Coupons will not be superior in right of payment
to the debt securities issuable under the indenture dated as of July 1, 1986
between the Company and Bank of New York, as trustee (Subordinated Debt
Indenture, Section 1601).
 
     In the event (a) of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceedings in
respect of the Company or a substantial part of its property, or (b) that (i) a
default shall have occurred with respect to the payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or any interest on or other monetary amounts due and payable on
any Senior Indebtedness, or (ii) there shall have occurred an event of default
(other than a default in the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest,
or other monetary amounts due and payable) with respect to any Senior
Indebtedness, as defined therein or in the instrument under which the same is
outstanding, permitting the holder or holders thereof to accelerate the maturity
thereof (with notice or lapse of time, or both), and such event of default shall
have continued beyond the period of grace, if any, in respect thereof, and such
default or event of default shall not have been cured or waived or shall not
have ceased to exist, or (c) that the principal of and accrued interest on the
subordinated Debt Securities issued under the Subordinated Debt Indenture shall
have been declared due and payable upon an Event of Default pursuant to Section
502 thereof and such declaration shall not have been rescinded and annulled as
provided therein, then the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be
entitled to receive payment of the full amount due thereon, or provision shall

be made for such payment in money or money's worth, before the Holders of any of
the subordinated Debt Securities or Coupons issued under the Subordinated Debt
Indenture are entitled to receive a payment on account of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or any interest on the indebtedness evidenced by such Debt
Securities or such Coupons (Subordinated Debt Indenture, Section 1601). If this
Prospectus is being delivered in connection with a series of subordinated Debt
Securities, the related Prospectus Supplement will set forth the amount of
Senior Indebtedness outstanding as of the most recent practicable date.
 
LIMITATION ON LIENS
 
     The Senior Debt Indenture provides that the Company will not, and will not
permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or suffer
to exist any indebtedness for borrowed money if the payment of such indebtedness
is secured by a pledge of, lien on or security interest in any shares of stock
of any Restricted Subsidiary without effectively providing for the equal and
ratable securing of the payment of the Debt Securities issued thereunder (Senior
Debt Indenture, Section 1205). The term
 
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'Restricted Subsidiary' is defined in the Senior Debt Indenture to mean each of
Salomon Brothers Inc, Phibro Inc. and, with respect to the Company's Medium-Term
Notes Series D and E, Philipp Brothers, Inc. and any Subsidiary of the Company
owning, directly or indirectly, any of the common stock of, or succeeding to any
substantial part of the business now conducted by, any of such corporations.
 
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
 
     The following will constitute Events of Default under each Indenture with
respect to any series of Debt Securities issued thereunder: (i) default in the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Debt Security of such
series when due; (ii) default for 30 days in the payment of any interest on any
Debt Security of such series or of any related Coupon when due; (iii) default in
the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of any
Debt Security of such series; (iv) default in the performance of any other
covenant in such Indenture, continued for 60 days after written notice thereof
by the applicable Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the Debt Securities of such series then Outstanding; and (v) certain events of
bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization (Section 501). Any additional Events of
Default provided with respect to a series of Debt Securities will be set forth
in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. No Event of Default with respect to a
particular series of Debt Securities issued under either Indenture necessarily
constitutes an Event of Default with respect to any other series of Debt
Securities.
 
     Each Indenture provides that if an Event of Default specified therein shall
occur and be continuing with respect to a series of Debt Securities issued
thereunder, either the Trustee thereunder or the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the Debt Securities of such series then Outstanding may
declare the principal of and all accrued interest on all Debt Securities of such
series (or, in the case of Discount Securities, an amount equal to such portion
of the principal amount thereof as will be specified in the related Prospectus
Supplement) to be due and payable. In certain cases, the Holders of a majority

in principal amount of the Debt Securities then Outstanding of a series may, on
behalf of the Holders of all such Debt Securities, rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences (Section 502).
 
     Each Indenture contains a provision entitling the Trustee thereunder,
subject to the duty of such Trustee during the continuance of a default to act
with the required standard of care, to be indemnified by the Holders of the Debt
Securities or any Coupons of any series thereunder before proceeding to exercise
any right or power under such Indenture with respect to such series at the
request of such Holders (Section 603). Each Indenture provides that no Holder of
a Debt Security or any Coupon of any series thereunder may institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, to enforce such Indenture except in the case
of failure of the Trustee thereunder, for 60 days, to act after it receives (i)
written notice of such default, (ii) a written request to enforce such Indenture
by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities then Outstanding of such series (and the Trustee receives no
direction inconsistent with such written request from the Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding of such
series) and (iii) an offer of reasonable indemnity (Section 507). This provision
will not prevent any Holder of any such Debt Security from enforcing payment of
the principal thereof (and premium, if any, thereon) and any interest thereon or
of any such Coupon from enforcing payment thereof at the respective due dates
thereof (Section 508). The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Debt Securities then Outstanding of any series may direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the
applicable Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on it with
respect to the Debt Securities of such series. However, such Trustee may refuse
to follow any direction that conflicts with law or the applicable Indenture or
that would be unjustly prejudicial to Holders not joining therein (Section 512).
 
     Each Indenture provides that the Trustee thereunder will, within 90 days
after the occurrence of a default with respect to any series of Debt Securities
thereunder known to it, give to the Holders of Debt Securities and Coupons of
such series notice of such default, unless such default shall have been cured or
waived; but, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or any interest on any Debt Security or of any Coupon of
such series or in the payment of any sinking fund
 
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installment with respect to Debt Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be
protected in withholding such notice if it determines in good faith that the
withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of such Debt
Securities and Coupons (Section 602).
 
     The Company will be required to file annually with each Trustee a
certificate of an appropriate officer of the Company as to the absence of
certain defaults under the terms of the appropriate Indenture (Senior Debt
Indenture, Section 1206; Subordinated Debt Indenture, Section 1205).
 
MODIFICATION AND WAIVER
 
     Each Indenture contains provisions for convening meetings of Holders to
consider matters affecting their interests (Article Nine).

 
     Modifications of and amendments to each Indenture may be made by the
Company and the Trustee thereunder with the consent of the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Debt Securities then Outstanding of each series
issued thereunder that is affected by such modification or amendment, voting
separately; provided, however, that no such modification or amendment may,
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Debt Security affected
thereby: (i) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of interest or additional amounts payable on, any Debt Security or Coupon; (ii)
reduce the principal amount (including the amount payable on a Discount Security
upon the acceleration of the Maturity thereof) of, or any interest on or any
premium payable upon redemption of, or additional amounts payable on, any Debt
Security or Coupon; (iii) change the currency or composite currency of
denomination or payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) or any
interest or additional amounts payable on any Debt Security or Coupon; (iv)
impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with
respect to any Debt Security or Coupon; (v) reduce the percentage of the
principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of any series, the consent
of the Holders of which is required for modification or amendment of the
applicable Indenture with respect to waiver of compliance with certain
provisions of the applicable Indenture or waiver of certain defaults; (vi) limit
the Company's obligation to maintain a Paying Agent outside the United States
for Bearer Securities; or (vii) limit the obligation of the Company to redeem
certain Bearer Securities if certain events occur involving United States
information reporting requirements (Section 1102).
 
     The Subordinated Debt Indenture may not be amended to alter or impair the
subordination of the subordinated Debt Securities issued thereunder without the
consent of each holder of Senior Indebtedness then outstanding (Subordinated
Debt Indenture, Section 1107).
 
     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt
Securities of each series may, on behalf of all Holders of Debt Securities of
that series, waive, insofar as that series is concerned, compliance by the
Company with certain restrictive provisions of the applicable Indenture before
the time for such compliance (Senior Debt Indenture, Section 1207; Subordinated
Debt Indenture, Section 1206). The Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series may, on behalf of all Holders of
Debt Securities of that series, waive any past default under the applicable
Indenture with respect to Debt Securities of that series, except a default in
the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest on any
such Debt Security or in the payment of any Coupon of that series and except a
default in respect of a covenant or provision the modification or amendment of
which would require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Debt Security
affected thereby (Section 513).
 
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND TRANSFER OR LEASE OF ASSETS
 
     Each Indenture provides that the Company may not consolidate with or merge
into any corporation, or transfer or lease its assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, unless (i) the successor corporation or transferee or
lessee (the 'Successor Corporation') is a corporation organized under the laws
of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; (ii) the Successor
Corporation assumes the Company's obligations under the applicable Indenture and

on the Debt Securities and any Coupons issued thereunder; (iii) after giving
effect to the transaction no Event of Default and no event that, after notice or
lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and
be
 
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continuing; (iv) the Successor Corporation waives any right to redeem any Bearer
Security under circumstances in which the Successor Corporation would be
entitled to redeem such Bearer Security but the Company would not have been so
entitled if such consolidation, merger, transfer or lease had not occurred; and
(v) certain other conditions are met (Section 1001).
 
DEFEASANCE
 
     If so specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement with respect to
Debt Securities of any series that are Registered Securities payable only in
United States dollars, the Company, at its option, (i) will be discharged from
any and all obligations in respect of the Debt Securities of such series (except
for certain obligations to register the transfer or exchange of Debt Securities
of such series, replace stolen, lost or mutilated Debt Securities of such
series, maintain paying agencies and hold moneys for payment in trust) or (ii)
will not be subject to provisions of the applicable Indenture described above
under 'Limitation on Liens' and 'Consolidation, Merger and Transfer or Lease of
Assets' with respect to the Debt Securities of such series, in each case if the
Company deposits with the applicable Trustee, in trust, money or U.S. Government
Obligations that through the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof
in accordance with their terms will provide money in an amount sufficient to pay
all the principal of (and premium, if any) and any interest on the Debt
Securities of such series on the dates such payments are due in accordance with
the terms of such Debt Securities. To exercise any such option under either of
the Indentures, the Company is required to deliver to the applicable Trustee an
opinion of counsel to the effect that (1) the deposit and related defeasance
would not cause the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series to recognize
income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes and, in the case of a
discharge pursuant to clause (i) above, a ruling to such effect received from or
published by the United States Internal Revenue Service, and (2) if the Debt
Securities of such series are then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, such
Debt Securities would not be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as a
result of the exercise of such option (Sections 1501 and 1502). Defeasance
provisions, if any, with respect to any other Debt Securities of any series will
be described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement.
 
REPLACEMENT DEBT SECURITIES
 
     Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, if a
Debt Security of any series or any related Coupon is mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen, it may be replaced at the corporate trust office or agency of the
applicable Trustee in the City and State of New York (in the case of Registered
Securities) or at the principal London office of the applicable Trustee (in the
case of Bearer Securities and Coupons) upon payment by the Holder of such
expenses as may be incurred by the Company and the applicable Trustee in
connection therewith and the furnishing of such evidence and indemnity as the
Company and such Trustee may require. Mutilated Debt Securities and Coupons must

be surrendered before new Debt Securities (with or without Coupons) will be
issued (Section 306).
 
NOTICES
 
     Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, any
notice required to be given to a Holder of a Debt Security of any series that is
a Registered Security will be mailed to the last address of such Holder set
forth in the applicable Security Register. Any notice required to be given to a
Holder of a Debt Security that is a Bearer Security will be published in a daily
morning newspaper of general circulation in the city or cities specified in the
Prospectus Supplement relating to such Bearer Security (Section 105).
 
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEES
 
     The Company and certain of its subsidiaries maintain lines of credit and
have other customary banking relationships with Citibank, N.A. and Bankers Trust
Company, and certain of their respective affiliates, and may have such
relationships with other Trustees and their affiliates.
 
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                         DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED STOCK
 
     The following description of the terms of the Preferred Stock sets forth
certain general terms and provisions of the Preferred Stock to which any
Prospectus Supplement may relate. The particular terms of the Preferred Stock
offered by any Prospectus Supplement and the extent, if any, to which such
general terms do not apply to such Preferred Stock will be described in such
Prospectus Supplement. The description of the terms of the Preferred Stock set
forth below and in any Prospectus Supplement does not purport to be complete and
is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the 'Certificate of Incorporation'),
including the Certificate of Designations (the 'Certificate of Designations')
relating to the applicable series of Preferred Stock. The Certificate of
Incorporation and any such Certificate of Designations have been or will be
filed as an exhibit to or will be incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement of which this Prospectus forms a part.
 
GENERAL
 
     As of the date of this Prospectus, the Company is authorized by its
Certificate of Incorporation to issue (unless otherwise indicated in the
Prospectus Supplement) 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, without par value,
which may be issued from time to time in one or more series and, subject to the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation applicable to all series of
preferred stock, shall have such designations, voting powers, preferences and
relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications,
limitations or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated in the resolution or
resolutions providing for the issue thereof adopted by the Company's Board of
Directors (the 'Board of Directors') or a duly authorized committee thereof.
 
     As of the date of this Prospectus, there are 560,000 shares of Series A

Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, 225,000 shares of 9.50% Cumulative
Preferred Stock, Series C, 400,000 shares of 8.08% Cumulative Preferred, Series
D and 500,000 shares of 8.40% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series E, of the
Company outstanding. The 8.40% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series E, the 8.08%
Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series D, the 9.50% Cumulative Preferred Stock,
Series C and the Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock rank on parity
as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up. There are currently reserved for issuance up to
2,500,000 shares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock of the
Company, which shares are issuable upon the exercise of certain preferred share
purchase rights (collectively, the 'Rights'). The Rights will become exercisable
only if a person or group acquires or (unless exercisability is delayed by the
Board of Directors) announces an offer to acquire 20% or more (which percentage
may be reduced to not less than 10% by the Board of Directors prior to the time
the Rights become exercisable) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the
Company. Shares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock issued upon the
exercise of the Rights will rank junior to all shares of any other class of the
Company's preferred stock, including the Preferred Stock offered hereby, with
respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up.
 
     The Preferred Stock shall have the dividend, liquidation, redemption and
voting rights set forth below unless otherwise specified in the applicable
Prospectus Supplement. Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement relating
to the particular series of Preferred Stock offered thereby for specific terms,
including: (i) the designation, stated value and liquidation preference of such
Preferred Stock and the number of shares offered; (ii) the initial public
offering price at which such shares will be issued; (iii) the dividend rate or
rates (or method of calculation), the date or dates from which dividends shall
accrue, and whether such dividends shall be cumulative, noncumulative or
partially cumulative and, if cumulative or partially cumulative, the dates from
which dividends shall commence to cumulate; (iv) any redemption or sinking fund
provisions; (v) the amount that shares of such series shall be entitled to
receive in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
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conditions, if any, on which shares of such series shall be convertible into or
exchangeable for shares of stock of any other class or classes, or other series
of the same class, of the Company; (vii) the voting rights, if any, of shares of
such series in addition to those set forth in 'Voting Rights' below; (viii) the
status as to reissuance or sale of shares of such series redeemed, purchased or
otherwise reacquired, or surrendered to the Company on conversion or exchange;
(ix) the conditions and restrictions, if any, on the payment of dividends or on
the making of other distributions on, or the purchase, redemption or other
acquisition by the Company or any subsidiary, of the Common Stock or of any
other class of stock of the Company ranking junior to the shares of such series
as to dividends or upon liquidation; (x) the conditions and restrictions, if
any, on the creation of indebtedness of the Company, or any subsidiary, or on
the issue of any additional stock ranking on a parity with or prior to the
shares of such series as to dividends or upon liquidation; and (xi) any
additional dividend, liquidation, redemption, sinking or retirement fund and
other rights, preferences, privileges, limitations and restrictions of such

Preferred Stock.
 
     The Preferred Stock will, when issued, be fully paid and nonassessable.
Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the shares
of each series of Preferred Stock will upon issuance rank on a parity in all
respects with the outstanding shares of the Company's Series A Cumulative
Convertible Preferred Stock, the 9.50% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series C, the
8.08% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series D, the 8.40% Cumulative Preferred
Stock, Series E and each other then-outstanding series of Preferred Stock of the
Company other than the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, which when
issued will rank junior to all shares of any other class of the Preferred Stock.
The Preferred Stock will have no preemptive rights to subscribe for any
additional securities which may be issued by the Company.
 
DIVIDENDS
 
     The holders of the Preferred Stock, before any dividends may be declared or
paid to the holders of shares of the Common Stock or of any other capital stock
of the Company ranking junior to the Preferred Stock as to the payment of
dividends, will be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of
Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof, out of the net profits or net
assets of the Company legally available therefor, dividends payable quarterly on
March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year at such rates as
will be specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Such rates may be
fixed or variable or both. If variable, the formula used for determining the
dividend rate for each dividend period will be specified in the applicable
Prospectus Supplement. Dividends will be payable to the holders of record as
they appear on the stock transfer records of the Company on such record dates
(not more than 60 days prior to a dividend payment date) as will be fixed by the
Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof. Dividends will be
paid in the form of cash.
 
     Dividends on any series of Preferred Stock may be cumulative, partially
cumulative or noncumulative, as specified in the applicable Prospectus
Supplement. If the Board of Directors fails to declare a dividend payable on a
dividend payment date on any Preferred Stock for which dividends are
noncumulative ('Noncumulative Preferred Stock'), then the holders of such
Noncumulative Preferred Stock will have no right to receive a dividend in
respect of the dividend period relating to such dividend payment date, and the
Company will have no obligation to pay the dividend accrued for such period,
whether or not dividends on such Noncumulative Preferred Stock are declared or
paid on any future dividend payment dates. If dividends on any series of
Preferred Stock are not paid in full or declared in full and sums set apart for
the payment thereof, then no dividends shall be declared and paid on any such
stock unless declared and paid ratably on all shares of each series of Preferred
Stock then outstanding, including dividends accrued or in arrears, if any, in
proportion to the respective amounts that would be payable per share if all such
dividends were declared and paid in full.
 
     The Prospectus Supplement relating to a series of Preferred Stock will
specify the conditions and restrictions, if any, on the payment of dividends or
on the making of other distributions on, or the
 
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purchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company or any subsidiary of,
the Common Stock or of any other class of stock of the Company ranking junior to
the shares of such series as to dividends or upon liquidation and any other
preferences, rights, restrictions and qualifications that are not inconsistent
with the Certificate of Incorporation.
 
LIQUIDATION RIGHTS
 
     Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company (whether
voluntary or involuntary) the holders of Preferred Stock will be entitled to
receive out of the assets of the Company available for distribution to its
stockholders, whether from capital, surplus or earnings, the amount specified in
the applicable Prospectus Supplement for such series, together with all
dividends accrued and unpaid before any distribution of the assets will be made
to the holders of Common Stock or any other class or series of shares ranking
junior to such Preferred Stock upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, and
will be entitled to no other or further distribution. If upon any liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Company, the assets distributable among the
holders of the Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to permit the payment in
full to the holders of the Preferred Stock of all amounts payable to all such
holders, then the entire assets of the Company thus distributable will be
distributed ratably among the holders of the Preferred Stock in proportion to
the respective amounts that would be payable per share if such assets were
sufficient to permit payment in full.
 
     Neither the consolidation, merger or other business combination of the
Company with or into any other individual, firm, corporation or other entity nor
the sale, lease, exchange or conveyance of all or any part of the property,
assets or business of the Company will be deemed to be a liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Company.
 
REDEMPTION
 
     If so specified in the Prospectus Supplement, any series of Preferred Stock
may be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company or pursuant
to a retirement or sinking fund or otherwise, on terms and at the times and the
redemption prices specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. If less
than all shares of a series of Preferred Stock at the time outstanding are to be
redeemed, the shares of such series to be redeemed will be selected pro rata or
by lot, in such manner as may be prescribed by resolution of the Board of
Directors.
 
     Notice of any redemption of Preferred Stock at the option of the Company
shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, such publication to be made not less
than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date. A similar notice
will be mailed by the Company, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than
60 days prior to such redemption date, addressed to the respective holders of
record of shares of Preferred Stock at the addresses shown on the stock transfer
records of the Company, but the mailing of such notice will not be a condition
of such redemption. In order to facilitate the redemption of shares of Preferred
Stock, the Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of
shares of Preferred Stock to be redeemed, and such record date will be not more

than 60 days nor less than 30 days prior to the redemption date.
 
     Prior to the redemption date, the Company will deposit money for the
payment of the redemption price with a bank or trust company doing business in
the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and having a capital and surplus
of at least $10,000,000. Unless the Company fails to make such deposit, on the
redemption date, all dividends on the Preferred Stock called for redemption will
cease to accrue and all rights of the holders of such Preferred Stock as
stockholders of the Company shall cease, except the right to receive the
redemption price (but without interest). Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Prospectus Supplement, any monies so deposited which remain unclaimed
by the holders of such Preferred Stock at the end of six years after the
redemption date will become the property of, and be paid by such bank or trust
company to, the Company.
 
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CONVERSION RIGHTS
 
     The terms and conditions, if any, on which shares of the Preferred Stock
are convertible into any other class of the Company's securities will be set
forth in the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto. Such terms will include the
designation of the security into which such shares are convertible, the
conversion price, the conversion period, provisions as to whether conversion
will be at the option of the holder or the Company, the events requiring an
adjustment of the conversion price and provisions affecting conversion in the
event of the redemption of the Preferred Stock. In the case of conversion of the
Preferred Stock into Common Stock or into any other security of the Company for
which there exists an established public trading market at the time of such
conversion, such terms may include provisions under which the amount of such
security to be received by the holders of the Preferred Stock would be
calculated according to the market price of such security as of a time stated in
the Prospectus Supplement.
 
VOTING RIGHTS
 
     Except as indicated below or in the applicable Prospectus Supplement or as
otherwise from time to time required by law, holders of the Preferred Stock will
have no voting rights.
 
     So long as any shares of Preferred Stock are outstanding, without first
obtaining the consent or approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of the
number of then-outstanding shares of Preferred Stock, and all other series of
the Company's preferred stock (the Preferred Stock and such other series of
preferred stock collectively, the 'Outstanding Preferred Stock'), voting as a
single class, given in person or by proxy at a meeting at which the holders of
such shares are entitled to vote separately as a class, the Company will not:
(i) authorize shares of any class or series of stock having any preference or
priority as to dividends or upon liquidation ('Senior Stock') over the
Outstanding Preferred Stock; (ii) reclassify any shares of stock of the Company
into shares of Senior Stock; (iii) authorize any security exchangeable for,
convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any shares of Senior Stock;
(iv) amend, alter or repeal the Certificate of Incorporation to alter or change
the preferences, rights or powers of the Outstanding Preferred Stock so as to

affect the Outstanding Preferred Stock adversely unless any such amendment,
alteration or repeal would alter or change the preferences, rights or powers of
one or more, but not all, of the series of the Outstanding Preferred Stock at
the time outstanding, in which case the consent or approval of the holders of at
least two-thirds of the number of the outstanding shares of each such series so
affected will be required in lieu of (or if such consent is required by law, in
addition to) the consent or approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of
the number of shares of Outstanding Preferred Stock voting as a class; or (v)
effect the voluntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, or
the sale, lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the assets, property
or business of the Company, or the merger or consolidation of the Company with
or into any other corporation (except a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company);
provided, however, that no separate vote of the holders of the Outstanding
Preferred Stock as a class will be required in the case of a merger or
consolidation or a sale, exchange or conveyance of all or substantially all of
the assets, property or business of the Company (such transactions being
referred to as a 'reorganization') if (A) the resulting, surviving or acquiring
corporation after such reorganization will have no stock either authorized or
outstanding (except such stock of the Company as may have been authorized or
outstanding immediately preceding such reorganization, or such stock of the
resulting, surviving or acquiring corporation as may be issued in exchange
therefor) ranking prior to, or on a parity with, the Outstanding Preferred Stock
or the stock of the resulting, surviving or acquiring corporation issued in
exchange therefor and (B) each holder of shares of Outstanding Preferred Stock
immediately preceding such reorganization will receive in exchange therefor the
same number of shares of stock, with substantially the same preferences, rights
and powers, of the resulting, surviving or acquiring Corporation.
 
     Unless the Company obtains the consent or approval of the holders of a
majority of shares of the Outstanding Preferred Stock, given in person or by
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shares are entitled to vote separately as a class, the Company may not amend the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation in order to increase the amount
of the authorized preferred stock or to authorize any other stock ranking prior
to or on a parity with the Outstanding Preferred Stock either as to payment of
dividends or distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up.
 
     Each share of Preferred Stock will be entitled to one vote on matters on
which holders of the Preferred Stock are entitled to vote. Since each share of
Outstanding Preferred Stock will be entitled to one vote, the voting power of
any series of Preferred Stock on matters on which holders of such series and
holders of other series of Outstanding Preferred Stock are entitled to vote as a
single class will depend on the number of shares of Outstanding Preferred Stock,
not the aggregate liquidation preference or initial offering price of the shares
of such series.
 
                        DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES
 
     The following summary and the summary in any Prospectus Supplement of the
terms and provisions of the Depositary Shares and Depositary Receipts does not
purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by

reference to the Deposit Agreement relating to the applicable series of
Preferred Stock, which has been or will be filed as an exhibit to or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement of which this Prospectus
is a part.
 
GENERAL
 
     The Company may, at its option, elect to offer fractional interests in
shares of Preferred Stock, rather than full shares of Preferred Stock. In the
event such option is exercised, the Company will provide for the issuance by a
depositary of depositary receipts ('Depositary Receipts') evidencing depositary
shares ('Depositary Shares'). Each Depositary Receipt will represent a
fractional interest (to be specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement) in
a share of a particular series of the Preferred Stock as more fully described
below.
 
     In the event that the Company offers fractional shares of any series of
Preferred Stock, such shares of the Preferred Stock, if any, will be deposited
under a separate deposit agreement (a 'Deposit Agreement') among the Company, a
bank or trust company selected by the Company and having its principal office in
the United States and having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 (the 'Depositary') and the holders from time to time of the
Depositary Receipts issued by the Depositary thereunder. The applicable
Prospectus Supplement will set forth the name and address of the Depositary.
Subject to the terms of the Deposit Agreement, each owner of a Depositary Share
will be entitled, in proportion to the applicable fractional interest in a share
of Preferred Stock underlying such Depositary Share, to all the rights and
preferences of the Preferred Stock underlying such Depositary Share (including
dividend, voting, redemption and liquidation rights).
 
     Pending the preparation of definitive engraved Depositary Receipts, the
Depositary may, upon the written order of the Company, issue temporary
Depositary Receipts substantially identical to (and entitling the holders
thereof to all the rights pertaining to) the definitive Depositary Receipts but
not in definitive form. Definitive Depositary Receipts will be prepared
thereafter without unreasonable delay, and temporary Depositary Receipts will be
exchangeable for definitive Depositary Receipts at the Company's expense.
 
DIVIDENDS AND OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS
 
     The Depositary will distribute all cash dividends or other cash
distributions received in respect of the Preferred Stock deposited under a
Deposit Agreement to the record holders of Depositary Shares representing such
Preferred Stock in proportion to the numbers of such Depositary Shares owned by
such holders on the relevant record date. The Depositary will distribute only
such amount, however, as can be distributed without attributing to any holder of
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balance not so distributable will be held by the Depositary (without liability
for interest thereon) and will be added to and treated as part of the next sum
received by the Depositary for distribution to record holders of Depositary
Receipts then outstanding.

 
     In the event of a distribution other than in cash in respect of Preferred
Stock deposited under a Deposit Agreement, the Depositary will distribute the
property received by it to the record holders of the Depositary Shares entitled
thereto, in proportion, as nearly as may be practicable, to the numbers of
Depositary Shares owned by such holders on the relevant record date, unless the
Depositary determines that it is not feasible to make such distribution, in
which case the Depositary may, with the approval of the Company, adopt such
method as it deems equitable and practicable to effect such distribution,
including the sale of such property and distribution of the net proceeds from
such sale to such holders.
 
     Each Deposit Agreement will also contain provisions relating to the manner
in which any subscription or similar rights offered by the Company to holders of
the Preferred Stock deposited under such Deposit Agreement will be made
available to holders of Depositary Shares.
 
REDEMPTION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES
 
     If the Preferred Stock deposited under a Deposit Agreement is subject to
redemption in whole or in part, the related Depositary Shares will be redeemed
from the proceeds received by the Depositary as a result of any such redemption
of such Preferred Stock held by the Depositary. Whenever the Company redeems
shares of Preferred Stock held by the Depositary, the Depositary will redeem as
of the same redemption date the number of Depositary Shares representing the
shares of Preferred Stock so redeemed. The Depositary will mail the notice of
redemption not less than 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed
for redemption to the record holders of the Depositary Shares to be so redeemed.
The redemption price per Depositary Share will be equal to the applicable
fraction of the redemption price per share payable with respect to such
Preferred Stock. If less than all the Depositary Shares are to be redeemed, the
Depositary Shares to be redeemed will be selected by lot or pro rata as may be
determined by the Depositary.
 
     Notice of redemption having been given as described above, from and after
the date fixed for redemption, unless the Company shall have failed to redeem
the shares of Preferred Stock so called for redemption, the Depositary Shares so
called for redemption will no longer be deemed to be outstanding, and all rights
of the holders of such Depositary Shares will cease, except for the right to
receive the monies payable upon such redemption and any money or other property
to which the holders of such Depositary Shares were entitled upon such
redemption, upon surrender to the Depositary of the Depositary Receipts
evidencing such Depositary Shares.
 
CONVERSION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES
 
     If the Preferred Stock deposited under a Deposit Agreement is convertible
into any other class of the Company's securities, the related Depositary Shares
also will have such conversion rights. The terms and conditions on which such
Depositary Shares are convertible will be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement
relating thereto. The conversion price per Depositary Share will be equal to the
applicable fraction of the conversion price per share applicable to such
Preferred Stock.
 

VOTING RIGHTS
 
     As soon as practicable after receipt of notice of any meeting at which the
holders of the Preferred Stock deposited under a Deposit Agreement are entitled
to vote, the Depositary will be addedejnformation contained in such notice of
meeting to the holders of the Depositary Shares relating to such Preferred
Shares as of the record date for such meeting. Each such record holder of
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entitled, subject to any applicable restrictions, to instruct the Depositary as
to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the amount of the Preferred
Stock represented by such record holder's Depositary Shares. The Depositary will
endeavor, insofar as practicable, to vote the amount of the Preferred Stock
represented by such Depositary Shares in accordance with any such instructions,
and the Company will agree to take all action which may be deemed necessary by
the Depositary in order to enable the Depositary to do so. The Depositary will
abstain from voting shares of the Preferred Stock deposited under a Deposit
Agreement to the extent that it does not receive specific instructions from the
holders of Depositary Shares representing such Preferred Stock.
 
WITHDRAWAL OF STOCK
 
     Upon surrender of Depositary Receipts at the principal office of the
relevant Depositary (unless the related Depositary Shares have previously been
called for redemption), and subject to the terms of the related Deposit
Agreement, the owner of the Depositary Shares evidenced thereby is entitled to
delivery of whole shares of Preferred Stock and all money and other property, if
any, represented by such Depositary Shares. Partial shares of Preferred Stock
will not be issued. If the Depositary Receipts delivered by the holder evidence
a number of Depositary Shares in excess of the number of Depositary Shares
representing the number of whole shares of Preferred Stock to be withdrawn, the
relevant Depositary will deliver to such holder at the same time a new
Depositary Receipt evidencing such excess number of Depositary Shares. Holders
of shares of Preferred Stock thus withdrawn will not thereafter be entitled to
deposit such shares under a Deposit Agreement or to receive Depositary Shares
therefor. The Company does not expect that there will be any public trading
market for the Preferred Stock, except as represented by the Depositary Shares.
 
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION OF THE DEPOSIT AGREEMENT
 
     The form of Depositary Receipt evidencing any Depositary Shares and any
provision of a Deposit Agreement may at any time and from time to time be
amended by agreement between the Company and the Depositary. However, any
amendment which materially and adversely alters the rights of the existing
holders of Depositary Shares will not be effective unless such amendment has
been approved by the holders of at least a majority of the Depositary Shares
then outstanding under such Deposit Agreement. Each Deposit Agreement will
provide that each holder of Depositary Shares at the time any such amendment
becomes effective which continues to hold such Depositary Shares will be deemed
to have consented to such amendment and will be bound thereby. No such amendment
may impair the right, subject to the terms of the related Deposit Agreement, of
any owner of any Depositary Shares issued under such Deposit Agreement to

surrender the Depositary Receipt evidencing such Depositary Shares with
instructions to the Depositary to deliver to the holder the whole shares of
Preferred Stock represented by such Depositary Shares and all money and other
property, if any, represented thereby, except in order to comply with mandatory
provisions of applicable law. A Deposit Agreement may be terminated by the
Company or the Depositary only if (i) all outstanding Depositary Shares relating
thereto have been redeemed or (ii) there has been a final distribution in
respect of the Preferred Stock of the relevant series in connection with any
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and such distribution has
been distributed to the holders of the related Depositary Shares.
 
CHARGES OF DEPOSITARY
 
     The Company will pay all transfer and other taxes and governmental charges
arising solely from the existence of the depositary arrangements. The Company
will pay charges of any Depositary in connection with the initial deposit of
Preferred Stock and the initial issuance of the relevant Depositary Shares and
any redemption of such Preferred Stock. Holders of Depositary Shares will pay
other transfer and other taxes and governmental charges and certain other
charges as are provided in the relevant Deposit Agreement to be for their
accounts.
 
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MISCELLANEOUS
 
     Each Depositary will forward to the holders of the Depositary Shares all
reports and communications from the Company which are delivered to such
Depositary and which the Company is required to furnish to the holders of the
Preferred Stock. In addition, each Depositary will make available for inspection
by holders of the Depositary Shares at the principal office of such Depositary,
and at such other places as it may from time to time deem advisable, any reports
and communications received from the Company which are received by such
Depositary as the holder of Preferred Stock.
 
     Neither any Depositary nor the Company will assume any obligation or will
be subject to any liability under a Deposit Agreement to holders of the
Depositary Shares other than for its negligence or willful misconduct. Neither
any Depositary nor the Company will be liable if it is prevented or delayed by
law or any circumstance beyond its control in performing its obligations under a
Deposit Agreement. The obligations of the Company and any Depositary under a
Deposit Agreement will be limited to performance in good faith of their duties
thereunder, and they will not be obligated to prosecute or defend any legal
proceeding in respect of any Depositary Shares or Preferred Stock unless
satisfactory indemnity is furnished. The Company and any Depositary may rely on
written advice of counsel or accountants, on information provided by persons
presenting Preferred Stock for deposit, holders of Depositary Shares or other
persons believed in good faith to be competent to give such information and on
documents believed to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the
proper party or parties.
 
RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL OF DEPOSITARY
 
     A Depositary may resign at any time by delivering to the Company notice of

its election to do so, and the Company may at any time remove any Depositary,
any such resignation or removal to take effect upon the appointment of a
successor Depositary and its acceptance of such appointment. Such successor
Depositary must be appointed within 60 days after delivery of the notice of
resignation or removal and must be a bank or trust company having its principal
office in the United States of America and having a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000.
 
FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES
 
     Owners of the Depositary Shares will be treated for Federal income tax
purposes as if they were owners of the Preferred Stock represented by such
Depositary Shares.
 
BOOK-ENTRY PROCEDURES AND SETTLEMENT FOR PREFERRED STOCK AND DEPOSITARY SHARES
 
     The Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares may be issued in certificated or
book-entry form, as specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Preferred
Stock or Depositary Shares issued in book-entry form from the perspective of the
beneficial owners thereof (the 'Shareholders') will be issued in the form of a
single global stock certificate or Depositary Receipt registered in the name of
the nominee of the depository, The Depository Trust Company ('DTC', which term,
as used herein, includes any successor or alternate depository selected by the
Company).
 
     DTC is a limited-purpose trust company which was created to hold securities
for its participating organizations (the 'Participants') and to facilitate the
clearance and settlement of securities transactions between Participants in such
securities through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of its
Participants. Participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks and
trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations. Access
to DTC's system is also available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and
trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a
Participant, either directly or indirectly ('Indirect Participants'). Persons
who are not Participants may beneficially own securities held by DTC only
through Participants or Indirect Participants.
 
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     DTC's nominee for all purposes will be considered the sole owner or holder
of the Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares held in book-entry form. Owners of
beneficial interests in the global stock certificate or Depositary Receipt will
not be entitled to have Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares registered in their
names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of Preferred
Stock or Depositary Shares in definitive form and will not be considered the
holders thereof under the Certificate of Incorporation or any Deposit Agreement.
 
     Neither the Company nor the Depository will have any responsibility or
liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account
of beneficial ownership interests in the global stock certificate or Depositary
Receipt, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to
such beneficial ownership interests.
 
     A Shareholder's ownership of Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares will be

recorded on or through the records of the brokerage firm or other entity that
maintains such Shareholder's account. In turn, the total number of shares of
Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares held by an individual brokerage firm for
its clients will be maintained on the records of DTC in the name of such
brokerage firm or other entity (or in the name of a Participant that acts as
agent for the Shareholder's brokerage firm or other entity if such firm or other
entity is not a Participant). Therefore, a Shareholder must rely upon the
records of such brokerage firm or other entity to evidence such Shareholder's
ownership of Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares. Transfer of ownership of any
Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares may be effected only through the brokerage
firm or other entity that maintains a Shareholder's account.
 
     Dividends or other distributions payable in respect of Preferred Stock or
Depositary Shares will be paid by the Company or the Depositary, as the case may
be, to DTC. DTC will be responsible for crediting the amount of payments that it
receives from the Company or the Depositary, as the case may be, to the accounts
of the Participants in accordance with each of their respective standard
procedures. Each Participant will be responsible for disbursing such payments to
the Shareholders that it represents and to each brokerage firm or other entity
for which it acts as agent. Each such brokerage firm or other entity will be
responsible for disbursing funds to the Shareholders that it represents. It is
suggested that any purchaser of Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares with
accounts at more than one brokerage firm or other entity only effect
transactions in the Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares through the brokerage
firm or firms or other entity or entities that hold such purchaser's Preferred
Stock or Depositary Shares.
 
     If DTC is at any time unwilling or unable to continue as depository in
respect of a global certificate or Depositary Receipt and a successor depository
is not appointed by the Company or the Depositary, as the case may be, within 90
days, the Company will issue Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares, as the case
may be, in definitive form in exchange for the global stock certificate or
Depositary Receipt. In addition, the Company may at any time determine not to
have the Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares represented by a global stock
certificate or Depositary Receipt, as the case may be, and, in such event, will
issue Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares in definitive form in exchange for
such global stock certificate or Depositary Receipt. In either instance, an
owner of a beneficial interest in the global stock certificate or Depositary
Receipt will be entitled to have Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares equal in
aggregate amount to such beneficial interest registered in its name and will be
entitled to physical delivery of such Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares in
definitive form. The registered owner of such Preferred Stock or Depositary
Shares will be entitled to receive the dividends or other distributions or, if
applicable, the redemption price payable in respect of such Preferred Stock or
Depositary Shares, upon surrender of such Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares
to the Company or the Depositary, as the case may be, in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation or Deposit Agreement,
respectively.
 
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                          DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK
 

     As of the date of this Prospectus, the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation authorizes the issuance of 250,000,000 shares of Common Stock,
$1.00 par value per share. As of December 31, 1995, 106,447,726 shares of Common
Stock were outstanding.
 
     The following description of the capital stock of the Company is subject to
the detailed provisions of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation and bylaws
as currently in effect (the 'Bylaws'). This description does not purport to be
complete or to give full effect to the terms of the provisions of statutory or
common law and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the
Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws, each of which has been filed as an
exhibit to or will be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement of
which this Prospectus is a part.
 
     Subject to the rights of the holders of any outstanding shares of preferred
stock, holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive such dividends, in cash,
securities, or property, as may from time to time be declared by the Board of
Directors. Subject to the provisions of the Bylaws with respect to the closing
of the transfer books and the fixing of a record date, holders of shares of
Common Stock are entitled to one vote per share of Common Stock held on all
matters requiring a vote of the holders of Common Stock. In the event of any
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, either voluntary or
involuntary, after payment shall have been made to the holders of preferred
stock of the full amount to which they shall be entitled, the holders of Common
Stock shall be entitled to share ratably, according to the number of shares held
by them, in all remaining assets of the Company available for distribution.
Shares of Common Stock are not redeemable and have no subscription, conversion
or preemptive rights.
 
     The outstanding shares of Common Stock are listed on the New York Stock
Exchange and trade under the symbol 'SB'. The transfer agent and registrar for
the Common Stock is First Chicago Trust Company.
 
                            DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS
 
     The following description of the terms of the Warrants sets forth certain
general terms and provisions of the Warrants to which any Prospectus Supplement
may relate. The particular terms of the Warrants offered by any Prospectus
Supplement and the extent, if any, to which such general provisions may apply to
the Warrants so offered will be described in the Prospectus Supplement relating
to such Warrants.
 
     The Company may issue Warrants for the purchase of Debt Securities,
Preferred Stock or Common Stock. Warrants may be issued independently or
together with Debt Securities, Preferred Stock or Common Stock offered by any
Prospectus Supplement and may be attached to or separate from any such Offered
Securities. Each series of Warrants will be issued under a separate warrant
agreement (a 'Warrant Agreement') to be entered into between the Company and a
bank or trust company, as warrant agent (the 'Warrant Agent'). The Warrant Agent
will act solely as the agent of the Company under the applicable Warrant
Agreement and in connection with the certificates for the Warrants (the 'Warrant
Certificates'), if any, of such series, and will not assume any obligation or
relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of such Warrant
Certificates or beneficial owners of Warrants. Copies of the form of Warrant

Agreement, including the respective forms of Warrant Certificates, have
previously been filed with the Commission and are incorporated by reference as
part of the Registration Statement. The following summaries of certain
provisions of the forms of Warrant Agreements and Warrant Certificates do not
purport to be complete and are subject to, and are qualified in their entirety
by reference to, all the provisions of the Warrant Agreements and the Warrant
Certificates.
 
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DEBT WARRANTS
 
     Reference is hereby made to the Prospectus Supplement relating to the
particular series of Debt Warrants, if any, offered thereby for the terms of
such Warrants, including, where applicable: (i) the title of such Debt Warrants;
(ii) the aggregate number of such Debt Warrants; (iii) the offering price, if
any; (iv) the currency or currencies in which such Debt Warrants are being
offered; (v) the designation, aggregate principal amount, currency or
currencies, denominations and other terms of the series of Debt Securities
purchasable upon exercise of such Debt Warrants; (vi) if applicable, the
designation and terms of the series of Debt Securities with which such Debt
Warrants are being offered and the number of such Debt Warrants being offered
with each such Debt Security; (vii) if applicable, the date on and after which
such Debt Warrants and the related series of Debt Securities will be
transferable separately; (viii) the principal amount of the Debt Securities
purchasable upon exercise of each such Debt Warrant and the price at which and
currency or currencies in which such principal amount of Debt Securities may be
purchased upon such exercise (which price may be payable in cash, securities or
other property); (ix) the date on which the right to exercise such Debt Warrants
shall commence and the date (the 'Expiration Date') on which such right shall
expire; (x) whether such Warrants are to be issuable as Registered Warrants or
Bearer Warrants (each, as defined below); (xi) whether such Debt Warrants are
extendable and the period or periods of such extendability; (xii) the terms upon
which any Bearer Warrants of such series may be exchanged for Registered
Warrants of such series; (xiii) whether such Debt Warrants will be issued in
certificated or uncertificated form; (xiv) United States Federal income tax
consequences; (xv) the antidilution provisions of such Debt Warrants, if any;
(xvi) the redemption or call provisions, if any, applicable to such Debt
Warrants; (xvii) any additional terms of the Debt Warrants, including terms,
procedures and limitations relating to the exchange of such Debt Warrants; and
(xviii) any other terms of such Debt Warrants not inconsistent with the
applicable Warrant Agreement.
 
     Warrants for Debt Securities will be issuable in registered form
('Registered Warrants') and may be issuable in bearer form ('Bearer Warrants').
Registered Warrants of any series will be exchangeable into Registered Warrants
of the same series representing in the aggregate the number of Debt Warrants
surrendered for exchange. Warrant Certificates, to the extent exchangeable, may
be presented for exchange, and Registered Warrants may be presented for
transfer, at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent for such series of
Debt Warrants (or any other office indicated in the Prospectus Supplement
relating to such series of Debt Warrants). Prior to the exercise of their Debt
Warrants, holders of Debt Warrants will not have any of the rights of Holders of
the Debt Securities of the series purchasable upon such exercise, including the

right to receive payments of principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if any,
on, the Debt Securities purchasable upon such exercise, or to enforce any of the
covenants in the applicable Indenture. Bearer Warrants will be transferable by
delivery. The applicable Prospectus Supplement will describe the terms of
exchange applicable to any Bearer Warrants.
 
     Each Debt Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase such
principal amount of the related series of Debt Securities at such exercise price
as shall in each case be set forth in, or calculable as set forth in, the
Prospectus Supplement relating to such Debt Warrant. Registered Warrants of a
series may be exercised at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent for
such series (or any other office indicated in the Prospectus Supplement relating
to such series) at any time prior to 5:00 P.M., New York City time (unless
otherwise indicated in the related Prospectus Supplement), on the Expiration
Date set forth in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such series of Debt
Warrants. After the close of business on the Expiration Date relating to such
series of Debt Warrants (or such later date to which such Expiration Date may be
extended by the Company), unexercised Debt Warrants of such series will become
void.
 
     Registered Warrants of a series may be exercised by delivery to the
appropriate Warrant Agent of payment, as provided in the Prospectus Supplement
relating to such series of Debt Warrants, of the consideration required to
purchase the principal amount of the series of Debt Securities purchasable upon
such exercise, together with certain information as set forth on the reverse
side of the Warrant
 
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Certificate evidencing such Debt Warrants. Such Debt Warrants will be deemed to
have been exercised upon receipt of the exercise price, subject to the receipt
of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Debt Warrants within five business
days. Upon receipt of such payment and such Warrant Certificate, properly
completed and duly executed, at the corporate trust office of the appropriate
Warrant Agent (or any other office indicated in the Prospectus Supplement
relating to such series of Warrants), the Company will, as soon as practicable,
issue and deliver the principal amount of the series of Debt Securities
purchasable upon such exercise. Only Registered Securities will be issued and
delivered upon exercise of Registered Warrants. If fewer than all of the Debt
Warrants represented by a Registered Warrant are exercised, a new Registered
Warrant will be issued and delivered for the remaining amount of Warrants.
Special provisions relating to the exercise of any Bearer Warrants will be
described in the related Prospectus Supplement.
 
STOCK WARRANTS
 
     The Prospectus Supplement relating to any particular issue of Preferred
Stock Warrants or Common Stock Warrants will describe the terms of such Stock
Warrants, including the following: (i) the title of such Stock Warrants; (ii)
the aggregate number of such Stock Warrants; (iii) the offering price for such
Stock Warrants, if any; (iv) the currency or currency units in which the
offering price, if any, and the exercise price are payable; (v) the designation
and terms of the Common Stock or Preferred Stock purchasable upon exercise of
such Stock Warrants; (vi) if applicable, the designation and terms of such

Offered Securities with which such Stock Warrants are issued and the number of
such Stock Warrants issued with each such Offered Security; (vii) if applicable,
the date from and after which such Stock Warrants and any such Offered
Securities issued therewith will be transferable separately; (viii) the number
of shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock purchasable upon exercise of a
Stock Warrant and the price at which such shares may be purchased upon exercise;
(ix) the date on which the right to exercise such Stock Warrants shall commence
and the Expiration Date; (x) if applicable, the minimum or maximum amount of
such Stock Warrants that may be exercised at any one time; (xi) whether such
Stock Warrants are extendable and the period or periods of such extendability;
(xii) United States federal income tax consequences; (xiii) the antidilution
provisions of such Stock Warrants, if any; (xiv) the redemption or call
provisions, if any applicable to such Stock Warrants; (xv) any additional terms
of the Stock Warrants, including terms, procedures and limitations relating to
the exchange of such Stock Warrants; and (xvi) any other terms of such Stock
Warrants not inconsistent with the applicable Warrant Agreement.
 
                         DESCRIPTION OF INDEX WARRANTS
 
     The following description of the terms of the Index Warrants sets forth
certain general terms and provisions of the Index Warrants to which any
Prospectus Supplement may relate. The particular terms of the Index Warrants
offered by any Prospectus Supplement and the extent, if any, to which such
general provisions do not apply to the Index Warrants so offered will be
described in such Prospectus Supplement.
 
     Each series of Index Warrants will be issued under a separate index warrant
agreement (each, an 'Index Warrant Agreement') to be entered into between the
Company and a bank or trust company, as warrant agent (the 'Index Warrant
Agent'), all as described in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such Index
Warrants. A single bank or trust company may act as Index Warrant Agent for more
than one series of Index Warrants. The Index Warrant Agent will act solely as
the agent of the Company under the applicable Index Warrant Agreement and will
not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any
owners of such Index Warrants. A copy of the form of Index Warrant Agreement,
including the form of index warrant certificate (the 'Index Warrant
Certificate,' or, if issued in global form, the 'Index Warrant Global
Certificate'), is filed as an exhibit to or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement. The following summaries of certain provisions of the
Index Warrants and the form of Index Warrant Agreement do not purport to be
complete and are subject to,
 
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and are qualified in their entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of
the Index Warrant Agreement and the Index Warrant Certificate or Index Warrant
Global Certificate.
 
GENERAL
 
     The Index Warrant Agreement does not limit the number of Index Warrants
that may be issued thereunder. The Company will have the right to 'reopen' a
previous series of Index Warrants and to issue additional Index Warrants of such
series.

 
     Each Index Warrant will entitle the holder (each, a 'Holder') to receive
from the Company, upon exercise, including any automatic exercise, an amount in
cash or a number of securities that will be determined by reference to prices,
yields, levels or other specified objective measure (any such measure, an
'Index'), or changes in an Index or differences between two or more Indexes. The
assets by reference to which an Index is determined (the 'Underlying Assets')
may be one or more specified securities or securities indexes or one or more
foreign currencies or foreign currency indexes, or a combination thereof. The
Prospectus Supplement for a series of Index Warrants will set forth the formula
or methodology pursuant to which the amount payable or distributable on the
Index Warrants will be determined by reference to the relevant Index or Indexes.
 
     Certain Index Warrants will, if specified in the Prospectus Supplement,
entitle the Holder to receive from the Company, upon automatic exercise at
expiration and under certain other circumstances, a minimum or maximum amount.
 
     The Prospectus Supplement applicable to any series of Index Warrants will
set forth any circumstances in which the payment or distribution, or the
determination of the payment or distribution, on the Index Warrants may be
postponed and the period for which such payment or distribution or determination
may be postponed. Conversely, the Index Warrants may be subject to early
exercise or cancellation in certain circumstances described in the applicable
Prospectus Supplement. The amount due, or the means by which the amount due, on
the Index Warrants may be determined after any such delay or postponement, or
early exercise or cancellation will be set forth in the applicable Prospectus
Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Company will be under no obligation to, nor will it, purchase or take delivery
of or sell or deliver any securities or currencies (including the Underlying
Assets), other than the payment of any cash or distribution of any securities
due on the Index Warrants, from or to Holders pursuant to the Index Warrants.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the Prospectus Supplement, the Index Warrants
will be deemed to be automatically exercised upon expiration. Upon such
automatic exercise, Holders will be entitled to receive in cash or securities,
depending on the terms of the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the cash amount
or the number of securities due, if any, on such exercise of the Index Warrants.
 
     Reference is hereby made to the Prospectus Supplement relating to the
particular series of Index Warrants offered thereby for the terms of such Index
Warrants, including, where applicable: (i) the aggregate number of such Index
Warrants; (ii) the offering price of such Index Warrants; (iii) the Index or
Indexes by reference to which payment or distribution on such Index Warrants
will be determined; (iv) certain information regarding the Underlying Assets;
(v) the amount due, or the means by which the amount due may be calculated, on
exercise of the Index Warrants, including automatic exercise, or upon
cancellation; (vi) the date on which the Index Warrants may first be exercised
and the date on which they expire; (vii) any minimum number of Index Warrants
exercisable at any one time; (viii) any maximum number of Index Warrants that
may, subject to the Company's election, be exercised by all Holders (or by any
person or entity) on any day; (ix) any provisions permitting a Holder to
condition an exercise of Index Warrants; (x) the method by which the Index

Warrants may be exercised; (xi) the currency in which the Index Warrants will be
denominated and in which payments on the Index Warrants will be made or the
securities that may be distributed in respect of the Index Warrants; (xii) the
 
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method of making any foreign currency translation applicable to payments or
distributions on the Index Warrants; (xiii) the method of providing for a
substitute Index or Indexes or otherwise determining the amount payable in
connection with the exercise of Index Warrants if an Index changes or is no
longer available; (xiv) the time or times at which amounts will be payable in
respect of such Index Warrants following exercise or automatic exercise; (xv)
any national securities exchange on, or self-regulatory organization with, which
such Index Warrants will be listed; (xvi) any provisions for issuing such Index
Warrants in certificated form; (xvii) if such Index Warrants are not issued in
book-entry form, the place or places at and the procedures by which payments or
distributions on the Index Warrants will be made; and (xviii) any other terms of
such Index Warrants.
 
     Prospective purchasers of Index Warrants should be aware of special United
States federal income tax considerations applicable to instruments such as the
Index Warrants. The Prospectus Supplement relating to each series of Index
Warrants will describe such tax considerations. The summary of United States
federal income tax considerations contained in the Prospectus Supplement will be
presented for informational purposes only, however, and will not be intended as
legal or tax advice to prospective purchasers. Prospective purchasers of Index
Warrants are urged to consult their own tax advisors prior to any acquisition of
Index Warrants.
 
BOOK-ENTRY PROCEDURES AND SETTLEMENT FOR INDEX WARRANTS
 
     Subject to the rules of the Depository, and unless otherwise specified in
the Prospectus Supplement, the Index Warrants offered thereby will be issued in
the form of a single Index Warrant Global Certificate that will be deposited
with, or on behalf of, a depository (the 'Depository'), which shall be, unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Depository
Trust Company, New York, New York ('DTC'). Index Warrants will be registered in
the name of the Depository or a nominee of the Depository. Unless and until it
is exchanged in whole or in part for the individual Index Warrants represented
thereby, an Index Warrant Global Certificate may not be transferred except as a
whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the
Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the
Depository or any such nominee to a successor of the Depository or a nominee of
such successor.
 
     The Company anticipates that the following provisions will apply to all
depository arrangements.
 
     Upon the issuance of an Index Warrant Global Certificate, the Depository
will credit, on its book-entry registration and transfer system, the respective
numbers of the individual Index Warrants represented by such Index Warrant
Global Certificate to the accounts of institutions that have accounts with the
Depository ('participants'). The accounts to be credited shall be designated by
the underwriters of such Index Warrants or, if such Index Warrants are offered

and sold directly by the Company or through one or more agents, by the Company
or such agent or agents. Ownership of beneficial interests in an Index Warrant
Global Certificate will be limited to participants or persons that may hold
beneficial interests through participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in
an Index Warrant Global Certificate will be shown on, and the transfer of that
ownership will be effected only through, records maintained by the Depository
for such Index Warrant Global Certificate or by participants or persons that
hold through participants. The laws of some states require that certain
purchasers of securities take physical delivery of such securities. Such limits
and such laws may limit the market for beneficial interests in an Index Warrant
Global Certificate.
 
     The Depository's nominee for all purposes will be considered the sole owner
or holder of the Index Warrants under the related Index Warrant Agreement.
Except as set forth below, owners of beneficial interests in the Index Warrant
Global Certificate will not be entitled to have any of the individual Index
Warrants represented by such Index Warrant Global Certificate registered in
their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of any
such Index Warrants, and will not be considered the holders thereof under the
related Index Warrant Agreement.
 
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     Neither the Company nor the Index Warrant Agent will have any
responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or
payments or distributions made on account of beneficial ownership interests in
the Index Warrant Global Certificate or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
 
     If the Depository is at any time unwilling or unable to continue as
depository and a successor depository is not appointed by the Company within 90
days, the Company will issue individual Index Warrant Certificates in exchange
for the Index Warrant Global Certificate. In addition, the Company may at any
time and in its sole discretion determine not to have certain Index Warrants
represented by an Index Warrant Global Certificate and, in such event, will
issue individual Index Warrant Certificates in exchange for such Global
Certificate. Further, if the Company so specifies with respect to any Index
Warrants, an owner of a beneficial interest in an Index Warrant Global
Certificate may, on such terms acceptable to the Company and the Depository,
receive individual Index Warrant in exchange for such beneficial interest. In
any such instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in the Index Warrant Global
Certificate will be entitled to have Index Warrants equal in aggregate number to
such beneficial interest registered in its name and will be entitled to physical
delivery of such Index Warrants. The registered owner of such Index Warrants
will be entitled to receive any amounts payable in respect of such Index
Warrants, upon surrender of such Index Warrants to the Index Warrant Agent in
accordance with the procedures set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
 
LISTING
 
     Unless otherwise indicated in the Prospectus Supplement, the Index Warrants
will be listed on a national securities exchange or with a self-regulatory
organization, the rules and regulations of which are filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 19(b) of the Exchange Act (a 'Self-Regulatory

Organization'), in each case as specified in the Prospectus Supplement. It is
expected that such Self-Regulatory Organization will cease trading a series of
Index Warrants as of the close of business on the related expiration date of
such Index Warrants.
 
MODIFICATION
 
     The Index Warrant Agreement and the terms of the related Index Warrants may
be amended by the Company and the Index Warrant Agent, without the consent of
the holders of any Index Warrants, for the purpose of curing any ambiguity or of
curing, correcting or supplementing any defective or inconsistent provision
contained therein, maintaining the listing of such Index Warrants on any
national securities exchange or with any other Self-Regulatory Organization or
registration of such Index Warrants under the Exchange Act, permitting the
issuance of individual Index Warrant certificates to Holders, reflecting the
issuance by the Company of additional Index Warrants of the same series or
reflecting the appointment of a successor depository, or for any other purpose
which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which will not materially
and adversely affect the interests of the Holders.
 
     The Company and the Index Warrant Agent also may modify or amend the Index
Warrant Agreement and the terms of the related Index Warrants, with the consent
of the holders of not less than a majority in number of the then outstanding
Warrants affected by such modification or amendment, for any purposes; provided,
however, that no such modification or amendment that changes the amount to be
paid or the securities to be distributed to the Holder or the manner in which
such amount is to be determined, shortens the period of time during which the
Index Warrants may be exercised, or otherwise materially and adversely affects
the exercise rights of the holders of the Index Warrants or reduces the
percentage of the number of outstanding Index Warrants the consent of whose
holders is required for modification or amendment of the Index Warrant Agreement
or the terms of the related Index Warrants, may be made without the consent of
each Holder affected thereby.
 
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MERGER, CONSOLIDATION, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION
 
     If at any time there is a merger or consolidation involving the Company or
a sale, transfer, conveyance (other than by way of lease) or other disposition
of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, then the successor or
assuming corporation will succeed to and be substituted for the Company under
the Index Warrant Agreement and the related Index Warrants, with the same effect
as if it had been named in such Index Warrant Agreement and Index Warrants as
the Company. The Company will thereupon be relieved of any further obligation
under such Index Warrant Agreement and Index Warrants and may at any time
thereafter be dissolved, wound up or liquidated.
 
ENFORCEABILITY OF RIGHTS BY HOLDERS
 
     Any Holder may, without the consent of the Index Warrant Agent or any other
Holder, enforce by appropriate legal action on his own behalf his right to
exercise, and to receive payment for, his Index Warrants.
 

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO INDEX WARRANTS
 
     The Index Warrants involve a high degree of risk, including risks arising
from fluctuations in the values of the Underlying Assets, risks relating to the
Index or Indexes by which payments or distributions on the Index Warrants are
calculated, general risks applicable to the securities or currency markets on
which the Underlying Assets are traded and, in the case of certain Index
Warrants, foreign exchange, interest rate, issuer and other risks. Purchasers
should recognize that their Index Warrants, other than Index Warrants having a
minimum expiration value, may expire worthless. Purchasers should be prepared to
sustain a total loss of the purchase price of their Index Warrants, and are
advised to consider carefully the information set forth herein and under 'Risk
Factors Relating to the Index Warrants' in the applicable Prospectus Supplement.
Prospective purchasers of the Index Warrants should be experienced with respect
to options and options transactions and understand the risks of the Index (and,
if applicable, foreign currency transactions), and should reach an investment
decision only after careful consideration, with their advisers, of the
suitability of the Index Warrants in light of their particular financial
circumstances, the information set forth herein under 'Description of Index
Warrants,' and the information regarding the Index Warrants, the Index and the
Underlying Assets set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
 
        LIMITATIONS ON ISSUANCE OF BEARER SECURITIES AND BEARER WARRANTS
 
     In compliance with United States Federal income tax laws and regulations
the Company and any underwriter, agent or dealer participating in the offering
of any Bearer Security will agree that, in connection with the original issuance
of such Bearer Security and during the period ending 40 days after the issue
date of such Bearer Security, they will not offer, sell or deliver such Bearer
Security, directly or indirectly, to a U.S. Person or to any person within the
United States, except to the extent permitted under U.S. Treasury regulations.
 
     Bearer Securities will bear a legend to the following effect: 'Any United
States Person who holds this obligation will be subject to limitations under the
United States income tax laws, including the limitations provided in Sections
165(j) and 1287(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.' The sections referred to in
the legend provide that, with certain exceptions, a United States taxpayer who
holds Bearer Securities will not be allowed to deduct any loss with respect to,
and will not be eligible for capital gain treatment with respect to any gain
realized on a sale, exchange, redemption or other disposition of, such Bearer
Securities.
 
     As used herein, 'United States' means the United States of America and its
possessions, and 'United States Person' means a citizen or resident of the
United States, a corporation, partnership or
 
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other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, or
an estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal
income taxation regardless of its source.
 
     Pending the availability of a definitive Global Security or individual
Bearer Securities, as the case may be, Debt Securities that are issuable as

Bearer Securities may initially be represented by a single temporary Global
Security, without interest coupons, to be deposited with a common depositary in
London for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels Office, as
operator of the Euroclear System ('Euroclear'), and Centrale de Livraison de
Valeurs Mobilieres S.A. ('CEDEL') for credit to the accounts designated by or on
behalf of the purchasers thereof. Following the availability of a definitive
Global Security in bearer form, without coupons attached, or individual Bearer
Securities and subject to any further limitations described in the applicable
Prospectus Supplement, the temporary Global Security will be exchangeable for
interests in such definitive Global Security or for such individual Bearer
Securities, respectively, only upon receipt of a 'Certificate of Non-U.S.
Beneficial Ownership'. A 'Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership' is a
certificate to the effect that a beneficial interest in a temporary Global
Security or Bearer Warrant is owned by a person that is not a U.S. Person or is
owned by or through a financial institution in compliance with applicable U.S.
Treasury regulations. In no event will a definitive Bearer Security be delivered
to a purchaser without the receipt of a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial
Ownership. No Bearer Security will be delivered in or to the United States. If
so specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, interest on a temporary
Global Security will be paid to each of Euroclear and CEDEL with respect to that
portion of such temporary Global Security held for its account, but only upon
receipt as of the relevant Interest Payment Date of a Certificate of Non-U.S.
Beneficial Ownership.
 
     Limitations on the offer, sale, delivery and exercise of Bearer Warrants
(including a requirement that a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership be
delivered upon exercise of a Bearer Warrant) will be described in the Prospectus
Supplement relating to such Bearer Warrants.
 
                              PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
     The Company may sell Offered Securities in any of three ways: (i) through
underwriters or dealers; (ii) directly to one or more purchasers; or (iii)
through agents. The applicable Prospectus Supplement will set forth the terms of
the offering of any Offered Securities, including the names of any underwriters,
the purchase price of such Offered Securities and the proceeds to the Company
from such sale, any underwriting discounts and other items constituting
underwriters' compensation, any initial public offering price, any discounts or
concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers, any securities exchanges on
which such Offered Securities may be listed and any restrictions on the sale and
delivery of Offered Securities in bearer form.
 
     If underwriters are used in the sale, the Offered Securities will be
acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time
to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a
fixed public offering price or at varying prices determined at the time of sale.
Such Offered Securities may be offered to the public either through underwriting
syndicates represented by managing underwriters or by underwriters without a
syndicate. The Company expects that such managing underwriters or underwriters
in the United States will include Salomon Brothers Inc. Unless otherwise set
forth in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the obligations of the
underwriters to purchase such Offered Securities will be subject to certain
conditions precedent, and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all of
such Offered Securities if any of such Offered Securities are purchased. Any

initial public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or
reallowed or paid to dealers may be changed from time to time.
 
     Offered Securities may also be offered and sold, if so indicated in the
Prospectus Supplement, in connection with a remarketing upon their purchase, in
accordance with a redemption or repayment pursuant to their terms, by one or
more firms ('remarketing firms') acting as principals for their own accounts or
as agents for the Company. Any remarketing firm will be identified and the terms
of its
 
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agreement, if any, with the Company and its compensation will be described in
the Prospectus Supplement. Remarketing firms may be deemed to be underwriters in
connection with the Offered Securities remarketed thereby.
 
     Offered Securities may also be sold directly by the Company or through
agents designated by the Company from time to time. Any agent involved in the
offer or sale of Offered Securities will be named, and any commissions payable
by the Company to such agent will be set forth, in the applicable Prospectus
Supplement. Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement,
any such agent will act on a best efforts basis for the period of its
appointment.
 
     If so indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Company will
authorize agents, underwriters or dealers to solicit offers by certain specified
institutions to purchase Offered Securities at the public offering price set
forth in such Prospectus Supplement pursuant to delayed delivery contracts
providing for payment and delivery on a future date specified in such Prospectus
Supplement. Such contracts will be subject only to those conditions set forth in
the applicable Prospectus Supplement, and such Prospectus Supplement will set
forth the commissions payable for solicitation of such contracts.
 
     Any underwriters, dealers or agents participating in the distribution of
Offered Securities may be deemed to be underwriters and any discounts or
commissions received by them on the sale or resale of Offered Securities may be
deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act.
Agents and underwriters may be entitled under agreements entered into with the
Company to indemnification by the Company against certain civil liabilities,
including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribution with respect
to payments that the agents or underwriters may be required to make in respect
thereof. Agents and underwriters may be customers of, engage in transactions
with, or perform services for, the Company or its affiliates in the ordinary
course of business.
 

     Salomon Brothers Inc is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
Salomon Brothers Inc's participation in the offer and sale of Offered Securities
complies with the requirements of Schedule E of the By-Laws of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. regarding the underwriting by Salomon
Brothers Inc of securities of its parent. Salomon Brothers Inc may act as an
underwriter in an 'at the market' equity offering pursuant to Rule 415(a)(4)
under the Securities Act and may make a market in the Offered Securities but is
not obligated to do so.


 
                                 ERISA MATTERS
 
     The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ('ERISA'),
imposes certain restrictions on employee benefit plans ('Plans') that are
subject to ERISA and on persons who are fiduciaries with respect to such Plans.
In accordance with ERISA's general fiduciary requirements, a fiduciary with
respect to any such Plan who is considering the purchase of the Offered
Securities on behalf of such Plan should determine whether such purchase is
permitted under the governing Plan documents and is prudent and appropriate for
the Plan in view of its overall investment policy and the composition and
diversification of its portfolio. Other provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the 'Code'), prohibit certain
transactions involving the assets of a Plan and persons who have certain
specified relationships to the Plan ('parties in interest' within the meaning of
ERISA or 'disqualified persons' within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code).
Thus, a Plan fiduciary considering the purchase of the Offered Securities should
consider whether such a purchase might constitute or result in a prohibited
transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
 
     The Company, directly or through its affiliates, may be considered a 'party
in interest' or a 'disqualified person' with respect to many Plans that are
subject to ERISA. The purchase of Offered Securities by a Plan that is subject
to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or the prohibited
transaction provisions of Section 4975 of the Code (including individual
retirement accounts and other plans described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code)
and with respect to which the Company is a party in
 
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interest or a disqualified person may constitute or result in a prohibited
transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless such Offered
Securities are acquired pursuant to and in accordance with an applicable
exemption, such as Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption ('PTCE') 84-14 (an
exemption for certain transactions determined by an independent qualified
professional asset manager), PTCE 91-38 (an exemption for certain transactions
involving bank collective investment funds), PTCE 90-1 (an exemption for certain
transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), or PTCE
95-60 (an exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general
accounts). ANY PENSION OR OTHER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN PROPOSING TO ACQUIRE ANY
OFFERED SECURITIES SHOULD CONSULT WITH ITS COUNSEL.
 
                                    EXPERTS
 

     The financial statements and related schedules included in the 1995 10-K
have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP, independent public accountants, as
indicated in their reports with respect thereto, and are incorporated by
reference in this Prospectus in reliance upon the authority of said firm as
experts in accounting and auditing in giving said reports.


 
                                 LEGAL OPINIONS
 
     Certain legal matters relating to the Securities will be passed upon for
the Company by Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, New York, and for any agents
or underwriters by Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, New York.
 
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                   SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED APRIL 5, 1996
    

PROSPECTUS
$1,000,000,000
SALOMON INC
NOTES, SERIES G
DUE MORE THAN NINE MONTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE

 
Salomon Inc (the 'Company') may from time to time offer its Notes, Series G (the
'Notes') with an aggregate initial public offering price or purchase price of up
to $1,000,000,000. The sale of other securities under the Registration Statement
of which this Prospectus forms a part or under a Registration Statement to which
this Prospectus relates may reduce the amount of Notes that may be sold
hereunder. Each Note will mature more than nine months from its date of issue.
 
The interest rate or interest rate formula, reset provisions, Issue Price,
Stated Maturity, Interest Payment Dates, repayment provisions and certain other
terms (including a Survivor's Option, if applicable) with respect to each Note
will be established at the time of issuance and set forth in a pricing
supplement to this Prospectus (a 'Pricing Supplement'). A Note may bear interest
at a fixed rate (a 'Fixed Rate Note'), which may be zero in the case of certain
Discount Notes, or at a floating rate (a 'Floating Rate Note') determined by
reference to LIBOR, the CD Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds
Rate or the Treasury Rate, as selected by the purchaser and agreed to by the
Company, adjusted by the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, applicable to such
Note. Such fixed rate, Spread or Spread Multiplier may be subject to change as
described in the applicable Pricing Supplement. A Note may be issued as an
amortizing note (an 'Amortizing Note') on which a portion or all the principal
amount is payable prior to Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule or by
application of a formula. The Pricing Supplement also will state whether
interest will be payable monthly, quarterly or semi-annually. Unless otherwise
specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, in the case of a Note that
provides for monthly interest payments, interest will be payable, in arrears, on
the fifteenth day of each calendar month; provided, however, that in the case of
such Note issued between the first and fifteenth day of a calendar month,
interest otherwise payable on the fifteenth day of such calendar month will be
payable on the fifteenth day of the next succeeding calendar month. Unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, in the case of a Note
that provides quarterly interest payments, interest will be payable, in arrears,
commencing on the day that is three months from (i) the day on which such Note
is issued, if such Note is issued on the fifteenth day of a calendar month, or
(ii) the preceding fifteenth day of a calendar month prior to the issuance of
such Note. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, in
the case of a Note that provides for semi-annual interest payments, interest
will be payable, in arrears, commencing on the day that is six months from (i)
the day on which such Note is issued, if such Note is issued on the fifteenth
day of a calendar month, or (ii) the preceding fifteenth day of a calendar month
prior to the issuance of such Note.
 
Each Note will be issued in book-entry form and will be represented only by a

global certificate (a 'Global Certificate') registered in the name of a nominee
of The Depository Trust Company, as depositary (the 'Depositary'), and
certificates representing Notes will not be issued to the beneficial owners
thereof except as otherwise set forth herein. See 'Book-Entry Procedures and
Settlement' and 'Certificated Notes' under 'Description of the Notes' herein.
Beneficial ownership of a Note will be recorded on or through the records of the
brokerage firm or other entity that maintains the beneficial owner's account.
Transfer of ownership of any Note may be effected only through the selling
owner's brokerage firm or such other entity.
 
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE
ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS OR ANY PRICING SUPPLEMENT HERETO. ANY
REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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<CAPTION>
            PRICE TO        UNDERWRITER'S DISCOUNT  PROCEEDS TO THE
            PUBLIC(1)       OR COMMISSION(2)        COMPANY(3)
<S>         <C>             <C>                     <C>
Per Note... 100.000%        .500%-2.750%            97.250%-99.500%
Total...... $1,000,000,000  $5,000,000-$27,500,000  $972,500,000-$995,000,000
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the price
    to public will be 100% of the principal amount.
 
(2) The underwriter's discount, which will be a percentage of the principal
    amount of each Note, will vary depending on the Stated Maturity of such
    Note.
 
(3) Before deduction of expenses payable by the Company estimated at $4,525,000,
    including reimbursement of certain expenses of Salomon Brothers Inc (the
    'Underwriter').
 

The Notes will be sold through the Underwriter acting as principal, unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement. The Pricing Supplement
with respect to each offering of Notes will set forth, among other things, the
fixed price to public of such Notes, or that such Notes will be resold to one or
more purchasers at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the
time of resale,the proceeds to the Company from such sale, the underwriter's
discount and any dealer's selling concession and the name of the underwriter, if
other than Salomon Brothers Inc. The Notes will not be listed on any securities
exchange, and there can be no assurance that the maximum amount of Notes offered
by this Prospectus will be sold or that there will be a secondary market for the
Notes. The Company reserves the right to withdraw, cancel or modify the offer
made hereby without notice. Any Notes offered through the Underwriter (or any
other underwriter named in the applicable Pricing Supplement) acting as
principal are offered subject to receipt and acceptance by the Underwriter, to

prior sale and to the Underwriter's right to reject any order in whole or in
part and to withdraw, cancel or modify the offer made hereby without notice. See
'Plan of Distribution'.

 

The Prospectus and the accompanying Pricing Supplement may be used by the
Company, Salomon Brothers Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, or
other affiliates of the Company in connection with offers and sales related to
secondary market transactions in the Notes offered hereby and approximately
$454,602,000 of Notes initially sold pursuant to an earlier prospectus, as
described herein. Salomon Brothers Inc or other such Company affiliates may act
as principal or agent in such transactions. Such sales will be made at varying
prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale.

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SALOMON BROTHERS INC
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The date of this Prospectus is April   , 1996


Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A
registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be  sold nor may
offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes
effective. This prospectus and any prospectus supplement shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to  buy nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such State.


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                             AVAILABLE INFORMATION
 
     The Company is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the 'Exchange Act'), and in accordance
therewith files reports, proxy statements and other information with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'Commission'). Reports, proxy statements
and other information concerning the Company can be inspected and copied at the
public reference facilities maintained by the Commission at Room 1024, 450 Fifth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and at the Commission's Regional Offices
at Seven World Trade Center, 13th Floor, New York, New York 10048, and Citicorp
Center, 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661. Copies of
such material can be obtained upon written request addressed to the Commission,
Public Reference Section, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, at
prescribed rates. In addition, reports, proxy statements and other information
concerning the Company may be inspected at the offices of the New York Stock
Exchange, Inc., 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005 and the American Stock
Exchange, 86 Trinity Place, New York, New York 10006.
 
     The Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on Form
S-3 (herein, together with all amendments and exhibits, referred to as the
'Registration Statement') under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
'Securities Act'), relating to the Notes. This Prospectus does not contain all
the information set forth in the Registration Statement, certain parts of which
are omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission. For
further information, reference is hereby made to the Registration Statement.
 
                INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
 

     The following documents, filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant
to Section 13 of the Exchange Act (File No. 1-4346), are incorporated herein by
reference: (i) the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
1995 (the '1995 10-K'); and (ii) the Current Reports on Form 8-K dated January
23, 1996, February 1, 1996 and February 12, 1996.

 
     All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Prospectus and prior to
the termination of the offering of the Notes shall be deemed to be incorporated
by reference in this Prospectus.
 
     Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to
be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein
or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Prospectus.
 
     THE COMPANY WILL PROVIDE WITHOUT CHARGE TO EACH PERSON, INCLUDING ANY
BENEFICIAL OWNER, TO WHOM A COPY OF THIS PROSPECTUS IS DELIVERED, ON THE WRITTEN
OR ORAL REQUEST OF ANY SUCH PERSON, A COPY OF ANY OR ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS
INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE, EXCEPT THE EXHIBITS TO SUCH DOCUMENTS (UNLESS

SUCH EXHIBITS ARE SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN SUCH DOCUMENTS).
WRITTEN REQUESTS FOR SUCH COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE CORPORATE SECRETARY,
SALOMON INC, SEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10048. TELEPHONE
REQUESTS FOR SUCH COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE CORPORATE SECRETARY AT (212)
783-7000.
 
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     IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, THE UNDERWRITER MAY OVER-ALLOT OR EFFECT
TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICE OF THE DEBT SECURITIES
AT A LEVEL ABOVE THAT WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE PREVAIL IN THE OPEN MARKET. SUCH
STABILIZING, IF COMMENCED, MAY BE DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.
 
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     Pursuant to a Prospectus dated December 14, 1993 (and applicable Pricing
Supplements) filed with the Commission under Registration Statement No. 33-51269
and a Prospectus dated October 12, 1994 (and applicable Pricing Supplements)
filed with the Commission under Registration Statement No. 33-54929, the Company
had outstanding as of March 31, 1996 approximately $454,602,000 of its Notes,
Series G. The Notes offered by this Prospectus are part of the same series of
Notes as the Notes described in the preceding sentence.

 
                                  SALOMON INC
 

     Salomon Inc was incorporated in 1960 under the laws of the State of
Delaware. Salomon Inc conducts global investment banking, global securities and
commodities trading, and U.S. oil refining and gathering activities. Investment
banking activities are conducted by Salomon Brothers Holding Company Inc and its
subsidiaries ('Salomon Brothers'), including Salomon Brothers Inc. Salomon
Brothers provides capital raising, advisory, trading and risk management
services to its customers, and executes proprietary trading strategies on its
own behalf. Salomon Inc's commodities trading activities are conducted by the
Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Phibro Inc. and its subsidiaries. Oil
refining and gathering activities are conducted by Basis Petroleum, Inc. At
December 31, 1995, the Company employed 8,439 people.

 
     The Company's principal executive offices are located at Seven World Trade
Center, New York, New York 10048 (telephone (212) 783-7000). Its registered
office in Delaware is c/o Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801.
 
                                USE OF PROCEEDS
 
     The proceeds to be received by the Company from the sale of the Notes will
be used for general corporate purposes, principally to fund the business of its
operating units and to fund investments in, or extensions of credit to, its
subsidiaries and to lengthen the average maturity of liabilities, which may
include the reduction of short-term liabilities or the refunding of maturing
indebtedness.

 
                       RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
 

     The ratio of earnings to fixed charges was 1.12, 0.83, 1.32, 1.25 and 1.16,
for the years 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992 and 1991, respectively. Such ratios were
calculated by dividing fixed charges into the sum of earnings before taxes and
fixed charges. Fixed charges consist largely of interest expense, including
capitalized interest, and a portion of rental expense representative of the
interest factor. For the year ended December 31, 1994, earnings as defined were
inadequate to cover fixed charges. The amount by which fixed charges exceed
earnings as defined for the year ended December 31, 1994 was $834 million.

 
                            DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES
 
     The Notes will be issued as a series under an indenture, dated as of
December 1, 1988 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the
'Indenture'), between the Company and Citibank, N. A., a national banking
association (the 'Trustee'). The Notes will rank pari passu with all other
unsecured debt of the Company except subordinated debt. A copy of the Indenture
has previously been filed with the Commission and is incorporated by reference
as part of the Registration Statement. The following summary of certain
provisions of the Indenture and the Notes does not purport to be complete and
such summary is subject to the detailed provisions of the Indenture, to which
reference is hereby made for a full description of such provisions, including
the definition of certain capitalized terms used herein, and for other
information regarding the Notes. Numerical references in parentheses below are
to sections in the Indenture. Wherever particular sections or defined terms of
the Indenture are referred to, such sections or defined terms are incorporated
herein by reference as part of the statement made, and the statement is
qualified in its entirety by such reference.
 
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     The Indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount of Debt
Securities, which term includes the Notes offered hereby, that may be issued
thereunder and provides that Debt Securities may be issued from time to time in
series (Section 301).
 
GENERAL
 

     At the date of this Prospectus, the Notes offered pursuant to this
Prospectus are limited to an aggregate initial public offering price or purchase
price of up to $1,000,000,000, which amount may be reduced as a result of the
sale of other securities under the Registration Statement of which this
Prospectus forms a part or under a Registration Statement to which this
Prospectus relates. In addition, the Company had outstanding as of March 31,
1996 approximately $454,602,000 of Series G Notes sold pursuant to an earlier
prospectus. The aggregate amount of Notes may be increased from time to time to
such larger amount as may be authorized by the Company. The Notes will be
represented only by Global Certificates registered in the name of a nominee of
the Depositary, except as described below under 'Certificated Notes'. The

nominal authorized denominations of the Notes will be $1,000 and any larger
amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000. Each Note will mature more than
nine months from its date of issue on the day that is the final Interest Payment
Date for such Note.

 
     Each Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date (as defined
below)at the rate per annum stated on the face thereof until the principal
amount thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest on each Note will
be payable, in arrears, either monthly, quarterly or semi-annually. Unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, in the case of a Note
that provides for monthly interest payments, interest will be payable on the
fifteenth day of each calendar month; provided, however, that in the case of
such Note issued between a Regular Record Date (as defined below) and an
Interest Payment Date, interest will be payable on the next succeeding Interest
Payment Date. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
in the case of a Note that provides for quarterly interest payments, interest
will be payable commencing on the day that is three months from (i) the Original
Issue Date, if such Note is issued on the fifteenth day of a calendar month, or
(ii) the preceding fifteenth day of a calendar month prior to the Original Issue
Date. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, in the
case of a Note that provides for semi-annual interest payments, interest will be
payable commencing on the day that is six months from (i) the Original Issue
Date, if such Note is issued on the fifteenth day of a calendar month, or (ii)
the preceding fifteenth day of a calendar month prior to the Original Issue
Date. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date for a Note will be
the first day of the calendar month in which such Interest Payment Date occurs,
except that the Regular Record Date with respect to the final Interest Payment
Date will be the final Interest Payment Date. Each payment of interest in
respect of an Interest Payment Date will include interest accrued to such
Interest Payment Date.
 

     The Pricing Supplement relating to a Note will set forth, among other
things, the following terms: (i) whether such Note is a Fixed Rate Note, a
Floating Rate Note and/or an Amortizing Note, (ii) the price at which such Note
will be issued (the 'Issue Price'); (iii) the date on which such Note will be
issued (the 'Original Issue Date'); (iv) the date on which such Note will mature
(the 'Stated Maturity'); (v) if such Note is a Fixed Rate Note, the rate per
annum at which such Note will bear interest, if any, and whether and the manner
in which such rate may be changed prior to its Stated Maturity; (vi) if such
Note is a Floating Rate Note, the Base Rate, the Initial Interest Rate, the
Interest Period or the Interest Reset Dates, the Interest Payment Dates, and, if
applicable, the Index Maturity, the Maximum Interest Rate, the Minimum Interest
Rate, the Spread or Spread Multiplier (all as defined below), and any other
terms relating to the particular method of calculating the interest rate for
such Note and whether and the manner in which such Spread or Spread Multiplier
may be changed prior to Stated Maturity; (vii) whether such Note is an Original
Issue Discount Note (as defined below); (viii) if such Note is an Amortizing
Note, the terms for repayment prior to Stated Maturity; (ix) whether such Note
may be redeemed at the option of the Company, or repaid at the option of the
Holder, prior to Stated Maturity as described under 'Optional Redemption,
Repayment and Repurchase' below and, if so, the provisions


 
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relating to such redemption or repayment, including, in the case of an Original
Issue Discount Note, the information necessary to determine the amount due upon
redemption; (x) whether the Holder of such Note has a Survivor's Option, as
described below under 'Repayment Upon Death'; and (xi) any other terms not
inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture.

 
     'Original Issue Discount Note' means (i) a Note, including any Note whose
interest rate is zero, that has a stated redemption price at Stated Maturity
that exceeds its Issue Price by at least 0.25% of its stated redemption price at
Stated Maturity, multiplied by the number of full years from the Original Issue
Date to the Stated Maturity for such Note and (ii) any other Note designated by
the Company as issued with original issue discount for United States Federal
income tax purposes.
 
     A 'basis point' or 'bp' equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point.
 
REPAYMENT UPON DEATH
 
     The Pricing Supplement relating to any Note will indicate whether the
Holder of such Note will have the option (the 'Survivor's Option') to elect
repayment of such Note prior to its Stated Maturity in the event of the death of
the beneficial owner of such Note. SEE THE PRICING SUPPLEMENT TO DETERMINE
WHETHER THE SURVIVOR'S OPTION APPLIES TO ANY PARTICULAR NOTE.
 
   
     Pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option, if applicable, the Company
will repay any Note properly tendered for repayment by or on behalf of the
person (the 'Representative') that has authority to act on behalf of the
deceased beneficial owner of such Note under the laws of the appropriate
jurisdiction (including, without limitation, the personal representative,
executor, surviving joint tenant or surviving tenant by the entirety of such
deceased beneficial owner) at a price equal to the Amortized Face Amount 
thereof, subject to the following limitations. The Company may, in its sole
discretion, limit to $2,500,000 the aggregate principal amount of Notes as to
which exercises of the Survivor's Option will be accepted in any calendar year
(the 'Annual Put Limitation') and, in the event that the Annual Put Limitation
is applied, limit to $250,000 the aggregate principal amount of Notes (or
portions thereof) as to which exercise of the Survivor's Option will be accepted
in such calendar year with respect to any individual deceased beneficial owner
of Notes. Moreover, the Company will not make principal repayments pursuant to
exercise of the Survivor's Option in amounts that are less than $5,000, and, in
the event that the limitations described in the preceding sentence would result
in the partial repayment of any Note, the principal amount of such Note
remaining outstanding after repayment must be at least $5,000 (the minimum
authorized denomination of the Notes). Any Note tendered pursuant to exercise of
the Survivor's Option may be withdrawn by a written request of its Holder
received by the Trustee prior to its repayment.
    

   

  The Amortized Face Amount of a Note on any date shall be the
amount equal to (i)[nb]the Issue Price set forth on the face of the
applicable Pricing Supplement plus (ii)[nb]that portion of the
difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal amount of
such Note that has accrued by such date at (x)[nb]the Bond Yield to
Maturity set forth on the face of the applicable Pricing Supplement or
(y)[nb]if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the Bond
Yield to Call set forth on the face thereof (computed in each case in
accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), [cfi]provided, however,[cfn] that in no event shall the
Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The
Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of a Pricing Supplement shall be
computed on the basis of the first occuring Optional Redemption Date
with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such Optional
Redemption Date. In the event that any such Note is not redeemed on such
first occuring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption
Date on the basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the
amount payable on such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to
be so recomputed on each succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the
Note is so redeemed.
     
     
     Each Note that is tendered pursuant to valid exercise of the Survivor's
Option will be accepted promptly in the order all such Notes are tendered,
except for any Note (or portion thereof) the acceptance of which would (i)
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during the then current calendar year of an aggregate principal amount
of Notes (or portions thereof) exceeding $250,000 with respect to the
relevant individual deceased beneficial owner. If as of the end of any
calendar year the Company has not imposed the Annual Put Limitation or
the aggregate principal amount of Notes that have been accepted pursuant
to exercise of the Survivor's Option during such year has not exceeded
the Annual Put Limitation for such year, any exercise(s) of the
Survivor's Option with respect to Notes (or portions thereof) not
accepted during such calendar year because more than $250,000 aggregate
principal amount of Notes was tendered with respect to an individual
deceased beneficial owner will be accepted in the order all such Notes
were tendered, to the extent that any such exercise would not trigger
the Annual Put Limitation, if any, for such calendar year. Any Note (or
portion thereof)accepted for repayment pursuant to exercise of the
Survivor's Option will be repaid on the first Interest Payment Date that
occurs 20 or more calendar days after the date of such acceptance. Each
Note (or any portion thereof) tendered for repayment that is not
accepted in any calendar year due to the application of the Annual Put
Limitation will be deemed to be tendered in the following calendar year
in the order in which all such Notes were originally tendered, unless
any such Note is withdrawn by its Holder. In the event that a Note (or
any portion thereof) tendered for repayment pursuant to valid exercise

of the Survivor's Option is not accepted, the Trustee will deliver a notice 
to any affected Representative by first-class mail to the broker or
other entity that represents the deceased beneficial owner of the Note
or, in the case of a certificated Note, to the registered Holder thereof
at its last known address as indicated on the records of the Security
Registrar that states the reasons such Note (or portion thereof) has not
been accepted for repayment.
 
     Subject to the foregoing, in order for a Survivor's Option to be validly
exercised, the Trustee must receive (i) a written request for repayment signed
by the Representative, and such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of
a registered national securities exchange or of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an office
or correspondent in the United States, (ii) tender of the Note to be repaid,
(iii) appropriate evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee that (A)
the Representative has authority to act on behalf of the deceased beneficial
owner, (B) the death of such beneficial owner has occurred and (C) the deceased
was the beneficial owner of such Note at the time of death, (iv) if applicable,
a properly executed assignment or endorsement, and (v) if the Note is held by a
nominee of the deceased beneficial owner, a certificate satisfactory to the
Trustee from such nominee attesting to the beneficial ownership of such Note.
All questions as to the eligibility or validity of any exercise of the
Survivor's Option will be determined by the Company, in its sole discretion,
which determinations will be final and binding on all parties.
 
     If a Note is represented by a Global Certificate, the Depositary's nominee
will be the Holder of such Note and therefore will be the only entity that can
exercise the Survivor's Option for such Note. To obtain repayment pursuant to
exercise of the Survivor's Option with respect to such Note, the Representative
must provide to the broker or other entity through which the deceased beneficial
owner holds an interest in such Note (i) the documents described in clauses (i)
and (iii) of the preceding paragraph and (ii) instructions to such broker or
other entity to notify the Depositary of such Representative's desire to obtain
repayment pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option. Such broker or other
entity will provide to the Trustee (i) the documents received from the
Representative referred to in clause (i) of the preceding sentence, (ii) its
tender of such Note pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option and (iii) a
certificate satisfactory to the Trustee from such broker or other entity stating
that it represents the deceased beneficial owner. Such broker or other entity
will be responsible for disbursing any payments it receives pursuant to exercise
of the Survivor's Option to the appropriate Representative.
 
     A REPRESENTATIVE MAY OBTAIN THE FORMS USED TO EXERCISE THE SURVIVOR'S
OPTION FROM CITIBANK, N. A., THE TRUSTEE, AT 111 WALL STREET, 5TH FLOOR, NEW
YORK, NEW YORK 10043 (TELEPHONE (212) 412-6206), DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS.
 
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OPTIONAL REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE

      The Pricing Supplement relating to each Note will indicate either that
such Note cannot be redeemed prior to its Stated Maturity or that such Note will
be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, and the date or

dates (each an 'Optional Redemption Date') on which such Note may be redeemed
and the price (the 'Redemption Price') at which (together with accrued interest
to such Optional Redemption Date) such Note may be redeemed on each such
Optional Redemption Date. The Company may exercise such option with respect to a
Note by notifying the Trustee for such Note at least 45 days prior to any
Optional Redemption Date. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to the date of
redemption, such Trustee shall mail notice of such redemption, first class, 
postage prepaid, to the Holder of such Note. In the event of redemption of 
a Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the unredeemed portion thereof 
shall be issued to the Holder thereof upon the cancellation thereof. The 
Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

     The Pricing Supplement relating to each Note will also indicate whether the
Holder of such Note will have the option to elect repayment of such Note by the
Company prior to its Stated Maturity, and, if so, such Pricing Supplement will
specify the date or dates on which such Note may be repaid (each an 'Optional
Repayment Date') and the price (the 'Optional Repayment Price') at which,
together with accrued interest to such Optional Repayment Date, such Note may be
repaid on each such Optional Repayment Date.

     In order for a Note to be repaid, the Trustee for such Note must receive,
at least 30 but not more than 45 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i)
such Note with the form entitled 'Option to Elect Repayment' on the reverse
thereof duly completed, or (ii) a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter from a member of a national securities exchange or the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company in
the United States setting forth the name of the Holder of such Note, the
principal amount of such Note to be repaid, the certificate number or a
description of the tenor and terms of such Note, a statement that the option to
elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee that the Note to be
repaid with the form entitled 'Option to Elect Repayment' on the reverse of the
Note duly completed will be received by such Trustee not later than five
Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is
followed, then such Note and form duly completed must be received by such
Trustee by such fifth Business Day. Any tender of a Note by the Holder for
repayment (except pursuant to a Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be
irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder of a Note for
less than the entire principal amount of such Note provided that the principal
amount of such Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized
denomination. Upon such partial repayment, such Note shall be cancelled and a
new Note or Notes for the remaining principal amount thereof shall be issued in
the name of the Holder of such repaid Note.
      If a Note is represented by a Global Security, the Depositary's nominee
will be the Holder of such Note and therefore will be the only entity that can
exercise a right to repayment. In order to ensure that the Depositary's nominee
will timely exercise a right to repayment with respect to a particular Note, the
beneficial owner of such Note must instruct the broker or other direct or
indirect participant through which it holds an interest in such Note to notify
the Depositary of its desire to exercise a right to repayment. Different firms
have different cut-off times for accepting instructions from their customers
and, accordingly, each beneficial owner should consult the broker or other
direct or indirect participant through which it holds an interest in a Note in

order to ascertain the cut-off time by which such an instruction must be given
in order for timely notice to be delivered to the Depositary.

     Notwithstanding anything in this Prospectus to the contrary, if a Note is
an Original Issue Discount Note, the amount payable on such Note in the event of
redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than pursuant to an
optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price)

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shall be the Amortized Face Amount of such Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be.
 
     The Company may at any time purchase Notes at any price in the open market
or otherwise. Notes so purchased by the Company, may, at the discretion of the
Company, be held or resold or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. The
Notes will not be subject to a sinking fund.

BOOK-ENTRY PROCEDURES AND SETTLEMENT
 
     The Notes offered hereby will be issued only in book-entry form from the
perspective of beneficial owners of Notes ('Noteholders'), except as described
below under 'Certificated Notes'. Notes having the same Original Issue Date,
interest rate and Stated Maturity will typically be issued in the form of a
single Global Certificate registered in the name of a nominee of the Depositary
(Section 303).
 
     The Depositary's nominee will be considered the sole Holder of the Notes
represented by a Global Certificate for all purposes of the Indenture. Owners of
beneficial interests in a Global Certificate will not be entitled to have Notes
registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical
delivery of Notes in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders of
Notes under the Indenture (except as described below under 'Certificated
Notes').
 
     A Noteholder's beneficial ownership of a Note will be recorded on or
through the records of the brokerage firm or other entity that maintains such
Noteholder's account. In turn, the total number of Notes held by an individual
brokerage firm or other entity for its clients will be maintained on the records
of the Depositary in the name of such brokerage firm or other entity (or in the
name of a Participant (as defined below) that acts as the agent for the
Noteholder's brokerage firm or other entity if it is not a Participant).
Therefore, a Noteholder must rely upon the records of such brokerage firm or
other entity to evidence such Noteholder's beneficial ownership of a Note.
Transfer of ownership of any Note may be effected only through the selling
Noteholder's brokerage firm or such other entity.
 
     The Depositary has advised the Company as follows: The Depositary is a
limited-purpose trust company organized under New York Banking Law, a 'banking
organization' within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the
Federal Reserve System, a 'clearing corporation' within the meaning of the New
York Uniform Commercial Code, and a 'clearing agency' registered pursuant to the
provisions of Section 17A of the Exchange Act. The Depositary was created to

hold securities of its Participants and to facilitate the clearance and
settlement of transactions among its Participants in such securities through
electronic book-entry changes in accounts of the Participants, thereby
eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates.
Participants include securities brokers and dealers (including the Underwriter),
banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations,
some of whom (and/or their representatives) own the Depositary. Access to the
Depositary's book-entry system is also available to others, such as banks,
brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial
relationship with a Participant, either directly or indirectly.
 
PAYMENTS OF INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL
 
     Payments of interest and principal on a Note payable on any Interest
Payment Date and at Stated Maturity will be made by the Company to the Trustee
in immediately available funds, unless such Note is represented by an individual
certificate. See 'Certificated Notes' below. Thereafter on such Interest Payment
Date or at Stated Maturity, the Trustee will pay to the Depositary, in funds
immediately available to the Depositary, the amount of interest and principal
(if any) due on such date. Any payment required to be made in respect of a Note
on a day (including the day of Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day need
not be made on such day, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day
with the same force and effect as if made on such day, and no additional
interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed payment. 'Business Day' with
respect to any Note means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is (i)
not a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or
regulation to be closed in the City of New York and (ii) if such Note is a LIBOR
Note (as defined

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below), a London Banking Day. 'London Banking Day' with respect to any Note
means any day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in
the London interbank market.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, if the
principal of any Discount Note is declared to be due and payable immediately as
described under 'Description of the Notes--Events of Default', the amount of
principal due and payable with respect to such Note shall be limited to the
aggregate principal amount of such Note multiplied by the sum of the Issue Price
(expressed as a percentage of the aggregate principal amount) plus the original
issue discount amortized from the date of issue to the date of declaration,
which amortization shall be calculated using the 'interest method' (computed in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in effect on the date
of declaration).
 
     The Depositary will be responsible for crediting the payments on the
Notes that it receives from the Trustee to the accounts of Participants in
accordance with procedures that provide for payment in same-day funds. Each
Participant will be responsible for disbursing such payments to the
Noteholders that it represents and to each brokerage firm or other entity for
which it acts as agent. Each such brokerage firm or other entity will be
responsible for disbursing funds to the Noteholders that it represents.

 
     All moneys paid by the Company to the Trustee or any other Paying Agent for
the payment of principal of or interest on any Note that remain unclaimed at the
end of two years after such principal or interest shall have become due and
payable will be repaid to the Company, and the Holder of such Note will
thereafter look only to the Company for payment thereof (Section 1204).
 
     None of the Company, the Trustee or any other Paying Agent or Security
Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial ownership
interests in the Notes, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records
relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
 
FIXED RATE NOTES
 
     Each Fixed Rate Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date, or
from the last Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, at the rate per annum stated in the applicable Pricing Supplement
until the principal amount thereof is paid or made available for payment, except
that if so specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the rate of interest
payable on certain Fixed Rate Notes may be subject to adjustment from time to
time as described in such Pricing Supplement. Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, if an Interest Payment Date with respect to any
Fixed Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such
Interest Payment Date shall not be postponed; provided, however, that any
payment required to be made in respect of such Note on a date (including the day
of Stated Maturity) that is not a Business Day for such Note need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall
accrue as a result of such delayed payment. However, if with respect to any
Fixed Rate Note, 'Accrue to Pay' is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, and any Interest Payment Date with respect to such Fixed Rate Note
would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date
shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day. Each payment of interest
in respect of an Interest Payment Date shall include interest accrued through
the day before such Interest Payment Date. Unless otherwise specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, interest on Fixed Rate Notes will be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months ('30 over 360').
 
FLOATING RATE NOTES
 
     From its Original Issue Date to but not including the first Interest Reset
Date (the 'Initial Interest Period'), each Floating Rate Note will bear interest
at the Initial Interest Rate set forth, or otherwise described in the Pricing
Supplement. From each Interest Reset Date to but not including the following
Interest Reset Date (each such period, an 'Interest Reset Period'; and together
with the Initial Interest
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Period, the 'Interest Periods'), the interest rate for each Floating Rate Note
will be determined by reference to an interest rate basis (the 'Base Rate'),
plus or minus the Spread, if any, or multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if
any. The 'Spread' is the number of basis points that may be specified in the

applicable Pricing Supplement as being applicable to such Note, and the 'Spread
Multiplier' is the percentage that may be specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement as being applicable to such Note, except that if so specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement, the Spread or Spread Multiplier on certain
Floating Rate Notes may be subject to adjustment from time to time as described
in such Pricing Supplement. The applicable Pricing Supplement will designate one
of the following Base Rates as applicable to a Floating Rate Note: (i) LIBOR (a
'LIBOR Note'), (ii) the Commercial Paper Rate (a 'Commercial Paper Rate Note'),
(iii) the Treasury Rate (a 'Treasury Rate Note'), (iv) the Federal Funds Rate (a
'Federal Funds Rate Note') or (v) the CD Rate (a 'CD Rate Note'). The 'Index
Maturity' for any Floating Rate Note is the period of maturity of the instrument
or obligation from which the Base Rate is calculated. 'H.15(519)' means the
publication entitled 'Statistical Release H.15(519), 'Selected Interest Rates',
or any successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System. 'Composite Quotations' means the daily statistical release
entitled 'Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities'
published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
 
     As specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, a Floating Rate Note may
also have either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per
annum on a simple interest basis): (i) a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the
rate at which interest may accrue during any interest period ('Maximum Interest
Rate') and (ii) a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest
may accrue during any interest period ('Minimum Interest Rate'). In addition to
any Maximum Interest Rate that may be applicable to any Floating Rate Note, the
interest rate on a Floating Rate Note will in no event be higher than the
maximum rate permitted by applicable law, as the same may be modified by United
States law of general application. The Notes will be governed by the law of the
State of New York and, under such law as of the date of this Prospectus
Supplement, the maximum rate of interest under provisions of the penal law, with
certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a simple interest basis. Such maximum
rate of interest only applies to obligations that are less than $2,500,000.
 
     The Company will appoint, and enter into agreements with, agents (each a
'Calculation Agent') to calculate interest rates on Floating Rate Notes. Unless
otherwise specified in a Pricing Supplement, Citibank, N.A. shall be the
Calculation Agent for each Note. All determinations of interest by the
Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all
purposes and binding on the holders of the Floating Rate Notes.
 
     The interest rate on each Floating Rate Note will be reset daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (each day on which the interest
rate is reset, an 'Interest Reset Date'), as specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
Interest Reset Period will be monthly for Floating Rate Notes on which interest
is payable monthly, quarterly for Floating Rate Notes on which interest is
payable quarterly, and semiannually for Floating Rate Notes on which interest is
payable semiannually. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the Interest Reset Dates will be, in the case of Floating Rate Notes
that reset daily, each Business Day; in the case of Floating Rate Notes (other
than Treasury Rate Notes) that reset weekly, Wednesday of each week; in the case
of Treasury Rate Notes that reset weekly, Tuesday of each week (except as
provided below under 'Treasury Rate Notes'); in the case of Floating Rate Notes
that reset monthly, quarterly or semiannually, each Interest Payment Date other

than the Final Interest Payment Date; provided, however,that in all instances
involving Floating Rate Notes issued prior to September 16, 1994 the interest
rate in effect for the ten days immediately prior to Stated Maturity will be
that in effect on the tenth day preceding Stated Maturity. If an Interest Reset
Date for any Floating Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is not a Business
Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business
Day, except that, in the case of a LIBOR Note, if such Business Day is in the
next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date shall be the
immediately preceding Business Day.

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     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the rate
of interest that goes into effect on any Interest Reset Date shall be determined
on a date (the 'Rate Determination Date') preceding such Interest Reset Date, as
further described below. Such Rate Determination Date may be referred to below
as a 'CD Rate Determination Date' in the case of a CD Rate Note, a 'Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date' in the case of a Commercial Paper Rate Note, a
'Federal Funds Rate Determination Date' in the case of a Federal Funds Rate
Note, a 'LIBOR Determination Date' in the case of a LIBOR Note or a 'Treasury
Rate Determination Date' or a 'Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination
Date' in the case of a Treasury Rate Note.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, interest
payable in respect of Floating Rate Notes shall be the accrued interest from and
including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been
paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment Date.
In the case of a Floating Rate Note that resets daily or weekly, interest
payable shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date
or the last date to which interest has been accrued and paid, as the case may
be, to but excluding the Record Date immediately preceding the applicable
Interest Payment Date, except that, at Stated Maturity, interest payable will
include interest accrued to but excluding the date of Stated Maturity.
 
     With respect to a Floating Rate Note with more than one Interest Reset Date
during any period for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued
interest shall be calculated by multiplying the principal amount of such Note by
an accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor will be computed by
adding the interest factors calculated for each day in the period for which
accrued interest is being calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a
decimal calculated to seven decimal places without rounding) for each such day
is computed, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, by
dividing the interest rate in effect on such day by 360 ('Actual over 360'), in
the case of LIBOR Notes, Commercial Paper Rate Notes, Federal Funds Rate Notes
and CD Rate Notes, or by the actual number of days in the year ('Actual over
Actual'), in the case of Treasury Rate Notes. For purposes of making the
foregoing calculation, the interest rate in effect on any Interest Reset Date
will be the applicable rate as reset on such date. With respect to all other
Floating Rate Notes, accrued interest shall be calculated by multiplying the
principal amount of such Note (or, in the case of a Floating Rate Note that is
an Indexed Principal Note, its Face Amount) by the interest rate in effect
during the period for which accrued interest is being calculated, and
multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing the number of days
in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated by 360, in the case

of LIBOR Notes, Commercial Paper Rate Notes, Federal Funds Rate Notes and CD
Rate Notes, or by the actual number of days in the year, in the case of Treasury
Rate Notes.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, all
percentages resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest on a Floating
Rate Note will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1%
(.0000001), with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and
all currency amounts used in or resulting from such calculation on Floating Rate
Notes will be rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a
unit being rounded upward).
 
     If an Interest Payment Date with respect to any Floating Rate Note would
otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall
be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except that, in the case of a
LIBOR Note, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such
Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day; provided,
however, if with respect to any Floating Rate Note, the applicable Pricing
Supplement provides that the Note does not Accrue to Pay, if an Interest Payment
Date with respect to such Floating Rate Note would otherwise be a day that is
not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall not be postponed; provided,
further, that any payment required to be made in respect of a Floating Rate Note
that is not Accrue to Pay on a date (including the day of Stated Maturity)that
is not a Business Day for such Note need not be made on such date, but may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on such dates, and no additional interest shall accrue as a result of such
delayed payment.
 
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     Upon the request of the Holder of any Floating Rate Note, the Calculation
Agent for such Note will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if
determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date with respect to such Floating Rate Note.
CD Rate Notes
 
     Each CD Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the 'CD
Rate' for each Interest Reset Period shall be the rate as of the second Business
Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a 'CD Rate
Determination Date') for negotiable certificates of deposit having the Index
Maturity designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as published in
H.15(519) under the heading 'CDs (Secondary Market)'. In the event that such
rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation
Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination Date, then the
'CD Rate' for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such CD Rate
Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index Maturity
designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement as published in Composite
Quotations under the heading 'Certificates of Deposit'. If by 3:00 p.m., New
York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in

either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'CD Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be calculated by the Calculation Agent for such CD Rate Note
and will be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market offered rates as of
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD Rate Determination Date of three
leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar certificates of deposit in The
City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such CD Rate Note for
negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States money center banks of
the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable certificates of
deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity designated in
the Pricing Supplement in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however, that
if the dealers selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting
offered rates as mentioned in this sentence, the 'CD Rate' for such Interest
Reset Period will be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any CD Rate Determination Date shall
be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or, if such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.
 
Commercial Paper Rate Notes
 
     Each Commercial Paper Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper
Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in
the applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
'Commercial Paper Rate' for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent for such Commercial Paper Rate Note as of the second Business
Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a
'Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date') and shall be the Money Market Yield
(as defined below)on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate
for commercial paper having the Index Maturity specified in the applicable
Pricing Supplement, as such rate shall be published in H.15(519)under the
heading 'Commercial Paper'. In the event that such rate is not published prior
to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date, then the
'Commercial Paper Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market
Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for
commercial paper of the specified Index Maturity as published in Composite
Quotations under the heading 'Commercial Paper'. If by 3:00 p.m., New York City
time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either
H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the 'Commercial Paper Rate' for
 
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such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic
mean of the offered rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such
Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial
paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for such
Commercial Paper Rate Note for commercial paper of the specified Index Maturity
placed for an industrial issuer whose bonds are rated 'AA' or the equivalent by
a nationally recognized rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers

selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the 'Commercial Paper Rate' for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate).
 
     'Money Market Yield' shall be a yield calculated in accordance with the
following formula:
 
                                    D X 360
          Money Market Yield =  -------------- X 100
                                360 - (D X M)  
 
where 'D' refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and 'M' refers to the actual
number of days in the specified Index Maturity.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.
 
Federal Funds Rate Notes
 
     Each Federal Funds Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate
and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the
applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
'Federal Funds Rate' for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate
on the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a 'Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date') for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the
heading 'Federal Funds (Effective)'. In the event that such rate is not
published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as
defined below) pertaining to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the
'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such
Federal Funds Rate Determination Date as published in Composite Quotations under
the heading 'Federal Funds/Effective Rate'. If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time,
on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or
Composite Quotations, then the 'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset
Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made
publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent
to the rate which appears in H.15(519) under the heading 'Federal Funds
(Effective)'; provided, however, that if such rate is not made publicly
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City
time, on such Calculation Date, the 'Federal Funds Rate' for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate). In the case of a Federal Funds Rate Note that resets
daily, the interest rate on such Note for the period from and including a Monday
to but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset by the Calculation Agent
for such Note on such second Monday (or, if not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the average of the Federal Funds

Rates in effect with respect to each such day in such week.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
 
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LIBOR Notes
 
     Each LIBOR Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.

     With respect to LIBOR indexed to the offered rates for U.S. dollar
deposits, 'LIBOR' for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Notes as follows:
 
          (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
     for such Interest Reset Period (a 'LIBOR Determination Date'), the
     Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the offered rates for
     deposits in U.S. dollars for the period of the Index Maturity specified in
     the applicable Pricing Supplement, commencing on such Interest Reset Date,
     which appear on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
     London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date. If 'LIBOR Telerate' is
     designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, 'Designated LIBOR Page'
     means the display designated as page '3750' on the Dow Jones Telerate
     Service (or such other page as may replace page '3750' on such service or
     such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association
     for the purpose of displaying the London interbank offered rates of major
     banks), and LIBOR for such Interest Reset Period will be the relevant
     offered rate or determined by the Calculation Agent. If 'LIBOR Reuters' is
     designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, 'Designated LIBOR Page'
     means the display designated as page 'LIBO' on the Reuters Monitor Money
     Rates Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO page on such
     service or such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers'
     Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of
     major banks)provided that at least two such offered rates appear on the
     Designated LIBOR Page, in which case 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period
     will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as determined by the
     Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.
 
          (ii) If LIBOR cannot be determined as above (either because the
     Designated LIBOR Page is no longer available or because less than two rates
     appear on page 'LIBO' on the Reuters Monitor Money Rate Services) on such
     LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will
     request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
     London interbank market selected by such Calculation Agent to provide such
     Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the Specified
     Currency for the period of the specified Index Maturity, commencing on such
     Interest Reset Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market at
     approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and
     in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the
     equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of a

     single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such
     quotations are provided, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period will be the
     arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such quotations are
     provided, 'LIBOR' for such Interest Reset Period will be the arithmetic
     mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of New York selected
     by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
     New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination Date for loans in the
     Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the period of the
     specified Index Maturity, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, and in a
     principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the
     equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of a
     single transaction in such market at such time; provided, however, that if
     fewer than three banks selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are
     quoting rates as mentioned in this sentence, 'LIBOR' for such Interest
     Reset Period will be the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding
     Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
     Initial Interest Rate).
 
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Treasury Rate Notes
 
     Each Treasury Rate Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period
at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified in such Note and in the
applicable Pricing Supplement.
 
     Unless 'Constant Maturity' is specified or unless otherwise specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement, the 'Treasury Rate' for each Interest Reset
Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury Rate Determination
Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of direct
obligations of the United States ('Treasury securities') having the Index
Maturity specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, as such rate shall be
published in H.15(519)under the heading 'U.S. Government Securities-Treasury
bills-auction average (investment)' or, in the event that such rate is not
published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as
defined below) pertaining to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction
average rate (expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or
366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate
Determination Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department of the
Treasury. In the event that the results of the auction of Treasury securities
having the specified Index Maturity are not published or reported as provided
above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such
auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the 'Treasury
Rate' for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation
Agent for such Treasury Rate Note and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as
a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and
applied on a daily basis) of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid
rates, as of approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate
Determination Date, of three leading primary United States government securities
dealers selected by such Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury securities
with a remaining maturity closest to the specified Index Maturity; provided,
however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by such Calculation Agent are
not quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the 'Treasury Rate'

for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury Rate for the
immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest
Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).
 
     The 'Treasury Rate Determination Date' for each Interest Reset Period will
be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset
Period falls on which Treasury securities would normally be auctioned. Treasury
securities are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that day
is legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the following
Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday. If, as
the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding Friday,
such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to the
Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction date
shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead be the Business
Day immediately following such auction date.
 
     If 'Constant Maturity' is specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
the 'Treasury Rate' for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate that is set
forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite the caption
'U.S. Government/Securities/Treasury Constant Maturities/' in the Index Maturity
with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination
Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the 'Constant
Maturity-Treasury Rate' shall be the rate that was set forth on Telerate Page
7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation Agent), on the
applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date opposite the
applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be established by
the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will contact the Federal
Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate, in the applicable
Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Determination Date. If the
Federal Reserve Board does not provide such information, then the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean
of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of yield, reported by three leading
U.S. government securities dealers (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc),
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their written records, as of 3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S.
Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less
than exactly the Index Maturity and for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that
is nearest in maturity to the Index Maturity, but not more than exactly the
Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent shall calculate the Constant Maturity
Treasury Rate by interpolating to the Index Maturity based on an actual/actual
date count basis, the yield on the two Treasury Notes selected. If the
Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such adjusted quotations, the Constant
Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean
of all such quotations, or if only one such quotation is obtained, such
quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all events, the Calculation
Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one adjusted yield quotation
can be determined.
 

     'The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date' shall be the tenth
Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable Interest Reset
Period.
 
     The Treasury constant maturity rate for a Treasury security maturity (the
'CMT Rate') as published in H.15(519) as of any Business Day is intended to be
indicative of the yield of a U.S. Treasury security having as of such Business
Day a remaining term to maturity equivalent to such maturity. The CMT Rate as of
any Business Day is based upon an interpolation by the U.S. Treasury of the
daily yield curve of outstanding Treasury securities. This yield curve, which
relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based on the
over-the-counter market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities. Such
yields are calculated from composites of quotations reported by leading U.S.
government securities dealers, which may include Salomon Brothers Inc. Certain
constant maturity yield values are read from the yield curve. Such interpolation
from the yield curve provides a theoretical yield for a Treasury security having
ten years to maturity, for example, even if no outstanding Treasury security has
as of such date exactly ten years remaining to maturity.
 
     The 'Calculation Date' pertaining to any Treasury Rate Determination Date
or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, shall be the tenth
calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or Constant Maturity
Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is not a Business Day,
the next succeeding Business Day.
 
AMORTIZING NOTES
 
     The Company may from time to time offer Notes ('Amortizing Notes') on which
a portion or all the principal amount is payable prior to Stated Maturity in
accordance with a schedule or by application of a formula. Further information
concerning additional terms and conditions of any Amortizing Notes, including
terms for repayment thereof, will be set forth in the applicable Pricing
Supplement.
 
CERTIFICATED NOTES
 
     If the Depositary is at any time unwilling or unable to continue as
depositary and a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90
days, the Company will issue Notes in definitive form in exchange for each
Global Certificate. In addition, the Company may at any time and in its sole
discretion determine not to have Notes represented by Global Certificates and,
in such event, will issue individual Notes in definitive form in exchange for
Global Certificates. In either instance, a beneficial owner of Notes represented
by a Global Certificate will be entitled to have such Notes registered in its
name and will be entitled to physical delivery of such Notes in definitive form.
Individual Notes so issued will be issued as registered Debt Securities, without
coupons, in one or more authorized denominations as described above under
'General' (Section 305). Payments of interest on such Notes (other than interest
payable at Stated Maturity) will be made by check mailed to the registered
Holders thereof. Principal and interest payable at the Stated Maturity of any
such Note will be paid in immediately available funds upon surrender of such
Note at the corporate trust office or agency of the Trustee in the City of New
York (Section 307).
 

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     Certificated Notes may be transferred or exchanged at the corporate trust
office or agency of the Trustee in the City of New York, subject to the
limitations provided in the Indenture, without the payment of any service
charge, other than any tax or governmental charge payable in connection
therewith (Section 305).
 
     If a certificated Note is mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, it may be
replaced at the corporate trust office or agency of the Trustee in the City of
New York upon payment by the Holder of such expenses as may be incurred by the
Company and the Trustee in connection therewith and the furnishing of such
evidence and indemnity as the Company and the Trustee may require. Mutilated
Notes must be surrendered before new Notes will be issued (Section 306).
 
LIMITATION ON LIENS
 
     The Indenture provides that the Company will not, and will not permit any
Restricted Subsidiary to, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any
indebtedness for borrowed money if the payment of such indebtedness is secured
by a pledge of, lien on or security interest in any shares of stock of any
Restricted Subsidiary without effectively providing for the equal and ratable
securing of the payment of the Notes (Section 1205). The term 'Restricted
Subsidiary' is defined in the Indenture to mean each of Phibro Inc. and Salomon
Brothers Inc and any Subsidiary of the Company owning, directly or indirectly,
any of the common stock of, or succeeding to any substantial part of the
business now conducted by, any of such corporations.
 
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
 
     The following events will constitute Events of Default with respect to the
Notes under the Indenture: (i) default in the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) any Note when due; (ii) default for 30 days in the payment
of any interest on any Note when due; (iii) default in the performance of any
other applicable covenant in the Indenture, continued for 60 days after written
notice thereof by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the Notes then Outstanding; and (iv) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency
or reorganization (Section 501).
 
     The Indenture provides that if an Event of Default specified therein shall
occur and be continuing, either the Trustee thereunder or the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding may declare the
principal of and all accrued interest on all such Notes to be due and payable
immediately. In certain cases, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Notes may on behalf of the Holders of all such Notes waive,
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences (Section 502).
 
     The Indenture contains a provision entitling the Trustee, subject to the
duty of the Trustee during the continuance of an Event of Default to act with
the required standard of care, to be indemnified by the Holders of the Notes
before proceeding to exercise any right or power under the Indenture with
respect to the Notes at the request of such Holders (Section 603). The Indenture
provides that no Holder of a Note may institute any proceeding, judicial or
otherwise, to enforce the Indenture except in the case of failure of the

Trustee, for 60 days, to act after it receives (i) written notice of such Event
of Default from such Holder, (ii) a written request to enforce the Indenture by
the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding
(and the Trustee receives no direction inconsistent with such written request
from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then
Outstanding) and (iii) an offer of reasonable indemnity (Section 507). This
provision will not prevent any Holder of a Note from enforcing payment of the
principal thereof (and premium, if any, thereon) and interest thereon at the
respective due dates thereof (Section 508). The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding may direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the Trustee or
of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the
Notes. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts
with law or the Indenture or that would be unjustly prejudicial to Holders not
joining therein (Section 512).
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     The Indenture provides that the Trustee will, within 90 days after the
occurrence of any default with respect to the Notes, give to the Holders of
Notes notice of each such default known to the Trustee, unless such default
shall have been cured or waived; but, except in the case of a default in the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Note, the
Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if it determines in good
faith that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of
Notes (Section 602).
 
     The Company will be required to file annually with the Trustee a
certificate of an appropriate officer of the Company as to the absence of
certain defaults under the terms of the Indenture (Section 1206).
 
MODIFICATION AND WAIVER
 
     The Indenture contains provisions for convening meetings of Holders to
consider matters affecting their interests (Article Nine).
 
     Modifications of and amendments to the Indenture may be made by the Company
and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series affected by such
modification or amendment; provided, however, that no such modification or
amendment may, among other things, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Debt Security affected thereby: (i) change the Stated Maturity of
the principal of, or any installment of interest payable on, any Debt Security;
(ii) reduce the principal amount of, or any interest on or any premium payable
upon redemption of, any Debt Security; (iii) impair the right to institute suit
for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to any Debt Security; or
(iv) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the Outstanding Debt
Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required for
modification or amendment of the Indenture or for waiver of compliance with
certain provisions of the Indenture or waiver of certain defaults (Section
1102).
 
     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt
Securities of each series may, on behalf of all Holders of Debt Securities of
that series, waive, insofar as that series is concerned, compliance by the

Company with certain restrictive provisions of the Indenture before the time for
such compliance (Section 1207). The Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series may, on behalf of all Holders of
Debt Securities of that series, waive any past default under the Indenture with
respect to the Debt Securities of that series, except a default in the payment
of the principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest on any Debt Securities
or in respect of a covenant or provision the modification or amendment of which
would require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Debt Security
affected thereby (Section 513).
 
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND TRANSFER OR LEASE OF ASSETS
 
     The Indenture provides that the Company may not consolidate with or merge
into any corporation, or transfer or lease its assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, unless: (i) the successor corporation or transferee or
lessee (the 'Successor Corporation') is a corporation organized under the laws
of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; (ii) the Successor
Corporation assumes the Company's obligations under the Indenture and on the
Debt Securities; (iii) after giving effect to the transaction, no Event of
Default and no event that, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and (iv) certain
other conditions are met (Section 1001).
 
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CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
 
     The Company and certain of its subsidiaries maintain lines of credit and
have other customary banking relationships with the Trustee and certain of its
affiliates.
 
                        UNITED STATES TAX CONSIDERATIONS
 
     The following is a summary of the principal U.S. Federal income tax
considerations that may be relevant to a holder of a Note that is (i) a U.S.
Person (as defined below) or that otherwise is subject to U.S. Federal income
taxation on a net income basis in respect of a Note (a 'U.S. Holder') or (ii) a
non-U.S. Person. This summary is based on U.S. Federal income tax laws,
regulations, rulings and decisions now in effect, all of which are subject to
prospective or retroactive change. Except to the extent discussed below under
'Non-United States Persons', this summary deals only with U.S. Holders
that will hold Notes as capital assets. Except as expressly indicated, it deals
only with initial holders and does not address tax considerations applicable to
investors that may be subject to special tax rules, such as banks, insurance
companies, dealers in securities, persons that will hold Notes as a position in
a 'straddle' for tax purposes or as part of a 'synthetic security' or other
integrated investment (including a 'conversion transaction') comprised of a Note
and one or more other investments, or persons that have a 'functional currency'
other than the U.S. dollar. It does not include any description of the tax laws
of any state or local governments, or of any foreign government, that may be
applicable to the Notes or to the holders thereof.
 
     As used in this Prospectus, 'U.S. Person' means a citizen or resident of
the United States, a corporation created or organized in or under the laws of

the United States, or a person otherwise subject to United States Federal income
taxation on its worldwide income.
 
     Investors should consult their own tax advisors in determining the tax
consequences to them of holding Notes, including the application to their
particular situation of the U.S. Federal income tax considerations discussed
below, as well as the application of state, local or other tax laws.
 
U.S. HOLDERS
 
PAYMENTS OF INTEREST
 
     In general, interest on a Note (other than certain payments on a Discount
Note, as defined and described below under 'Original Issue Discount') will be
taxable to a U.S. Holder as ordinary income at the time it is received or
accrued, depending on the holder's method of accounting for tax purposes.
 
ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT
 
     The following discussion summarizes the United States Federal income tax
consequences to U.S. Holders of Notes issued with original issue discount
('OID'). U.S. Holders of Notes issued with OID generally will be subject to
special tax accounting rules provided in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the 'Code'). Treasury Department regulations (the 'OID Regulations')
illustrate the rules provided by the Code.
 
     General.  A Note will be treated as issued with OID (a 'Discount Note') if
the excess of the Note's 'stated redemption price at maturity' over its issue
price is greater than a de minimis amount (set forth in the Code and the OID
Regulations). Generally, the issue price of a Note (or any Note that is part of
an issue of Notes) will be the first price at which a substantial amount of
Notes that are part of such issue of Notes are sold (other than to underwriters,
placement agents or wholesalers). Under the OID Regulations, the 'stated
redemption price at maturity' of a Note is the sum of all payments provided by
the Note that are not payments of 'qualified stated interest'. A 'qualified
stated interest' payment includes any stated interest payment on a Note that is
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single fixed rate (or at certain floating rates) that appropriately takes into
account the length of the interval between stated interest payments.
     In general, if the excess of a Note's stated redemption price at maturity
over its issue price is less than 1/4 of one percent of the Note's stated
redemption price at maturity multiplied by the number of complete years to
maturity, then such excess constitutes 'de minimis OID'. Under the OID
Regulations, unless the election described below under 'Election to Treat All
Interest as Original Issue Discount' is made, such a Note will not be treated as
issued with OID (in which case the following paragraphs under 'Original Issue
Discount' will not apply) and a U.S. Holder of such a Note will recognize
capital gain with respect to such de minimis OID as stated principal payments on
the Note are made. The amount of such gain with respect to each such payment
will equal the product of the total amount of the Note's de minimis OID and a
fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of the principal payment made and

the denominator of which is the stated principal amount of the Note.

     In certain cases, Notes that bear stated interest and are issued at par may
be deemed to bear OID for Federal income tax purposes, with the result that the
inclusion of interest in income for Federal income tax purposes may vary from
the actual cash payments of interest made on such Notes, generally accelerating
income for cash method taxpayers. Under the OID Regulations, a Note may be a
Discount Note where, among other things, (i) a Note bearing interest at a
floating rate (a 'Floating Rate Note') provides for a maximum interest rate or a
minimum interest rate that is reasonably expected as of the issue date to cause
the yield on the debt instrument to be significantly less, in the case of a
maximum rate, or more, in the case of a minimum rate, than the expected yield
determined without the maximum or minimum rate, as the case may be; (ii) a
Floating Rate Note provides for significant front-loading or back-loading of
interest; or (iii) certain Notes bear interest at a floating rate in combination
with one or more other floating or fixed rates. Notice will be given in the
applicable Pricing Supplement when the Company determines that a particular Note
will be a Discount Note.
 
     The Code and the OID Regulations provide rules that require a U.S. Holder
of a Discount Note having a maturity of more than one year from its date of
issue to include OID in gross income before the receipt of cash attributable to
such income, without regard to the holder's method of accounting for tax
purposes. The amount of OID includible in gross income by a U.S. Holder of a
Discount Note is the sum of the 'daily portions' of OID with respect to the
Discount Note for each day during the taxable year or portion of the taxable
year in which the U.S. Holder holds such Discount Note ('accrued OID'). The
daily portion is determined by allocating to each day in any 'accrual period' a
pro rata portion of the OID allocable to that accrual period. Under the OID
Regulations, accrual periods with respect to a Note may be any set of periods
(which may be of varying lengths) selected by the U.S. Holder as long as (i) no
accrual period is longer than one year and (ii) each scheduled payment of
interest or principal on the Note occurs on the first day or final day of an
accrual period.
 
     The amount of OID allocable to an accrual period equals the excess of (a)
the product of the Discount Note's adjusted issue price at the beginning of the
accrual period and the Discount Note's yield to maturity (determined on the
basis of compounding at the close of each accrual period and properly adjusted
for the length of the accrual period) over (b) the sum of any payments of
qualified stated interest on the Discount Note allocable to the accrual period.
In the case of a Discount Note that is a Floating Rate Note, both the yield to
maturity and the qualified stated interest will be determined for these purposes
as though the Note will bear interest in all periods at a fixed rate generally
equal to the rate that would be applicable to interest payments on the Note on
its date of issue or, in the case of certain Floating Rate Notes, the rate that
reflects the yield that is reasonably expected for the Note. (Additional rules
may apply if interest on a Floating Rate Note is based on more than one interest
index). The 'adjusted issue price' of a Discount Note at the beginning of the
first accrual period is the issue price and at the beginning of any accrual
period thereafter is (x) the sum of the issue price of such Discount Note, the
accrued OID for each prior accrual period (determined without regard to the
amortization of any acquisition premium or bond premium, which are discussed
below), and the amount of any qualified stated interest on the Note that has

accrued prior to the beginning of the accrual period
 
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but is not payable until a later date, less (y) any prior payments on the
Discount Note that were not qualified stated interest payments. If a payment
(other than a payment of qualified stated interest) is made on the first day of
an accrual period, then the adjusted issue price at the beginning of such
accrual period is reduced by the amount of the payment. All payments on a
Discount Note (other than a payment of qualified stated interest) generally will
be viewed first as payments of previously accrued OID (to the extent thereof),
with payments made for the earliest accrual periods first, and then as a payment
of principal. If a portion of the initial purchase price of a Note is
attributable to interest that accrued prior to the Note's issue date, the first
stated interest payment on the Note is to be made within one year of the Note's
issue date and such payment will equal or exceed the amount of pre-issuance
accrued interest, then the issue price will be decreased by the amount of
pre-issuance accrued interest, in which case a portion of the first stated
interest payment will be treated as a return of the excluded pre-issuance
accrued interest and not as an amount payable on the Note.

     The OID Regulations contain certain special rules that generally allow any
reasonable method to be used in determining the amount of OID allocable to a
short initial accrual period (if all other accrual periods are of equal length)
and require that the amount of OID allocable to the final accrual period equal
the excess of the amount payable at the maturity of the Discount Note (other
than any payment of qualified stated interest) over the Discount Note's adjusted
issue price as of the beginning of such final accrual period. In addition, if an
interval between payments of qualified stated interest on a Discount Note
contains more than one accrual period, then the amount of qualified stated
interest payable at the end of such interval is allocated pro rata (on the basis
of their relative lengths) between the accrual periods contained in the
interval.
 
     U.S. Holders of Discount Notes generally will have to include in income
increasingly greater amounts of OID over the life of the Notes.
 
     Acquisition Premium.  A U.S. Holder that purchases a Discount Note for an
amount in excess of its issue price but less than its stated redemption price at
maturity (any such excess being 'acquisition premium'), and that does not make
the election described below under 'Original Issue Discount--Election To Treat
All Interest as Original Issue Discount', is permitted to reduce the daily
portions of OID by a fraction, the numerator of which is the excess of the U.S.
Holder's purchase price for the Note over the issue price, and the denominator
of which is the excess of the sum of all amounts payable on the Note after the
purchase date, other than payments of qualified stated interest, over the Note's
issue price. Alternatively, a U.S. Holder may elect to compute OID accruals as
described under 'Original Issue Discount--General' above, treating the U.S.
Holder's purchase price as the issue price.
 
     Short-Term Notes.  Under the Code, special rules apply with respect to OID
on Notes that mature one year or less from the date of issuance ('Short-Term
Notes'). In general, a cash basis U.S. Holder of a Short-Term Note is not
required to include OID in income as it accrues for United States Federal income

tax purposes unless it elects to do so. Accrual basis U.S. Holders and certain
other U.S. Holders, including banks, regulated investment companies, dealers in
securities and cash basis U.S. Holders who so elect, are required to include OID
in income as it accrues on Short-Term Notes on a straight-line basis or, at the
election of the U.S. Holder, under the constant yield method (based on daily
compounding). In the case of U.S. Holders not required and not electing to
include OID in income currently, any gain realized on the sale or retirement of
Short-Term Notes will be ordinary income to the extent of the OID accrued on a
straight-line basis (unless an election is made to accrue the original issue
discount under the constant yield method) through the date of sale or
retirement. U.S. Holders who are not required and do not elect to include OID on
Short-Term Notes in income as it accrues will be required to defer deductions
for interest on borrowings allocable to Short-Term Notes in an amount not
exceeding the deferred income until the deferred income is realized.
 
     Any U.S. Holder of a Short-Term Note can elect to apply the rules in the
preceding paragraph taking into account the amount of 'acquisition discount', if
any, with respect to the Note (rather than the OID with respect to such Note).
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maturity of the Short-Term Note over the U.S. Holder's purchase price therefor.
Acquisition discount will be treated as accruing on a ratable basis or, at the
election of the U.S. Holder, on a constant yield basis.
 
     For purposes of determining the amount of OID subject to these rules, the
OID Regulations provide that no interest payments on a Short-Term Note are
qualified stated interest, but instead such interest payments are included in
the Short-Term Notes's stated redemption price at maturity.
 
NOTES PURCHASED AT A PREMIUM
 
     Under the Code, a U.S. Holder that purchases a Note for an amount in excess
of its stated redemption price at maturity will not be subject to the OID rules
and may elect to treat such excess as 'amortizable bond premium', in which case
the amount of qualified stated interest required to be included in the U.S.
Holder's income each year with respect to interest on the Note will be reduced
by the amount of amortizable bond premium allocable (based on the Note's yield
to maturity) to such year. Any election to amortize bond premium is applicable
to all bonds (other than bonds the interest on which is excludible from gross
income) held by the U.S. Holder at the beginning of the first taxable year to
which the election applies or thereafter acquired by the U.S. Holder, and may
not be revoked without the consent of the Internal Revenue Service ('IRS'). See
also 'Original Issue Discount--Election to Treat All Interest as Original Issue
Discount'.
 
NOTES PURCHASED AT A MARKET DISCOUNT
 
     A Note, other than a Short-Term Note, will be treated as issued at a market
discount (a 'Market Discount Note') if the amount for which a U.S. Holder
purchased the Note is less than the Note's issue price, subject to a de minimis
rule similar to the rule relating to de minimis OID described under 'Original
Issue Discount--General'.

 
     In general, any gain recognized on the maturity or disposition of a Market
Discount Note will be treated as ordinary income to the extent that such gain
does not exceed the accrued market discount on such Note. Alternatively, a U.S.
Holder of a Market Discount Note may elect to include market discount in income
currently over the life of the Market Discount Note. Such an election applies to
all debt instruments with market discount acquired by the electing U.S. Holder
on or after the first day of the first taxable year to which the election
applies and may not be revoked without the consent of the IRS.
 
     Market discount accrues on a straight-line basis unless the U.S. Holder
elects to accrue such discount on a constant yield to maturity basis. Such an
election is applicable only to the Market Discount Note with respect to which it
is made and is irrevocable. A U.S. Holder of a Market Discount Note that does
not elect to include market discount in income currently generally will be
required to defer deductions for interest on borrowings allocable to such Note
in an amount not exceeding the accrued market discount on such Note until the
maturity or disposition of such Note.
 
     The market discount rules do not apply to a Short-Term Note.
 
ELECTION TO TREAT ALL INTEREST AS ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT.
 
     Any U.S. Holder may elect to include in gross income all interest that
accrues on a Note using the constant yield method described above under the
heading 'Original Issue Discount--General,' with the modifications described
below. For purposes of this election, interest includes stated interest, OID, de
minimis OID, market discount, acquisition discount, de minimis market discount
and unstated interest, as adjusted by any amortizable bond premium or
acquisition premium.
 
     In applying the constant yield method to a Note with respect to which this
election has been made, the issue price of such Note will equal the electing
U.S. Holder's adjusted basis in the Note immediately after its acquisition, the
issue date of the Note will be the date of its acquisition by the electing U.S.
Holder, and no payments on the Note will be treated as payments of qualified
stated interest. This election is generally applicable only to the Note with
respect to which it is made and may not be revoked
 
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without the consent of the IRS. If this election is made with respect to a Note
with amortizable bond premium, the electing U.S. Holder will be deemed to have
elected to apply amortizable bond premium against interest with respect to all
debt instruments with amortizable bond premium (other than debt instruments the
interest on which is excludible from gross income) held by such electing U.S.
Holder as of the beginning of the taxable year in which the election is made or
any debt instruments acquired thereafter. The deemed election with respect to
amortizable bond premium may not be revoked without the consent of the IRS.
 
     If the election described above to apply the constant yield method to all
interest on a Note is made with respect to a Market Discount Note, as defined
above, then the electing U.S. Holder will be treated as having made the election
discussed above under 'Notes Purchased at a Market Discount' to include market

discount in income currently over the life all debt instruments held or
thereafter acquired by such U.S. Holder.

PURCHASE, SALE AND RETIREMENT OF THE NOTES
 
     A U.S. Holder's tax basis in a Note will generally equal its U.S dollar
cost, increased by the amount of any OID or market discount (or acquisition
discount, in the case of a Short-Term Note) included in the U.S. Holder's income
with respect to the Note and the amount, if any, of income attributable to de
minimis OID included in the U.S. Holder's income with respect to the Note, and
reduced by the sum of (i) the amount of any payments that are not qualified
stated interest payments, and (ii) the amount of any amortizable bond premium
applied to reduce interest on the Note. A U.S. Holder generally will recognize
gain or loss on the sale or retirement of a Note equal to the difference between
the amount realized on the sale or retirement and the U.S. Holder's tax basis in
such Note. Except to the extent described above under 'Original Issue
Discount--Short Term Notes' or 'Market Discount', and except to the extent
attributable to accrued but unpaid interest, gain or loss recognized on the sale
or retirement of a Note will be capital gain or loss and will be long-term
capital gain or loss if the Note was held for more than one year.
 
NON-UNITED STATES PERSONS
 
     Under the U.S. Federal income tax laws as in effect on the date of this
Prospectus and subject to the discussion of backup withholding below, payments
of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, including OID, by the Company
or any agent of the Company (acting in its capacity as such) to any holder of a
Note that is not a U.S. Person will not be subject to U.S. Federal withholding
tax; provided, in the case of interest, including OID, that (i) such holder does
not actually or constructively own 10% or more of the total combined voting
power of all classes of stock of the Company entitled to vote, (ii) such holder
is not a controlled foreign corporation for U.S. tax purposes that is related to
the Company (directly or indirectly) through stock ownership and (iii) either
(A) the beneficial owner of the Note certifies to the Company or its agent,
under penalties of perjury, that it is not a U.S. Person and provides its name
and address or (B) a securities clearing organization, bank or other financial
institution that holds customers' securities in the ordinary course of its trade
or business (a 'financial institution') and holds the Note certifies to the
Company or its agent under penalties of perjury that such statement has been
received from the beneficial owner by it or by another financial institution and
furnishes the payor with a copy thereof.
 
     If a holder of a Note that is not a U.S. Person is engaged in a trade or
business in the United States and interest, including OID, on the Note is
effectively connected with the conduct of such trade or business, such holder,
although exempt from the withholding tax discussed in the preceding paragraph
(provided that such holder furnishes a properly executed IRS Form 4224 on or
before any payment date to claim such exemption), may be subject to U.S. Federal
income tax on such interest, and OID, in the same manner as if it were a U.S.
Person. In addition, if such a holder is a foreign corporation, it may be
subject to a branch profits tax equal to 30% of its effectively connected
earnings and profits for the taxable year, subject to certain adjustments. For
purposes of the branch profits tax, interest (including
 

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OID) on a Note will be included in the earnings and profits of such holder if
such interest (or OID) is effectively connected with the conduct by such holder
of a trade or business in the United States.
 
     Any capital gain or market discount realized upon the sale, exchange,
retirement or other disposition of a Note by a holder that is not a U.S. Person
will not be subject to U.S. Federal income or withholding taxes if (i) such gain
is not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of the holder and
(ii) in the case of an individual, such holder (A) is not present in the United
States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the sale, exchange,
retirement or other disposition or (B) does not have a tax home (as defined in
Section 911(d)(3) of the Code) in the United States in the taxable year of the
sale, exchange, retirement or other disposition and the gain is not attributable
to an office or other fixed place of business maintained by such individual in
the United States.
 
     Notes held by an individual who is neither a citizen nor a resident of the
United States for U.S. Federal tax purposes at the time of such individual's
death will not be subject to U.S. Federal estate tax provided that the income
from such Notes was not or would not have been effectively connected with a U.S.
trade or business of such individual and that such individual qualified for the
exemption from U.S. Federal withholding tax (without regard to the certification
requirements) that is described above. Purchasers of Notes that are not a U.S.
Person should consult their own tax advisors with respect to the possible
applicability of United States withholding and other taxes upon income realized
in respect of the Notes.
 
BACKUP WITHHOLDING AND INFORMATION REPORTING
 
     For each calendar year in which the Notes are outstanding, the Company is
required to provide the IRS with certain information, including the holder's
name, address and taxpayer identification number (either the holder's Social
Security number or its employer identification number, as the case may be), the
aggregate amount of principal and interest paid (including OID, if any) to that
holder during the calendar year and the amount of tax withheld, if any. This
obligation, however, does not apply with respect to certain U.S. holders,
including corporations, tax-exempt organizations, qualified pension and profit
sharing trusts and individual retirement accounts.
 
     In the event that a U.S. holder subject to the reporting requirements
described above fails to supply its taxpayer identification number in the manner
required by applicable law, provides an incorrect taxpayer identification number
that is used by a payor on an information return or underreports its tax
liability, the Company, its agents or paying agents or a broker may be required
to 'backup' withhold a tax equal to 31 percent of each payment of interest
(including OID) and principal (and premium, if any) on the Notes. This backup
withholding is not an additional tax and may be credited against the U.S.
holder's U.S. Federal income tax liability, provided that the required
information is furnished to the IRS.
 
     Under current Treasury Regulations, backup withholding and information
reporting will not apply to payments made by the Company or any agent thereof

(in its capacity as such) to a holder of a Note that is not a U.S. person if
such holder has provided the required certification that it is not a U.S. person
as set forth in clause (iii) in the first paragraph under 'Non-United States
Persons' above, or has otherwise established an exemption (provided that neither
the Company nor its agent has actual knowledge that the holder is a U.S. person
or that the conditions of any exemption are not in fact satisfied).
 
     Payment of the proceeds from the sale of a Note to or through a foreign
office of a broker will not be subject to information reporting or backup
withholding, except that if the broker is a U.S. person, a controlled foreign
corporation for U.S. tax purposes or a foreign person 50 percent or more of
whose gross income from all sources for the three-year period ending with the
close of its taxable year preceding the payment was effectively connected with a
U.S. trade or business, information reporting may apply to such payments.
Payment of the proceeds from a sale of a Note to or through the U.S. office of a
broker is subject to information reporting and backup withholding unless the
holder or beneficial owner certifies as to its taxpayer identification number or
otherwise establishes an exemption from information reporting and backup
withholding.
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                              PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
     Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in an underwriting agreement
(the 'Underwriting Agreement') entered into by the Company and the Underwriter,
the Company has agreed to sell to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter has
agreed to purchase, the Notes from time to time. Notes acquired by the
Underwriter pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement are expected to be offered
either directly to the public or to certain dealers (the 'Dealers') that will
then reoffer the Notes to the public. Sales by the Underwriter to any Dealer
will be made pursuant to an agreement between the Underwriter and such Dealer
(each a 'Dealer Agreement').
 

     The Pricing Supplement with respect to each offering of Notes by the
Company will set forth, among other things, the fixed price to public of such
Notes, or that such Notes will be resold to one or
more purchasers at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the
time of resale, and the proceeds to the Company from such sale, any underwriting
discounts and other items constituting Underwriter's compensation, and any
discounts or concessions allowed, reallowed or paid to Dealers. The Company will
pay underwriting compensation in connection with any issue of Notes of from not
more than .500% to not more than 2.750% of the principal amount of Notes sold by
an underwriter, depending upon the Stated Maturity. After any initial public
offering of Notes, the price to public of such Notes, and the related
underwriting discount and selling concession, may be changed.

 
     The Underwriter has advised the Company that all initial offers by it and
by the Dealers, unless otherwise set forth in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
are proposed to be made at prices equal to 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes being sold, less, in the case of an offer by the Underwriter to a Dealer,
a price concession not in excess of the amount set forth in the applicable
Pricing Supplement. Offers and sales by the Underwriter or Dealers subsequent to

the initial offering may be at varying prices determined at the time of sale.
 
     If specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, Notes may also be sold
directly by the Company, through underwriters other than the Underwriter, or
through underwriters acting as agents, from time to time. Any underwriters other
than the Underwriter will agree to act in accordance with this Plan of
Distribution as if they were the Underwriter. Unless otherwise specified in such
Pricing Supplement, any underwriter acting as agent will be acting on a best
efforts basis for the period of its appointment. All commissions payable by the
Company to any such underwriter, whether acting as principal or as agent, will
be set forth in such Pricing Supplement.
 

     The Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange and will not be
traded, when issued, on any other established trading market. The Underwriter or
any Dealer, including Salomon Brothers Inc, may make a market in the Notes, but
are not obligated to do so. Any market-making so undertaken may be discontinued
at any time without notice. There can thus be no assurance that a secondary
market for the Notes will exist or as to the liquidity of any such market.
Moreover, the Company reserves the right to withdraw, cancel or modify the offer
made hereby at any time without notice, and any such withdrawal, cancellation or
modification also may adversely affect the liquidity of the Notes.

 
     The Underwriting Agreement provides, and the terms of each Dealer Agreement
will provide, that the obligations of the Underwriter or a Dealer to purchase
Notes will be subject to certain conditions precedent. The Underwriter will be
obligated to purchase all the Notes offered by any Pricing Supplement naming it
if any such Notes are purchased.
 
     The Company has agreed to indemnify the Underwriter against certain
liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribute to
payments that the Underwriter may be required to make in respect thereof.
 

     Salomon Brothers Inc is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company,
and its participation in the offer and sale of Notes complies with Schedule E of
the By-Laws of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. regarding
the underwriting by Salomon Brothers Inc of securities of its parent. Schedule E
provides, among other things, that Notes may not be purchased from or sold to a
customer
 
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discretionary account by the Underwriter or a Dealer without the prior specific
written approval of the customer.
 
                                 ERISA MATTERS
 
     The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ('ERISA'),
imposes certain restrictions on employee benefit plans ('Plans') that are
subject to ERISA and on persons who are fiduciaries with respect to such Plans.
In accordance with ERISA's general fiduciary requirements, a fiduciary with
respect to any such Plan who is considering the purchase of Notes on behalf of

such Plan should determine whether such purchase is permitted under the
governing Plan documents and is prudent and appropriate for the Plan in view of
its overall investment policy and the composition and diversification of its
portfolio. Other provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the 'Code'), prohibit certain transactions involving
the assets of a Plan and persons who have certain specified relationships to the
Plan ('parties in interest' within the meaning of ERISA or 'disqualified
persons' within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code). Thus, a Plan fiduciary
considering the purchase of Notes should consider whether such a purchase might
constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code.
 
     The Company, directly or through its affiliates, may be considered a 'party
in interest' or a 'disqualified person' with respect to many Plans that are
subject to ERISA. The purchase of Notes by a Plan that is subject to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or the prohibited transaction
provisions of Section 4975 of the Code (including individual retirement accounts
and other plans described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code) and with respect to
which the Company is a party in interest or a disqualified person may constitute
or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code,
unless such Notes are acquired pursuant to and in accordance with an applicable
exemption, such as Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption ('PTCE') 84-14 (an
exemption for certain transactions determined by an independent qualified
professional asset manager), PTCE 91-38 (an exemption for certain transactions
involving bank collective investment funds), PTCE 90-1 (an exemption for certain
transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), or PTCE
95-60 (an exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general
accounts). ANY PENSION OR OTHER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN PROPOSING TO ACQUIRE ANY
NOTES SHOULD CONSULT WITH ITS COUNSEL.
 
                                    EXPERTS
 

     The financial statements and related schedules included in the 1995 10-K
have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP, independent public accountants, to the
extent and for the periods indicated in their reports included therein, and are
incorporated by reference in this Prospectus in reliance upon such reports and
upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing in giving
such reports.



 
                                 LEGAL OPINIONS
 
     Certain legal matters relating to the Notes will be passed upon for the
Company by Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, New York, and for the Underwriter
by Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, New York.
 
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NO DEALER, SALESPERSON OR ANY OTHER PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GIVE ANY
INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS
PROSPECTUS (INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT) IN CONNECTION WITH
THE OFFER CONTAINED HEREIN AND, IF GIVEN OR MADE, SUCH INFORMATION OR
REPRESENTATIONS MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE COMPANY
OR THE UNDERWRITER. NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS PROSPECTUS (INCLUDING THE
ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT) NOR ANY SALE MADE HEREUNDER SHALL, UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES, CREATE AN IMPLICATION THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE
AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY SINCE THE DATES AS OF WHICH INFORMATION IS GIVEN IN THIS
PROSPECTUS (INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT). THIS PROSPECTUS
(INCLUDING THE ACCOMPANYING PRICING SUPPLEMENT) DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OR
SOLICITATION BY ANYONE IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION
IS NOT AUTHORIZED OR IN WHICH THE PERSON MAKING SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS
NOT QUALIFIED TO DO SO OR TO ANY PERSON TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE SUCH
OFFER OR SOLICITATION.
 
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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
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Available Information.............................    2
Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference...    2
Salomon Inc.......................................    3
Use of Proceeds...................................    3
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges................    3
Description of the Notes..........................    3
United States Tax Considerations..................   18
Plan of Distribution..............................   24
ERISA Matters.....................................   25
Experts...........................................   26
Legal Opinions....................................   26
</TABLE>
 
$1,000,000,000
 
SALOMON INC
 
NOTES, SERIES G
DUE MORE THAN NINE
MONTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE

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         Salomon Brothers Inc.
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PROSPECTUS

DATED APRIL   , 1996






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                                    PART II
                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.*
 

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<S>                              <C>
Commission Registration Fee...   $1,244,446
Accounting Fees...............       50,000
Trustees' Fees and Expenses...      275,000
Blue Sky Fees and Expenses....       20,000
Printing and Engraving Fees...      200,000
Rating Agency Fees............      190,000
NASD Fee......................       30,500
Legal Fees and Expenses.......      300,000
Miscellaneous.................       10,054
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     Total....................   $2,320,000
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</TABLE>

 
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* All amounts are estimated except for the Commission registration fee and the
  NASD fee.
 
ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
 
     Reference is made to Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
which provides for indemnification of directors and officers in certain
circumstances.
 

     Article Fourteenth of the registrant's Certificate of Incorporation
provides for indemnification of directors and officers of the registrant against
certain liabilities incurred as a result of their duties as such and Article
Sixteenth of the registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides for the
elimination of the monetary liability of directors for certain actions as such.
The registrant's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, is filed as Exhibit
4(a) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 2-84733) filed June 29,
1983, Exhibit 3 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
30, 1986, Exhibit 3 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
June 30, 1987, Exhibit 4 to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 30, 1987, Exhibit A to Exhibit 1 to Registration Statement on Form 8-A
filed February 11, 1988, Exhibit 3 to Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 13,
1991, Exhibit 4(a) to Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 22, 1993, and
Exhibit 4(a) to Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 12, 1996.

 

     The registrant maintains insurance policies covering liabilities of
directors and officers to the extent not covered by indemnification from the
registrant, subject to the conditions and exclusions of the policies, deductible
provisions, a maximum amount of coverage of $35 million and disputes with
insurers about availability of coverage.
 
     For the undertaking with respect to indemnification, see Item 17 herein.
 
     See the Form of proposed Underwriting Agreement, the Form of Global Selling
Agency Agreement and the Form of Continuous Underwriting Agreement filed as
Exhibit 1(a), (b) and (c) for certain indemnification provisions.
 
ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.
 
<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
 1(a) -- Proposed Form of Underwriting Agreement for Debt Securities to be
         distributed in the United States (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
         1(a) to Registration Statement No. 33-57922). A form of Underwriting
         Agreement relating to any other offering of Securities (and not filed as
         an Exhibit hereto) will be filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on
         Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
 1(b) -- Form of Global Selling Agency Agreement (incorporated by reference to
         Exhibit 1(b) to Registration Statement No. 33-54929).
</TABLE>
 
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<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
 1(c) -- Form of Continuous Underwriting Agreement between Salomon Inc and
         Salomon Brothers Inc relating to the Notes, Series G (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 1(c) to Registration Statement 33-54929).
 1(d) -- Form of Underwriting Agreement for Preferred Stock (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 1 to Registration Statement 33-48199).
 1(e) -- Form of Underwriting Agreement for Index Warrants (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 1(a) to Registration Statement 33-56481).
 4(a) -- Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibits 3 to Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
         quarters ended June 30, 1987 and June 30, 1986, Exhibit 4(a) to
         Registration Statement Number 2-84733 on Form S-3 filed June 30, 1983,
         Exhibit 4 to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
         September 30, 1987, Exhibit A to Exhibit 1 to Registration Statement on
         Form 8-A filed February 11, 1988, Exhibit 3 to Current Report on Form
         8-K dated June 13, 1991 Exhibit 4(a) to Current Report on Form 8-K dated
         February 22, 1993 and Exhibit 4(a) to Current Report on Form 8-K dated
         February 12, 1996).
 4(b) -- By-laws of the Company, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
         3(b) to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
         1994).
 4(c) -- Form of Certificate of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the
         Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(c) to Registration
         Statement No. 2-84733).

 4(d) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988, between Salomon Inc
         and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 8
         to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 29, 1988).
 4(e) -- First Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 7, 1990 to Senior
         Debt Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 between Salomon Inc and
         Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b) to
         Registration Statement No. 33-39502).
 4(f) -- Second Supplemental Indenture dated June 12, 1991 to Senior Debt
         Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 between Salomon Inc and Citibank,
         N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(c) to Registration
         Statement No. 33-41209).
 4(g) -- Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 1992 to Senior Debt
         Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 between Salomon Inc and
         Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(d) to
         Registration Statement No. 33-49136).
 4(h) -- Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 29, 1992, between
         Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
         4(e) to Registration Statement No. 33-57922).
 4(i) -- Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 14, 1993, between
         Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
         4(f) to Registration Statement No. 33-51269).
 4(j) -- Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 29, 1994 between
         Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A.
 4(k) -- Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 1, 1996 between
         Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A.
 4(l) -- Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988, between
         Salomon Inc and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee (incorporated by
         reference from Exhibit 7 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K
         dated August 2, 1989).
 4(m) -- First Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 7, 1990 to
         Subordinated Debt Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 between Salomon
         Inc and Bankers Trust Company (incorporated by reference from Exhibit
         4(b) to Registration Statement No. 33-39502).
 4(n) -- Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 14, 1993, between
         Salomon Inc and Bankers Trust Company.
</TABLE>

 
                                      II-2
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<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
 4(o) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of January 20, 1993, between Salomon Inc
         and BankAmerica National Trust Company, as Trustee (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated
         January 12, 1993).
 4(p) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of February 8, 1993, between Salomon Inc
         and The First National Bank of Chicago, as Trustee (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated
         February 1, 1993).
 4(q) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of July 28, 1992, between Salomon Inc
         and United States Trust Company of New York, as Trustee (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K

         dated July 28, 1992).
 4(r) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 27, 1993, between Salomon Inc
         and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to
         Exhibit 3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 27,
         1993).
 4(s) -- Form of Senior Debt Indenture (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(f)
         to Registration Statement No. 33-41932).
 4(t) -- Form of Subordinated Debt Indenture (incorporated by reference to
         Exhibit 4(g) to Registration Statement No. 33-41932).
 4(u) -- Forms of Medium-Term Registered Notes, Series D and Series E.
 4(v) -- Forms of Medium-Term Bearer Notes, Series D and Series E.
 4(w) -- Forms of Medium-Term Temporary Global Notes, Series D and Series E.
 4(x) -- Forms of Medium-Term Permanent Global Notes, Series D and Series E.
 4(y) -- Forms of Notes, Series G.
 4(z) -- Form of proposed Warrant Agreement for Warrants not attached to Debt
         Securities, with form of proposed Warrant Certificate attached as
         Exhibit A thereto, for Warrants in registered form (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 4(c) to Registration Statement No. 33-25002). A
         form of Warrant Agreement relating to any Warrants in bearer form will
         be filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated
         herein by reference.
4(aa) -- Form of proposed Warrant Agreement for Warrants attached to Debt
         Securities, with form of proposed Warrant Certificate attached as
         Exhibit A thereto, for Warrants in registered form (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 4(d) to Registration Statement No. 33-25002). A
         form of Warrant Agreement relating to any Warrants in bearer form will
         be filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated
         herein by reference.
4(bb) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of January 18, 1994, between Salomon Inc
         and Chemical Bank, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to
         the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 18, 1994).
4(cc) -- Form of proposed Index Warrant Agreement for Index Warrants, with form
         of proposed Index Warrant Certificate attached as Exhibit A thereto, for
         Index Warrants in registered form (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
         4(a) to Registration Statement No. 33-56481).
4(dd) -- Form of proposed Deposit Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
         4(d) to Registration Statement No. 33-48199).
 5    -- Opinion of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
12    -- Calculation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges (incorporated by
         reference to Exhibit 12(a) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
         for the year ended December 31, 1995).
23(a) -- Consent of Arthur Andersen L.L.P.
23(b) -- Consent of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (included in Exhibit 5).
24    -- Powers of Attorney.
25(a) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of BankAmerica
         National Trust Company under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
</TABLE>

 
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<S>      <C>
25(b) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of The Bank of New

         York under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
25(c) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of Chemical Bank
         under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
25(d) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of Citibank, N.A.
         under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
25(e) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of The First
         National Bank of Chicago under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
25(f) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of United States
         Trust Company of New York under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
25(g) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of Bankers Trust
         Company under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.*
</TABLE>
 
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* A Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of Trustees other than
  those as to which Form T-1s are filed herewith may be filed as an Exhibit to a
  Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
 
ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.
 
     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
 
     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made of
the securities registered hereby, a post-effective amendment to this
registration statement:
 
          (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
     Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
 
          (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
     the effective date of this registration statement (or the most recent
     post-effective amendment hereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
     represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this
     registration statement; and
 
          (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of
     distribution not previously disclosed in this registration statement or any
     material change to such information in this registration statement;
 
provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above
do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those clauses is contained in periodic reports filed by the
registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, that are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement.
 
     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.
 
     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the

offering.
 
     (4) That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant
to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
 

     (5) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described under Item 15
above, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the

 
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opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in such Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other
than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
person in connection with the securities being registered hereby, the registrant
will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in such Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.
 
     (6) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as
part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in
a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b) (1) or (4)
or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this
registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 

     (7) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of
prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

   
     (8) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file an application for
the purpose of determining the eligibility of any additional trustee to act
under subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act in accordance
with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission under Section
305(b)(2) of the Act.
     
                                  

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                                   SIGNATURES
 
   
     PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, SALOMON INC
CERTIFIES THAT IT HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT IT MEETS ALL OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR FILING ON FORM S-3 AND HAS DULY CAUSED THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT OR AMENDMENT THERETO TO BE SIGNED ON ITS BEHALF BY THE UNDERSIGNED
THEREUNTO DULY AUTHORIZED, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, STATE OF NEW YORK, ON THE
5TH DAY OF APRIL, 1996.
    
 
                                            SALOMON INC
                                            By:    /s/ Arnold S. Olshin
                                                (Arnold S. Olshin, Secretary)
 
     PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT OR AMENDMENT THERETO HAS BEEN SIGNED BELOW BY THE
FOLLOWING PERSONS IN THE CAPACITIES WITH SALOMON INC AND ON THE DATES INDICATED.
 
   
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<CAPTION>
       SIGNATURES                         TITLE                        DATE
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<S>                       <C>                                     <C>
           *              Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and   April 5, 1996
   (Robert E. Denham)       Director
 
           *              Chief Financial Officer                 April 5, 1996
   (Jerome H. Bailey)
 
 /s/ Richard J. Carbone   Principal Accounting Officer and        April 5, 1996
  (Richard J. Carbone)      Controller
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
  (Dwayne O. Andreas)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
  (Warren E. Buffett)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
   (Claire M. Fagin)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
  (John L. Haseltine)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
  (Gedale B. Horowitz)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
  (Deryck C. Maughan)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996

   (David O. Maxwell)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
    (William F. May)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
  (Charles T. Munger)
</TABLE>
    
 
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<S>                       <C>                                     <C>
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
    (Shigeru Myojin)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
   (Louis A. Simpson)
 
           *              Director                                April 5, 1996
   (Robert G. Zeller)
</TABLE>

    
 
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* The undersigned, by signing his name hereto, does hereby sign this
  registration statement or amendment thereto on behalf of each of the
  above-indicated directors and officers of Salomon Inc pursuant to powers of
  attorney executed on behalf of each such director and officer.
 
By:       /s/ Arnold S. Olshin
             (Arnold S. Olshin,
              Attorney-in-Fact)
 
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                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 

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EXHIBIT                                                               NUMBERED
NUMBER                             EXHIBIT                              PAGE
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<S>    <C>                                                              <C>
  1(a) -- Proposed Form of Underwriting Agreement for Debt Securities
          to be distributed in the United States (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 1(a) to Registration Statement No.
          33-57922). A form of Underwriting Agreement relating to any
          other offering of Securities (and not filed as an Exhibit
          hereto) will be filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on
          Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
  1(b) -- Form of Global Selling Agency Agreement (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 1(b) to Registration Statement No.
          33-54929).
  1(c) -- Form of Continuous Underwriting Agreement between Salomon
          Inc and Salomon Brothers Inc relating to the Notes, Series
          G (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(c) to
          Registration Statement 33-54929).
  1(d) -- Form of Underwriting Agreement for Preferred Stock
          (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to Registration
          Statement 33-48199).
  1(e) -- Form of Underwriting Agreement for Index Warrants
          (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a) to Registration
          Statement 33-56481).
  4(a) -- Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended
          (incorporated by reference to Exhibits 3 to Quarterly
          Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 1987
          and June 30, 1986, Exhibit 4(a) to Registration Statement
          Number 2-84733 on Form S-3 filed June 30, 1983, Exhibit 4
          to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
          September 30, 1987, Exhibit A to Exhibit 1 to Registration
          Statement on Form 8-A filed February 11, 1988, Exhibit 3 to
          Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 13, 1991 and Exhibit
          4(a) to Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 22, 1993
          and Exhibit 4(a) to Current Report on Form 8-K dated
          February 12, 1996).
  4(b) -- By-laws of the Company, as amended (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 3(b) to the Annual Report on Form 10-K
          for the year ended December 31, 1994).
  4(c) -- Form of Certificate of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
          4(c) to Registration Statement No. 2-84733).
  4(d) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988,
          between Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee
          (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 8 to the Company's
          Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 29, 1988).
  4(e) -- First Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 7, 1990

          to Senior Debt Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988
          between Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 4(b) to Registration Statement No.
          33-39502).
  4(f) -- Second Supplemental Indenture dated June 12, 1991 to Senior
          Debt Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 between Salomon
          Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by reference to
          Exhibit 4(c) to Registration Statement No. 33-41209).
  4(g) -- Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 1992 to
          Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 between
          Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by reference
          to Exhibit 4(d) to Registration Statement No. 33-49136).
</TABLE>

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<CAPTION>
                                                                    SEQUENTIALLY
EXHIBIT                                                               NUMBERED
NUMBER                             EXHIBIT                              PAGE
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<S>    <C>                                                              <C>
  4(h) -- Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 29,
          1992, between Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated
          by reference to Exhibit 4(e) to Registration Statement No.
          33-57922).
  4(i) -- Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 14, 1993,
          between Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A. (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 4(f) to Registration Statement No.
          33-51269).
  4(j) -- Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 29, 1994
          between Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A.**
  4(k) -- Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 1, 1996
          between Salomon Inc and Citibank, N.A.**
  4(l) -- Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988,
          between Salomon Inc and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee
          (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 7 to the Company's
          Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 2, 1989).
  4(m) -- First Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 7, 1990
          to Subordinated Debt Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988
          between Salomon Inc and Bankers Trust Company (incorporated
          by reference from Exhibit 4(b) to Registration Statement
          No. 33-39502).
  4(n) -- Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 14,
          1993, between Salomon Inc and Bankers Trust Company.
  4(o) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of January 20, 1993,
          between Salomon Inc and BankAmerica National Trust Company,
          as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 to the
          Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 12,
          1993).
  4(p) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of February 8, 1993,
          between Salomon Inc and The First National Bank of Chicago,

          as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 to the
          Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 1,
          1993).
  4(q) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of July 28, 1992, between
          Salomon Inc and United States Trust Company of New York, as
          Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
          Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 28, 1992).
  4(r) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 27, 1993,
          between Salomon Inc and The Bank of New York, as Trustee
          (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 to the Company's
          Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 27, 1993).
  4(s) -- Form of Senior Debt Indenture (incorporated by reference to
          Exhibit 4(f) to Registration Statement No. 33-41932).
  4(t) -- Form of Subordinated Debt Indenture (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 4(g) to Registration Statement No.
          33-41932).
  4(u) -- Forms of Medium-Term Registered Notes, Series D and Series
          E.+
  4(v) -- Forms of Medium-Term Bearer Notes, Series D and Series E.+
  4(w) -- Forms of Medium-Term Temporary Global Notes, Series D and
          Series E.+
  4(x) -- Forms of Medium-Term Permanent Global Notes, Series D and
          Series E.+
  4(y) -- Forms of Notes, Series G.+
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                                                                    SEQUENTIALLY
EXHIBIT                                                               NUMBERED
NUMBER                             EXHIBIT                              PAGE
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<S>    <C>                                                              <C>
  4(z) -- Form of proposed Warrant Agreement for Warrants not
          attached to Debt Securities, with form of proposed Warrant
          Certificate attached as Exhibit A thereto, for Warrants in
          registered form (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(c)
          to Registration Statement No. 33-25002). A form of Warrant
          Agreement relating to any Warrants in bearer form will be
          filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and
          incorporated herein by reference.
 4(aa) -- Form of proposed Warrant Agreement for Warrants attached to
          Debt Securities, with form of proposed Warrant Certificate
          attached as Exhibit A thereto, for Warrants in registered
          form (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(d) to
          Registration Statement No. 33-25002). A form of Warrant
          Agreement relating to any Warrants in bearer form will be
          filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and
          incorporated herein by reference.
 4(bb) -- Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of January 18, 1994,

          between Salomon Inc and Chemical Bank, as Trustee
          (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company's
          Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 18, 1994).
 4(cc) -- Form of proposed Index Warrant Agreement for Index
          Warrants, with form of proposed Index Warrant Certificate
          attached as Exhibit A thereto, for Index Warrants in
          registered form (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)
          to Registration Statement No. 33-56481).
 4(dd) -- Form of proposed Deposit Agreement (incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 4(d) to Registration Statement No.
          33-48199).
  5    -- Opinion of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.**
 12    -- Calculation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges
          (incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report
          on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995).
 23(a) -- Consent of Arthur Andersen L.L.P.**
 23(b) -- Consent of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (included in Exhibit 5).
 24    -- Powers of Attorney.**
 25(a) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of
          BankAmerica National Trust Company under the Trust
          Indenture Act of 1939.***
 25(b) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of The
          Bank of New York under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.***
 25(c) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of
          Chemical Bank under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.***
 25(d) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of
          Citibank, N.A. under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.+
 25(e) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of The
          First National Bank of Chicago under the Trust Indenture
          Act of 1939.***
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 25(f) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of
          United States Trust Company of New York under the Trust
          Indenture Act of 1939.+
 25(g) -- Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of
          Bankers Trust Company under the Trust Indenture Act of
          1939.+
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 ** Previously filed.

 

*** A Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of other Trustees
    other than those as to which Form T-1s are filed herewith may be filed as an
    Exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by
    reference.









              FORM OF SERIES D FLOATING RATE OR INDEXED RATE NOTE

REGISTERED                                                  PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                                              OR FACE AMOUNT

NO. FL ___ 
                                  SALOMON INC
                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D
                          (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)                  CUSIP

                  Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                                         Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                                   Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
         (If other than U.S. dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:        / / CD Rate  / / Commercial Paper  / / Federal Funds Rate
                  / / LIBOR Telerate  / / LIBOR Reuters  / / Treasury Rate
                  / / Treasury Rate Constant Maturity  / / Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                                     Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:    / / Yes  (see attached)    / / No

Floating Rate:    / / Indexed Interest Rate:    / / (see attached)

Spread Multiplier:                                          Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset      / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier
                      may not be changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                  / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be
                      changed prior to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):


Maximum Interest Rate:                             Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:  / / Yes  / / No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:    / / Yes  / / No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

                  Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:    / / Yes  / / No

                  Optional Repayment Dates:

                  Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:    / / Yes  / / No

         Final Maturity:

Discount Note:    / / Yes  / / No

         Total Amount of OID:


         Yield to Maturity:


                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the "Company") for
value received hereby promises to pay CEDE & Co. or registered assigns, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described above, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity shown above or
earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay accrued interest
(i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount then outstanding
(or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding,
at the Initial Interest Rate shown above from the Original Issue Date shown
above until the first Interest Reset Date shown above following the Original
Issue Date and thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance with the
provisions on the reverse hereof, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on
the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal
Note, the Face Amount, as reduced by any repayment of principal hereof) at a
rate determined by reference to an Index as described above, until, in either
case, the Principal Amount or the Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in
accordance with the terms hereof. The interest so payable, and punctually paid
or duly provided for, on each Interest Payment Date specified herein will, as
provided in the Indenture referred to below, be paid to the person in whose name
this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which, in the case of any
Interest Payment Date shall be the date (whether or not a Business Day), fifteen
calendar days immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date and, in the case
of interest payable at Maturity shall be the Stated Maturity of this Note.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Note is issued between a Regular Record
Date and the related Interest Payment Date, the interest so payable for the
period from the Original Issue Date to such Interest Payment Date shall be paid
on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date to the Registered Holder hereof on
the related Regular Record Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or
duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Registered Holder
hereof on such Regular Record Date and may be paid to the Person in whose name
this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not
less than ten days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Registered Notes may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said
Indenture.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is (a) not a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (i) The City of
New York or (ii) if the Specified Currency shown above (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which, in the case of ECU, shall be Brussels, Belgium) and
(b) if the Base Rate specified above is LIBOR, a London Banking Day. "London

Banking Day" means any day on which dealings in deposits in the Specified
Currency are transacted in the London interbank market.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  The principal hereof and any premium and interest hereon are
payable by the Company in the Specified Currency shown above. If the Specified
Currency shown above is other than U.S. dollars, the Company will arrange to
convert all payments in respect hereof into U.S. dollars in the manner described
on the reverse hereof. The Holder hereof may, if so indicated above, elect to
receive all payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency by delivery of
a written notice to the Trustee not later than fifteen calendar days prior to
the applicable payment date. Such election will remain in effect until revoked
by written notice to the Trustee received not later than fifteen calendar days
prior to the applicable payment date. If the Company determines that the
Specified Currency is not available for making payments in respect hereof due to
the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's
control or is no longer used by the government of the country issuing such
currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions or within
the international banking community, then the Holder hereof may not so elect to
receive payments in the Specified Currency, and any such outstanding election
shall be automatically suspended, and payments shall be in U.S. dollars, until
the Company determines that the Specified Currency is again available for making
such payments.

                  Payments of interest in U.S. dollars (other than interest
payable at Maturity) will be made by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register on the
applicable Record Date, provided that, if the Holder hereof is the Holder of
U.S. $10,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in a currency other than U.S.
dollars determined as provided on the reverse hereof) or more in aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of like tenor and term, such U.S. dollar
interest payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
but only if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been received in writing
by the Trustee not less than fifteen calendar days prior to the applicable
Interest Payment Date. Simultaneously with any election by the Holder hereof to
receive payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency (if other than U.S.
dollars), such Holder shall provide appropriate wire transfer instructions to
the Trustee and all such payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. The principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon payable at Maturity will be paid in immediately available funds upon
surrender of this Note at the corporate trust office or agency of the Trustee
located in the City and State of New York.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its

successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC


                                  By_______________________________________
                                    Senior Vice President

[Seal]

                                  Attest__________________________________
                                        Secretary

                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within - mentioned
Indenture.

                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                    as Trustee


                                  By_______________________________________
                                    Authorized Signatory



                                  SALOMON INC
                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D
                           (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 (the
"Indenture") between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee",
which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) to which
indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities
and of the terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering
price or purchase price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S.
dollars will be determined by the Company or its agent on the basis of the noon
buying rate in New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as
certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the
"Market Exchange Rate") for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified above, the authorized denominations
of Registered Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$1,000 and any
larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000. The authorized
denominations of Registered Notes denominated in a currency other than U.S.
dollars will be as set forth on the respective faces thereof.

                  Each Registered Note will be issued initially as either a
Book-Entry Note or, if so specified above, a Certificated Note. Only Registered
Notes denominated and payable in U.S. dollars may be issued as Book-Entry Notes
and such Notes will not be exchangeable for Certificated Notes and, except as
otherwise provided in the Indenture, will not otherwise be issuable as
Certificated Notes.

                  If the Specified Currency is other than U.S. dollars, the
amount of any U.S. dollar payment to be made in respect hereof will be
determined by the Company or its agent based on the highest firm bid quotation
expressed in U.S. dollars received by the Company or its agent at approximately
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the
applicable payment date (or, if no such rate is quoted on such date, the last
date on which such rate was quoted) from three (or, if three are not available,
then two) recognized foreign exchange dealers in The City of New York selected
by the Company or its agent (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc) for the
purchase by the quoting dealer, for settlement on such payment date, of the
aggregate amount of the Specified Currency payable on such payment date in
respect of all Registered Notes denominated in such Specified Currency. All
currency exchange costs will be borne by the Holders of such Registered Notes by
deductions from such payments. If no such bid quotations are available, then
such payments will be made in the Specified Currency, unless the Specified
Currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or to other
circumstances beyond the Company's control, in which case payment will be made
as described in the next paragraph.

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if

any payment in respect hereof is required to be made in a Specified Currency
other than U.S. dollars and such currency is unavailable due to the imposition
of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's control or is
no longer used by the government of the country issuing such currency or for the
settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international
banking community, then such payment shall be made in U.S. dollars until such
currency is again available or so used. The amount so payable in such foreign
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture. If any payment in
respect hereof is required to be made in European Currency Units ("ECU") and ECU
is no longer used in the European Monetary System, then such payment shall be
made in U.S. dollars until ECU is again so used. The amount of such payment in
U.S. dollars shall be computed on the basis of the equivalent of the ECU in U.S.
dollars as of the second Business Day prior to the date on which such payment is
due. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars as of any date shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the following basis. The component
currencies of the ECU for this purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency
amounts that were components of the ECU as of the last date on which the ECU was
used in the European Monetary System. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars
shall be calculated by aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the
Components. The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rates for such Components or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. If the official unit of any component currency is altered by
way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a
Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more
component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of
those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount of such single
currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which such currency was divided.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Spread or Spread
Multiplier on this Note may be reset by the Company on the date or dates
specified on the face hereof (each an "Optional Reset Date"). Not later than 40
days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of
this Note a notice (the "Reset Notice"), first class, postage prepaid,
indicating whether the Company has elected to reset the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, and if so, (i) such new Spread or Spread Multiplier and (ii) the
provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset
Date to the next Optional Reset Date, or, if there is no such next Optional
Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of this Note (each such period, a "Subsequent
Interest Period"), including the date or dates on which or the period or periods
during which and the price or prices at which such redemption may occur during
the Subsequent Interest Period.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the Spread or
Spread Multiplier provided for in the Reset Notice and establish a higher Spread

or Spread Multiplier for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee
to mail notice of such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier to the Holder of this
Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to
which the Spread or Spread Multiplier is reset on an Optional Reset Date will
bear such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier.

                  The Holder of this Note will have the option to elect
repayment by the Company on each Optional Reset Date at a price equal to the
principal amount hereof, plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In
order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to a Reset Notice, the Holder may, by
written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until the close
of business on the tenth day before the Optional Reset Date.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Maturity of this Note
may be extended at the option of the Company for the period or periods of whole
years specified on the face hereof (each an "Extension Period") up to but not
beyond the date (the "Final Maturity") set forth on the face hereof. If the
Company exercises such option, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of this Note
not later than 40 days prior to the old Stated Maturity a notice (the "Extension
Notice") first class, postage prepaid indicating (i) the election of the Company
to extend the Maturity, (ii) the new Stated Maturity, (iii) the Spread or Spread
Multiplier applicable to the Extension Period, and (iv) the provisions, if any,
for redemption during such Extension Period. Upon the Trustee's mailing of the
Extension Notice, the Maturity of this Note shall be extended automatically and,
except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next
paragraph, this Note will have the same terms as prior to the mailing of such
Notice.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the old Stated Maturity of this Note, the Company may, at its option, revoke the
Spread or Spread Multiplier provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a
higher Spread or Spread Multiplier for the Extension Period by causing the
Trustee to mail notice of such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier, first class,
postage prepaid to the Holder of this Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable.
All Registered Notes with respect to which the Maturity is extended will bear
such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier.

                  If the Company extends the Maturity of this Note, the Holder
will have the option to elect repayment of this Note by the Company on the old
Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount hereof, plus interest
accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on such old Stated Maturity
once the Company has extended the Maturity hereof, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days before the such old Stated Maturity, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder
may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until
the close of business on the tenth calendar day before the old Stated Maturity.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Company may, at its

option, redeem this Note in whole, or from time to time in part, on or after the
date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof, at prices
declining from a specified premium, if any, to par, together with accrued
interest to the date of redemption. The Company may exercise such option by
causing the Trustee to mail a notice of such redemption at least 30 but not more
than 60 days prior to the date of redemption unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or
Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional
Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown
on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In
order for this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at least 30 but not
more than 45 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i) this Note with the
form below entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed; or (ii) a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter from a member of a national
securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a
commercial bank or trust company in the United States of America setting forth
the name of the Holder of this Note, the principal amount of the Note to be
repaid, the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of this
Note, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby
and a guarantee that this Note with the form below entitled "Option to Elect
Repayment" duly completed will be received by the Trustee not later than five
Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is
followed, this Note with form duly completed must be received by the Trustee by
such fifth Business Day. Any tender of this Note for repayment (except pursuant
to a Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment
option may be exercised by the Holder of this Note for less than the entire
principal amount of the Note provided that the principal amount of this Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such
partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the
remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder of
this Note.

                  This Note will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if this Note
is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of redemption or repayment
prior to the Stated Maturity hereof (other than pursuant to an optional
redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price), in lieu of the
principal amount due at the Stated Maturity hereof, shall be the Amortized Face
Amount of this Note as of the redemption date or the date of repayment, as the
case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any date shall be the
amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face hereof plus (ii) that
portion of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal
amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond Yield to
Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so specified, the Bond Yield to
Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each case in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided,
however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its
stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of this Note

shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring Optional Redemption Date
with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption
Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on such first occurring
Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with respect to such Note shall
be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the basis of the next
occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on such Optional
Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each succeeding
Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, if this Note is
a Floating Rate Note, this Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date
to the first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate
set forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to the
Base Rate specified on the face hereof, plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
Base Rates that may be specified on the face hereof are LIBOR, the Commercial
Paper Rate, the Treasury Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or any other
Base Rate specified on the face hereof. "H.15(519)" means the publication
entitled "Statistical Release H.15(519), Selected Interest Rates" or any
successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.

                  As specified on the face hereof, this Note may also have
either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per annum on a
simple interest basis): (i) a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the rate at
which interest may accrue during any interest period ("Maximum Interest Rate")
and (ii) a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest may
accrue during any interest period ("Minimum Interest Rate"). In addition to any
Maximum Interest Rate that may be specified on the face hereof, the interest
rate will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable
law, as the same may be modified by United States law of general application.

                  The interest rate hereon will be reset daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, semiannually or annually (such period being the "Interest Reset
Period" specified on the face hereof, and the first day of each Interest Reset
Period being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the face
hereof, the Interest Reset Dates will be, if this Note resets daily, each
Business Day; if this Note (unless this Note is a Treasury Rate Note) resets
weekly, Wednesday of each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets
weekly, Tuesday of each week (except as provided below under "Determination of
Treasury Rate"); if this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month;
if this Note resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of
the two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note
resets annually, the third Wednesday of the month of each year specified on the
face hereof. If an Interest Reset Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding
Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is
LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such
Interest Reset Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest
payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date shall be the accrued interest from

and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has
been paid, as the case may be, to but excluding such Interest Payment Date,
provided, however, that if the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, the
interest payable hereon shall be the accrued interest from and including the
Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been accrued and
paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the Record Date immediately preceding
such Interest Payment Date, except that, at Maturity, the interest payable will
include interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of Maturity.

                  If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period
for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest shall be
calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by an
accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor will be computed by adding
the interest factors calculated for each day in the period for which accrued
interest is being calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a decimal
calculated to seven decimal places without rounding) for each such day is
computed, unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, by dividing the
interest rate in effect on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the
face hereof is the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or
LIBOR, or by the actual number of days in the year, if the Base Rate specified
on the face hereof is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest
shall be calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note
is an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by
the interest rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is
being calculated, and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by
dividing the number of days in the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the
Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the
actual number of days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof
is the Treasury Rate. For purposes of making the foregoing calculations, the
interest rate in effect on any Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate
as reset on such date.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages
resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest hereof will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts
used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest
one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, interest will
be payable, if this Note resets daily, weekly or monthly, on the third Wednesday
of each month or on the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December
of each year, as specified on the face hereof; if this Note resets quarterly, on
the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December of each year; if this
Note resets semiannually, on the third Wednesday of the two months of each year
specified on the face hereof; and if this Note resets annually, on the third
Wednesday of the month of each year specified on the face hereof (each such day
being an "Interest Payment Date"). If an Interest Payment Date would otherwise
fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be
postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate
specified on the face hereof is LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar month, such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately

preceding Business Day.

                  The Company has appointed and entered into an agreement with
an agent (a "Calculation Agent") to calculate the interest rates on Floating
Rate Notes. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Citibank, N.A. shall
be the Calculation Agent. At the request of the Holder hereof, the Calculation
Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if determined, the
interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest Reset Date. All
determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder
hereof.

                  Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as
specified herein, on each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest shall be the
rate determined in accordance with the provisions of the applicable heading
below.

Determination of CD Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate,
this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if
any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for negotiable
certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary Market)". In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination
Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such
CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof as published by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York in its daily statistical release "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for
U.S. Government Securities" ("Composite Quotations") under the heading
"Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite
Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be calculated
by the Calculation Agent and will be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market
offered rates as of 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD Rate
Determination Date of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar
certificates of deposit in The City of New York selected by the Calculation
Agent for negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States money center
banks of the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable certificates
of deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity on the face
hereof in a denomination of $5,000,000, provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the CD Rate for such Interest Reset Period will be
the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or,
if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination
Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.


Determination of Commercial Paper Rate

                  If the Base Rate shown on the face hereof is the Commercial
Paper Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
"Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date")
and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that such rate is
not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth calendar day
after such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, (the "Calculation Date") then
the Commercial Paper Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money
Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for
commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as published
in Composite Quotations under the heading "Commercial Paper". If by 3:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in
either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic
mean of the offered rates as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such
Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial
paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for commercial
paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for an
industrial issuer whose bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent by a nationally
recognized rating agency, provided, however, that if the dealers selected as
aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as mentioned in
this sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately preceding Interest
Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial
Interest Rate).

                  "Money Market Yield" shall be the yield calculated in
accordance with the following formula:
 
                            D x 360
Money Market Yield =                   x 100
                         360 - (D x M)

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal and "M" refers to the actual
number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal

Funds Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal
Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date as published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Federal
Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date, such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite
Quotations, then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall
be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made publicly
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent to the
rate which appears in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)",
provided, however, that if such rate is not made publicly available by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there is no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate). If this Note resets daily, the interest rate on this
Note for the period from and including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding
Monday will be reset by the Calculation Agent on such second Monday (or, if not
a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the
average of the Federal Funds Rates in effect with respect to each such day in
such week.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
specified on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as follows:

                  (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest
         Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR Determination
         Date"), the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the
         arithmetic mean of the offered rates for deposits in the Specified
         Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on the face
         hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, which appear on the
         Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such
         LIBOR Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page" means either (a) if
         "LIBOR Telerate" is designated on the face hereof, the display
         designated as page "3750" on the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such
         other page as may replace page "3750" on such service or such other
         service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association for the
         purpose of displaying the London interbank offered rates of major
         banks) or (b) if "LIBOR Reuters" is designated on the face hereof, the

         display designated as page "LIBO" on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates
         Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO page on such
         service or such other service as may be nominated by the British
         Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank
         offered rates of major banks). If neither LIBOR Reuters nor LIBOR
         Telerate is specified on the face hereof, LIBOR will be determined as
         if LIBOR Telerate had been specified. If at least two such offered
         rates appear on the Designated LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest
         Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as
         determined by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.

                  (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the Designated
         LIBOR Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will
         request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
         London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent to provide
         the Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the
         Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on
         the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, to prime banks
         in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London
         time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal amount equal
         to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent
         thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of a single
         transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of
         New York selected by the Calculation Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
         New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination Date for loans in the
         Specified Currency to leading European banks for the period of the
         Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such
         Interest Reset Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of
         not less than $1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in the
         Specified Currency that is representative of a single transaction in
         such market at such time, provided, however, that if fewer than three
         banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are quoting rates
         as mentioned in this sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period
         will be the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest Reset
         Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial
         Interest Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for
each Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as published in H.15(519) under the
heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction average (investment)"
or, if not so published by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth calendar
day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date (or, if such day is not a

Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) (the "Calculation Date"), the
auction average rate (expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of
365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury
Rate Determination Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department
of the Treasury. In the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills
having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or
reported as provided above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date, or if no such auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date,
then the "Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by
the Calculation Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond
equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied
on a daily basis) of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates as of
approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date, of three leading primary United States government securities dealers
selected by the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury bills with a
remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof,
provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation
Agent are not quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the
"Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury
Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no
such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset
Period will be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such
Interest Reset Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned.
Treasury bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that
day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the
following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday.
If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding
Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to
the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Note whose Base Rate is the Treasury Rate, then such Interest Reset Date shall
instead be the Business Day immediately following such auction date.

                  If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the "Treasury Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate
that is set forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite
the caption "U.S. Government/Securities/ Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the
Index Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on
Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of

3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity and
for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index
Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent
shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to the
Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the two
Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one such
quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all
events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one
adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

                  "The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall
be the tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable
Interest Reset Period.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate
Determination Date or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable,
shall be the tenth calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or
Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Indexed Notes

                  If this Note is an Indexed Note, then certain or all interest
payments, in the case of an Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount
payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, in the case of
an Indexed Principal Note, is determined by reference to the amount designated
on the face hereof as the Face Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index
as described on the face hereof. If this Note is a Floating Rate Note or Indexed
Rate Note that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest
payment will be determined by reference to the Face Amount described on the face
hereof unless otherwise specified. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note,
the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or
repayment of this Note may be different from the Face Amount. If the
determination of the Index is calculated or announced by a third party, which
may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such third
party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or changes
the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes consistent
with policies in effect at the time this Note was issued and permitted changes
described on the face hereof), then such Index shall be calculated for this
Note's purposes by another third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or
another affiliate of the Company, selected by the Company subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party. If for any
reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the indexed
interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate

principal amount of Registered Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the
Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration
of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan,
the City and State of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Notes of
this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the Holder hereof
for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company,
the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of
this series shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all the Debt
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in this manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated,
destroyed, stolen or lost and this Note or evidence of the loss, theft, or
destruction hereof (together with such indemnity and such other documents or
proof as may be required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be delivered to
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, a new Registered Note of
like tenor and principal amount will be issued by the Company in exchange for,
or in lieu of, this Note. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with
procuring such indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery
of a new Registered Note shall be borne by the Holder of this Note.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities at the time outstanding of each
series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether

or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon the Debt Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities may not enforce their rights
pursuant to the Indenture or the Note except as provided in the Indenture. No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York and for all purposes be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without regard to the
conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.



                                 ABBREVIATIONS


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:


TEN COM -as tenants in common      UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ________Custodian________ 
TEN ENT -as tenants by the                            (Cust)           (Minor)  
         entireties 
JT ENT  -as joint tenants with     Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
         right of survivorship 
         and not as tenants in     ---------------------------------- 
         common                                  (State)

    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list

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                           OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT


         The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Company
to repay $__________ principal amount of the within Note, pursuant to its terms,
on the "Optional Repayment Date" first occurring after the date of receipt of
the within Note as specified below, together with interest thereon accrued to
the date or repayment, to the undersigned at:

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          (Please Print or Type Name and Address of the Undersigned)

and to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new
Note or Notes representing the remaining principal amount of this Note.

         For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, this Note with the
Option to Elect Repayment duly completed must be received by the Company within
the relevant time period set forth above at its office or agency in the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, located initially at the office of
the Trustee at, if delivery is by hand, 130 John Street, Street Level, New York,
New York or, if delivery is by mail, 450 West 33rd Street, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, New York, New York 10001.


Dated:                       _________________________________________
                             Note:  The signature to this Option to Elect
                             Repayment must correspond with the name as written
                             upon the face of the within Note in every
                             particular without alteration or enlargement or any
                             change whatsoever.



              FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) 
                and transfer(s) unto


     Please insert Social Security or Other
       Identifying Number of Assignee




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     Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Zip Code of Assignee

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the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting 
and appointing
                                                                    attorney   
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to transfer such Note on the books of Salomon Inc with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: 
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                       Signature

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                                  NOTICE:  The signature to this assignment must
                                  correspond with the name as it appears upon
                                  the face of the Note in every particular,
                                  without alteration or enlargement or any
                                  change whatsoever



                        FORM OF SERIES D FIXED RATE NOTE

REGISTERED                                              PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                                        OR FACE AMOUNT

                                  SALOMON INC

No. FX-                           
                         MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                               (FIXED RATE)                        CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW
WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX
ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES

Issue Price:                                     Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
         (If other than U.S. Dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
          (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus
          Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:
          (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

         Indexed Principal Note:    / / Yes (see attached)    / / No

Interest Rate:                              Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:                / / The Interest Rate may not be
                                        changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                                    / / The Interest Rate may be changed prior 
                                        to Stated Maturity (see attached)

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Amortizing Note:         / / Yes       / / No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:     / / Yes      / / No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:


Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:     / / Yes      / / No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:      / / Yes      / / No

         Final Maturity:

Discount Note:    / / Yes      / / No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:



                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the "Company"), for
value received hereby promises to pay CEDE & Co. or registered assigns, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount, then outstanding) at the Interest Rate
shown above from the Original Issue Date shown above or from the most recent
date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in
arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year and at Maturity, until, in
either case, the Principal Amount then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or
duly provided for in accordance with the terms hereof. Interest on this Note, if
any, will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture referred to on the
reverse hereof, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest, which, in the case of interest payable on a March
15, or September 15 (other than interest payable at Maturity) shall be the March
1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date and, in the case of interest payable at
Maturity, shall be the Stated Maturity of this Note. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if this Note is issued between a Regular Record Date and the related
Interest Payment Date, the interest so payable for the period from the Original
Issue Date to such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date to the Registered Holder hereof on the related Regular
Record Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Registered Holder hereof on such Regular
Record Date, and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than ten
days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange
on which the Registered Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. For
purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other than a Saturday or
Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized or
required by law or regulation to be closed in (i) The City of New York or (ii)
if the Specified Currency shown above (as defined below) is other than U.S.
dollars, the financial center of the country issuing such Specified Currency
(which, in the case of ECU, shall be Brussels, Belgium).

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  The principal hereof and any premium and interest hereon are

payable by the Company in the Specified Currency shown above. If the Specified
Currency shown above is other than U.S. dollars, the Company will arrange to
convert all payments in respect hereof into U.S. dollars in the manner described
on the reverse hereof. The Holder hereof may, if so indicated above, elect to
receive all payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency by delivery of
a written notice to the Trustee not later than fifteen calendar days prior to
the applicable payment date. Such election will remain in effect until revoked
by written notice to the Trustee received not later than fifteen calendar days
prior to the applicable payment date. If the Company determines that the
Specified Currency is not available for making payments in respect hereof due to
the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's
control or is no longer used by the government of the country issuing such
currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions or within
the international banking community, then the Holder hereof may not so elect to
receive payments in the Specified Currency, and any such outstanding election
shall be automatically suspended, and payments shall be in U.S. dollars, until
the Company determines that the Specified Currency is again available for making
such payments.

                  Payments of interest in U.S. dollars (other than interest
payable at Maturity) will be made by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register on the
applicable Record Date, provided that, if the Holder hereof is the Holder of
U.S. $10,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in a currency other than U.S.
dollars determined as provided on the reverse hereof) or more in aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of like tenor and term, such U.S. dollar
interest payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
but only if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been received in writing
by the Trustee not less than fifteen calendar days prior to the applicable
Interest Payment Date. Simultaneously with any election by the Holder hereof to
receive payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency (if other than U.S.
dollars), such Holder shall provide appropriate wire transfer instructions to
the Trustee and all such payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. The principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon payable at Maturity will be paid in immediately available funds upon
surrender of this Note at the corporate trust office or agency of the Trustee
located in the City and State of New York.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its
successor, as Trustee.



                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC


                                  By_____________________________
                                    Senior Vice President

[Seal]
                                  Attest_________________________
                                        Secretary


                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                    as Trustee


                                  By_____________________________
                                    Authorized Signatory



                                  SALOMON INC
                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D
                                 (FIXED RATE)

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee", which term
includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the terms
upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase price of
Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be determined by
the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in New York City
for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate") for such
currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Registered Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$1,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000. The authorized
denominations of Registered Notes denominated in a currency other than U.S.
dollars will be as set forth on the respective faces thereof.

                  Each Registered Note will be issued initially as either a
Book-Entry Note or a Certificated Note. Only Registered Notes denominated and
payable in U.S. dollars may be issued as Book-Entry Notes, and such Notes will
not be exchangeable for Certificated Notes and, except as otherwise provided in
the Indenture, will not otherwise be issuable as Certificated Notes.

                  If the Specified Currency is other than U.S. dollars, the
amount of any U.S. dollar payment to be made in respect hereof will be
determined by the Company or its agent based on the highest firm bid quotation
expressed in U.S. dollars received by the Company or its agent at approximately
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the
applicable payment date (or, if no such rate is quoted on such date, the last
date on which such rate was quoted), from three (or, if three are not available,
then two) recognized foreign exchange dealers in The City of New York selected
by the Company or its agent (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc) for the
purchase by the quoting dealer, for settlement on such payment date, of the
aggregate amount of the Specified Currency payable on such payment date in
respect of all Registered Notes denominated in such Specified Currency. All
currency exchange costs will be borne by the Holders of such Registered Notes by
deductions from such payments. If no such bid quotations are available, then
such payments will be made in the Specified Currency, unless the Specified
Currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or to other
circumstances beyond the Company's control, in which case payment will be made
as described in the next paragraph.

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
any payment in respect hereof is required to be made in a Specified Currency

other than U.S. dollars and such currency is unavailable due to the imposition
of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's control or is
no longer used by the government of the country issuing such currency or for the
settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international
banking community, then such payment shall be made in U.S. dollars until such
currency is again available or so used. The amount so payable in such foreign
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture. If any payment in
respect hereof is required to be made in European Currency Units ("ECU") and ECU
is no longer used in the European Monetary System, then such payment shall be
made in U.S. dollars until ECU is again so used. The amount of such payment in
U.S. dollars shall be computed on the basis of the equivalent of the ECU in U.S.
dollars as of the second Business Day prior to the date on which such payment is
due. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars as of any date shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the following basis. The component
currencies of the ECU for this purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency
amounts that were components of the ECU as of the last date on which the ECU was
used in the European Monetary System. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars
shall be calculated by aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the
Components. The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rates for such Components or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. If the official unit of any component currency is altered by
way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a
Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more
component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of
those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such single
currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  The interest payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date
shall include interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment
Date.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the interest rate on this
Note may be reset by the Company on the date or dates specified on the face
hereof (each an "Optional Reset Date"). Not later than 40 days prior to each
Optional Reset Date, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of this Note a notice
(the "Reset Notice"), first class, postage prepaid, indicating whether the
Company has elected to reset the interest rate, and if so, (i) such new interest
rate, and (ii) the provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from
such Optional Reset Date to the next Optional Reset Date, or if there is no such
next Optional Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of this Note (each such period
a "Subsequent Interest Period"), including the date or dates on which or the
period or periods during which and the price or prices at which such redemption
may occur during the Subsequent Interest Period.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to

the Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest
rate provided for in the Reset Notice and establish a higher interest rate for
the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee to mail notice of such
higher interest rate to the Holder of this Note. Such notice shall be
irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to which the interest rate is
reset on an Optional Reset Date will bear such higher interest rate.

                  The Holder of this Note will have the option to elect
repayment by the Company on each Optional Reset Date at a price equal to the
principal amount hereof, plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In
order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to a Reset Notice, the Holder may, by
written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until the close
of business on the tenth day before the Optional Reset Date.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Maturity of this Note
may be extended at the option of the Company for the period or periods of whole
years specified on the face hereof, (each an "Extension Period"), up to but not
beyond the date (the "Final Maturity") set forth on the face hereof. If the
Company exercises such option, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of this Note
not later than 40 days prior to the old Stated Maturity a notice (the "Extension
Notice"), first class, postage prepaid indicating (i) the election of the
Company to extend the Maturity, (ii) the new Stated Maturity, (iii) the interest
rate applicable to the Extension Period, and (iv) the provisions, if any, for
redemption during such Extension Period. Upon the Trustee's mailing of the
Extension Notice, the Maturity of this Note shall be extended automatically and,
except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next
paragraph, this Note will have the same terms as prior to the mailing of such
Notice.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the old Stated Maturity of this Note, the Company may, at its option, revoke the
interest rate provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a higher
interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the Trustee to mail notice of
such higher interest rate, first class, postage prepaid, to the Holder of this
Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to
which the Maturity is extended will bear such higher interest rate.

                  If the Company extends the Maturity of this Note, the Holder
will have the option to elect repayment of this Note by the Company on the old
Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount hereof, plus interest
accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on the old Stated Maturity
once the Company has extended the Maturity hereof, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days prior to the old Stated Maturity, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder
may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until
the close of business on the tenth day before the old Stated Maturity.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Company may, at its

option, redeem this Note in whole, or from time to time in part, on or after the
date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof, at prices
declining from a specified premium, if any, to par, together with accrued
interest to the date of redemption. The Company may exercise such option by
causing the Trustee to mail a notice of such redemption at least 30 but not more
than 60 days prior to the date of redemption. In the event of redemption of this
Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall
be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional
Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown
on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In
order for this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at least 30 but not
more than 45 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i) this Note with the
form below entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed; or (ii) a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter from a member of a national
securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a
commercial bank or trust company in the United States of America setting forth
the name of the Holder of this Note, the principal amount of the Note to be
repaid, the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of this
Note, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby
and a guarantee that this Note with the form below entitled "Option to Elect
Repayment" duly completed will be received by the Trustee not later than five
Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is
followed, this Note with form duly completed must be received by the Trustee by
such fifth Business Day. Any tender of this Note for Repayment (except pursuant
to a Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment
option may be exercised by the Holder of this Note for less than the entire
principal amount of the Note provided that the principal amount of this Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such
partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the
remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder of
this Note.

                  This Note will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if this Note
is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of redemption or repayment
prior to the Stated Maturity hereof, in lieu of the principal amount due at the
Stated Maturity hereof (other than pursuant to an optional redemption by the
Company at a stated Redemption Price), shall be the Amortized Face Amount of
this Note as of the redemption date or the date of repayment, as the case may
be. The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any date shall be the amount equal
to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of
the difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal amount of such
Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth
on the face hereof or (y) if so specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on
the face hereof (computed in each case in accordance with generally accepted
United States bond yield computation principles), provided, however, that in no
event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its stated principal
amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of this Note shall be computed
on the basis of the first occurring Optional Redemption Date with respect to

such Note and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption Date. In the event
that such Note is not redeemed on such first occurring Optional Redemption Date,
the Bond Yield to Call with respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such
Optional Redemption Date on the basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption
Date and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue
to be so recomputed on each succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note
is so redeemed.

                  If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, then the principal
amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to the amount designated on the face hereof as the Face
Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index as described on the face
hereof. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable
at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or repayment of this Note may be
different from the Face Amount. If the determination of the Index is calculated
or announced by a third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company and such third party either suspends the calculation or
announcement of such Index or changes the basis upon which such Index is
calculated (other than changes consistent with policies in effect at the time
this Note was issued and permitted changes described on the face hereof), then
such Index shall be calculated for this Note's purposes by another third party
selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate
of the Company subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the
same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party, then any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the
Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration
of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan,
the City and State of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Notes of
this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or of the
Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Note is registered as the Holder
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


                  If an event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of
the series shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all the Debt
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated,
destroyed, stolen or lost and this Note or evidence of the loss, theft or
destruction hereof (together with such indemnity and such other documents or
proof as may be required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be delivered to
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, a new Registered Note of
like tenor and principal amount will be issued by the Company in exchange for,
or in lieu of, this Note. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with
procuring such indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery
of a new Registered Note shall be borne by the Holder of this Note.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities may not enforce their rights
pursuant to the Indenture or the Debt Securities except as provided in the
Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency,
herein prescribed.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.



                                 ABBREVIATIONS


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:


TEN COM -as tenants in common      UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ________Custodian________ 
TEN ENT -as tenants by the                            (Cust)           (Minor)  
         entireties 
JT ENT  -as joint tenants with     Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
         right of survivorship 
         and not as tenants in                       ------------------------- 
         common                                                (State)

    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list

                 --------------------------------------------

                           OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT


         The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Company
to repay $__________ principal amount of the within Note, pursuant to its terms,
on the "Optional Repayment Date" first occurring after the date of receipt of
the within Note as specified below, together with interest thereon accrued to
the date or repayment, to the undersigned at:

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          (Please Print or Type Name and Address of the Undersigned)

and to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new
Note or Notes representing the remaining principal amount of this Note.

         For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, this Note with the
Option to Elect Repayment duly completed must be received by the Company within
the relevant time period set forth above at its office or agency in the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, located initially at the office of
the Trustee at, if delivery is by hand, 130 John Street, Street Level, New York,
New York or, if delivery is by mail, 450 West 33rd Street, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, New York, New York 10001.


Dated:                       _________________________________________
                             Note:  The signature to this Option to Elect
                             Repayment must correspond with the name as written
                             upon the face of the within Note in every
                             particular without alteration or enlargement or any
                             change whatsoever.



              FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) 
                and transfer(s) unto


     Please insert Social Security or Other
       Identifying Number of Assignee




                             ----------------------------------------

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     Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Zip Code of Assignee

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the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting 
and appointing
                                                                    attorney   
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to transfer such Note on the books of Salomon Inc with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: 
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                       Signature

                       ----------------------------------------------------
                                  NOTICE:  The signature to this assignment must
                                  correspond with the name as it appears upon
                                  the face of the Note in every particular,
                                  without alteration or enlargement or any
                                  change whatsoever



              FORM OF SERIES E FLOATING RATE OR INDEXED RATE NOTE

REGISTERED                                                 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OR
                                                           FACE AMOUNT

NO. FL___                        
                                  SALOMON INC
                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E
                          (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)                  CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                                         Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                               Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
         (If other than U.S. dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:        / / CD Rate   / / Commercial Paper   / / Federal Funds Rate
                  / / LIBOR Telerate   / / LIBOR Reuters   / / Treasury Rate
                  / / Treasury Rate Constant Maturity   / / Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                                Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:   / / Yes (see attached)    / / No

Floating Rate:    / / Indexed Interest Rate:    / / (see attached)

Spread Multiplier:                                  Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset:   / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be changed prior to
                    Stated Maturity.

                / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior to 
                    Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:                             Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:   / / Yes    / / No


                  Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:   / / Yes  / / No

                  Optional Redemption Dates:

                  Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:   / / Yes  / / No

                  Optional Repayment Dates:

                  Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:   / / Yes    / / No

                  Final Maturity:

Discount Note:   / / Yes    / / No

                  Total Amount of OID:

                  Yield to Maturity:



                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the "Company") for
value received hereby promises to pay CEDE & Co. or registered assigns, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described above, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity shown above or
earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay accrued interest
(i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount then outstanding
(or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding)
at the Initial Interest Rate shown above from the Original Issue Date shown
above until the first Interest Reset Date shown above following the Original
Issue Date and thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance with the
provisions on the reverse hereof, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on
the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal
Note, the Face Amount then outstanding, at a rate determined by reference to an
Index as described above, until, in either case, the Principal Amount then
outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in accordance with
the terms hereof. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided
for, on each Interest Payment Date specified herein will, as provided in the
Indenture referred to below, be paid to the person in whose name this Note (or
one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on
the Regular Record Date for such interest, which, in the case of any Interest
Payment Date shall be the date (whether or not a Business Day), fifteen calendar
days immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date and, in the case of
interest payable at Maturity shall be the Stated Maturity of this Note.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Note is issued between a Regular Record
Date and the related Interest Payment Date, the interest so payable for the
period from the Original Issue Date to such Interest Payment Date shall be paid
on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date to the Registered Holder hereof on
the related Regular Record Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or
duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Registered Holder
hereof on such Regular Record Date and may be paid to the Person in whose name
this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not
less than ten days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Registered Notes may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said
Indenture.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is (a) not a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (i) The City of
New York or (ii) if the Specified Currency shown above (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which, in the case of ECU, shall be Brussels, Belgium) and
(b) if the Base Rate specified above is LIBOR, a London Banking Day. "London
Banking Day" means any day on which dealings in deposits in the Specified
Currency are transacted in the London interbank market.


                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  The principal hereof and any premium and interest hereon are
payable by the Company in the Specified Currency shown above. If the Specified
Currency shown above is other than U.S. dollars, the Company will arrange to
convert all payments in respect hereof into U.S. dollars in the manner described
on the reverse hereof. The Holder hereof may, if so indicated above, elect to
receive all payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency by delivery of
a written notice to the Trustee not later than fifteen calendar days prior to
the applicable payment date. Such election will remain in effect until revoked
by written notice to the Trustee received not later than fifteen calendar days
prior to the applicable payment date. If the Company determines that the
Specified Currency is not available for making payments in respect hereof due to
the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's
control or is no longer used by the government of the country issuing such
currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions or within
the international banking community, then the Holder hereof may not so elect to
receive payments in the Specified Currency, and any such outstanding election
shall be automatically suspended, and payments shall be in U.S. dollars, until
the Company determines that the Specified Currency is again available for making
such payments.

                  Payments of interest in U.S. dollars (other than interest
payable at Maturity) will be made by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register on the
applicable Record Date, provided that, if the Holder hereof is the Holder of
U.S. $10,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in a currency other than U.S.
dollars determined as provided on the reverse hereof) or more in aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of like tenor and term, such U.S. dollar
interest payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
but only if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been received in writing
by the Trustee not less than fifteen calendar days prior to the applicable
Interest Payment Date. Simultaneously with any election by the Holder hereof to
receive payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency (if other than U.S.
dollars), such Holder shall provide appropriate wire transfer instructions to
the Trustee and all such payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. The principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon payable at Maturity will be paid in immediately available funds upon
surrender of this Note at the corporate trust office or agency of the Trustee

located in the City and State of New York.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:
                                       SALOMON INC


                                       By______________________________
                                         Senior Vice President
[Seal]

                                       Attest__________________________
                                             Secretary


                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                       BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                         as Trustee


                                       By______________________________
                                         Authorized Signatory



                                  SALOMON INC
                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E
                          (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 (the
"Indenture") between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as trustee (the
"Trustee", which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) to
which indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt
Securities and of the terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering
price or purchase price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S.
dollars will be determined by the Company or its agent on the basis of the noon
buying rate in New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as
certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the
"Market Exchange Rate") for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified above, the authorized denominations
of Registered Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$1,000 and any
larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000. The authorized
denominations of Registered Notes denominated in a currency other than U.S.
dollars will be as set forth on the respective faces thereof.

                  Each Registered Note will be issued initially as either a
Book-Entry Note or, if so specified above, a Certificated Note. Only Registered
Notes denominated and payable in U.S. dollars may be issued as Book-Entry Notes
and such Notes will not be exchangeable for Certificated Notes and, except as
otherwise provided in the Indenture, will not otherwise be issuable as
Certificated Notes.

                  If the Specified Currency is other than U.S. dollars, the
amount of any U.S. dollar payment to be made in respect hereof will be
determined by the Company or its agent based on the highest firm bid quotation
expressed in U.S. dollars received by the Company or its agent at approximately
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the
applicable payment date (or, if no such rate is quoted on such date, the last
date on which such rate was quoted) from three (or, if three are not available,
then two) recognized foreign exchange dealers in The City of New York selected
by the Company or its agent (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc) for the
purchase by the quoting dealer, for settlement on such payment date, of the
aggregate amount of the Specified Currency payable on such payment date in
respect of all Registered Notes denominated in such Specified Currency. All
currency exchange costs will be borne by the Holders of such Registered Notes by
deductions from such payments. If no such bid quotations are available, then
such payments will be made in the Specified Currency, unless the Specified
Currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or to other
circumstances beyond the Company's control, in which case payment will be made
as described in the next paragraph.

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if

any payment in respect hereof is required to be made in a Specified Currency
other than U.S. dollars and such currency is unavailable due to the imposition
of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's control or is
no longer used by the government of the country issuing such currency or for the
settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international
banking community, then such payment shall be made in U.S. dollars until such
currency is again available or so used. The amount so payable in such foreign
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture. If any payment in
respect hereof is required to be made in European Currency Units ("ECU") and ECU
is no longer used in the European Monetary System, then such payment shall be
made in U.S. dollars until ECU is again so used. The amount of such payment in
U.S. dollars shall be computed on the basis of the equivalent of the ECU in U.S.
dollars as of the second Business Day prior to the date on which such payment is
due. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars as of any date shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the following basis. The component
currencies of the ECU for this purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency
amounts that were components of the ECU as of the last date on which the ECU was
used in the European Monetary System. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars
shall be calculated by aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the
Components. The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rates for such Components or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. If the official unit of any component currency is altered by
way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a
Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more
component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of
those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount of such single
currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which such currency was divided.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Spread or Spread
Multiplier on this Note may be reset by the Company on the date or dates
specified on the face hereof (each an "Optional Reset Date"). Not later than 40
days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of
this Note a notice (the "Reset Notice"), first class, postage prepaid,
indicating whether the Company has elected to reset the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, and if so, (i) such new Spread or Spread Multiplier and (ii) the
provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset
Date to the next Optional Reset Date, or, if there is no such next Optional
Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of this Note (each such period, a "Subsequent
Interest Period"), including the date or dates on which or the period or periods
during which and the price or prices at which such redemption may occur during
the Subsequent Interest Period.

                   Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior
to the Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the Spread or
Spread Multiplier provided for in the Reset Notice and establish a higher Spread

or Spread Multiplier for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee
to mail notice of such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier to the Holder of this
Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to
which the Spread or Spread Multiplier is reset on an Optional Reset Date will
bear such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier.

                  The Holder of this Note will have the option to elect
repayment by the Company on each Optional Reset Date at a price equal to the
principal amount hereof, plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In
order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to a Reset Notice, the Holder may, by
written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until the close
of business on the tenth day before the Optional Reset Date.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Maturity of this Note
may be extended at the option of the Company for the period or periods of whole
years specified on the face hereof (each an "Extension Period") up to but not
beyond the date (the "Final Maturity") set forth on the face hereof. If the
Company exercises such option, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of this Note
not later than 40 days prior to the old Stated Maturity a notice (the "Extension
Notice") first class, postage prepaid indicating (i) the election of the Company
to extend the Maturity, (ii) the new Stated Maturity, (iii) the Spread or Spread
Multiplier applicable to the Extension Period, and (iv) the provisions, if any,
for redemption during such Extension Period. Upon the Trustee's mailing of the
Extension Notice, the Maturity of this Note shall be extended automatically and,
except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next
paragraph, this Note will have the same terms as prior to the mailing of such
Notice.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the old Stated Maturity of this Note, the Company may, at its option, revoke the
Spread or Spread Multiplier provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a
higher Spread or Spread Multiplier for the Extension Period by causing the
Trustee to mail notice of such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier, first class,
postage prepaid to the Holder of this Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable.
All Registered Notes with respect to which the Maturity is extended will bear
such higher Spread or Spread Multiplier.

                  If the Company extends the Maturity of this Note, the Holder
will have the option to elect repayment of this Note by the Company on the old
Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount hereof, plus interest
accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on such old Stated Maturity
once the Company has extended the Maturity hereof, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days before the such old Stated Maturity, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder
may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until
the close of business on the tenth calendar day before the old Stated Maturity.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Company may, at its

option, redeem this Note in whole, or from time to time in part, on or after the
date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof, at prices
declining from a specified premium, if any, to par, together with accrued
interest to the date of redemption. The Company may exercise such option by
causing the Trustee to mail a notice of such redemption at least 30 but not more
than 60 days prior to the date of redemption unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or
Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional
Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown
on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In
order for this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at least 30 but not
more than 45 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i) this Note with the
form below entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed; or (ii) a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter from a member of a national
securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a
commercial bank or trust company in the United States of America setting forth
the name of the Holder of this Note, the principal amount of the Note to be
repaid, the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of this
Note, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby
and a guarantee that this Note with the form below entitled "Option to Elect
Repayment" duly completed will be received by the Trustee not later than five
Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is
followed, this Note with form duly completed must be received by the Trustee by
such fifth Business Day. Any tender of this Note for repayment (except pursuant
to a Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment
option may be exercised by the Holder of this Note for less than the entire
principal amount of the Note provided that the principal amount of this Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such
partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the
remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder of
this Note.

                  This Note will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if this Note
is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of redemption or repayment
prior to the Stated Maturity hereof (other than pursuant to an optional
redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price), in lieu of the
principal amount due at the Stated Maturity hereof, shall be the Amortized Face
Amount of this Note as of the redemption date or the date of repayment, as the
case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any date shall be the
amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face hereof plus (ii) that
portion of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal
amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond Yield to
Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so specified, the Bond Yield to
Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each case in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided,
however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its
stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of this Note

shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring Optional Redemption Date
with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption
Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on such first occurring
Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with respect to such Note shall
be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the basis of the next
occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on such Optional
Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each succeeding
Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, if this Note is
a Floating Rate Note, this Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date
to the first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate
set forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to the
Base Rate specified on the face hereof, plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
Base Rates that may be specified on the face hereof are LIBOR, the Commercial
Paper Rate, the Treasury Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or any other
Base Rate specified on the face hereof. "H.15(519)" means the publication
entitled "Statistical Release H.15(519), Selected Interest Rates" or any
successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.

                  As specified on the face hereof, this Note may also have
either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per annum on a
simple interest basis): (i) a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the rate at
which interest may accrue during any interest period ("Maximum Interest Rate")
and (ii) a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest may
accrue during any interest period ("Minimum Interest Rate"). In addition to any
Maximum Interest Rate that may be specified on the face hereof, the interest
rate will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable
law, as the same may be modified by United States law of general application.

                  The interest rate hereon will be reset daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, semiannually or annually (such period being the "Interest Reset
Period" specified on the face hereof, and the first day of each Interest Reset
Period being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the face
hereof, the Interest Reset Dates will be, if this Note resets daily, each
Business Day; if this Note (unless this Note is a Treasury Rate Note) resets
weekly, Wednesday of each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets
weekly, Tuesday of each week (except as provided below under "Determination of
Treasury Rate"); if this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month;
if this Note resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of
the two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note
resets annually, the third Wednesday of the month of each year specified on the
face hereof. If an Interest Reset Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding
Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is
LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such
Interest Reset Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest
payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date shall be the accrued interest from

and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has
been paid, as the case may be, to but excluding such Interest Payment Date,
provided, however, that if the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, the
interest payable hereon shall be the accrued interest from and including the
Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been accrued and
paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the Record Date immediately preceding
such Interest Payment Date, except that, at Maturity, the interest payable will
include interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of Maturity.

                  If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period
for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest shall be
calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by an
accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor will be computed by adding
the interest factors calculated for each day in the period for which accrued
interest is being calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a decimal
calculated to seven decimal places without rounding) for each such day is
computed, unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, by dividing the
interest rate in effect on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the
face hereof is the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or
LIBOR, or by the actual number of days in the year, if the Base Rate specified
on the face hereof is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest
shall be calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note
is an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by
the interest rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is
being calculated, and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by
dividing the number of days in the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the
Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the
actual number of days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof
is the Treasury Rate. For purposes of making the foregoing calculations, the
interest rate in effect on any Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate
as reset on such date.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages
resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest hereof will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts
used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest
one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, interest will
be payable, if this Note resets daily, weekly or monthly, on the third Wednesday
of each month or on the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December
of each year, as specified on the face hereof; if this Note resets quarterly, on
the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December of each year; if this
Note resets semiannually, on the third Wednesday of the two months of each year
specified on the face hereof; and if this Note resets annually, on the third
Wednesday of the month of each year specified on the face hereof (each such day
being an "Interest Payment Date"). If an Interest Payment Date would otherwise
fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be
postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate
specified on the face hereof is LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar month, such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately

preceding Business Day.

                  The Company has appointed and entered into an agreement with
an agent (a "Calculation Agent") to calculate the interest rates on Floating
Rate Notes. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Bankers Trust Company
shall be the Calculation Agent. At the request of the Holder hereof, the
Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if
determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date. All determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall,
in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on
the Holder hereof.

                   Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as
specified herein, on each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest shall be the
rate determined in accordance with the provisions of the applicable heading
below.

Determination of CD Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate,
this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if
any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for negotiable
certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary Market)". In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination
Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such
CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof as published by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York in its daily statistical release "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for
U.S. Government Securities" ("Composite Quotations") under the heading
"Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite
Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be calculated
by the Calculation Agent and will be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market
offered rates as of 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD Rate
Determination Date of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar
certificates of deposit in The City of New York selected by the Calculation
Agent for negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States money center
banks of the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable certificates
of deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity on the face
hereof in a denomination of $5,000,000, provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the CD Rate for such Interest Reset Period will be
the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or,
if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination
Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.


Determination of Commercial Paper Rate

                  If the Base Rate shown on the face hereof is the Commercial
Paper Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
"Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date")
and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that such rate is
not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth calendar day
after such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day (the "Calculation Date"), then
the Commercial Paper Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money
Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for
commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as published
in Composite Quotations under the heading "Commercial Paper". If by 3:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in
either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic
mean of the offered rates as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such
Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial
paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for commercial
paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for an
industrial issuer whose bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent by a nationally
recognized rating agency, provided, however, that if the dealers selected as
aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as mentioned in
this sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately preceding Interest
Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial
Interest Rate).

                  "Money Market Yield" shall be the yield calculated in
accordance with the following formula:

                                     D x  360
            Money Market Yield =                 x 100
                                  360 - (D x  M)                                

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal and "M" refers to the actual
number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal

Funds Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal
Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date as published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Federal
Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date, such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite
Quotations, then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall
be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made publicly
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent to the
rate which appears in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)",
provided, however, that if such rate is not made publicly available by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there is no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate). If this Note resets daily, the interest rate on this
Note for the period from and including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding
Monday will be reset by the Calculation Agent on such second Monday (or, if not
a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the
average of the Federal Funds Rates in effect with respect to each such day in
such week.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
specified on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as follows:

                           (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the
         Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR
         Determination Date"), the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will
         determine the arithmetic mean of the offered rates for deposits in the
         Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on
         the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, which appear
         on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time,
         on such LIBOR Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page" means either
         (a) if "LIBOR Telerate" is designated on the face hereof, the display
         designated as page "3750" on the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such
         other page as may replace page "3750" on such service or such other
         service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association for the
         purpose of displaying the London interbank offered rates of major
         banks) or (b) if "LIBOR Reuters" is designated on the face hereof, the

         display designated as page "LIBO" on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates
         Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO page on such
         service or such other service as may be nominated by the British
         Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank
         offered rates of major banks). If neither LIBOR Reuters nor LIBOR
         Telerate is specified on the face hereof, LIBOR will be determined as
         if LIBOR Telerate had been specified. If at least two such offered
         rates appear on the Designated LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest
         Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as
         determined by the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.

                      (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the
         Designated LIBOR Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation
         Agent will request the principal London offices of each of four major
         banks in the London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent
         to provide the Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for
         deposits in the Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity
         specified on the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date,
         to prime banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00
         a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal
         amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the
         approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is
         representative of a single transaction in such market at such time. If
         at least two such quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest
         Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer
         than two such quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset
         Period will be the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks
         in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent at
         approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such LIBOR
         Determination Date for loans in the Specified Currency to leading
         European banks for the period of the Index Maturity specified on the
         face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, and in a principal
         amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the
         approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is
         representative of a single transaction in such market at such time,
         provided, however, that if fewer than three banks selected as aforesaid
         by the Calculation Agent are quoting rates as mentioned in this
         sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as
         LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there
         was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for
each Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as published in H.15(519) under the
heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction average (investment)"
or, if not so published by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth calendar
day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date (or, if such day is not a

Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) (the "Calculation Date"), the
auction average rate (expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of
365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury
Rate Determination Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department
of the Treasury. In the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills
having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or
reported as provided above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date, or if no such auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date,
then the "Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by
the Calculation Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond
equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied
on a daily basis) of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates as of
approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date, of three leading primary United States government securities dealers
selected by the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury bills with a
remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof,
provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation
Agent are not quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the
"Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury
Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no
such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset
Period will be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such
Interest Reset Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned.
Treasury bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that
day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the
following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday.
If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding
Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to
the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Note whose Base Rate is the Treasury Rate, then such Interest Reset Date shall
instead be the Business Day immediately following such auction date.

                  If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the "Treasury Rate" for each interest Reset Period will be the rate
that is set forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite
the caption "U.S. Government/Securities/ Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the
Index Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on
Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of

3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity and
for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index
Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent
shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to the
Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the two
Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one such
quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all
events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one
adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

                  The "Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall
be the tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable
Interest Reset Period.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate
Determination Date or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable,
shall be the tenth calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or
Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Indexed Notes

                  If this Note is an Indexed Note, then certain or all interest
payments, in the case of an Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount
payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, in the case of
an Indexed Principal Note, is determined by reference to the amount designated
on the face hereof as the Face Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index
as described on the face hereof. If this Note is a Floating Rate Note or Indexed
Rate Note that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest
payment will be determined by reference to the Face Amount described on the face
hereof unless otherwise specified. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note,
the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or
repayment of this Note may be different from the Face Amount. If the
determination of the Index is calculated or announced by a third party, which
may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such third
party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or changes
the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes consistent
with policies in effect at the time this Note was issued and permitted changes
described on the face hereof), then such Index shall be calculated for this
Note's purposes by another third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or
another affiliate of the Company, selected by the Company subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party. If for any
reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the indexed
interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate

principal amount of Registered Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the
Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration
of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan,
the City and State of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Notes of
this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the Holder hereof
for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company,
the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of
this series shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all the Debt
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in this manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated,
destroyed, stolen or lost and this Note or evidence of the loss, theft, or
destruction hereof (together with such indemnity and such other documents or
proof as may be required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be delivered to
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, a new Registered Note of
like tenor and principal amount will be issued by the Company in exchange for,
or in lieu of, this Note. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with
procuring such indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery
of a new Registered Note shall be borne by the Holder of this Note.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities at the time outstanding of each
series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether

or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon the Debt Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities may not enforce their rights
pursuant to the Indenture or the Note except as provided in the Indenture. No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York and for all purposes be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without regard to the
conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.




                                 ABBREVIATIONS


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:


TEN COM -as tenants in common      UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ________Custodian________ 
TEN ENT -as tenants by the                            (Cust)           (Minor)  
         entireties 
JT ENT  -as joint tenants with               Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
         right of survivorship 
         and not as tenants in                       ------------------------- 
         common                                                (State)

    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list

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                           OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT


         The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Company
to repay $__________ principal amount of the within Note, pursuant to its terms,
on the "Optional Repayment Date" first occurring after the date of receipt of
the within Note as specified below, together with interest thereon accrued to
the date or repayment, to the undersigned at:

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          (Please Print or Type Name and Address of the Undersigned)

and to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new
Note or Notes representing the remaining principal amount of this Note.

         For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, this Note with the
Option to Elect Repayment duly completed must be received by the Company within
the relevant time period set forth above at its office or agency in the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, located initially at the office of
the Trustee at, if delivery is by hand, 130 John Street, Street Level, New York,
New York or, if delivery is by mail, 450 West 33rd Street, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, New York, New York 10001.


Dated:                       _________________________________________
                             Note:  The signature to this Option to Elect
                             Repayment must correspond with the name as written
                             upon the face of the within Note in every
                             particular without alteration or enlargement or any
                             change whatsoever.



              FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) 
                and transfer(s) unto


     Please insert Social Security or Other
       Identifying Number of Assignee




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     Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Zip Code of Assignee

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the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting 
and appointing
                                                                    attorney   
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to transfer such Note on the books of Salomon Inc with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: 
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                       Signature

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                                  NOTICE:  The signature to this assignment must
                                  correspond with the name as it appears upon
                                  the face of the Note in every particular,
                                  without alteration or enlargement or any
                                  change whatsoever







                       FORM OF SERIES E FIXED RATE NOTE
REGISTERED                                                PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                                          OR FACE AMOUNT

                                  SALOMON INC

No.  FX-                    MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E
                                 (FIXED RATE)             CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW
WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX
ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES

Issue Price:                                              Original Issue Date:
Specified Currency:
       (If other than U.S. Dollars)

       Authorized Denominations:
       (If other than as set forth in the
       Prospectus Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:
       (If other than as set forth in the
       Prospectus Supplement)

       Indexed Principal Note:            |_|   Yes  (see attached)   |_|   No

Interest Rate:                                                Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:           |_|          The Interest Rate may not be
                                            changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                               |_|          The Interest Rate may be changed
                                            prior to Stated Maturity
                                            (see attached)

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Amortizing Note:                    |_|   Yes      |_|   No

         Amortization Schedule:






Optional Redemption:                |_|   Yes      |_|   No

         Optional Redemption Dates:


         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:                 |_|   Yes      |_|   No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:             |_|   Yes      |_|   No

         Final Maturity:

Discount Note:                      |_|   Yes      |_|   No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:






                                            
                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the "Company"), for
value received hereby promises to pay CEDE & Co. or registered assigns, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest on said Principal Amount outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding) at the Interest Rate
shown above from the Original Issue Date shown above or from the most recent
date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in
arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year and at Maturity, until, in
either case, the Principal Amount then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or
duly provided for in accordance with the terms hereof. Interest on this Note, if
any, will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture referred to on the
reverse hereof, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest, which, in the case of interest payable on a March
15, or September 15 (other than interest payable at Maturity) shall be the March
1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date and, in the case of interest payable at

Maturity, shall be the Stated Maturity of this Note. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if this Note is issued between a Regular Record Date and the related
Interest Payment Date, the interest so payable for the period from the Original
Issue Date to such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date to the Registered Holder hereof on the related Regular
Record Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Registered Holder hereof on such Regular
Record Date, and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than ten
days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange
on which the Registered Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (i) The City of New
York or (ii) if the Specified Currency shown above (as defined below) is other
than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing such Specified
Currency (which, in the case of ECU, shall be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  The principal hereof and any premium and interest hereon are
payable by the Company in the Specified Currency shown above. If the Specified
Currency shown above is other than U.S. dollars, the Company will arrange to
convert all payments in respect hereof into U.S. dollars in the manner described
on the reverse hereof. The Holder hereof may, if so indicated above, elect to
receive all payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency by delivery of
a written notice to the Trustee not later than fifteen calendar days prior to
the applicable payment date. Such election will remain in effect until revoked
by written notice to the Trustee received not later than fifteen calendar days
prior to the applicable payment date. If the Company determines that the
Specified Currency is not available for making payments in respect hereof due to
the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's
control or is no longer used by the government of the country issuing such
currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions or within
the international banking community, then the Holder hereof may not so elect to
receive payments in the Specified Currency, and any such outstanding election

shall be automatically suspended, and payments shall be in U.S. dollars, until
the Company determines that the Specified Currency is again available for making
such payments.

                  Payments of interest in U.S. dollars (other than interest
payable at Maturity) will be made by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register on the
applicable Record Date, provided that, if the Holder hereof is the Holder of
U.S. $10,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in a currency other than U.S.
dollars determined as provided on the reverse hereof) or more in aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of like tenor and term, such U.S. dollar
interest payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
but only if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been received in writing
by the Trustee not less than fifteen calendar days prior to the applicable
Interest Payment Date. Simultaneously with any election by the Holder hereof to
receive payments in respect hereof in the Specified Currency (if other than U.S.
dollars), such Holder shall provide appropriate wire transfer instructions to
the Trustee and all such payments will be made by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. The principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon payable at Maturity will be paid in immediately available funds upon
surrender of this Note at the corporate trust office or agency of the Trustee
located in the City and State of New York.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC



                                  By
                                    ----------------------------------------
                                    Senior Vice President


[Seal]


                                  Attest
                                        -----------------------------------
                                        Secretary




                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                  BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                  as Trustee



                                  By
                                    ---------------------------------------
                                    Authorized Signatory








                                  SALOMON INC
                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E
                                  (FIXED RATE)


                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee", which
term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) to which Indenture and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the
terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase
price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be
determined by the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in
New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs
purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate")
for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Registered Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$1,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000. The authorized
denominations of Registered Notes denominated in a currency other than U.S.
dollars will be as set forth on the respective faces thereof.

                  Each Registered Note will be issued initially as either a
Book-Entry Note or a Certificated Note. Only Registered Notes denominated and
payable in U.S. dollars may be issued as Book-Entry Notes, and such Notes will
not be exchangeable for Certificated Notes and, except as otherwise provided in
the Indenture, will not otherwise be issuable as Certificated Notes.


                   If the Specified Currency is other than U.S. dollars, the
amount of any U.S. dollar payment to be made in respect hereof will be
determined by the Company or its agent based on the highest firm bid quotation
expressed in U.S. dollars received by the Company or its agent at approximately
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the
applicable payment date (or, if no such rate is quoted on such date, the last
date on which such rate was quoted), from three (or, if three are not available,
then two) recognized foreign exchange dealers in The City of New York selected
by the Company or its agent (one of which may be Salomon Brothers Inc) for the
purchase by the quoting dealer, for settlement on such payment date, of the
aggregate amount of the Specified Currency payable on such payment date in
respect of all Registered Notes denominated in such Specified Currency. All
currency exchange costs will be borne by the Holders of such Registered Notes by
deductions from such payments. If no such bid quotations are available, then
such payments will be made in the Specified Currency, unless the Specified
Currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or to other
circumstances beyond the Company's control, in which case payment will be made
as described in the next paragraph.

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
any payment in respect hereof is required to be made in a Specified Currency
other than U.S. dollars and such currency is unavailable due to the imposition
of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company's control or is
no longer used by the government of the country issuing such currency or for the
settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international
banking community, then such payment shall be made in U.S. dollars until such
currency is again available or so used. The amount so payable in such foreign
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture. If any payment in
respect hereof is required to be made in European Currency Units ("ECU") and ECU
is no longer used in the European Monetary System, then such payment shall be
made in U.S. dollars until ECU is again so used. The amount of such payment in
U.S. dollars shall be computed on the basis of the equivalent of the ECU in U.S.
dollars as of the second Business Day prior to the date on which such payment is
due. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars as of any date shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the following basis. The component
currencies of the ECU for this purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency
amounts that were components of the ECU as of the last date on which the ECU was
used in the European Monetary System. The equivalent of the ECU in U.S. dollars
shall be calculated by aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the
Components. The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Company or its agent on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rates for such Components or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. If the official unit of any component currency is altered by
way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a
Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more
component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of
those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such single
currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component

shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  The interest payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date
shall include interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment
Date.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the interest rate on this
Note may be reset by the Company on the date or dates specified on the face
hereof (each an "Optional Reset Date"). Not later than 40 days prior to each
Optional Reset Date, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of this Note a notice
(the "Reset Notice"), first class, postage prepaid, indicating whether the
Company has elected to reset the interest rate, and if so, (i) such new interest
rate, and (ii) the provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from
such Optional Reset Date to the next Optional Reset Date, or if there is no such
next Optional Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of this Note (each such period
a "Subsequent Interest Period"), including the date or dates on which or the
period or periods during which and the price or prices at which such redemption
may occur during the Subsequent Interest Period.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest
rate provided for in the Reset Notice and establish a higher interest rate for
the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee to mail notice of such
higher interest rate to the Holder of this Note. Such notice shall be
irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to which the interest rate is
reset on an Optional Reset Date will bear such higher interest rate.

                  The Holder of this Note will have the option to elect
repayment by the Company on each Optional Reset Date at a price equal to the
principal amount hereof, plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In
order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to a Reset Notice, the Holder may, by
written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until the close
of business on the tenth day before the Optional Reset Date.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Maturity of this Note
may be extended at the option of the Company for the period or periods of whole
years specified on the face hereof, (each an "Extension Period"), up to but not
beyond the date (the "Final Maturity") set forth on the face hereof. If the
Company exercises such option, the Trustee will mail to the Holder of this Note
not later than 40 days prior to the old Stated Maturity a notice (the "Extension
Notice"), first class, postage prepaid indicating (i) the election of the
Company to extend the Maturity, (ii) the new Stated Maturity, (iii) the interest
rate applicable to the Extension Period, and (iv) the provisions, if any, for
redemption during such Extension Period. Upon the Trustee's mailing of the
Extension Notice, the Maturity of this Note shall be extended automatically and,
except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next
paragraph, this Note will have the same terms as prior to the mailing of such
Notice.


                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the old Stated Maturity of this Note, the Company may, at its option, revoke the
interest rate provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a higher
interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the Trustee to mail notice of
such higher interest rate, first class, postage prepaid, to the Holder of this
Note. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Registered Notes with respect to
which the Maturity is extended will bear such higher interest rate.

                  If the Company extends the Maturity of this Note, the Holder
will have the option to elect repayment of this Note by the Company on the old
Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount hereof, plus interest
accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on the old Stated Maturity
once the Company has extended the Maturity hereof, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth below for optional repayment, except that the period for
delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than
35 days prior to the old Stated Maturity, and except that if the Holder has
tendered this Note for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder
may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until
the close of business on the tenth day before the old Stated Maturity.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Company may, at its
option, redeem this Note in whole, or from time to time in part, on or after the
date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof, at prices
declining from a specified premium, if any, to par, together with accrued
interest to the date of redemption. The Company may exercise such option by
causing the Trustee to mail a notice of such redemption at least 30 but not more
than 60 days prior to the date of redemption. In the event of redemption of this
Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall
be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional
Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown
on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In
order for this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at least 30 but not
more than 45 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i) this Note with the
form below entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed; or (ii) a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter from a member of a national
securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a
commercial bank or trust company in the United States of America setting forth
the name of the Holder of this Note, the principal amount of the Note to be
repaid, the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of this
Note, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby
and a guarantee that this Note with the form below entitled "Option to Elect
Repayment" duly completed will be received by the Trustee not later than five
Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is
followed, this Note with form duly completed must be received by the Trustee by
such fifth Business Day. Any tender of this Note for Repayment (except pursuant
to a Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment
option may be exercised by the Holder of this Note for less than the entire
principal amount of the Note provided that the principal amount of this Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such

partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the
remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder of
this Note.

                  This Note will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if this Note
is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of redemption or repayment
prior to the Stated Maturity hereof (other than pursuant to an optional
redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price), in lieu of the
principal amount due at the Stated Maturity hereof, shall be the Amortized Face
Amount of this Note as of the redemption date or the date of repayment, as the
case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any date shall be the
amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face hereof plus (ii) that
portion of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal
amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond Yield to
Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so specified, the Bond Yield to
Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each case in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided,
however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its
stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of this Note
shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring Optional Redemption Date
with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption
Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on such first occurring
Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with respect to such Note shall
be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the basis of the next
occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on such Optional
Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each succeeding
Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, then the principal
amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to the amount designated on the face hereof as the Face
Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index as described on the face
hereof. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable
at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or repayment of this Note may be
different from the Face Amount. If the determination of the Index is calculated
or announced by a third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company and such third party either suspends the calculation or
announcement of such Index or changes the basis upon which such Index is
calculated (other than changes consistent with policies in effect at the time
this Note was issued and permitted changes described on the face hereof), then
such Index shall be calculated for this Note's purposes by another third party
selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate
of the Company subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the
same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party, then any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of different authorized denominations, as

requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the
Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration
of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan,
the City and State of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Notes of
this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or of the
Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Note is registered as the Holder
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  If an event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of
the series shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all the Debt
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated,
destroyed, stolen or lost and this Note or evidence of the loss, theft or
destruction hereof (together with such indemnity and such other documents or
proof as may be required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be delivered to
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, a new Registered Note of
like tenor and principal amount will be issued by the Company in exchange for,
or in lieu of, this Note. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with
procuring such indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery
of a new Registered Note shall be borne by the Holder of this Note.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt

Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities may not enforce their rights
pursuant to the Indenture or the Debt Securities except as provided in the
Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency,
herein prescribed.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.






                                 ABBREVIATIONS


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:


TEN COM -as tenants in common    UNIF GIFT MIN ACT_________Custodian__________
TEN ENT -as tenants by the entireties               (Cust)            (Minor)
JT ENT  -as joint tenants with right of       Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
         right of survivorship and                ____________________________
          not as tenants in common                           (State)



    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list



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                           OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT


         The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Company
to repay $__________ principal amount of the within Note, pursuant to its terms,
on the "Optional Repayment Date" first occurring after the date of receipt of
the within Note as specified below, together with interest thereon accrued to
the date or repayment, to the undersigned at:



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          (Please Print or Type Name and Address of the Undersigned)


and to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new
Note or Notes representing the remaining principal amount of this Note.


         For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, this Note with the
Option to Elect Repayment duly completed must be received by the Company within
the relevant time period set forth above at its office or agency in the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, located initially at the office of
the Trustee at, if delivery is by hand, 130 John Street, Street Level, New York,
New York or, if delivery is by mail, 450 West 33rd Street, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, New York, New York 10001.


Dated:                            _____________________________________________
                                  Note: The signature to this Option to Elect
                                  Repayment must correspond with the name as
                                  written upon the face of the within Note in 
                                  every particular without alteration or 
                                  enlargement or any change whatsoever.


         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s)
                             and transfer(s) unto


    Please insert Social Security or Other
       Identifying Number of Assignee




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     Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Zip Code of Assignee


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the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and 
appointing

_______________________________________________________________________attorney
to transfer such Note on the books of Salomon Inc with full power of
substitution in the premises.



Dated: ___________________  ___________________________________________________
                            Signature


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                            NOTICE:  The signature to this assignment must 
                            correspond with the name as it appears upon the 
                            face of the Note in every particular, without 
                            alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever





          FORM OF SERIES D FLOATING RATE OR INDEXED RATE BEARER NOTE

BEARER                                                        PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                                                OR FACE AMOUNT

                                 SALOMON INC
No. FL-                   MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D
                        (FLOATING RATE OR INDEXED RATE)                  CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

     ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE SUBJECT TO
LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE LIMITATIONS
PROVIDED IN SECTION 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

     IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO MATURITY" SET FORTH
BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING THE FEDERAL INCOME
TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES

Issue Price:                                 Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                       Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
            (If other than U.S. Dollars)
     Authorized Denominations:
            (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:  / / CD Rate / / Commercial Paper / / Federal Funds Rate
            / / LIBOR Telerate / / LIBOR Reuters / / Treasury Rate
            / / Treasury Rate Constant Maturity / / Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                        Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
            (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:    / / Yes (see attached)      / / No

Floating Rate:             / / Indexed Interest Rate   / / (See attached)

Spread Multiplier:                               Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset:   / /   The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be changed 
                      prior to Stated Maturity.

                / /   The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior 
                      to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:              Minimum Interest Rate:


Amortizing Note:  / / Yes      / / No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:  / / Yes       / / No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:   / / Yes     / / No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:   / / Yes     / / No

         Final Maturity:

Discount Note:    / / Yes      / / No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.

     SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby promises to
pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, or earlier if and to the
extent so provided herein, (a) the Principal Amount or, in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount adjusted by reference to prices,
changes in prices, or differences between prices, of securities, currencies,
intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or by such other objective price,
economic or other measures (an "Index") as described on the face hereof, in the
Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity shown above or earlier if and to the
extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay accrued interest (i) if this is a
Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of
an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding), at the Initial
Interest Rate shown above from the Original Issue Date shown above until the
first Interest Reset Date shown above following the Original Issue Date and
thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance with the provisions
on the reverse hereof, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on the
principal amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note,
the Face Amount, then outstanding) at a rate adjusted by reference to an Index

described on the face hereof, in arrears to the bearer of the interest coupons
attached hereto (the "Coupons") upon surrender thereof as they shall severally
mature at the rates per annum and on the dates, determined as described on the
reverse hereof, until, in either case, the Principal Amount or the Face Amount
is paid or duly provided for in accordance with the terms hereof.

     For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other than a
Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is
presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU") shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

     If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face hereof, a portion
or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to Stated Maturity in
accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or by reference to an
index (as described above).

     Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified Currencies
other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any premium and
interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency. Payments in
respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against surrender of this
Note or such Coupon, at the offices of the Paying Agents outside the United
States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the Holder of this
Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and regulations, such
payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of New York (in the
case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in the case of
payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address outside
the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of the
Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied by
the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon
will be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or
agency of the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in
the United States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account,
or by mail to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
if U.S. dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices
of all Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are
effectively precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar
restrictions on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars,
the Company will appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the
United States at which such payments may be made.

     REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS NOTE SET FORTH
ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE
THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

     This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose unless and
until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its successor, as
Trustee.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be executed under

its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC

                                  By_________________________
                                      Senior Vice President

[Seal]

                                  Attest:____________________      
                                              Secretary

                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

      This is one of the Bearer Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                   as Trustee

                                  By_________________________
                                      Authorized Signatory

                                 SALOMON INC

                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                          (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

General

     This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt securities of the
Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one or more series
under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture") between the
Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee", which term includes any
successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the terms upon which
the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The U.S.
dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase price of Notes
denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be determined by the
Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in New York City for
cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate") for such
currencies on the applicable issue dates.

     Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The
authorized denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than
U.S. dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate

equivalents thereof in the Specified Currency.

     If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be redeemable at the
option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part, on any date on or
after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof,
upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice, at the
Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed prior
to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment together with
all unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining hereto, failing which the amount of
any missing unmatured Coupon will be deducted from the sum due for payment. The
Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

     The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company in whole,
but not in part, at any time on giving not less than 30 or more than 60 days'
notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay
additional interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any
change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated
thereunder) of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing
authority thereof or therein, or any change in the application or official
interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment
becomes effective on or after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation
cannot be avoided by the Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No
such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the
earliest date on which the Company would be obligated to pay such additional
interest were a payment in respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the
publication of any notice of redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate stating that the Company is entitled
to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that
the conditions precedent to the right of the Company so to redeem have
occurred, and an opinion of independent counsel to the effect that the Company
has or will become obligated to pay such additional interest as a result of
such change or amendment.

     If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be repayable prior to
its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional Repayment Dates
shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown on the face
hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In order for
this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as specified below) must
receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days prior to an Optional
Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall be irrevocable. The
repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for less than the entire
principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount of the Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such
partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the
remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest

     The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations set forth
below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any Coupon that
is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be necessary so
that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction or
withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or other

governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the United
States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein),
will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon to be
then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make any
such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or an account of:

         (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not
    have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or former
    connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor or
    beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if such
    Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such Holder,
    if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the United States,
    including, without limitation, such Holder (or such fiduciary, settlor,
    beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or shareholder) being or having
    been a citizen or resident thereof or being or having been engaged in trade
    or business or present therein or having or having had a permanent
    establishment therein or (ii) such Holder's past or present status as a
    passive foreign investment company, a personal holding company, foreign
    personal holding company, a controlled foreign corporation for United
    States tax purposes or private foundation or other tax-exempt organization
    with respect to the United States or as a corporation that accumulates
    earnings to avoid United States federal income tax;

         (b)  any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or personal
    property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

         (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not
    have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of this Note or
    such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such
    payment became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly
    provided for, whichever occurred later;

         (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is payable
    otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on this Note or
    such Coupon;

         (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required to be
    deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this Note or
    such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction or
    withholding by any other Paying Agent;

         (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not
    have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any applicable
    certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement
    concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the
    United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of this Note or such Coupon
    if, without regard to any tax treaty, such compliance is required by
    statute or regulation of the United States as a pre-condition to relief or
    exemption from such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or

         (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on a
    Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of the
    combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company (taking into
    account applicable attribution of ownership rules under Section 871(h)(3)

    of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or is a controlled
    foreign corporation related to the Company through stock ownership;

     nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on
this Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or
other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a
beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such
partnership or a beneficial owner would not have been entitled to the
additional interest had such beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner
been the Holder of this Note or such Coupon.

     The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for United States
federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien
individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a
foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States
federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien
individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

     The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for Bearer Notes
of this Series the offices listed below:

                           Principal Paying Agent:

                                Citibank, N.A.
                               Issuer Services
                                  336 Strand
                               London, WC2R 1HB

                                Paying Agent:

                          Citibank (Luxembourg) S.A.
                    58 Boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte
                              L-1330 Luxembourg

     The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or terminate the
appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other Paying
Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying Agent
acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may be the
Trustee) in at least one city in Europe, which, so long as Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

     Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, if this Note is a Floating
Rate Note, this Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date to the
first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate set
forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to an
interest rate basis (the "Base Rate"), plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any. The "Spread" is the number of
basis points (one basis point equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point)
that may be specified on the face hereof, and the "Spread Multiplier" is the
percentage that may be specified on the face hereof. The face of this Note will

designate one of the following Base Rates as applicable hereto: (i) the CD Rate
(a "CD Rate Note"), (ii) the Commercial Paper Rate (a "Commercial Paper Rate
Note"), (iii) the Federal Funds Rate (a "Federal Funds Rate Note"), (iv) LIBOR
(a "LIBOR Note"), (v) the Treasury Rate (a "Treasury Rate Note") or (vi) such
other Base Rate as is set forth on the face hereof. The "Index Maturity" is the
period of maturity of the instrument or obligation from which the Base Rate is
calculated. "H.15(519)" means the publication entitled "Statistical Release
H.15(519), Selected Interest Rates", or any successor publication, published by
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "Composite Quotations"
means the daily statistical release entitled "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations
for U.S. Government Securities" published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York.

     Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest payable hereon
shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date or the
last date to which interest has been paid, as the case may be, to but excluding
the applicable Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that if the interest
rate is reset daily or weekly, interest payable shall be the accrued interest
from and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest
has been accrued and paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the date
fifteen calendar days immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment
Date, except that interest payable at Maturity will include interest accrued to
but excluding the date of Maturity.

     If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period for which
accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest will be calculated by
multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an Indexed
Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by an accrued
interest factor. Such accrued interest factor shall be computed, unless
otherwise specified on the face hereof, by adding the interest factors
calculated for each day in the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a decimal calculated to seven
decimal places without rounding) for each such day shall be computed, unless
otherwise specified on the face hereof, by dividing the interest rate in effect
on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD
Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or LIBOR, or by the
actual number of days in the year if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof
is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest shall be calculated
by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an Indexed
Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by the interest
rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated, and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing
the number of days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated
by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Commercial Paper
Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the actual number of
days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate. For purposes of making the foregoing calculations, the interest rate in
effect on any Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such
date.

     Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages resulting
from any calculation of the rate of interest hereon will be rounded, if
necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five one-millionths
of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts used in or

resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of
a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

     As specified on the face hereof, the interest rate hereon will be reset
daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (such period being
the "Interest Reset Period", and the first day of each Interest Reset Period
being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof,
the Interest Reset Date will be, if this Note resets daily, each Business Day;
if this Note is not a Treasury Rate Note and it resets weekly, Wednesday of
each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets weekly, Tuesday of
each week (except as provided below under "Determination of Treasury Rate"); if
this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month; if this Note
resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December of
each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of each of two
months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note resets
annually, the third Wednesday of one month of each year specified on the face
hereof. If an Interest Reset Date for this Note would otherwise be a day that
is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next
succeeding Business Day, except that if this Note is a LIBOR Note and such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date
shall be the immediately preceding Business Day. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the interest rate hereon during any interest period shall not be greater than
the Maximum Interest Rate, if any, or less than the Minimum Interest Rate, if
any, shown on the face hereof. In addition to any Maximum Interest Rate that
may be applicable hereto, the interest rate hereon during any interest period
will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law as
the same may be modified by United States law of general application. This Note
will be governed by the law of the State of New York and, under such law, the
maximum rate of interest, with certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a simple
interest basis.

     Unless otherwise indicated on the face hereof and except as provided
below, interest will be payable, if this Note resets daily, weekly or monthly,
on the third Wednesday of each month or on the third Wednesday of March, June,
September and December of each year, as specified on the face hereof; if this
Note resets quarterly, on the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, on the third Wednesday
of each of the two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if
this Note resets annually, on the third Wednesday of the month of each year
specified on the face hereof (each such day being an "Interest Payment Date").
If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a Business
Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding
Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is
LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such
Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

     The Company will appoint, and enter into an agreement with, an agent
("Calculation Agent") to calculate interest rates on this Note. All
determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder
hereof. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Citibank, N.A. shall be
the Calculation Agent for this Note. At the request of the Holder hereof, the
Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if
determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest

Reset Date. In addition, such information will be communicated to the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange and will be made available at the offices of the
Paying Agent in Luxembourg and at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

     Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as specified herein, on
each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest hereon shall be the rate
determined in accordance with the provisions under the applicable heading
below.

Determination of CD Rate

     If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate, this Note
will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier,
if any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset
Period shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for
negotiable certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the
face hereof as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary
Market)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New
York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such
CD Rate Determination Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period
will be the rate on such CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates
of deposit of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as published in
Composite Quotations under the heading "Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet
published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period will be calculated by the Calculation Agent and will
be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market offered rates as of 10:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on such CD Rate Determination Date, of three leading
nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar certificates of deposit in The City
of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for negotiable certificates of
deposit of major United States money center banks of the highest credit
standing (in the market for negotiable certificates of deposit) with a
remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period
(or, if there was no such Interest Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

     The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination Date shall
be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or, if such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Commercial Paper Rate

     If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Commercial Paper
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
"Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by
the Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset
Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination

Date") and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such
Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper
having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be
published in H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that
such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date, then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset
Period shall be the Money Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper of the Index Maturity
specified on the face hereof as published in Composite Quotations under the
heading "Commercial Paper". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or
Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset
Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic mean of the offered
rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial paper in The City of
New York selected by the Calculation Agent for commercial paper of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for an industrial issuer whose
bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent thereof by a nationally recognized
rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by
the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as mentioned in this
sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be
the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately preceding Interest
Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial
Interest Rate).

     "Money Market Yield" shall be a yield calculated in accordance with the
following formula:

Money Market Yield =            D x 360       x 100
                           ------------------      
                             360 - (D x M)

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and "M" refers to the actual
number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof.

     The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate

     If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal Funds Rate,
this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest
rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the
Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the
heading "Federal Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not
published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as
defined below) pertaining to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the

"Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such
Federal Funds Rate Determination Date as published in Composite Quotations
under the heading "Federal Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York
City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either
H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York which is equivalent to the rate which appears in H.15(519) under the
heading "Federal Funds (Effective)"; provided, however, that if such rate is
not made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, then the "Federal Funds
Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Federal Funds Rate
in effect for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was
no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate). If this Note resets
daily, theinterest rate hereon for the period from and including a Monday to
but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset by the Calculation Agent on
such second Monday (or, if not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business
Day) to a rate equal to the average of the Federal Funds Rates in effect with
respect to each such day in such week.

     The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR

     If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this Note will
bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate calculated
with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified
on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined
by the Calculation Agent as follows:

         (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
    for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR Determination Date"), the
    Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the arithmetic mean of
    the offered rates for deposits in the Specified Currency for the period of
    the Index Maturity specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
    commencing on such Interest Reset Date, which appear on the Designated
    LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such LIBOR
    Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page" means either (a) if "LIBOR
    Telerate" is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the display
    designated as page "3750" on the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such other
    page as may replace page "3750" on such service or such other service as
    may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association for the purpose of
    displaying the London interbank offered rates of major banks) or (b) if
    "LIBOR Reuters" is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the
    display designated as page "LIBO" on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates
    Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO page on such service or
    such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association
    for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of major
    banks). If neither LIBOR Reuters nor LIBOR Telerate is specified in the
    applicable Pricing Supplement, LIBOR will be determined as if LIBOR
    Telerate had been specified. It at least two such offered rates appear on
    the Designated LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
    the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as determined by the Calculation

    Agent for such LIBOR Note.

         (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the Designated LIBOR
    Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will request
    the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the London
    interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent to provide the
    Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the Specified
    Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof,
    commencing on such Interest Reset Date, to prime banks in the London
    interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such LIBOR
    Determination Date and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less
    than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified
    Currency that is representative of a single transaction in such market at
    such time. If at least two such quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such
    Interest Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If
    fewer than two such quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest
    Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major
    banks in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent at
    approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination
    Date for loans in the Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the
    period of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on
    such Interest Reset Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of
    not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in the
    Specified Currency that is representative of a single transaction in such
    market at such time; provided, however, that if fewer than three banks
    selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are quoting rates as
    mentioned in this sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
    the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or,
    if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate

     If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury Rate, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for each
Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction
average (investment)" or, in the event that such rate is not published prior to
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction average rate
(expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. In
the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or reported as provided
above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such
auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the "Treasury
Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation
Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond equivalent on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily

basis) of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of
approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate
Determination Date, of three leading primary United States government
securities dealers selected by the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury
bills with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified on the
face hereof; provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by
the Calculation Agent are not quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence,
then the "Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the
Treasury Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there
was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

     The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset Period will
be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such Interest Reset
Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned. Treasury
bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that day is a
legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the following
Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday. If, as
the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding Friday,
such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to the
Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead be the Business
Day immediately following such auction date.

     If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
the "Treasury Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate that is set
forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite the caption
"U.S. Government/ Securities/Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the Index
Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on
Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of
3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity
and for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the
Index Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation
Agent shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to
the Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the
two Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest
Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one
such quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent.

In all events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at
least one adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

     "The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall be the
tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable Interest
Reset Period.

     The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate Determination Date
or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, shall be the tenth
calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or Constant Maturity
Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

     If this Note is an Indexed Note, then certain or all interest payments, in
the case of an Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount payable at Stated
Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, in the case of an Indexed
Principal Note, is determined by reference to the amount designated on the face
hereof as the Face Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index as
described on the face hereof. If this Note is a Floating Rate Note or Indexed
Rate Note that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest
payment will be determined by reference to the Face Amount described on the
face hereof unless otherwise specified. If this Note is an Indexed Principal
Note, the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption
or repayment of this Note may be different from the Face Amount. If the
determination of the Index is calculated or announced by a third party, which
may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such third
party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or changes
the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes consistent
with policies in effect at the time this Note was issued and permitted changes
described on the face hereof), then such Index shall be calculated for this
Note's purposes by another third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or
another affiliate of the Company, selected by the Company subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party. If for any
reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the
same conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the
indexed interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of this Note
shall be calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any
determination of such third party shall in the absence of manifest error be
binding on all parties.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency

     Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if payment in
respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a specified
currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such currency is
unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances
beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the government of the
country issuing such currency or for the settlement of transactions by public
institutions of or within the international banking community, then all
payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency is again available
or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such currency shall be
converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently available Market
Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on the face hereof.
Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will not constitute

an Event of Default under the Indenture.

     If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in
ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System (the "EMS"),
then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a component
currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in respect
hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each payment
in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the equivalent of
the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the fourth
Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due. Notice
of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as described
below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment Currency will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg business day on
which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall, without
liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments with
respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date prior
thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances
in the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

     The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as of any date
(the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this purpose
(the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of the
ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

     The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be determined
by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot delivery
quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of Valuation, as
obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks,
selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in the country of
issue of the Component in question.

     If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is altered by
way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that currency as a
Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion. If two or more
component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the amounts of
those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such single
currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which
shall be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the

number of currencies into which that currency was divided.

     If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day of
Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
shall (except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived
from the middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S.
dollar prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as
obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks,
selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in a country other
than the country of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
within such period of two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange shall determine the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the
basis of such cross rates if the Trustee and the Company judge that the
equivalent so calculated is more representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent
calculated on the basis of such most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise
specified by the Trustee, if there is more than one market for dealing in any
component currency by reason of foreign exchange regulations or for any other
reason, the market to be referred to in respect of such currency shall be that
upon which a nonresident issuer of securities denominated in such currency
would purchase such currency in order to make payments in respect of such
securities.

     All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion (except to the
extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by the Trustee is
subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the Bearer
Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

     If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and
be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and payable in
the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

     If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of
redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than pursuant to an
optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price), shall be the
Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or the date of
repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any
date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face
hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue Price and
the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x)
the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so specified,
the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each case in
accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face
Amount of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call

listed on the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first
occurring Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount
payable on such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not
redeemed on such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to
Call with respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption
Date on the basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount
payable on such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so
recomputed on each succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so
redeemed.

     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Person
surrendering the same.

     No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge payable in connection therewith.

     In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become mutilated,
destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office of the
Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are listed on
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying Agent in
Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be incurred in
connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss, on such
terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may reasonably
require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be surrendered
before replacements will be issued.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities of each series to
be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be
affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of
any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Debt
Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Debt
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

     Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce their rights
pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as provided in the
Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.


     The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes,
consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets to, a
corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any
right to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor
corporation would be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not
have been entitled to do so.

     Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal hereof (and
premium, if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of payment is
of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law, judgments
in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The obligation of the
Company to make such payments in the designated currency of payment shall,
notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether pursuant to a
judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the amount in the
designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may, in accordance
with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such other
currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in the
country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the international
banking community (in the case of a composite currency) immediately following
the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the amount in the
designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any reason less
than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

     All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have been duly given
if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London daily newspaper
(which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as the Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange so requires, in
Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg (which is
expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to have been
given on the date of the first such publication.

     If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the following
applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the Banking Act
1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note issued in
accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act 1987. The
Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1) the
Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

     This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be performed solely
in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without regard to the

conflicts of law rules of said State.

     All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.



                    FORM OF SERIES D FIXED RATE BEARER NOTE

BEARER                                                       PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
No. FX-                                                        OR FACE AMOUNT

                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                                  (FIXED RATE)                         CUSIP

                  Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTION 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES

Issue Price:                                                Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
         (if other than U.S. Dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
         (If other than as set forth in the
         Prospectus Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:
         (If other than as set forth in the
         Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:             |_|    Yes  (see attached)   |_|   No

Interest Rate:                             Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:                |_|    The Interest Rate may not be 
                                           changed prior to Stated
                                           Maturity.

                                    |_|    The Interest Rate may be changed 
                                           prior to Stated Maturity
                                           (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Amortizing Note:                    |_|   Yes     |_|  No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:                |_|   Yes     |_|  No


         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:                  |_|   Yes    |_|  No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Discount Note:                       |_|   Yes    |_|  No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.

                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount, then outstanding) to the bearer of the
interest coupons attached hereto (the "Coupons") at the Interest Rate shown
above, annually in arrears on September 15 of each year (the "Interest Payment
Date"), commencing with the September 15 following the Original Issue Date shown
above upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons as they shall severally
mature, and on the Stated Maturity shown above, or upon earlier redemption or
repayment, until, in either case, the Principal Amount then outstanding or the
Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in accordance with the terms hereof.
Interest on this Note, if any, will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months. Any payment of principal, premium or interest required
to be made in respect hereof on a date that is not a Business Day (as defined
below) need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such date, and no
additional interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed payment.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is

presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which, in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU"), shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.
Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its
successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC


                                  By_________________________
                                      Senior Vice President



[Seal]

                                  Attest:_____________________
                                             Secretary



                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Bearer Notes issued under the
within-mentioned Indenture.

                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                    as Trustee


                                  By______________________________
                                        Authorized Signatory



                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                                  (FIXED RATE)

General

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee", which term
includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the terms
upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase price of
Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be determined by
the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in New York City
for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate") for such
currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be

redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment together
with all unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining hereto, failing which the
amount of any missing unmatured Coupon will be deducted from the sum due for
payment. The Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving at least 30 but not more than
60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in
respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall
be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest
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                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any
Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be
necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or

therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or on account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such
         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or
         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b)  any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or 
         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other 
         governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required
         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;

                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a pre-condition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or
         other governmental charge; or

                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company

         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.

                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  If the Company shall determine that any payment made outside
the United States by the Company or any of its Paying Agents in respect of this
Note or any Coupon (an "Affected Security") would, under any present or future
laws or regulations of the United States, be subject to any certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement of any kind, the
effect of which requirement is the disclosure to the Company, any Paying Agent
or any governmental authority of the nationality, residence or identity of a
beneficial owner of such Affected Security that is a United States Alien (other
than such a requirement (a) that would not be applicable to a payment made by
the Company or any one of its Paying Agents (i) directly to the beneficial owner
or (ii) to a custodian, nominee or other agent of the beneficial owner or (b)
that can be satisfied by such custodian, nominee or other agent certifying to
the effect that the beneficial owner is a United States Alien; provided, that,
in any case referred to in clause (a)(ii) or (b), payment by the custodian,
nominee or agent to the beneficial owner is not otherwise subject to any such
requirement), then the Company shall elect either (x) to redeem such Affected
Securities in whole, but not in part, at their Redemption Price, or (y) if the
conditions described in the next succeeding paragraph are satisfied, to pay the
additional interest specified in such paragraph. The Company shall make such
determination as soon as practicable and publish prompt notice thereof (the
"Determination Notice") stating the effective date of such certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement, whether the Company
elects to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph and (if applicable) the last date by
which the redemption of the Affected Securities must take place, as provided in
the next succeeding sentence. If any Affected Securities are to be redeemed
pursuant to this paragraph, the redemption shall take place on such date, not
later than one year after the publication of the Determination Notice, as the
Company shall specify by notice given to the Trustee at least 60 days before the
Redemption Date. Notice of such redemption shall be given to the Holders of the
Affected Securities at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not so redeem
the Affected Securities if the Company shall subsequently determine, at least 30
days prior to the Redemption Date, that subsequent payments on the Affected

Securities would not be subject to any such certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement, in which case the Company shall
publish prompt notice of such subsequent determination and any earlier
redemption notice given pursuant to this paragraph shall be revoked and of no
further effect. Prior to the publication of any Determination Notice pursuant to
this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate stating
that the Company is obligated to make such determination and setting forth a
statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the obligation of
the Company to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph have occurred, and an opinion of
independent counsel to the effect that such conditions have occurred.

                  If and so long as the certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement referred to in the preceding
paragraph would be fully satisfied by payment of a backup withholding tax or
similar charge, the Company may elect to pay as additional interest such amounts
as may be necessary so that every net payment made outside the United States
following the effective date of such requirement by the Company or any of its
Paying Agents in respect of any Affected Security of which the beneficial owner
is a United States Alien (but without any requirement that the nationality,
residence or identity of such beneficial owner be disclosed to the Company, any
Paying Agent or any governmental authority), after deduction or withholding for
or on account of such backup withholding tax or similar charge (other than a
backup withholding tax or similar charge that (i) would not be applicable in the
circumstances referred to in the parenthetical clause of the first sentence of
the preceding paragraph or (ii) is imposed as a result of presentation of such
Affected Security for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such
payment became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly provided
for, whichever occurred later), will not be less than the amount provided in
such Affected Security to be then due and payable. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph, then the Company shall have the
right to redeem the Affected Securities at any time in whole, but not in part,
at their Redemption Prices, subject to the provisions of the last three
sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph and the condition specified in
the first sentence of this paragraph should no longer be satisfied, then the
Company shall redeem the Affected Securities in whole, but not in part, at their
Redemption Price, subject to the provisions of the last three sentences of the
immediately preceding paragraph. Any redemption payments made by the Company
pursuant to the two immediately preceding sentences shall be subject to the
continuing obligation of the Company to pay additional interest pursuant to this
paragraph.

                  The interest payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date will
include interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment Date.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:

                            Principal Paying Agent:

                                 Citibank, N.A.
                                Issuer Services
                                   336 Strand

                               London, WC2R 01HB

                                 Paying Agent:

                           Citibank (Luxembourg) S.A.
                     58 Boulevard Grand-Duchesse Charlotte
                               L-1330 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or
terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may
be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency
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                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of
each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of

such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in the
country of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more

representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion
(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the
Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price)
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this
Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, then the principal
amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to the amount designated on the face hereof as the Face
Amount of this Note and by reference to an Index as described on the face
hereof. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable
at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or repayment of this Note may be
different from the Face Amount. If the determination of the Index is calculated
or announced by a third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company and such third party either suspends the calculation or
announcement of such Index or changes the basis upon which such Index is
calculated (other than changes consistent with policies in effect at the time
this Note was issued and permitted changes described on the face hereof), then
such Index shall be calculated for this Note's purposes by another third party

selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate
of the Company subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the
same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party, then any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may
reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the

Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of
payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of
payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg
(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.


                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

      FORM OF SERIES E FLOATING RATE OR INDEXED RATE BEARER NOTE

BEARER                                                       PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                                             OR FACE AMOUNT

                              SALOMON INC

No. FL-                 MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E
                     (FLOATING RATE OR INDEXED RATE)              CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTION 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES

Issue Price:                                           Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                                 Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
                  (If other than U.S. Dollars)
           Authorized Denominations:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:|_| CD Rate |_| Commercial Paper |_| Federal Funds Rate
          |_| LIBOR Telerate |_| LIBOR Reuters |_| Treasury Rate 
          |_| Treasury Rate Constant Maturity |_| Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                             Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
         (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:  |_|   Yes (see attached)  |_|   No

Floating Rate  |_|  Indexed Interest Rate  |_|   (See attached)

Spread Multiplier:                                          Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset: |_|  The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be changed 
                    prior to Stated Maturity.

              |_|  The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior to
                    Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:                        Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:  |_|   Yes  |_|   No

        Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:  |_|   Yes  |_|   No

        Optional Redemption Dates:

        Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:  |_|   Yes  |_|   No

        Optional Repayment Dates:

        Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:  |_|    Yes  |_|   No

Final Maturity:

Discount Note:  |_|   Yes  |_|   No

        Total Amount of OID:

        Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.

                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest (i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount
then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
then outstanding) at the Initial Interest Rate shown above from the Original
Issue Date shown above until the first Interest Reset Date shown above following
the Original Issue Date and thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by
the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance
with the provisions on the reverse hereof, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate
Note, on said Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed
Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding) at a rate adjusted by
reference to an Index described on the face hereof, in arrears to the bearer of
the interest coupons attached hereto (the "Coupons") upon surrender thereof as

they shall severally mature at the rates per annum and on the dates, determined
as described on the reverse hereof, until, in either case, the Principal Amount
then outstanding (or Face Amount) is paid or duly provided for in accordance
with the terms hereof.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is
presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU") shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.
Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon, at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.


                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:


                                  SALOMON INC


                                  By _______________________________
                                          Senior Vice President

[Seal]

                                  Attest:___________________________
                                                 Secretary

                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Bearer Notes issued under the
within-mentioned Indenture.

                                  BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                  as Trustee

                                  By:________________________________
                                           Authorized Signatory



                              SALOMON INC

                      MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E

                      (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

General
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                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee", which
term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder

of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the
terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase
price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be
determined by the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in
New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs
purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate")
for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment together
with all unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining hereto, failing which the
amount of any missing unmatured Coupon will be deducted from the sum due for
payment. The Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving not less than 30 or more than
60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in
respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall

be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest
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                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any
Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be
necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or an account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such
         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or
         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or 
         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other 
         governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required

         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;

                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a pre-condition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or
         other governmental charge; or

                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company
         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.

                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:

                            Principal Paying Agent:

                            Bankers Trust Company
                            1 Appold Street, Broadgate
                                London, EC2A 2HE

                                 Paying Agent:

                           Bankers Trust Luxembourg, S.A.
                                  P.O. Box 807
                           14 Boulevard F.D. Roosevelt
                                 L-2450 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or

terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may
be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe, which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, if this Note is
a Floating Rate Note, this Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date
to the first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate
set forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to an
interest rate basis (the "Base Rate"), plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any. The "Spread" is the number of basis
points (one basis point equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point) that may
be specified on the face hereof, and the "Spread Multiplier" is the percentage
that may be specified on the face hereof. The face of this Note will designate
one of the following Base Rates as applicable hereto: (i) the CD Rate (a "CD
Rate Note"), (ii) the Commercial Paper Rate (a "Commercial Paper Rate Note"),
(iii) the Federal Funds Rate (a "Federal Funds Rate Note"), (iv) LIBOR (a "LIBOR
Note"), (v) the Treasury Rate (a "Treasury Rate Note") or (vi) such other Base
Rate as is set forth on the face hereof. The "Index Maturity" is the period of
maturity of the instrument or obligation from which the Base Rate is calculated.
"H.15(519)" means the publication entitled "Statistical Release H.15(519),
Selected Interest Rates", or any successor publication, published by the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "Composite Quotations" means the
daily statistical release entitled "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.
Government Securities" published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest
payable hereon shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original
Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been paid, as the case may be,
to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that
if the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, interest payable shall be the
accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to
which interest has been accrued and paid, as the case may be, to but excluding
the date fifteen calendar days immediately preceding the applicable Interest
Payment Date, except that interest payable at Maturity will include interest
accrued to but excluding the date of Maturity.

                  If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period
for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest will be
calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by an
accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor shall be computed, unless
otherwise specified on the face hereof, by adding the interest factors
calculated for each day in the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a decimal calculated to seven
decimal places without rounding) for each such day shall be computed by dividing
the interest rate in effect on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the
face hereof is the CD Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or
LIBOR, or by the actual number of days in the year if the Base Rate specified on

the face hereof is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest shall
be calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by the
interest rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated, and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing
the number of days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated
by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Commercial Paper
Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the actual number of
days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate. For purposes of making the foregoing calculations, the interest rate in
effect on any Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such
date.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages
resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest hereon will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts
used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest
one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

                  As specified on the face hereof, the interest rate hereon will
be reset daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (such
period being the "Interest Reset Period", and the first day of each Interest
Reset Period being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof, the Interest Reset Date will be, if this Note resets daily, each
Business Day; if this Note is not a Treasury Rate Note and it resets weekly,
Wednesday of each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets weekly,
Tuesday of each week (except as provided below under "Determination of Treasury
Rate"); if this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month; if this
Note resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of
each of two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note
resets annually, the third Wednesday of one month of each year specified on the
face hereof. If an Interest Reset Date for this Note would otherwise be a day
that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the
next succeeding Business Day, except that if this Note is a LIBOR Note and such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date
shall be the immediately preceding Business Day. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the interest rate hereon during any interest period shall not be greater than
the Maximum Interest Rate, if any, or less than the Minimum Interest Rate, if
any, shown on the face hereof. In addition to any Maximum Interest Rate that may
be applicable hereto, the interest rate hereon during any interest period will
in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law as the
same may be modified by United States law of general application. This Note will
be governed by the law of the State of New York and, under such law, the maximum
rate of interest, with certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a simple interest
basis.

                  Unless otherwise indicated on the face hereof and except as
provided below, interest will be payable, if this Note resets daily, weekly or
monthly, on the third Wednesday of each month or on the third Wednesday of
March, June, September and December of each year, as specified on the face
hereof; if this Note resets quarterly, on the third Wednesday of March, June,
September and December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, on the

third Wednesday of each of the two months of each year specified on the face
hereof; and if this Note resets annually, on the third Wednesday of the month of
each year specified on the face hereof (each such day being an "Interest Payment
Date"). If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next
succeeding Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face
hereof is LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month,
such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  The Company will appoint, and enter into an agreement with, an
agent ("Calculation Agent") to calculate interest rates on this Note. All
determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder
hereof. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Bankers Trust Company
shall be the Calculation Agent for this Note. At the request of the Holder
hereof, the Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and,
if determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date. In addition, such information will be communicated to the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange and will be made available at the offices of the Paying Agent in
Luxembourg and at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

                  Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as
specified herein, on each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest hereon shall
be the rate determined in accordance with the provisions under the applicable
heading below.

Determination of CD Rate
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                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate,
this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if
any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for negotiable
certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary Market)". In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination
Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such
CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof as published in Composite Quotations under
the heading "Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or
Composite Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be
calculated by the Calculation Agent and will be the arithmetic mean of the
secondary market offered rates as of 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD
Rate Determination Date, of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S.
dollar certificates of deposit in The City of New York selected by the
Calculation Agent for negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States
money center banks of the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable
certificates of deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity
specified on the face hereof in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however,
that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not

quoting offered rates as mentioned in this sentence, the "CD Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period will be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination
Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Commercial Paper Rate
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                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the
Commercial Paper Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper
Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof.
The "Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by
the Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset
Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination
Date") and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that such rate is
not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date
(as defined below) pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date,
then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the
Money Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate
for commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as
published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Commercial Paper". If by
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet
published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial
Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of
the arithmetic mean of the offered rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time,
on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of
commercial paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for
commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for
an industrial issuer whose bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent thereof by a
nationally recognized rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate).

                  "Money Market Yield" shall be a yield calculated in accordance
with the following formula:

                  Money Market Yield =      D x 360     x 100
                                        ---------------      
                                            360 - (D x M)

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and "M" refers to the actual
number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof.


                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Commercial Paper 
Rate Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial 
Paper Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate
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                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal
Funds Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal
Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date as published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Federal
Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations,
then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate
on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made publicly available by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent to the rate which appears
in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)"; provided, however,
that if such rate is not made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, then the
"Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the
Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period
(or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate). If
this Note resets daily, theinterest rate hereon for the period from and
including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset by the
Calculation Agent on such second Monday (or, if not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the average of the Federal Funds
Rates in effect with respect to each such day in such week.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR
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                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
specified on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as follows:

                  (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest
         Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR Determination
         Date"), the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the
         arithmetic mean of the offered rates for deposits in the Specified

         Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified in the
         applicable Pricing Supplement, commencing on such Interest Reset Date,
         which appear on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
         London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page"
         means either (a) if "LIBOR Telerate" is designated in the applicable
         Pricing Supplement, the display designated as page "3750" on the Dow
         Jones Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page "3750"
         on such service or such other service as may be nominated by the
         British Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying the London
         interbank offered rates of major banks) or (b) if "LIBOR Reuters" is
         designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the display designated
         as page "LIBO" on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service (or such
         other page as may replace the LIBO page on such service or such other
         service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association for the
         purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of major banks).
         If neither LIBOR Reuters nor LIBOR Telerate is specified in the
         applicable Pricing Supplement, LIBOR will be determined as if LIBOR
         Telerate had been specified. It at least two such offered rates appear
         on the Designated LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period
         will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as determined by the
         Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.

                  (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the Designated
         LIBOR Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will
         request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
         London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent to provide
         the Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the
         Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on
         the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, to prime banks
         in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London
         time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal amount equal
         to an amount of not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate
         equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of
         a single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of
         New York selected by the Calculation Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
         New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination Date for loans the
         Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the period of the
         Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such
         Interest Reset Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of
         not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in
         the Specified Currency that is representative of a single transaction
         in such market at such time; provided, however, that if fewer than
         three banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are quoting
         rates as mentioned in this sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset
         Period will be the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest
         Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
         Initial Interest Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate
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                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for
each Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction
average (investment)" or, in the event that such rate is not published prior to
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction average rate
(expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. In
the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or reported as provided
above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such
auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the "Treasury
Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation
Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond equivalent on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis)
of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of approximately
3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, of
three leading primary United States government securities dealers selected by
the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury bills with a remaining maturity
closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof; provided, however,
that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not
quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the "Treasury Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury Rate for the
immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest
Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset
Period will be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such
Interest Reset Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned.
Treasury bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that
day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the
following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday.
If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding
Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to
the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead be the Business
Day immediately following such auction date.

                  If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the "Treasury Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate
that is set forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite
the caption "U.S. Government/Securities/ Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the
Index Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on

Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of
3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity and
for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index
Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent
shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to the
Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the two
Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one such
quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all
events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one
adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

                  "The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall
be the tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable
Interest Reset Period.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate
Determination Date or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable,
shall be the tenth calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or
Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

                  If this Note is an Indexed Note, then certain or all interest
payments, in the case of an Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount
payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, in the case of
an Indexed Principal Note, is determined by reference to the amount designated
on the face hereof as the Face Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index
as described on the face hereof. If this Note is a Floating Rate Note or Indexed
Rate Note that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest
payment will be determined by reference to the Face Amount described on the face
hereof unless otherwise specified. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note,
the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or
repayment of this Note may be different from the Face Amount. If the
determination of the Index is calculated or announced by a third party, which
may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such third
party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or changes
the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes consistent
with policies in effect at the time this Note was issued and permitted changes
described on the face hereof), then such Index shall be calculated for this
Note's purposes by another third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or

another affiliate of the Company, selected by the Company subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party. If for any
reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the indexed
interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency
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                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of
each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The

equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in the country
of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more
representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion

(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the
Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price),
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this
Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may
reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and

the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium, if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of
payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of
payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg

(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.


                    FORM OF SERIES E FIXED RATE BEARER NOTE

BEARER                          PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                 OR FACE AMOUNT

                                  SALOMON INC
No. FX-                 MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E
                               (FIXED RATE)                                CUSIP

                  Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue


                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTION 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES


Issue Price:                                      Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
     (if other than U.S. Dollars)

     Authorized Denominations:
     (If other than as set forth in the
      Prospectus Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:
     (If other than as set forth in the
      Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:  |_|  Yes  (see attached)  |_|  No

Interest Rate:                     Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:         |_|   The Interest Rate may not be changed prior to
                                   Stated Maturity.

                             |_|   The Interest Rate may be changed prior to
                                   Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable)


Amortizing Note:  |_|  Yes  |_|  No

Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption: :  |_|  Yes  |_|  No


         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment: :  |_|  Yes  |_|  No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Discount Note: :  |_|  Yes  |_|  No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.

                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on said Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding, as reduced by any
repayment of principal hereof) to the bearer of the interest coupons attached
hereto (the "Coupons") at the Interest Rate shown above, annually in arrears on
September 15 of each year (the "Interest Payment Date"), commencing with the
September 15 following the Original Issue Date shown above upon presentation and
surrender of the Coupons as they shall severally mature, and on the Stated
Maturity shown above, or upon earlier redemption or repayment, until, in either
case, the Principal Amount then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly
provided for in accordance with the terms hereof. Interest on this Note, if any,
will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Any
payment of principal, premium or interest required to be made in respect hereof
on a date that is not a Business Day (as defined below) need not be made on such
date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force
and effect as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall accrue as a
result of such delayed payment.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is

presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which, in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU"), shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.
Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be

executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:
                                           SALOMON INC

 
                                           By
                                             --------------------------
                                             Senior Vice President
[Seal]

                                           Attest:
                                                  ---------------------
                                                  Secretary

                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

    This is one of the Bearer Notes issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                           BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                           as Trustee


                                           By
                                             ---------------------------
                                             Authorized Signatory


                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E

                                  (FIXED RATE)

General

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee", which
term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the
terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase
price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be
determined by the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in
New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs
purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate")
for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000

and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment together
with all unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining hereto, failing which the
amount of any missing unmatured Coupon will be deducted from the sum due for
payment. The Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving at least 30 but not more than
60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in
respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall
be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest

                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any

Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be
necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or on account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such
         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or
         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or
         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other
         governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required
         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;

                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a pre-condition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or

         other governmental charge; or

                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company
         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.

                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  If the Company shall determine that any payment made outside
the United States by the Company or any of its Paying Agents in respect of this
Note or any Coupon (an "Affected Security") would, under any present or future
laws or regulations of the United States, be subject to any certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement of any kind, the
effect of which requirement is the disclosure to the Company, any Paying Agent
or any governmental authority of the nationality, residence or identity of a
beneficial owner of such Affected Security that is a United States Alien (other
than such a requirement (a) that would not be applicable to a payment made by
the Company or any one of its Paying Agents (i) directly to the beneficial owner
or (ii) to a custodian, nominee or other agent of the beneficial owner or (b)
that can be satisfied by such custodian, nominee or other agent certifying to
the effect that the beneficial owner is a United States Alien; provided, that,
in any case referred to in clause (a)(ii) or (b), payment by the custodian,
nominee or agent to the beneficial owner is not otherwise subject to any such
requirement), then the Company shall elect either (x) to redeem such Affected
Securities in whole, but not in part, at their Redemption Price, or (y) if the
conditions described in the next succeeding paragraph are satisfied, to pay the
additional interest specified in such paragraph. The Company shall make such
determination as soon as practicable and publish prompt notice thereof (the
"Determination Notice") stating the effective date of such certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement, whether the Company
elects to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph and (if applicable) the last date by
which the redemption of the Affected Securities must take place, as provided in
the next succeeding sentence. If any Affected Securities are to be redeemed
pursuant to this paragraph, the redemption shall take place on such date, not
later than one year after the publication of the Determination Notice, as the
Company shall specify by notice given to the Trustee at least 60 days before the

Redemption Date. Notice of such redemption shall be given to the Holders of the
Affected Securities at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not so redeem
the Affected Securities if the Company shall subsequently determine, at least 30
days prior to the Redemption Date, that subsequent payments on the Affected
Securities would not be subject to any such certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement, in which case the Company shall
publish prompt notice of such subsequent determination and any earlier
redemption notice given pursuant to this paragraph shall be revoked and of no
further effect. Prior to the publication of any Determination Notice pursuant to
this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate stating
that the Company is obligated to make such determination and setting forth a
statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the obligation of
the Company to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph have occurred, and an opinion of
independent counsel to the effect that such conditions have occurred.

                  If and so long as the certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement referred to in the preceding
paragraph would be fully satisfied by payment of a backup withholding tax or
similar charge, the Company may elect to pay as additional interest such amounts
as may be necessary so that every net payment made outside the United States
following the effective date of such requirement by the Company or any of its
Paying Agents in respect of any Affected Security of which the beneficial owner
is a United States Alien (but without any requirement that the nationality,
residence or identity of such beneficial owner be disclosed to the Company, any
Paying Agent or any governmental authority), after deduction or withholding for
or on account of such backup withholding tax or similar charge (other than a
backup withholding tax or similar charge that (i) would not be applicable in the
circumstances referred to in the parenthetical clause of the first sentence of
the preceding paragraph or (ii) is imposed as a result of presentation of such
Affected Security for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such
payment became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly provided
for, whichever occurred later), will not be less than the amount provided in
such Affected Security to be then due and payable. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph, then the Company shall have the
right to redeem the Affected Securities at any time in whole, but not in part,
at their Redemption Prices, subject to the provisions of the last three
sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph and the condition specified in
the first sentence of this paragraph should no longer be satisfied, then the
Company shall redeem the Affected Securities in whole, but not in part, at their
Redemption Price, subject to the provisions of the last three sentences of the
immediately preceding paragraph. Any redemption payments made by the Company
pursuant to the two immediately preceding sentences shall be subject to the
continuing obligation of the Company to pay additional interest pursuant to this
paragraph.

                  The interest payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date will
include interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment Date.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:


                             Bankers Trust Company
                           1 Appold Street, Broadgate
                                London, EC2A 2HE

                                 Paying Agent:

                         Bankers Trust Luxembourg, S.A.
                                  P.O. Box 807
                          14 Boulevard F.D. Roosevelt
                               L-2450 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or
terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may
be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of

each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in the
country of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the

U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more
representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion
(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the
Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price)
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this
Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  If this note is an Indexed Principal Note, then the principal
amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to the amount designated on the face hereof as the Face
Amount of this Note and by reference to an Index as described on the face
hereof. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable
at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or repayment of this Note may be
different from the Face Amount. If the determination of the Index is calculated
or announced by a third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company and such third party either suspends the calculation or
announcement of such Index or changes the basis upon which such Index is
calculated (other than changes consistent with policies in effect at the time

this Note was issued and permitted changes described on the face hereof), then
such Index shall be calculated for this Note's purposes by another third party
selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate
of the Company subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the
same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party, then any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may
reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.


                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of
payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of
payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg
(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without

regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.



                    FORM OF SERIES D TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE
                                       
                                  SALOMON INC
                                       
                             TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE

                          (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

                                  representing
                                       
BEARER                                                                 PRINCIPAL
                                                                  OR FACE AMOUNT
NO. FL-___________                                                 TRANCHE NO.__
                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES D
                                       

     THIS SECURITY IS A TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR AN INTEREST IN A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT
COUPONS, REPRESENTING (AND EXCHANGEABLE FOR) INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES.
THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES
GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE ARE AS SPECIFIED IN
THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).

     UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT
BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR
ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH
NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITARY.

     ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE SUBJECT
TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 165 (j) AND 1287 (a) OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE.

     IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO MATURITY"
SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.




Issue Price:                          Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                    Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
                (If other than U.S. dollars)
         Authorized Denominations:
                (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:        / / CD Rate  / / Commercial Paper / / Federal Funds Rate
                  / / LIBOR Telerate / / LIBOR Reuters  / / Treasury Rate
                  / / Treasury Rate Constant Maturity  / / Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                                      Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:    / /  Yes  (see attached)    / /  No

Floating Rate:    / /  Indexed Interest Rate:    / /  (see attached)

Spread Multiplier:                               Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset:     / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be changed prior 
                      to Stated Maturity.

                  / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior 
                      to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:                            Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:    / / Yes    / / No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:    / / Yes   / / No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:    / / Yes    / / No

         Optional Repayment Dates:


         Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:    / / Yes   / / No

     Final Maturity:

Discount Note:    / / Yes    / / No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.




     SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender
hereof, (a) the Principal Amount then outstanding or, in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount adjusted by reference to prices,
changes in prices, or differences between prices, of securities,
currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities or by such other
objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as described on
the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity shown
above, or earlier if and to the extent provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest (i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal
Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note,
the Face Amount then outstanding, as reduced by any repayment of
principal hereof) at the Initial Interest Rate shown above from the
Original Issue Date shown above until the first Interest Reset Date
shown above following the Original Issue Date and thereafter at the Base
Rate shown above, adjusted by the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
shown above, determined in accordance with the provisions on the reverse
of the Permanent Global Note (as defined below) to be exchanged for this
Note, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on said principal amount
(or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then
outstanding), at a rate adjusted by reference to an Index described on
the face hereof, until, in either case, the Principal Amount then
outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in
accordance with the terms hereof; but, in the case of principal, only
after exchange of this Note for interests in a Permanent Global Note, as
provided herein and in the Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof)
and, in the case of interest due on or before the exchange of this Note
for interests in a Permanent Global Note, any interest payable will be
paid to each of Euro-clear and CEDEL (as defined below) with respect to
that portion of this Note held for its account, but only upon receipt in
each case, as of the relevant Interest Payment Date, of a Certificate of
Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership (as defined on the reverse hereof). Each
of Euro-clear and CEDEL will undertake in such circumstances to credit
such interest received by it in respect of this Note to the respective
accounts having an interest therein.

     For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other than
a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The
City of New York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note
is presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined
below) is other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country
issuing the Specified Currency (which in the case of European Currency
Units shall be Brussels, Belgium).

     If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face hereof, a
portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a
formula, or by reference to an index (as described above).

     This Note will be deposited with a common depositary in London (the
"Depositary") for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels

office, as operator of the Euro-clear System ("Euro-clear") and Centrale
de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres S.A. ("CEDEL"), for credit to the
accounts designated by or on behalf of the purchasers hereof. On or
after the 40th day following the issuance of this Note, beneficial
interests in this Note will be exchangeable for interests in a
definitive Global Security in bearer form, without Coupons attached (a
"Permanent Global Note"), in a denomination equal to the aggregate
principal amount of all interests in this Note so exchanged, only upon
receipt (at such time or in connection with an Interest Payment Date
prior to such day) of a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership.
Each Permanent Global Note will be deposited with the Depositary for
credit to the account or accounts designated by or on behalf of the
beneficial owner or owners thereof. The beneficial owner of a Bearer
Note represented by an interest in a Permanent Global Note may, upon 30
days' notice to the Trustee given through either Euro-clear or CEDEL,
exchange such interest for one or more individual Bearer Notes, with
appropriate Coupons attached, in any authorized denomination or
denominations. References herein to "Bearer Notes" shall, except where
otherwise indicated, include interests in a Permanent Global Note as
well as individual Bearer Notes and any appurtenant Coupons. Upon any
exchange of any portion of this Note for an interest in a Permanent
Global Note, the portion of the principal amount hereof so exchanged
shall be endorsed by the Trustee on the Schedule of Exchanges hereto,
and the principal amount hereof shall be reduced for all purposes by the
amount so exchanged.

     Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in whole for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, this Note
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and be subject to
the same terms and conditions of and the Company shall be subject to the
same restrictions as those contained on the Permanent Global Note and in
the Indenture.

     REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS NOTE SET
FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

     This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A. or
its successor as Trustee.






     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be executed
under its corporate seal.

Dated:
                                  SALOMON INC




                                  By_________________________
                                      Senior Vice President
[Seal]

                                  Attest_____________________
                                             Secretary





                     CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                   as Trustee



                                  By_________________________
                                      Authorized Signatory





                              SALOMON INC

                      MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                      (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

     This Note represents one or more Bearer Notes having the same
Original Issue Date and otherwise identical in terms of a series of a
duly authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as
specified in the title hereof, and issued and to be issued in either
registered or bearer form under the Subordinated Debt Indenture dated as
of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and Citibank,
N.A., as Trustee (the "Trustee"). This Note is governed by the terms and
conditions of the Permanent Global Note to be issued in exchange for
this Note, which terms and conditions are incorporated herein by
reference mutatis mutandis and, except as otherwise provided herein,
shall be binding on the Company, the Holder hereof and the Holders of
the Bearer Notes represented hereby as if fully set forth herein.
Capitalized terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or
the Permanent Global Note and are not otherwise defined herein shall
have the meanings assigned to them therein.

     The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set forth
in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the
Indenture, and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each
Holder of this Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound
by such provisions and authorizes and directs the trustee in this behalf
to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge
or effectuate the subordination provided in the Indenture and appoints
the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.

     Any payment of principal, premium or interest required to be made
in respect hereof on a date that is not a business day need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with
the same force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional
interest shall accrue as a result of such delayed payment.

     Except as set forth on the Permanent Global Note regarding payments
made in currencies other than the Specified Currency when the Specified
Currency is unavailable, the principal hereof and any premium and
interest hereon will be paid by the Company in such coin or currency as
specified above as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts (the "Specified Currency"), at the
office of any paying agent located outside the United States as the
Company may appoint from time to time (the "Paying Agents").

     As used herein, a "Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership" is
a certificate, in the form adopted by the Company, as to beneficial
ownership by persons other than United States persons or as to other
qualifying ownership by or through financial institutions in compliance
with applicable U.S. Treasury regulations.


     If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorized under
the Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a
medium-term note issued in accordance with regulations made under
Section 4 of the Banking Act 1987. The Company represents that as of the
date of issuance of this Note, (1) the Company is in compliance with its
listing obligations to The International Stock Exchange of the United
Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in connection with the
Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and (2) since
information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not
become aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be
regarded as significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet
its obligations on this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal
and payment of interest and any premium on this Note have not been
guaranteed by any person.

     This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be performed
solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.


                             SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

     The following exchanges of a portion of this Note for interests in
a Permanent Global Note and the following payments of interest in
respect of this Note have been made.


                         Principal
                         Amount
Date of                  Exchanged for    Remaining
Exchange or              an Interest in   Principal   Notation made
Interest     Interest    a Permanent      Amount of   on behalf of
Payment      Paid        Global Note      this Note   the Trustee
- -----------  --------    --------------   ---------   -------------








               FORM OF SERIES D TEMPORARY GLOBAL FIXED RATE NOTE

                                  SALOMON INC

                             TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE

                                  (FIXED RATE)

                                  representing

BEARER                                               PRINCIPAL OR FACE AMOUNT
No. FX-_________                                     TRANCHE NO. ____

                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES D


                  THIS SECURITY IS A TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR AN INTEREST IN A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
REPRESENTING (AND EXCHANGEABLE FOR) INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES. THE RIGHTS
ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE
FOR A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED
HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 165 (j) AND 1287 (a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE
CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.



Issue Price:                                          Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
         (if other than U.S. Dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
         (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:
         (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)


Indexed Principal Note:        / /  Yes (see attached)  / /  No

Interest Rate:                                          Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:           / /     The Interest Rate may not be
                                       changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                               / /     The Interest Rate may be changed
                                       prior to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Amortizing Note:               / /  Yes       / /  No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:   / /  Yes            / /  No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:                / /  Yes         / /  No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:




Discount Note:    / /  Yes     / /  No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.



                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as

described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding, to the bearer of the
interest coupons attached hereto (the "Coupons") at the Interest Rate shown
above, annually in arrears on September 15 of each year (the "Interest Payment
Date"), commencing with the September 15 following the Original Issue Date shown
above upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons as they shall severally
mature, and on the Stated Maturity shown above, or upon earlier redemption or
repayment, until, in either case, the Principal Amount then outstanding or the
Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in accordance with the terms hereof;
but, in the case of principal, only after exchange of this Note for interests in
a Permanent Global Note, as provided herein and in the Indenture (as defined on
the reverse hereof) and, in the case of interest due on or before the exchange
of this Note for interests in a Permanent Global Note, any interest payable will
be paid to each of Euro-clear and CEDEL (as defined below) with respect to that
portion of this Note held for its account, but only upon receipt in each case,
as of the relevant Interest Payment Date, of a Certificate of Non-U.S.
Beneficial Ownership (as defined on the reverse hereof). Each of Euro-clear and
CEDEL will undertake in such circumstances to credit such interest received by
it in respect of this Note to the respective accounts having an interest
therein.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note is presented for
payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is other than U.S.
dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the Specified Currency
(which in the case of European Currency Units shall be Brussels, Belgium).

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note will be deposited with a common depositary in London
(the "Depositary") for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
office, as operator of the Euro-clear System ("Euro-clear") and Centrale de
Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres S.A. ("CEDEL"), for credit to the accounts
designated by or on behalf of the purchasers hereof. On or after the 40th day
following the issuance of this Note, beneficial interests in this Note will be
exchangeable for interests in a definitive Global Security in bearer form,
without Coupons attached (a "Permanent Global Note"), in a denomination equal to
the aggregate principal amount of all interests in this Note so exchanged, only
upon receipt (at such time or in connection with an Interest Payment Date prior
to such day) of a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership. Each Permanent
Global Note will be deposited with the Depositary for credit to the account or
accounts designated by or on behalf of the beneficial owner or owners thereof.
The beneficial owner of a Bearer Note represented by an interest in a Permanent
Global Note may, upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given through either
Euro-clear or CEDEL, exchange such interest for one or more individual Bearer
Notes, with appropriate Coupons attached, in any authorized denomination or
denominations. References herein to "Bearer Notes" shall, except where otherwise

indicated, include interests in a Permanent Global Note as well as individual
Bearer Notes and any appurtenant Coupons. Upon any exchange of any portion of
this Note for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, the portion of the
principal amount hereof so exchanged shall be endorsed by the Trustee on the
Schedule of Exchanges hereto, and the principal amount hereof shall be reduced
for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in whole for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, this Note shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and be subject to the same
terms and conditions of and the Company shall be subject to the same
restrictions as those contained on the Permanent Global Note and in the
Indenture.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its
successor as Trustee.



                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC



                                  By____________________________
                                    Senior Vice President

[Seal]


                                  Attest_________________________
                                        Secretary


                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Notes issued under the within mentioned Indenture.


                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                   as Trustee


                                  By-----------------------------
                                    Authorized Signatory





                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                                  (FIXED RATE)

                  This Note represents one or more Bearer Notes having the
same Original Issue Date and otherwise identical in terms of a series of a
duly authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as specified in
the title hereof, and issued and to be issued in either registered or bearer
form under the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 (the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee
(the "Trustee"). This Note is governed by the terms and conditions of the
Permanent Global Note to be issued in exchange for this Note, which terms
and conditions are incorporated herein by reference mutatis mutandis and,
except as otherwise provided herein, shall be binding on the Company,
the Holder hereof and the Holders of the Bearer Notes represented hereby
as if fully set forth herein. Capitalized terms used in this Note that
are defined in the Indenture or the Permanent Global Note and are not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them therein.

                  Any payment of principal, premium or interest required to be
made in respect hereof on a date that is not a Business Day need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall
accrue as a result of such delayed payment.

                  Except as set forth on the Permanent Global Note regarding
payments made in currencies other than the Specified Currency when the Specified
Currency is unavailable, the principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon will be paid by the Company in such coin or currency as specified above
as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts (the "Specified Currency"), at the office of any paying agent
located outside the United States as the Company may appoint from time to time
(the "Paying Agents").

                  As used herein, a "Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial
Ownership" is a certificate, in the form adopted by the Company, as to
beneficial ownership by persons other than United States persons or as to other
qualifying ownership by or through financial institutions in compliance with
applicable U.S. Treasury regulations.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorized under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and

(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.



                             SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

                  The following exchanges of a portion of this Note for
interests in a Permanent Global Note and the following payments of interest in
respect of this Note have been made.


                         Principal
                         Amount
Date of                  Exchanged for    Remaining
Exchange or              an Interest in   Principal   Notation made
Interest     Interest    a Permanent      Amount of   on behalf of
Payment      Paid        Global Note      this Note   the Trustee
- -----------  --------    --------------   ---------   -------------







                     FORM OF SERIES E TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE

                                  SALOMON INC

                             TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE

                           (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

                                  representing


BEARER                                             PRINCIPAL OR FACE AMOUNT
No. FL-_________                                   TRANCHE NO._____

                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES E


                  THIS SECURITY IS A TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR AN INTEREST IN A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
REPRESENTING (AND EXCHANGEABLE FOR) INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES. THE RIGHTS
ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE
FOR A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED
HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 165 (j) AND 1287 (a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE
CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.



Issue Price:                                           Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                                 Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
                (If other than U.S. dollars)
         Authorized Denominations:
                (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:      / / CD Rate  / / Commercial Paper  / / Federal Funds Rate
                 

                / / LIBOR Telerate  / / LIBOR Reuters  / / Treasury Rate

                / / Treasury Rate Constant Maturity    / / Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                                           Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:    / / Yes  (see attached)    / / No

Floating Rate:    / / Indexed Interest Rate:    / / (See attached)

Spread Multiplier:                                              Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset:       / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be changed
                        prior to Stated Maturity.

                    / / The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior
                        to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:                                   Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:    / / Yes  / / No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:   / / Yes  / / No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:    / / Yes  / / No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:  / / Yes  / / No

     Final Maturity:

Discount Note:   / / Yes  / / No

         Total Amount of OID:


         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.


                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent herein, and (b) to pay accrued
interest (i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount then
outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then
outstanding, at the Initial Interest Rate shown above from the Original Issue
Date shown above until the first Interest Reset Date shown above following the
Original Issue Date and thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance with
the provisions on the reverse of the Permanent Global Note (as defined below) to
be exchanged for this Note, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on said
Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note,
the Face Amount then outstanding, at a rate adjusted by reference to an Index
described on the face hereof, until, in either case, the Principal Amount then
outstanding or Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in accordance with the
terms hereof; but, in the case of principal, only after exchange of this Note
for interests in a Permanent Global Note, as provided herein and in the
Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof) and, in the case of interest due on
or before the exchange of this Note for interests in a Permanent Global Note,
any interest payable will be paid to each of Euro-clear and CEDEL (as defined
below) with respect to that portion of this Note held for its account, but only
upon receipt in each case, as of the relevant Interest Payment Date, of a
Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership (as defined on the reverse hereof).
Each of Euro-clear and CEDEL will undertake in such circumstances to credit such
interest received by it in respect of this Note to the respective accounts
having an interest therein.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note is presented for
payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is other than U.S.
dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the Specified Currency
(which in the case of European Currency Units shall be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be

necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note will be deposited with a common depositary in London
(the "Depositary") for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
office, as operator of the Euro-clear System ("Euro-clear") and Centrale de
Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres S.A. ("CEDEL"), for credit to the accounts
designated by or on behalf of the purchasers hereof. On or after the 40th day
following the issuance of this Note, beneficial interests in this Note will be
exchangeable for interests in a definitive Global Security in bearer form,
without Coupons attached (a "Permanent Global Note"), in a denomination equal to
the aggregate principal amount of all interests in this Note so exchanged, only
upon receipt (at such time or in connection with an Interest Payment Date prior
to such day) of a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership. Each Permanent
Global Note will be deposited with the Depositary for credit to the account or
accounts designated by or on behalf of the beneficial owner or owners thereof.
The beneficial owner of a Bearer Note represented by an interest in a Permanent
Global Note may, upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given through either
Euro-clear or CEDEL, exchange such interest for one or more individual Bearer
Notes, with appropriate Coupons attached, in any authorized denomination or
denominations. References herein to "Bearer Notes" shall, except where otherwise
indicated, include interests in a Permanent Global Note as well as individual
Bearer Notes and any appurtenant Coupons. Upon any exchange of any portion of
this Note for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, the portion of the
principal amount hereof so exchanged shall be endorsed by the Trustee on the
Schedule of Exchanges hereto, and the principal amount hereof shall be reduced
for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in whole for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, this Note shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and be subject to the same
terms and conditions of and the Company shall be subject to the same
restrictions as those contained on the Permanent Global Note and in the
Indenture.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company or
its successor as Trustee.



                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.


Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC


                                  By-----------------------------
                                  Senior Vice President

[Seal]

                                  Attest-------------------------
                                        Secretary


                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                  BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                  as Trustee


                                  By--------------------------------
                                   Authorized Signatory




                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E

                           (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

                  This Note represents one or more Bearer Notes having the same
Original Issue Date and otherwise identical in terms of a series of a duly
authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as specified in the
title hereof, and issued and to be issued in either registered or bearer form
under the Subordinated Debt Indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee (the
"Trustee"). This Note is governed by the terms and conditions of the Permanent
Global Note to be issued in exchange for this Note, which terms and conditions
are incorporated herein by reference mutatis mutandis and, except as otherwise
provided herein, shall be binding on the Company, the Holder hereof and the
Holders of the Bearer Notes represented hereby as if fully set forth herein.
Capitalized terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or the
Permanent Global Note and are not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them therein.

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this

Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the trustee in this behalf to take such actions as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided
in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for any and
all such purposes.

                  Any payment of principal, premium or interest required to be
made in respect hereof on a date that is not a business day need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall
accrue as a result of such delayed payment.

                  Except as set forth on the Permanent Global Note regarding
payments made in currencies other than the Specified Currency when the Specified
Currency is unavailable, the principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon will be paid by the Company in such coin or currency as specified above
as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts (the "Specified Currency"), at the office of any paying agent
located outside the United States as the Company may appoint from time to time
(the "Paying Agents").

                  As used herein, a "Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial
Ownership" is a certificate, in the form adopted by the Company, as to
beneficial ownership by persons other than United States persons or as to other
qualifying ownership by or through financial institutions in compliance with
applicable U.S. Treasury regulations.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorized under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.


                             SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

                  The following exchanges of a portion of this Note for
interests in a Permanent Global Note and the following payments of interest in
respect of this Note have been made.



                         Principal
                         Amount
Date of                  Exchanged for    Remaining
Exchange or              an Interest in   Principal   Notation made
Interest     Interest    a Permanent      Amount of   on behalf of
Payment      Paid        Global Note      this Note   the Trustee
- -----------  --------    --------------   ---------   -------------







                                   
           FORM OF SERIES E TEMPORARY GLOBAL FIXED RATE NOTE

                              SALOMON INC

                         TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE

                             (FIXED RATE)

                             representing

BEARER                                           PRINCIPAL OR FACE AMOUNT
No. FX-_________                                             TRANCHE NO._

                      MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES E

                  THIS SECURITY IS A TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR AN INTEREST IN A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
REPRESENTING (AND EXCHANGEABLE FOR) INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES. THE RIGHTS
ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE
FOR A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED
HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 165 (j) AND 1287 (a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE
CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                        Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
         (if other than U.S. Dollars)

Authorized Denominations:
         (If other than as set forth in the
         Prospectus Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:

         (If other than as set forth in the
         Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:  /_/   Yes   (see attached)   /_/   No


Interest Rate:                                                Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset: :   /_/    The Interest Rate may not be 
                                    changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                         /_/    The Interest Rate may be changed prior to
                                    Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable)

Amortizing Note: /_/  Yes  /_/    No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption: /_/   Yes   /_/   No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment: /_/    Yes   /_/    No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Discount Note: /_/    Yes   /_/   No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.


                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding, as reduced by any
repayment of principal hereof) to the bearer of the interest coupons attached

hereto (the "Coupons") at the Interest Rate shown above, annually in arrears on
September 15 of each year (the "Interest Payment Date"), commencing with the
September 15 following the Original Issue Date shown above upon presentation and
surrender of the Coupons as they shall severally mature, and on the Stated
Maturity shown above, or upon earlier redemption or repayment, until, in either
case, Principal Amount then outstanding is paid or duly provided for in
accordance with the terms hereof; but, in the case of principal, only after
exchange of this Note for interests in a Permanent Global Note, as provided
herein and in the Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof) and, in the case
of interest due on or before the exchange of this Note for interests in a
Permanent Global Note, any interest payable will be paid to each of Euro-clear
and CEDEL (as defined below) with respect to that portion of this Note held for
its account, but only upon receipt in each case, as of the relevant Interest
Payment Date, of a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership (as defined on
the reverse hereof). Each of Euro-clear and CEDEL will undertake in such
circumstances to credit such interest received by it in respect of this Note to
the respective accounts having an interest therein.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note is presented for
payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is other than U.S.
dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the Specified Currency
(which in the case of European Currency Units shall be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note will be deposited with a common depositary in London
(the "Depositary") for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
office, as operator of the Euro-clear System ("Euro-clear") and Centrale de
Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres S.A. ("CEDEL"), for credit to the accounts
designated by or on behalf of the purchasers hereof. On or after the 40th day
following the issuance of this Note, beneficial interests in this Note will be
exchangeable for interests in a definitive Global Security in bearer form,
without Coupons attached (a "Permanent Global Note"), in a denomination equal to
the aggregate principal amount of all interests in this Note so exchanged, only
upon receipt (at such time or in connection with an Interest Payment Date prior
to such day) of a Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership. Each Permanent
Global Note will be deposited with the Depositary for credit to the account or
accounts designated by or on behalf of the beneficial owner or owners thereof.

The beneficial owner of a Bearer Note represented by an interest in a Permanent
Global Note may, upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given through either
Euro-clear or CEDEL, exchange such interest for one or more individual Bearer
Notes, with appropriate Coupons attached, in any authorized denomination or
denominations. References herein to "Bearer Notes" shall, except where otherwise
indicated, include interests in a Permanent Global Note as well as individual
Bearer Notes and any appurtenant Coupons. Upon any exchange of any portion of
this Note for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, the portion of the
principal amount hereof so exchanged shall be endorsed by the Trustee on the
Schedule of Exchanges hereto, and the principal amount hereof shall be reduced
for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in whole for an interest in a Permanent Global Note, this Note shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and be subject to the same
terms and conditions of and the Company shall be subject to the same
restrictions as those contained on the Permanent Global Note and in the
Indenture.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:
                                          SALOMON INC

                                          By ________________________
                                          Senior Vice President
[Seal]
                                          Attest ____________________
                                          Secretary

                     CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                          BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                           as Trustee

                                          By ________________________
                                           Authorized Officer


                              SALOMON INC

                      MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E


                             (FIXED RATE)

                  This Note represents one or more Bearer Notes having the same
Original Issue Date and otherwise identical in terms of a series of a duly
authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as specified in the
title hereof, and issued and to be issued in either registered or bearer form
under the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture"),
between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee (the "Trustee"). This
Note is governed by the terms and conditions of the Permanent Global Note to be
issued in exchange for this Note, which terms and conditions are incorporated
herein by reference mutatis mutandis and, except as otherwise provided herein,
shall be binding on the Company, the Holder hereof and the Holders of the Bearer
Notes represented hereby as if fully set forth herein. Capitalized terms used in
this Note that are defined in the Indenture or the Permanent Global Note and are
not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them therein.

                  Any payment of principal, premium or interest required to be
made in respect hereof on a date that is not a Business Day need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall
accrue as a result of such delayed payment.

                  Except as set forth on the Permanent Global Note regarding
payments made in currencies other than the Specified Currency when the Specified
Currency is unavailable, the principal hereof and any premium and interest
hereon will be paid by the Company in such coin or currency as specified above
as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts (the "Specified Currency"), at the office of any paying agent
located outside the United States as the Company may appoint from time to time
(the "Paying Agents").

                  As used herein, a "Certificate of Non-U.S. Beneficial
Ownership" is a certificate, in the form adopted by the Company, as to
beneficial ownership by persons other than United States persons or as to other
qualifying ownership by or through financial institutions in compliance with
applicable U.S. Treasury regulations.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorized under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be

performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                             SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES


                  The following exchanges of a portion of this Note for
interests in a Permanent Global Note and the following payments of interest in
respect of this Note have been made.


                         Principal
                         Amount
Date of                  Exchanged for    Remaining
Exchange or              an Interest in   Principal   Notation made
Interest     Interest    a Permanent      Amount of   on behalf of
Payments     Paid        Global Note      this Note   the Trustee
- -----------  --------    --------------   ---------   -------------







                                   
                                FORM OF

        SERIES D PERMANENT GLOBAL FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE NOTE

BEARER                                                   PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
No. FL-                                                    OR FACE AMOUNT

                              SALOMON INC
                         PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE

                      (Floating or Indexed Rate)

                             representing

                      MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES D

             Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  THIS SECURITY IS A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES, WITH COUPONS, IF ANY, IN THE
DENOMINATION OF U.S. $ 25,000 OR ANY LARGER AMOUNT THAT IS AN INTEGRAL MULTIPLE
OF U.S. $5,000 (OR SUCH OTHER DENOMINATIONS AS ARE SPECIFIED BELOW FOR ANOTHER
CURRENCY). THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES
GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE
INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGE IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTION 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                                             Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                                   Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
                  (If other than U.S. Dollars)
         Authorized Denominations:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:       CD Rate  Commercial Paper  Federal Funds Rate

                 LIBOR Telerate  LIBOR Reuters  Treasury Rate
                 Treasury Rate Constant Maturity  Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                                    Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:      Yes (see attached)     No

Floating Rate:     Indexed Interest Rate    (See attached)

Spread Multiplier:                                       Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset:      The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be 
                   changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                   The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior
                   to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:                                   Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:   Yes   No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:          Yes   No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:          Yes   No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:            Yes   No

         Final Maturity:

Discount Note:    Yes   No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:


IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.

                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest (i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount
then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
then outstanding, as reduced by any repayment of principal hereof) at the
Initial Interest Rate shown above from the Original Issue Date shown above until
the first Interest Reset Date shown above following the Original Issue Date and
thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by the Spread or Spread
Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance with the provisions on
the reverse hereof, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on the Principal
Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face
Amount then outstanding, at a rate adjusted by reference to an Index described
on the face hereof at the rates per annum and on the dates, determined as
described on the reverse hereof, until, in either case, the Principal Amount
then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in accordance
with the terms hereof.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is
presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU") shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note is exchangeable in whole or from time to time in
part without charge for individual Bearer Notes, with appropriate Coupons
attached, if any, in the denomination of U.S.$25,000 or any larger amount that
is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000 (or such other denominations as are
specified above for another currency), upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given
through either Euro-clear or CEDEL. Upon any exchange of any portion of this
Note for individual Bearer Notes, the portion of the principal amount hereof so
exchanged shall be endorsed by the Trustee in the Schedule of Issuances,
Exchanges and Aggregate principal amount hereto, and the principal amount hereof
shall be reduced for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.


                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in full for individual Bearer Notes, this Note shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions
of, and the Company shall be subject to the same restrictions as those contained
on the individual Bearer Notes and in the Indenture.

                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.
Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon, at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its
successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:
                                  SALOMON INC


                                  By __________________________
                                     Senior Vice President
[Seal]

                                  Attest ______________________
                                         Secretary



                     CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                  CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                   as Trustee


                                  By __________________________
                                     Authorized Signatory


                              SALOMON INC

                      MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                      (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

General

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee", which term
includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the terms
upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase price of
Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be determined by
the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in New York City
for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate") for such
currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment. The
Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving not less than 30 or more than

60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in
respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall
be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest

                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any
Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be
necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or an account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such
         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or

         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or 
         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or 
         other governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required
         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;

                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a pre-condition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or
         other governmental charge; or

                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company
         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.


                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:

                        Principal Paying Agent:

                            Citibank, N.A.
                            Issuer Services
                              336 Strand
                           London, WC2R 1HB

                             Paying Agent:

                      Citibank (Luxembourg) S.A.
                 58 Boulevard Grand Duchesse Charlotte
                           L-1330 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or
terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may
be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe, which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, if this Note is
a Floating Rate Note, this Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date
to the first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate
set forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to an
interest rate basis (the "Base Rate"), plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any. The "Spread" is the number of basis
points (one basis point equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point) that may
be specified on the face hereof, and the "Spread Multiplier" is the percentage
that may be specified on the face hereof. The face of this Note will designate
one of the following Base Rates as applicable hereto: (i) the CD Rate (a "CD
Rate Note"), (ii) the Commercial Paper Rate (a "Commercial Paper Rate Note"),
(iii) the Federal Funds Rate (a "Federal Funds Rate Note"), (iv) LIBOR (a "LIBOR
Note"), (v) the Treasury Rate (a "Treasury Rate Note") or (vi) such other Base
Rate as is set forth on the face hereof. The "Index Maturity" is the period of
maturity of the instrument or obligation from which the Base Rate is calculated.
"H.15(519)" means the publication entitled "Statistical Release H.15(519),
Selected Interest Rates", or any successor publication, published by the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "Composite Quotations" means the
daily statistical release entitled "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.

Government Securities" published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest
payable hereon shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original
Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been paid, as the case may be,
to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that
if the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, interest payable shall be the
accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to
which interest has been accrued and paid, as the case may be, to but excluding
the date fifteen calendar days immediately preceding the applicable Interest
Payment Date, except that interest payable at Maturity will include interest
accrued to but excluding the date of Maturity.

                  If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period
for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest will be
calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by an
accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor shall be computed by
adding the interest factors calculated for each day in the period for which
accrued interest is being calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a
decimal calculated to seven decimal places without rounding) for each such day
shall be computed, unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, by dividing
the interest rate in effect on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the
face hereof is the CD Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or
LIBOR, or by the actual number of days in the year if the Base Rate specified on
the face hereof is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest shall
be calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by the
interest rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated, and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing
the number of days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated
by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Commercial Paper
Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the actual number of
days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate. For purposes of making the foregoing calculations, the interest rate in
effect on any Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such
date.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages
resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest hereon will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts
used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest
one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

                  As specified on the face hereof, the interest rate hereon will
be reset daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (such
period being the "Interest Reset Period", and the first day of each Interest
Reset Period being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof, the Interest Reset Date will be, if this Note resets daily, each
Business Day; if this Note is not a Treasury Rate Note and it resets weekly,
Wednesday of each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets weekly,
Tuesday of each week (except as provided below under "Determination of Treasury
Rate"); if this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month; if this

Note resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of
each of two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note
resets annually, the third Wednesday of one month of each year specified on the
face hereof. If an Interest Reset Date for this Note would otherwise be a day
that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the
next succeeding Business Day, except that if this Note is a LIBOR Note and such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date
shall be the immediately preceding Business Day. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the interest rate hereon during any interest period shall not be greater than
the Maximum Interest Rate, if any, or less than the Minimum Interest Rate, if
any, shown on the face hereof. In addition to any Maximum Interest Rate that may
be applicable hereto, the interest rate hereon during any interest period will
in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law as the
same may be modified by United States law of general application. This Note will
be governed by the law of the State of New York and, under such law, the maximum
rate of interest, with certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a simple interest
basis.

                  Unless otherwise indicated on the face hereof and except as
provided below, interest will be payable, if this Note resets daily, weekly or
monthly, on the third Wednesday of each month or on the third Wednesday of
March, June, September and December of each year, as specified on the face
hereof; if this Note resets quarterly, on the third Wednesday of March, June,
September and December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, on the
third Wednesday of each of the two months of each year specified on the face
hereof; and if this Note resets annually, on the third Wednesday of the month of
each year specified on the face hereof (each such day being an "Interest Payment
Date"). If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next
succeeding Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face
hereof is LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month,
such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  The Company will appoint, and enter into an agreement with, an
agent ("Calculation Agent") to calculate interest rates on this Note. All
determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder
hereof. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Citibank, N.A. shall be
the Calculation Agent for this Note. At the request of the Holder hereof, the
Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if
determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date. In addition, such information will be communicated to the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange and will be made available at the offices of the Paying Agent in
Luxembourg and at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

                  Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as
specified herein, on each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest hereon shall
be the rate determined in accordance with the provisions under the applicable
heading below.

Determination of CD Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate,

this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if
any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for negotiable
certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary Market)". In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination
Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such
CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof as published in Composite Quotations under
the heading "Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or
Composite Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be
calculated by the Calculation Agent and will be the arithmetic mean of the
secondary market offered rates as of 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD
Rate Determination Date, of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S.
dollar certificates of deposit in The City of New York selected by the
Calculation Agent for negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States
money center banks of the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable
certificates of deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity
specified on the face hereof in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however,
that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not
quoting offered rates as mentioned in this sentence, the "CD Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period will be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination
Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Commercial Paper Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the
Commercial Paper Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper
Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof.
The "Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by
the Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset
Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination
Date") and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that such rate is
not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date
(as defined below) pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date,
then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the
Money Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate
for commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as
published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Commercial Paper". If by
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet
published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial

Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of
the arithmetic mean of the offered rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time,
on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of
commercial paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for
commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for
an industrial issuer whose bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent thereof by a
nationally recognized rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate).

                  "Money Market Yield" shall be a yield calculated in accordance
with the following formula:



                         D x 360  
Money Market Yield =  --------------  x 100
                       360 - (D x M)

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and "M" refers to the actual
number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal
Funds Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal
Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date as published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Federal
Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations,
then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate
on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made publicly available by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent to the rate which appears
in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)"; provided, however,
that if such rate is not made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, then the
"Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the

Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period
(or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate). If
this Note resets daily, the interest rate hereon for the period from and
including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset by the
Calculation Agent on such second Monday (or, if not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the average of the Federal Funds
Rates in effect with respect to each such day in such week.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
specified on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as follows:

                   (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest
         Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR Determination
         Date"), the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the
         arithmetic mean of the offered rates for deposits in the Specified
         Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified in the
         applicable Pricing Supplement, commencing on such Interest Reset Date,
         which appear on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
         London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page"
         means either (a) if "LIBOR Telerate" is designated in the applicable
         Pricing Supplement, the display designated as page "3750" on the Dow
         Jones Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page "3750"
         on such service or such other service as may be nominated by the
         British Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying the London
         interbank offered rates of major banks) or (b) if "LIBOR Reuters" is
         designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the display designated
         as page "LIBO" on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service (or such
         other page as may replace the LIBO page on such service or such other
         service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association for the
         purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of major banks).
         If neither LIBOR Reuters nor LIBOR Telerate is specified in the
         applicable Pricing Supplement, LIBOR will be determined as if LIBOR
         Telerate had been specified. It at least two such offered rates appear
         on the Designated LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period
         will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as determined by the
         Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.

                   (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the Designated
         LIBOR Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will
         request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
         London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent to provide
         the Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the
         Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on
         the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, to prime banks
         in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London
         time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal amount equal

         to an amount of not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate
         equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of
         a single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of
         New York selected by the Calculation Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
         New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination Date for loans in the
         Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the period of the
         Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such
         Interest Reset Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of
         not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent in the
         Specified Currency that is representative of a single transaction in
         such market at such time; provided, however, that if fewer than three
         banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are quoting rates
         as mentioned in this sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period
         will be the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest Reset
         Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial
         Interest Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for
each Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction
average (investment)" or, in the event that such rate is not published prior to
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction average rate
(expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. In
the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or reported as provided
above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such
auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the "Treasury
Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation
Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond equivalent on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis)
of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of approximately
3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, of
three leading primary United States government securities dealers selected by
the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury bills with a remaining maturity
closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof; provided, however,
that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not
quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the "Treasury Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury Rate for the
immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest

Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset
Period will be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such
Interest Reset Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned.
Treasury bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that
day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the
following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday.
If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding
Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to
the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead be the Business
Day immediately following such auction date.

                  If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the "Treasury Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate
that is set forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite
the caption "U.S. Government/Securities/ Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the
Index Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on
Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of
3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity and
for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index
Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent
shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to the
Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the two
Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one such
quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all
events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one
adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

                  "The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall
be the tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable
Interest Reset Period.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate
Determination Date or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable,

shall be the tenth calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or
Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

                  If this note is an Indexed Note, then certain or all interest
payments, in the case of an Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount
payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, in the case of
an Indexed Principal Note, is determined by reference to the amount designated
on the face hereof as the Face Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index
as described on the face hereof. If this Note is a Floating Rate Note or Indexed
Rate Note that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest
payment will be determined by reference to the Face Amount described on the face
hereof unless otherwise specified. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note,
the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or
repayment of this Note may be different from the Face Amount. If the
determination of the Index is calculated or announced by a third party, which
may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such third
party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or changes
the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes consistent
with policies in effect at the time this Note was issued and permitted changes
described on the face hereof), then such Index shall be calculated for this
Note's purposes by another third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or
another affiliate of the Company, selected by the Company subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party. If for any
reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the indexed
interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.

Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of
each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in the country
of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two

Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more
representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion
(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the
Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price),
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this
Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate

principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may
reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium, if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of

payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of
payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg
(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.


               FORM OF SERIES D PERMANENT GLOBAL FIXED RATE NOTE

BEARER                                                        PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
No. FX-                                                         OR FACE AMOUNT


                                  SALOMON INC

                             PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE

                                  (FIXED RATE)

                                  representing

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                  Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  THIS SECURITY IS A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES, WITH COUPONS, IF ANY, IN THE
DENOMINATION OF U.S. $ 25,000 OR ANY LARGER AMOUNT THAT IS AN INTEGRAL MULTIPLE
OF U.S. $5,000 (OR SUCH OTHER DENOMINATIONS AS ARE SPECIFIED BELOW FOR ANOTHER
CURRENCY). THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES
GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE
INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE
CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.



Issue Price:                                       Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
         (if other than U.S. Dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
         (If other than as set forth in the
         Prospectus Supplement)


Interest Payment Dates:
         (If other than as set forth in the
         Prospectus Supplement)

         Indexed Principal Note:        /_/  Yes   (see attached)    /_/  No

Interest Rate:    Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:            /_/     The Interest Rate may not be
                                        changed prior to Stated Maturity.

                               /_/      The Interest Rate may be changed
                                        prior to Stated Maturity (see
                                        attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable)

Amortizing Note:       /_/   Yes       /_/   No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:   /_/   Yes       /_/    No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:    /_/   Yes       /_/    No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:



Discount Note:         /_/   Yes       /_/    No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.




                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby

promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding, to the bearer hereof
at the Interest Rate shown above, annually in arrears on September 15 of each
year (the "Interest Payment Date"), commencing with the September 15 following
the Original Issue Date shown above upon presentation and surrender of the
Coupons as they shall severally mature, and on the Stated Maturity shown above,
or upon earlier redemption or repayment, until, in either case, the Principal
Amount then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in
accordance with the terms hereof. Interest on this Note, if any, will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Any payment of
principal, premium or interest required to be made in respect hereof on a date
that is not a Business Day (as defined below) need not be made on such date, but
may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect
as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall accrue as a result of
such delayed payment.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is
presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which, in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU"), shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note is exchangeable in whole or from time to time in
part without charge for individual Bearer Notes, with appropriate Coupons
attached, in the denomination of U.S.$25,000 or any larger amount that is an
integral multiple of U.S.$5,000 (or such other denominations as are specified
above for another currency), upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given through
either Euro-clear or CEDEL. Upon any exchange of any portion of this Note for
individual Bearer Notes, the portion of the principal amount hereof so exchanged
shall be endorsed by the Trustee in the Schedule of Issuances, Exchanges and
Aggregate Principal Amount hereto, and the principal amount hereof shall be
reduced for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in full for individual Bearer Notes, this Note shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions
of, and the Company shall be subject to the same restrictions as those contained
on the individual Bearer Notes and in the Indenture.


                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.
Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon, at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its
successor, as Trustee.



                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be 
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                    SALOMON INC


                    By_____________________________________
                      Senior Vice President

[Seal]

                    Attest_________________________________
                          Secretary


                 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


          This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

                    CITIBANK, N.A.,
                    as Trustee


                    By_____________________________________
                      Authorized Signatory






                                  SALOMON INC

                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES D

                                 (FIXED RATE)

General

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee", which term
includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the terms
upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase price of
Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be determined by
the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in New York City
for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate") for such
currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment. The
Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company

in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving at least 30 but not more than
60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in
respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall
be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest

                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any
Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be
necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or on account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such

         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or
         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b)  any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or 
         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other 
         governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required
         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;
                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a pre-condition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or
         other governmental charge; or

                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company
         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.


                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  If the Company shall determine that any payment made outside
the United States by the Company or any of its Paying Agents in respect of this
Note or any Coupon (an "Affected Security") would, under any present or future
laws or regulations of the United States, be subject to any certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement of any kind, the
effect of which requirement is the disclosure to the Company, any Paying Agent
or any governmental authority of the nationality, residence or identity of a
beneficial owner of such Affected Security that is a United States Alien (other
than such a requirement (a) that would not be applicable to a payment made by
the Company or any one of its Paying Agents (i) directly to the beneficial owner
or (ii) to a custodian, nominee or other agent of the beneficial owner or (b)
that can be satisfied by such custodian, nominee or other agent certifying to
the effect that the beneficial owner is a United States Alien; provided, that,
in any case referred to in clause (a)(ii) or (b), payment by the custodian,
nominee or agent to the beneficial owner is not otherwise subject to any such
requirement), then the Company shall elect either (x) to redeem such Affected
Securities in whole, but not in part, at their Redemption Price, or (y) if the
conditions described in the next succeeding paragraph are satisfied, to pay the
additional interest specified in such paragraph. The Company shall make such
determination as soon as practicable and publish prompt notice thereof (the
"Determination Notice") stating the effective date of such certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement, whether the Company
elects to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph and (if applicable) the last date by
which the redemption of the Affected Securities must take place, as provided in
the next succeeding sentence. If any Affected Securities are to be redeemed
pursuant to this paragraph, the redemption shall take place on such date, not
later than one year after the publication of the Determination Notice, as the
Company shall specify by notice given to the Trustee at least 60 days before the
Redemption Date. Notice of such redemption shall be given to the Holders of the
Affected Securities at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not so redeem
the Affected Securities if the Company shall subsequently determine, at least 30
days prior to the Redemption Date, that subsequent payments on the Affected
Securities would not be subject to any such certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement, in which case the Company shall
publish prompt notice of such subsequent determination and any earlier
redemption notice given pursuant to this paragraph shall be revoked and of no
further effect. Prior to the publication of any Determination Notice pursuant to
this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate stating
that the Company is obligated to make such determination and setting forth a
statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the obligation of
the Company to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph have occurred, and an opinion of
independent counsel to the effect that such conditions have occurred.


                  If and so long as the certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement referred to in the preceding
paragraph would be fully satisfied by payment of a backup withholding tax or
similar charge, the Company may elect to pay as additional interest such amounts
as may be necessary so that every net payment made outside the United States
following the effective date of such requirement by the Company or any of its
Paying Agents in respect of any Affected Security of which the beneficial owner
is a United States Alien (but without any requirement that the nationality,
residence or identity of such beneficial owner be disclosed to the Company, any
Paying Agent or any governmental authority), after deduction or withholding for
or on account of such backup withholding tax or similar charge (other than a
backup withholding tax or similar charge that (i) would not be applicable in the
circumstances referred to in the parenthetical clause of the first sentence of
the preceding paragraph or (ii) is imposed as a result of presentation of such
Affected Security for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such
payment became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly provided
for, whichever occurred later), will not be less than the amount provided in
such Affected Security to be then due and payable. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph, then the Company shall have the
right to redeem the Affected Securities at any time in whole, but not in part,
at their Redemption Prices, subject to the provisions of the last three
sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph and the condition specified in
the first sentence of this paragraph should no longer be satisfied, then the
Company shall redeem the Affected Securities in whole, but not in part, at their
Redemption Price, subject to the provisions of the last three sentences of the
immediately preceding paragraph. Any redemption payments made by the Company
pursuant to the two immediately preceding sentences shall be subject to the
continuing obligation of the Company to pay additional interest pursuant to this
paragraph.

                  The interest payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date will
include interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment Date.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:

                            Principal Paying Agent:

                                Issuer Services
                                Citibank, N.A.
                                  336 Strand
                               London, WC2R 1HB

                                 Paying Agent:

                          Citibank (Luxembourg) S.A.
                    58 Boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte
                               L-1330 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or
terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may

be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of
each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the

Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in the
country of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more
representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion
(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the

Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price),
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this
Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, then the principal
amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to the amount designated on the face hereof as the Face
Amount of this Note and by reference to an Index as described on the face
hereof. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable
at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or repayment of this Note may be
different from the Face Amount. If the determination of the Index is calculated
or announced by a third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company and such third party either suspends the calculation or
announcement of such Index or changes the basis upon which such Index is
calculated (other than changes consistent with policies in effect at the time
this Note was issued and permitted changes described on the face hereof), then
such Index shall be calculated for this Note's purposes by another third party
selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate
of the Company subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the
same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party, then any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.


                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may
reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of
payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of

payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg
(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable inquires, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.






        SCHEDULE OF ISSUANCES, EXCHANGES AND AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

                  The following issuances and exchanges of a part of this Note
have been made, and the aggregate principal amount of Bearer Notes represented
by this Note at any time is as shown in the last entry of Column III hereof

unless one or more entries have been made in Column IV hereof reflecting
exchanges for individual Bearer Notes, in which event such aggregate principal
amount is as shown in the last entry of Column V hereof.

    I.         II.        III.       IV.             V.              VI.

                                   Principal
                                   Amount         Aggregate       Notation
Settlement              Aggregate  Exchanged for  Principal       made on
Date         Principal  Principal  for            Amount          behalf of
or Date of   Amount     Amount     Individual     Remaining       the
Exchange     Issued     Issued     Bearer Notes   After Exchange  Trustee
__________   ________   ________   ____________   ______________  ____________  







                         SCHEDULE OF INTEREST PAYMENTS


                 The following payments of interest in respect of this Note have
been made.

Date of                                                  Notation made
Interest                    Interest                     on behalf of
Payment                     Paid                         the Trustee
______________              _____________                ______________






                                    FORM OF

            SERIES E PERMANENT GLOBAL FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE NOTE

                                  SALOMON INC

BEARER                                                                PRINCIPAL
No. FL-__________                                                OR FACE AMOUNT

                             PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE

                           (Floating or Indexed Rate)

                                  representing

                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES E

                  Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  THIS SECURITY IS A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES, WITH COUPONS, IF ANY, IN THE
DENOMINATION OF U.S. $25,000 OR ANY LARGER AMOUNT THAT IS AN INTEGRAL MULTIPLE
OF U.S. $5,000 (OR SUCH OTHER DENOMINATIONS AS ARE SPECIFIED BELOW FOR ANOTHER
CURRENCY). THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES
GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE
INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGE IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTION 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                             Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                   Stated Maturity:

Specified Currency:
                  (If other than U.S. Dollars)
         Authorized Denominations:
                  (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Base Rate:    /_/ CD Rate   /_/ Commercial Paper   /_/ Federal Funds Rate
              /_/ LIBOR Telerate  /_/ LIBOR Reuters  /_/ Treasury Rate
              /_/ Treasury Rate Constant Maturity  /_/ Other (see attached)


Interest Reset Period                              Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
           (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:  /_/ Yes (see attached)   /_/ No

Floating Rate:  /_/ Indexed Interest Rate   /_/ (See attached)

Spread Multiplier:                                   Spread (+/-):

Spread Reset:  /_/ The Spread or Spread Multiplier may not be changed prior to 
                   Stated Maturity.

               /_/ The Spread or Spread Multiplier may be changed prior to 
                   Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable):

Maximum Interest Rate:                  Minimum Interest Rate:

Amortizing Note:  /_/ Yes     /_/ No

                  Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:  /_/ Yes   /_/ No

                  Optional Redemption Dates:

                  Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:  /_/ Yes   /_/ No

                  Optional Repayment Dates:

                  Optional Repayment Prices:

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity:  /_/ Yes   /_/ No

         Final Maturity:

Discount Note:  /_/ Yes   /_/ No

                  Total Amount of OID:

                  Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING

APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.



                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent so provided herein, and (b) to pay
accrued interest (i) if this is a Floating Rate Note, on the Principal Amount
then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, then outstanding)
at the Initial Interest Rate shown above from the Original Issue Date shown
above until the first Interest Reset Date shown above following the Original
Issue Date and thereafter at the Base Rate shown above, adjusted by the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, if any, shown above, determined in accordance with the
provisions on the reverse hereof, or (ii) if this is an Indexed Rate Note, on
the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an Indexed Principal
Note, the Face Amount), at a rate adjusted by reference to an Index described on
the face hereof, in arrears to the bearer hereof at the rates per annum and on
the dates, determined as described on the reverse hereof, until, in either case,
the Principal Amount then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly
provided for in accordance with the terms hereof.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is
presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU") shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note is exchangeable in whole or from time to time in
part without charge for individual Bearer Notes, with appropriate Coupons

attached, if any, in the denomination of U.S.$25,000 or any larger amount that
is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000 (or such other denominations as are
specified above for another currency), upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given
through either Euroclear or CEDEL. Upon any exchange of any portion of this Note
for individual Bearer Notes, the portion of the principal amount hereof so
exchanged shall be endorsed by the Trustee in the Schedule of Issuances,
Exchanges and Aggregate principal amount hereto, and the principal amount hereof
shall be reduced for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in full for individual Bearer Notes, this Note shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions
of, and the Company shall be subject to the same restrictions as those contained
on the individual Bearer Notes and in the Indenture.

                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.
Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon, at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor, as Trustee.




                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.


Dated:
                             SALOMON INC


                             By_________________________________
                               Senior Vice President
         [Seal]


                             Attest______________________________
                                   Secretary


                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                            BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                  as Trustee


                             By______________________________
                               Authorized Signatory





                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E

                           (FLOATING OR INDEXED RATE)

General

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee", which
term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the
terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase
price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be
determined by the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in
New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs
purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate")
for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized

denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment. The
Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving not less than 30 or more than
60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in
respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall
be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest

                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any
Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be

necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or an account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such
         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or
         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b)       any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or 
         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or 
         other governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required
         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;

                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a precondition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or
         other governmental charge; or


                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company
         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.

                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:

                            Principal Paying Agent:

                             Bankers Trust Company
                          1 Appold Street, Broadgate
                               London, EC2A 2HE

                                 Paying Agent:

                         Bankers Trust Luxembourg, S.A.
                                  P.O. Box 807
                          14 Boulevard F.D. Roosevelt
                               L-2450 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or
terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may
be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe, which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, if this Note is
a Floating Rate Note, this Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date
to the first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate
set forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to an

interest rate basis (the "Base Rate"), plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any. The "Spread" is the number of basis
points (one basis point equals one one-hundredth of a percentage point) that may
be specified on the face hereof, and the "Spread Multiplier" is the percentage
that may be specified on the face hereof. The face of this Note will designate
one of the following Base Rates as applicable hereto: (i) the CD Rate (a "CD
Rate Note"), (ii) the Commercial Paper Rate (a "Commercial Paper Rate Note"),
(iii) the Federal Funds Rate (a "Federal Funds Rate Note"), (iv) LIBOR (a "LIBOR
Note"), (v) the Treasury Rate (a "Treasury Rate Note") or (vi) such other Base
Rate as is set forth on the face hereof. The "Index Maturity" is the period of
maturity of the instrument or obligation from which the Base Rate is calculated.
"H.15(519)" means the publication entitled "Statistical Release H.15(519),
Selected Interest Rates", or any successor publication, published by the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "Composite Quotations" means the
daily statistical release entitled "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.
Government Securities" published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest
payable hereon shall be the accrued interest from and including the Original
Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been paid, as the case may be,
to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that
if the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, interest payable shall be the
accrued interest from and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to
which interest has been accrued and paid, as the case may be, to but excluding
the date fifteen calendar days immediately preceding the applicable Interest
Payment Date, except that interest payable at Maturity will include interest
accrued to but excluding the date of Maturity.

                  If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period
for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest will be
calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by an
accrued interest factor. Such accrued interest factor shall be computed, unless
otherwise specified on the face hereof, by adding the interest factors
calculated for each day in the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a decimal calculated to seven
decimal places without rounding) for each such day shall be computed by dividing
the interest rate in effect on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the
face hereof is the CD Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or
LIBOR, or by the actual number of days in the year if the Base Rate specified on
the face hereof is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest shall
be calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by the
interest rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being
calculated, and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing
the number of days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated
by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Commercial Paper
Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the actual number of
days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate. For purposes of making the foregoing calculations, the interest rate in
effect on any Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such
date.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages

resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest hereon will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts
used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest
one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

                  As specified on the face hereof, the interest rate hereon will
be reset daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually (such
period being the "Interest Reset Period", and the first day of each Interest
Reset Period being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof, the Interest Reset Date will be, if this Note resets daily, each
Business Day; if this Note is not a Treasury Rate Note and it resets weekly,
Wednesday of each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets weekly,
Tuesday of each week (except as provided below under "Determination of Treasury
Rate"); if this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month; if this
Note resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of
each of two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note
resets annually, the third Wednesday of one month of each year specified on the
face hereof. If an Interest Reset Date for this Note would otherwise be a day
that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the
next succeeding Business Day, except that if this Note is a LIBOR Note and such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date
shall be the immediately preceding Business Day. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the interest rate hereon during any interest period shall not be greater than
the Maximum Interest Rate, if any, or less than the Minimum Interest Rate, if
any, shown on the face hereof. In addition to any Maximum Interest Rate that may
be applicable hereto, the interest rate hereon during any interest period will
in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law as the
same may be modified by United States law of general application. This Note will
be governed by the law of the State of New York and, under such law, the maximum
rate of interest, with certain exceptions, is 25% per annum on a simple interest
basis.

                  Unless otherwise indicated on the face hereof and except as
provided below, interest will be payable, if this Note resets daily, weekly or
monthly, on the third Wednesday of each month or on the third Wednesday of
March, June, September and December of each year, as specified on the face
hereof; if this Note resets quarterly, on the third Wednesday of March, June,
September and December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, on the
third Wednesday of each of the two months of each year specified on the face
hereof; and if this Note resets annually, on the third Wednesday of the month of
each year specified on the face hereof (each such day being an "Interest Payment
Date"). If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next
succeeding Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face
hereof is LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month,
such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  The Company will appoint, and enter into an agreement with, an
agent ("Calculation Agent") to calculate interest rates on this Note. All
determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder
hereof. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Bankers Trust Company

shall be the Calculation Agent for this Note. At the request of the Holder
hereof, the Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and,
if determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest
Reset Date. In addition, such information will be communicated to the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange and will be made available at the offices of the Paying Agent in
Luxembourg and at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

                  Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as
specified herein, on each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest hereon shall
be the rate determined in accordance with the provisions under the applicable
heading below.

Determination of CD Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate,
this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if
any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for negotiable
certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary Market)". In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination
Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such
CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof as published in Composite Quotations under
the heading "Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or
Composite Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be
calculated by the Calculation Agent and will be the arithmetic mean of the
secondary market offered rates as of 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD
Rate Determination Date, of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S.
dollar certificates of deposit in The City of New York selected by the
Calculation Agent for negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States
money center banks of the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable
certificates of deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity
specified on the face hereof in a denomination of $5,000,000; provided, however,
that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not
quoting offered rates as mentioned in this sentence, the "CD Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period will be the same as the CD Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Period, the
Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination
Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Commercial Paper Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the
Commercial Paper Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset
Period at the interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper
Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof.

The "Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by
the Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset
Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination
Date") and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such Commercial
Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that such rate is
not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date
(as defined below) pertaining to such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date,
then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the
Money Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate
for commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as
published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Commercial Paper". If by
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet
published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial
Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of
the arithmetic mean of the offered rates, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time,
on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of
commercial paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for
commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for
an industrial issuer whose bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent thereof by a
nationally recognized rating agency; provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period,
the Initial Interest Rate).

                  "Money Market Yield" shall be a yield calculated in accordance
with the following formula:

Money Market Yield =          D x 360         x 100
                      -----------------------
                           360 - (D x M)

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on
a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and "M" refers to the actual
number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Commercial Paper Rate
Determination Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal
Funds Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal
Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00

p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date as published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Federal
Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations,
then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be the rate
on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made publicly available by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent to the rate which appears
in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)"; provided, however,
that if such rate is not made publicly available by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, then the
"Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the
Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period
(or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate). If
this Note resets daily, the interest rate hereon for the period from and
including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding Monday will be reset by the
Calculation Agent on such second Monday (or, if not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the average of the Federal Funds
Rates in effect with respect to each such day in such week.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
specified on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as follows:

          (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
         for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR Determination Date"), the
         Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the arithmetic
         mean of the offered rates for deposits in the Specified Currency for
         the period of the Index Maturity specified in the applicable Pricing
         Supplement, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, which appear on the
         Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such
         LIBOR Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page" means either (a) if
         "LIBOR Telerate" is designated in the applicable Pricing Supplement,
         the display designated as page "3750" on the Dow Jones Telerate Service
         (or such other page as may replace page "3750" on such service or such
         other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association
         for the purpose of displaying the London interbank offered rates of
         major banks) or (b) if "LIBOR Reuters" is designated in the applicable
         Pricing Supplement, the display designated as page "LIBO" on the
         Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page as may replace
         the LIBO page on such service or such other service as may be nominated
         by the British Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying
         London interbank offered rates of major banks). If neither LIBOR
         Reuters nor LIBOR Telerate is specified in the applicable Pricing
         Supplement, LIBOR will be determined as if LIBOR Telerate had been
         specified. It at least two such offered rates appear on the Designated

         LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be the
         arithmetic mean of such offered rates as determined by the Calculation
         Agent for such LIBOR Note.

          (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the Designated LIBOR
         Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will
         request the principal London offices of each of four major banks in the
         London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent to provide
         the Calculation Agent with its offered quotations for deposits in the
         Specified Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified on
         the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date, to prime banks
         in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London
         time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal amount equal
         to an amount of not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate
         equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of
         a single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such
         quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be
         the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major banks in The City of
         New York selected by the Calculation Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
         New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination Date for loans in the
         Specified Currency to leading European banks, for the period of the
         Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such
         Interest Reset Date, and in a principal amount equal to an amount of
         not less than U.S.$1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent thereof in
         the Specified Currency that is representative of a single transaction
         in such market at such time; provided, however, that if fewer than
         three banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are quoting
         rates as mentioned in this sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset
         Period will be the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest
         Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the
         Initial Interest Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for
each Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction
average (investment)" or, in the event that such rate is not published prior to
3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below)
pertaining to such Treasury Rate Determination Date, the auction average rate
(expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. In
the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or reported as provided
above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation Date, or if no such

auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, then the "Treasury
Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by the Calculation
Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond equivalent on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis)
of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of approximately
3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination Date, of
three leading primary United States government securities dealers selected by
the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury bills with a remaining maturity
closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof; provided, however,
that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not
quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the "Treasury Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury Rate for the
immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest
Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset
Period will be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such
Interest Reset Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned.
Treasury bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that
day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the
following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday.
If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding
Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to
the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Treasury Rate Note, then such Interest Reset Date shall instead be the Business
Day immediately following such auction date.

                  If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the "Treasury Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate
that is set forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite
the caption "U.S. Government/Securities/ Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the
Index Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on
Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of
3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity and
for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index
Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent
shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to the
Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the two

Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one such
quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all
events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one
adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

                  "The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall
be the tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable
Interest Reset Period.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate
Determination Date or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable,
shall be the tenth calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or
Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

                  If this note is an Indexed Note, then certain or all interest
payments, in the case of an Indexed Rate Note, and/or the principal amount
payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, in the case of
an Indexed Principal Note, is determined by reference to the amount designated
on the face hereof as the Face Amount of this Note and by reference to the Index
as described on the face hereof. If this Note is a Floating Rate Note or Indexed
Rate Note that is also an Indexed Principal Note, the amount of any interest
payment will be determined by reference to the Face Amount described on the face
hereof unless otherwise specified. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note,
the principal amount payable at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or
repayment of this Note may be different from the Face Amount. If the
determination of the Index is calculated or announced by a third party, which
may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate of the Company, and such third
party either suspends the calculation or announcement of such Index or changes
the basis upon which such Index is calculated (other than changes consistent
with policies in effect at the time this Note was issued and permitted changes
described on the face hereof), then such Index shall be calculated for this
Note's purposes by another third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or
another affiliate of the Company, selected by the Company subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party. If for any
reason such Index cannot be calculated on the same basis and subject to the same
conditions and controls as applied to the original third party, then the indexed
interest payments, if any, or any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such
currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such

currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of
each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in the country
of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is

divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company) in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more
representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion
(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the
Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price),
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this
Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation

principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may
reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in

the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium, if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of
payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of
payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency
of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg
(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be

governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

               FORM OF SERIES E PERMANENT GLOBAL FIXED RATE NOTE

BEARER                                                         PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
No. FX-____                                                      OR FACE AMOUNT

                                  SALOMON INC

                             PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE

                                  (FIXED RATE)

                                  representing

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E

                  Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

                  THIS SECURITY IS A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE, WITHOUT COUPONS,
EXCHANGEABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES, WITH COUPONS, IF ANY, IN THE
DENOMINATION OF U.S. $ 25,000 OR ANY LARGER AMOUNT THAT IS AN INTEGRAL MULTIPLE
OF U.S. $5,000 (OR SUCH OTHER DENOMINATIONS AS ARE SPECIFIED BELOW FOR ANOTHER
CURRENCY). THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS NOTE AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES
GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE
INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).

                  UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL BEARER NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  ANY UNITED STATES PERSON WHO HOLDS THIS OBLIGATION WILL BE
SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS UNDER THE UNITED STATES INCOME TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE
LIMITATIONS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 165(j) AND 1287(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE
CODE.

                  IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO
MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING
THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                                               Original Issue Date:

Specified Currency:
         (If other than U.S. Dollars)

         Authorized Denominations:
         (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Interest Payment Dates:
         (If other than as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement)

Indexed Principal Note:     |_|    Yes  (see attached)      |_|  No


Interest Rate:                     Stated Maturity:

Interest Rate Reset:        |_|    The Interest Rate may not be changed prior to
                                   Stated Maturity.

                            |_|    The Interest Rate may be changed prior  
                                   to Stated Maturity (see attached).

Optional Reset Dates (if applicable)

Amortizing Note:             |_|    Yes      |_|   No

         Amortization Schedule:

Optional Redemption:         |_|    Yes      |_|   No

         Optional Redemption Dates:

         Redemption Prices:

Bond Yield to Maturity:

Bond Yield to Call:

Optional Repayment:          |_|    Yes      |_|   No

         Optional Repayment Dates:

         Optional Repayment Prices:

Discount Note:               |_|    Yes      |_|   No

         Total Amount of OID:

         Yield to Maturity:

IF THE SPECIFIED CURRENCY OF THIS NOTE IS POUNDS STERLING, THE FOLLOWING
APPLIES: THIS NOTE IS ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE UNDER
SECTION 4 OF THE BANKING ACT 1987.

                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to bearer, upon presentation and surrender hereof, (a) the
Principal Amount or, in the case of an Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount
adjusted by reference to prices, changes in prices, or differences between
prices, of securities, currencies, intangibles, goods, articles or commodities
or by such other objective price, economic or other measures (an "Index") as
described on the face hereof, in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity
shown above or earlier if and to the extent provided herein and (b) to pay
accrued interest on the Principal Amount then outstanding (or in the case of an
Indexed Principal Note, the Face Amount then outstanding), to the bearer hereof
at the Interest Rate shown above, annually in arrears on September 15 of each
year (the "Interest Payment Date"), commencing with the September 15 following
the Original Issue Date shown above and on the Stated Maturity shown above, or

upon earlier redemption or repayment, until, in either case, the Principal
Amount then outstanding or the Face Amount is paid or duly provided for in
accordance with the terms hereof. Interest on this Note, if any, will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Any payment of
principal, premium or interest required to be made in respect hereof on a date
that is not a Business Day (as defined below) need not be made on such date, but
may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect
as if made on such date, and no additional interest shall accrue as a result of
such delayed payment.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions are
authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in (a) The City of New
York, (b) London, England, (c) the place in which this Note or any Coupon is
presented for payment or (d) if the Specified Currency (as defined below) is
other than U.S. dollars, the financial center of the country issuing the
Specified Currency (which, in the case of European Currency Units ("ECU"), shall
be Brussels, Belgium).

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent set
forth in the Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of Senior Indebtedness as defined in the Indenture,
and this Note is issued subject to such provisions, and each Holder of this
Note, by accepting the same, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and
authorizes and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as
provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  This Note is exchangeable in whole or from time to time in
part without charge for individual Bearer Notes, with appropriate Coupons
attached, in the denomination of U.S.$25,000 or any larger amount that is an
integral multiple of U.S.$5,000 (or such other denominations as are specified
above for another currency), upon 30 days' notice to the Trustee given through
either Euro-clear or CEDEL. Upon any exchange of any portion of this Note for
individual Bearer Notes, the portion of the principal amount hereof so exchanged
shall be endorsed by the Trustee in the Schedule of Issuances, Exchanges and
Aggregate Principal Amount hereto, and the principal amount hereof shall be
reduced for all purposes by the amount so exchanged.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in full for individual Bearer Notes, this Note shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions
of, and the Company shall be subject to the same restrictions as those contained
on the individual Bearer Notes and in the Indenture.

                  Except under certain circumstances for Notes having Specified
Currencies other than U.S. dollars, payments of the principal hereof and any
premium and interest hereon will be made only in the Specified Currency.

Payments in respect of this Note and any Coupon will be made only against
surrender of this Note or such Coupon, at the offices of the Paying Agents
outside the United States listed on the reverse hereof. At the direction of the
Holder of this Note or any Coupon, and subject to applicable laws and
regulations, such payments will be made by check drawn on a bank in The City of
New York (in the case of U.S. dollar payments) or outside the United States (in
the case of payments in a currency other than U.S. dollars) mailed to an address
outside the United States furnished by the Holder hereof or, at the option of
the Holder hereof, by wire transfer (pursuant to written instructions supplied
by the Holder hereof) to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located
outside the United States. No payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon will
be made upon presentation of this Note or such Coupon at any office or agency of
the Trustee or any other paying agency maintained by the Company in the United
States, nor will any such payment be made by transfer to an account, or by mail
to an address, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if U.S.
dollar payments in respect of this Note or any Coupons at the offices of all
Paying Agents outside the United States become illegal or are effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or similar restrictions
on the full payment or receipt of such amounts in U.S. dollars, the Company will
appoint an office or agency (which may be the Trustee) in the United States at
which such payments may be made.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL
PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Bankers Trust Company, or
its successor, as Trustee.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be 
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                  SALOMON INC

                                  By ---------------------------------
                                     Senior Vice President

[Seal]

                                  Attest -----------------------------
                                         Secretary

                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                  BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
                                    as Trustee

                                  By ----------------------------------

                                     Authorized Signatory

                                  SALOMON INC

                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES E

                                  (FIXED RATE)

General

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1988 (the "Indenture")
between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee", which
term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities and of the
terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. The U.S. dollar equivalent of the public offering price or purchase
price of Notes denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars will be
determined by the Company or its agent, on the basis of the noon buying rate in
New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs
purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "Market Exchange Rate")
for such currencies on the applicable issue dates.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$25,000
and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$5,000. The authorized
denominations of Bearer Notes having a specified currency other than U.S.
dollars will be, unless otherwise specified herein, the approximate equivalents
thereof in the Specified Currency.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
redeemable at the option of the Company in whole or from time to time in part,
on any date on or after the date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on
the face hereof, upon the Company's giving the Trustee at least 45 days' notice,
at the Redemption Price determined as provided on the face hereof. If redeemed
prior to its Stated Maturity, this Note must be presented for payment. The
Bearer Notes will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  The Bearer Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company
in whole, but not in part, at any time on giving at least 30 but not more than
60 days' notice as set forth below, which notice shall be irrevocable, at their
Redemption Prices, if the Company has or will become obligated to pay additional
interest on the Bearer Notes as described below as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or any change in the application or official interpretation of such
laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective on or
after the Original Issue Date, and such obligation cannot be avoided by the
Company taking reasonable measures available to it. No such notice of redemption
shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay such additional interest were a payment in

respect of the Bearer Notes then due. Prior to the publication of any notice of
redemption pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and
setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the
right of the Company so to redeem have occurred, and an opinion of independent
counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such
additional interest as a result of such change or amendment.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to its Stated Maturity at the option of the Holder on the
Optional Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment
Prices shown on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of
repayment. In order for this Note to be repaid, the Principal Paying Agent (as
specified below) must receive the Note at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date. Any tender of this Note for repayment shall
be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by the Holder hereof for
less than the entire principal amount hereof, provided that the principal amount
of the Note remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination.
Upon such partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or
Notes for the remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued to the Holder of
this Note.

Payment of Additional Interest

                  The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations
set forth below, pay as additional interest to the Holder of this Note or any
Coupon that is a United States Alien (as defined below) such amounts as may be
necessary so that every net payment on this Note or such Coupon, after deduction
or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or
other governmental charge imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the
United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein), will not be less than the amount provided in this Note or such Coupon
to be then due and payable. However, the Company will not be required to make
any such payment of additional interest to such Holder for or on account of:

                  (a) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for (i) the existence of any present or
         former connection between such Holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor
         or beneficiary of, or a Person holding a power over, such Holder, if
         such Holder is an estate or a trust, or a member or shareholder of such
         Holder, if such Holder is a partnership or a corporation) and the
         United States, including, without limitation, such Holder (or such
         fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, Person holding a power, member or
         shareholder) being or having been a citizen or resident thereof or
         being or having been engaged in trade or business or present therein or
         having or having had a permanent establishment therein or (ii) such
         Holder's past or present status as a passive foreign investment
         company, a personal holding company, foreign personal holding company,
         a controlled foreign corporation for United States tax purposes or
         private foundation or other tax-exempt organization with respect to the
         United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid
         United States federal income tax;

                  (b)  any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or 

         personal property tax or any similar tax, assessment or other 
         governmental charge;

                  (c) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of
         this Note or such Coupon for payment more than 15 days after the date
         on which such payment became due and payable or on which payment
         thereof was duly provided for, whichever occurred later;

                  (d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is
         payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from a payment on
         this Note or such Coupon;

                  (e) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required
         to be deducted or withheld by any Paying Agent from a payment on this
         Note or such Coupon, if such payment can be made without such deduction
         or withholding by any other Paying Agent;

                  (f) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
         would not have been imposed but for a failure to comply with any
         applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting
         requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or
         connection with the United States of the Holder or beneficial owner of
         this Note or such Coupon if, without regard to any tax treaty, such
         compliance is required by statute or regulation of the United States as
         a pre-condition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or
         other governmental charge; or

                  (g) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed
         on a Holder that actually or constructively owns ten percent or more of
         the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company
         (taking into account applicable attribution of ownership rules under
         Section 871(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or
         is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company through
         stock ownership;

nor shall such additional interest be paid with respect to a payment on this
Note or such Coupon to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or other than
the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent a beneficiary or settlor
with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial
owner would not have been entitled to the additional interest had such
beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of this Note or
such Coupon.

                  The term "United States Alien" means any person who, for
United States federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a
nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate
or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for
United States federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident
alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

                  If the Company shall determine that any payment made outside
the United States by the Company or any of its Paying Agents in respect of this
Note or any Coupon (an "Affected Security") would, under any present or future

laws or regulations of the United States, be subject to any certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement of any kind, the
effect of which requirement is the disclosure to the Company, any Paying Agent
or any governmental authority of the nationality, residence or identity of a
beneficial owner of such Affected Security that is a United States Alien (other
than such a requirement (a) that would not be applicable to a payment made by
the Company or any one of its Paying Agents (i) directly to the beneficial owner
or (ii) to a custodian, nominee or other agent of the beneficial owner or (b)
that can be satisfied by such custodian, nominee or other agent certifying to
the effect that the beneficial owner is a United States Alien; provided, that,
in any case referred to in clause (a)(ii) or (b), payment by the custodian,
nominee or agent to the beneficial owner is not otherwise subject to any such
requirement), then the Company shall elect either (x) to redeem such Affected
Securities in whole, but not in part, at their Redemption Price, or (y) if the
conditions described in the next succeeding paragraph are satisfied, to pay the
additional interest specified in such paragraph. The Company shall make such
determination as soon as practicable and publish prompt notice thereof (the
"Determination Notice") stating the effective date of such certification,
documentation, information or other reporting requirement, whether the Company
elects to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph and (if applicable) the last date by
which the redemption of the Affected Securities must take place, as provided in
the next succeeding sentence. If any Affected Securities are to be redeemed
pursuant to this paragraph, the redemption shall take place on such date, not
later than one year after the publication of the Determination Notice, as the
Company shall specify by notice given to the Trustee at least 60 days before the
Redemption Date. Notice of such redemption shall be given to the Holders of the
Affected Securities at least 30 but not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not so redeem
the Affected Securities if the Company shall subsequently determine, at least 30
days prior to the Redemption Date, that subsequent payments on the Affected
Securities would not be subject to any such certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement, in which case the Company shall
publish prompt notice of such subsequent determination and any earlier
redemption notice given pursuant to this paragraph shall be revoked and of no
further effect. Prior to the publication of any Determination Notice pursuant to
this paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate stating
that the Company is obligated to make such determination and setting forth a
statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the obligation of
the Company to redeem the Affected Securities or to pay the additional interest
specified in the next succeeding paragraph have occurred, and an opinion of
independent counsel to the effect that such conditions have occurred.

                  If and so long as the certification, documentation,
information or other reporting requirement referred to in the preceding
paragraph would be fully satisfied by payment of a backup withholding tax or
similar charge, the Company may elect to pay as additional interest such amounts
as may be necessary so that every net payment made outside the United States
following the effective date of such requirement by the Company or any of its
Paying Agents in respect of any Affected Security of which the beneficial owner
is a United States Alien (but without any requirement that the nationality,
residence or identity of such beneficial owner be disclosed to the Company, any
Paying Agent or any governmental authority), after deduction or withholding for
or on account of such backup withholding tax or similar charge (other than a

backup withholding tax or similar charge that (i) would not be applicable in the
circumstances referred to in the parenthetical clause of the first sentence of
the preceding paragraph or (ii) is imposed as a result of presentation of such
Affected Security for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such
payment became due and payable or on which payment thereof was duly provided
for, whichever occurred later), will not be less than the amount provided in
such Affected Security to be then due and payable. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph, then the Company shall have the
right to redeem the Affected Securities at any time in whole, but not in part,
at their Redemption Prices, subject to the provisions of the last three
sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph. If the Company elects to pay
additional interest pursuant to this paragraph and the condition specified in
the first sentence of this paragraph should no longer be satisfied, then the
Company shall redeem the Affected Securities in whole, but not in part, at their
Redemption Price, subject to the provisions of the last three sentences of the
immediately preceding paragraph. Any redemption payments made by the Company
pursuant to the two immediately preceding sentences shall be subject to the
continuing obligation of the Company to pay additional interest pursuant to this
paragraph.

                  The interest payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date will
include interest accrued through the day before such Interest Payment Date.

                  The Company has initially appointed as its Paying Agents for
Bearer Notes of this Series the offices listed below:

                            Principal Paying Agent:

                             Bankers Trust Company
                           1 Appold Street, Broadgate
                                London, EC2A 2HE

                                 Paying Agent:

                         Bankers Trust Luxembourg, S.A.
                                  P.O. Box 807
                          14 Boulevard F.D. Roosevelt
                               L-2450 Luxembourg

                  The Company reserves the right at any time to vary or
terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent and to appoint additional or other
Paying Agents and to approve any change in the office through which any Paying
Agent acts, provided that there will at all times be a Paying Agent (which may
be the Trustee) in at least one city in Europe which, so long as Bearer Notes
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and that exchange shall so require,
shall include Luxembourg. Notice of any such termination or appointment and of
any changes in the specified offices of the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be
given to the Holder hereof as described below.

Payment in Currencies Other Than the Specified Currency

                  Except as set forth below with respect to payments in ECU, if
payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required to be made in a
specified currency other than U.S. dollars (a "Specified Currency") and such

currency is unavailable due to the imposition of exchange controls or other
circumstances beyond the Company's control or is no longer used by the
government of the country issuing such currency or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking
community, then all payments shall be made in U.S. dollars until such currency
is again available or so used. The amounts so payable on any date in such
currency shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the basis of the most recently
available Market Exchange Rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated on
the face hereof. Any payment made under such circumstances in U.S. dollars will
not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  If payment in respect of this Note or any Coupon is required
to be made in ECU and the ECU is not then used in the European Monetary System
(the "EMS"), then the Trustee shall, without liability on its part, choose a
component currency (the "Payment Currency") of the ECU in which all payments in
respect hereof shall be made until the ECU is again so used. The amount of each
payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of the
fourth Luxembourg business day prior to the date on which such payment is due.
Notice of the Payment Currency selected by the Trustee shall be given as
described below. Any payment made under such circumstances in the Payment
Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the first Luxembourg
business day on which the ECU is no longer used in the EMS, the Trustee shall,
without liability on its part, choose a Payment Currency in which all payments
with respect to Bearer Notes and Coupons denominated in ECU having a due date
prior thereto but not yet presented for payment are to be made. The amount of
each payment in such Payment Currency shall be computed on the basis of the
equivalent of the ECU in that currency, determined as described below, as of
such first Luxembourg business day. Any payment made under such circumstances in
the Payment Currency will not constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture.

                  The equivalent of the ECU in the relevant Payment Currency as
of any date (the "Day of Valuation") shall be determined by the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange on the following basis. The component currencies of the ECU for this
purpose (the "Components") shall be the currency amounts that were components of
the ECU when the ECU was most recently used in the EMS or for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Community. The
equivalent of the ECU in the Payment Currency shall be calculated by, first,
aggregating the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components, and then, using the
rate used for determining the U.S. dollar equivalents of the Components in the
Payment Currency as set forth below, calculating the equivalent in the Payment
Currency of such aggregate amount in U.S. dollars.

                  The U.S. dollar equivalent of each of the Components shall be
determined by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on the basis of the middle spot
delivery quotations prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on the Day of
Valuation, as obtained by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major
banks, selected by the Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in the
country of issue of the Component in question.

                  If the official unit of any component currency of the ECU is

altered by way of combination or subdivision, the number of units of that
currency as a Component shall be divided or multiplied in the same proportion.
If two or more component currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
amounts of those currencies as Components shall be replaced by an amount in such
single currency equal to the sum of the amounts of the consolidated component
currencies expressed in such single currency. If any component currency is
divided into two or more currencies, the amount of that currency as a Component
shall be replaced by amounts of such two or more currencies, each of which shall
be equal to the amount of the former component currency divided by the number of
currencies into which that currency was divided.

                  If no direct quotations are available for a Component on a Day
of Valuation from any of the banks selected by the Trustee (with the approval of
the Company) for this purpose, because foreign exchange markets are closed in
the country of issue of that Component, or for any other reason, in computing
the U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall
(except as provided below) use the most recent direct quotations for such
Component obtained by it; provided that such most recent quotations may be used
only if they were prevailing in the country of issue not more than two
Luxembourg business days before such Day of Valuation. Beyond such period of two
Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the U.S.
dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of cross rates derived from the
middle spot delivery quotations for such Component and for the U.S. dollar
prevailing at 2:30 p.m. Luxembourg time on such Day of Valuation, as obtained by
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from one or more major banks, selected by the
Trustee (with the approval of the Company), in a country other than the country
of issue of such Component. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within such period of
two Luxembourg business days, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall determine the
U.S. dollar equivalent of such Component on the basis of such cross rates if the
Trustee and the Company judge that the equivalent so calculated is more
representative than the U.S. dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of such
most recent direct quotations. Unless otherwise specified by the Trustee, if
there is more than one market for dealing in any component currency by reason of
foreign exchange regulations or for any other reason, the market to be referred
to in respect of such currency shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of
securities denominated in such currency would purchase such currency in order to
make payments in respect of such securities.

                  All determinations referred to above made by the Trustee or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange shall be at their respective sole discretion
(except to the extent expressly provided herein that any determination made by
the Trustee is subject to the approval of the Company) and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on Holders of the
Bearer Notes and any Coupons, and the Trustee shall have no liability therefor.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all Notes may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  If this Note is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the
event of redemption or repayment prior to its Stated Maturity (other than
pursuant to an optional redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price)
shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note as of the date of redemption or
the date of repayment, as the case may be. The Amortized Face Amount of this

Note on any date shall be the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on
the face hereof plus (ii) that portion of the difference between such Issue
Price and the stated principal amount of such Note that has accrued by such date
at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so
specified, the Bond Yield to Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each
case in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles), provided, however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount
of a Note exceed its stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on
the face of this Note shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring
Optional Redemption Date with respect to such Note and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on
such first occurring Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with
respect to such Note shall be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the
basis of the next occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on
such Optional Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each
succeeding Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, then the principal
amount payable at Stated Maturity or earlier redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to the amount designated on the face hereof as the Face
Amount of this Note and by reference to an Index as described on the face
hereof. If this Note is an Indexed Principal Note, the principal amount payable
at Stated Maturity or any earlier redemption or repayment of this Note may be
different from the Face Amount. If the determination of the Index is calculated
or announced by a third party, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another
affiliate of the Company and such third party either suspends the calculation or
announcement of such Index or changes the basis upon which such Index is
calculated (other than changes consistent with policies in effect at the time
this Note was issued and permitted changes described on the face hereof), then
such Index shall be calculated for this Note's purposes by another third party
selected by the Company, which may be Salomon Brothers Inc or another affiliate
of the Company subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party. If for any reason such Index cannot be calculated on the
same basis and subject to the same conditions and controls as applied to the
original third party, then any indexed principal amount of this Note shall be
calculated in the manner described on the face hereof. Any determination of such
third party shall in the absence of manifest error be binding on all parties.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bearer Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  In case this Note or any Coupon shall at any time become
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, it may be replaced at the specified office
of the Principal Paying Agent in London; or, so long as the Bearer Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, at the specified office of the Paying
Agent in Luxembourg, upon payment by the claimant of such expenses as may be
incurred in connection therewith and, in the case of destruction, theft or loss,
on such terms as to evidence and indemnity as the Company or the Trustee may

reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Bearer Notes or Coupons must be
surrendered before replacements will be issued.

                  The Indenture permits with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of
each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities of this series may not enforce
their rights pursuant to the Indenture or such Debt Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision
of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

                  The Company may, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, consolidate with, merge into, or transfer substantially all of its assets
to, a corporation that is a U.S. Person, provided that the successor corporation
assumes all obligations of the Company under the Notes and certain other
conditions are met, including a waiver by the successor corporation of any right
to redeem the Notes under circumstances in which the successor corporation would
be entitled to redeem the Notes but the Company would not have been entitled to
do so.

                  Except as provided above, the obligation to pay the principal
hereof (and premium if any) and interest hereon in the designated currency of
payment is of the essence. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of this Note shall be given in such currency. The
obligation of the Company to make such payments in the designated currency of
payment shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether
pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the
amount in the designated currency of payment that the Holder of this Note may,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such
other currency (after any premium and cost of exchange) on the business day in
the country of issue of the designated currency of payment or in the
international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment. If the
amount in the designated currency of payment that may be so purchased is for any
reason less than the amount originally due, the Company shall, as a separate and
independent obligation, pay such additional amounts in the designated currency

of payment as may be necessary to compensate for any such shortfall.

                  All notices to Holders of this Note will be deemed to have
been duly given if published on two separate Business Days in a leading London
daily newspaper (which is expected to be the Financial Times) and, so long as
the Bearer Notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange
so requires, in Luxembourg in a newspaper of general circulation in Luxembourg
(which is expected to be the Luxemburger Wort). Such notices shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of the first such publication.

                  If the Specified Currency of this Note is Pounds sterling, the
following applies: The Company is not an institution authorised under the
Banking Act 1987 of the United Kingdom, and this Note is a medium-term note
issued in accordance with regulations made under Section 4 of the Banking Act
1987. The Company represents that as of the date of issuance of this Note, (1)
the Company is in compliance with its listing obligations to The International
Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited in
connection with the Company's securities that are listed on such Exchange; and
(2) since information was last published in compliance with such listing
obligations, the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, has not become
aware of any change in circumstances which could reasonably be regarded as
significantly and adversely affecting its ability to meet its obligations on
this Note as they fall due. Repayment of principal and payment of interest and
any premium on this Note have not been guaranteed by any person.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without
regard to the conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

       SCHEDULE OF ISSUANCES, EXCHANGES AND AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

                  The following issuances and exchanges of a part of this Note
have been made, and the aggregate principal amount of Bearer Notes represented
by this Note at any time is as shown in the last entry of Column III hereof
unless one or more entries have been made in Column IV hereof reflecting
exchanges for individual Bearer Notes, in which event such aggregate principal
amount is as shown in the last entry of Column V hereof.

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     I.              II.              III.                IV.               V.                VI.
                                                                         Aggregate
                                                      Principal Amount   Principal
Settlement Date                    Aggregate          Exchanged for      Amount            Notation made on
or Date of         Principal       Principal Amount   Individual         Remaining After   behalf of the
Exchange           Amount Issued   Issued             Bearer Notes       Exchange          Trustee
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                         SCHEDULE OF INTEREST PAYMENTS

                  The following payments of interest in respect of this Note
have been made.

Date of Interest Payment  Interest Paid  Notation made on behalf of the Trustee
- ------------------------  -------------  --------------------------------------





                   FORM OF SERIES G GLOBAL NOTE (FIXED RATE)

REGISTERED NO.                                              PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
FX -
                                  GLOBAL NOTE

                                  SALOMON INC
                                NOTES, SERIES G
                                 (FIXED RATE)
                                                                  CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

UNLESS THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO MATURITY" SET FORTH BELOW
WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX
ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                                Original Issue Date:

Interest Rate:                              Stated Maturity:

Interest Payment Dates:                     / / monthly,
                                            commencing

                                            / / quarterly,
                                            commencing

                                            / / semi-annually,
                                            commencing

Optional Redemption:   / / Yes    / / No

                  Optional Redemption Dates:

                  Redemption Prices:

Optional Repayment:   / / Yes   / / No

                  Optional Repayment Dates:

                  Optional Repayment Prices:


Amortizing Note:    / / Yes    / / No

   Amortization Schedule:

SURVIVOR'S OPTION:   / / Yes     / / No

Bond Yield to Maturity:
Bond Yield to Call:

Discount Note:   / / Yes     / / No
Total Amount of OID:
Yield to Maturity:



         SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Delaware (the "Company", which term includes any successor
corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., as the nominee of The Depository Trust
Company (the "Depositary"), or registered assigns, (a) the Principal Amount then
outstanding at the Stated Maturity and (b) to pay interest thereon on each
Interest Payment Date and at Stated Maturity, from the Original Issue Date or
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, at the Interest Rate, until the principal then outstanding
hereof becomes due and payable, and at such rate on any overdue principal and
(to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable)
on any overdue installment of interest.

         If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face hereof, a
portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to Stated
Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or by
reference to an index (as described above).

         This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt securities of the
Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one or more series
under an indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 (as amended or supplemented
from time to time, the "Indenture"), between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as
trustee (the "Trustee", which term includes any successor Trustee under the
Indenture), to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and each of the Holders of the Debt Securities and of
the terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. All terms used in this Note which are not defined herein shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

         The interest payable hereunder, and punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to the Person in whose name this
Debt Security, or one or more Predecessor Securities, is registered at the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the
first day of the calendar month in which such Interest Payment Date occurs;
provided, however, that in the case of interest payable at Stated Maturity,
interest will be paid to the Person so registered at Stated Maturity. Any such
interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date by virtue of such
Person having been such Holder, and may either be paid to the Person in whose
name this Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on a Special Record Date to be fixed by the Trustee for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest, notice of which having been given to
each Holder of Debt Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Debt
Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

         Payment of the principal of and interest on this Note will be made by
the Company to the Trustee in immediately available funds, and if such payments
are made by the Company, the Trustee in turn will make such payments to the
registered Holder hereof in funds immediately available to such Holder.


         Interest on this Note will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months. Each payment of interest in respect of an Interest
Payment Date will include interest accrued through the day before such Interest
Payment Date. If an Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business
Day, the interest payment to be made on such Interest Payment Date will be made
on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on
such Interest Payment Date, and no additional interest will accrue as a result
of such delayed payment. "Business Day" with respect to this Debt Security means
any day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions
or trust companies in the City of New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to close.

         If the Holder of this Note has a Survivor's Option, as indicated above,
to elect repayment of this Note prior to Stated Maturity in the event of the
death of any beneficial owner hereof, then, pursuant to exercise of such
Survivor's Option, the Company will repay this Note (or applicable portion
hereof) when properly tendered for repayment by or on behalf of the Person (the
"Representative") that has authority to act on behalf of the deceased beneficial
owner hereof under the laws of the appropriate jurisdiction (including, without
limitation, the personal representative, executor, surviving joint tenant or
surviving tenant by the entirety of such deceased beneficial owner) at a price
equal to the Amortized Face Amount (calculated as set forth below) payable
hereunder with respect to such beneficial owner, plus accrued interest thereon
to the date of such repayment; provided, however, that the Company may, in its
sole discretion, limit to $2,500,000 the aggregate principal amount of Notes of
this series as to which exercises of the Survivor's Option will be accepted in
any calendar year (the "Annual Put Limitation") and, in the event that the
Annual Put Limitation is applied, limit to $250,000 the aggregate principal
amount of Notes (or portions thereof) as to which exercises of the Survivor's
Option will be accepted in such calendar year with respect to any individual
deceased beneficial owner of Notes; and provided, further, that the Company will
not make any principal payment pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option in
an amount that is less than $5,000, and, in the event that the foregoing
limitations would result in the partial repayment to any individual deceased
beneficial owner of Notes, the principal amount owned by such deceased
beneficial owner must not be less than $5,000 as a result of such repayment,
which is the minimum authorized denomination of the Notes. This Note, or any
portion hereof, tendered pursuant to an exercise of the Survivor's Option, may
be withdrawn by a written request of the Holder hereof received by the Trustee
prior to its repayment.

         The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any date shall be the amount
equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face hereof plus (ii) that portion
of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal amount of
such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond Yield to Maturity set
forth on the face hereof or (y) if so specified, the Bond Yield to Call set
forth on the face hereof (computed in each case in accordance with generally
accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided, however,
that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its stated
principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of this Note shall
be computed on the basis of the first occurring Optional Redemption Date with
respect to such Note and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption Date. In
the event that such Note is not redeemed on such first occurring Optional

Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with respect to such Note shall be
recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the basis of the next occurring
Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption
Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each succeeding Optional
Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

         This Note (or any portion hereof), if tendered pursuant to a valid
exercise of the Survivor's Option, will be accepted promptly based on the order
in which all such Notes (or any portion thereof) are tendered, unless the
acceptance hereof would (i) contravene the Annual Put Limitation or (ii) result
in the acceptance during the then current calendar year of an aggregate
principal amount of Notes (or portions thereof) exceeding $250,000 with respect
to any individual deceased beneficial owner. If, as of the end of any calendar
year, the Company has not imposed the Annual Put Limitation or the aggregate
principal amount of Notes that have been accepted pursuant to exercise of the
Survivor's Option during such year has not exceeded the Annual Put Limitation
for such year, any exercise of the Survivor's Option with respect to this Note
(or any portion hereof) not accepted during such calendar year because more than
$250,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes (or portions thereof) was tendered
with respect to the individual deceased beneficial owner hereof will be accepted
in the order all such Notes were tendered, to the extent that any such exercise
would not trigger the Annual Put Limitation, if any, for such calendar year.
This Note (or portion hereof), if accepted for repayment pursuant to exercise of
the Survivor's Option, will be repaid on the first Interest Payment Date that
occurs twenty or more calendar days after the date of such acceptance. If this
Note (or any portion hereof) is tendered for repayment and is not accepted in
any calendar year due to the application of the Annual Put Limitation, then this
Note (or any such portion) will be deemed to be tendered in the following
calendar year based on the order in which all such Notes (or any portion
thereof) were originally tendered, unless this Note (or any such portion hereof)
is withdrawn by the Holder. In the event that this Note (or any portion hereof)
tendered for repayment pursuant to valid exercise of the Survivor's Option is
not accepted, the Trustee will deliver a notice to the affected Representative
by first-class mail to the broker or other entity that represents the deceased
beneficial owner of this Note that states the reasons this Note (or such
portion) has not been accepted for repayment.

         Subject to the foregoing, in order for the Survivor's Option to be
validly exercised, the Trustee must receive (i) a written request for repayment
signed by the Representative, and such signature must be guaranteed by a member
firm of a registered national securities exchange or of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an
office or correspondent in the United States, (ii) tender of this Note (or
applicable portion hereof), (iii) appropriate evidence satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee that (A) the Representative has authority to act on
behalf of the applicable deceased beneficial owner hereof, (B) the death of such
beneficial owner has occurred and (C) the deceased was a beneficial owner hereof
at the time of death, and (iv) a certificate satisfactory to the Trustee from
the broker or other entity through which the deceased beneficial owner has an
interest in this Note stating that such broker or other entity represents the
deceased beneficial owner. All questions as to the eligibility or validity of
any exercise of the Survivor's Option will be determined by the Company, in its
sole discretion, which determination will be final and binding.


         This Note is not subject to any sinking fund.

         If so specified on the face hereof, the Company may, at its option,
redeem this Note in whole, or from time to time in part, on or after the date
designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof, at prices
declining from a specified premium, if any, to par, together with accrued
interest to the date of redemption. The Company may exercise such option by
causing the Trustee to mail a notice of such redemption at least 30 but not more
than 60 days prior to the date of redemption unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or
Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

         If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be repayable prior
to Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional Repayment Dates shown on
the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown on the face hereof,
together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In order for this Note
to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at least 30 but not more than 45 days
prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i) this Note with the form below entitled
"Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed; or (ii) a telegram, telex, facsimile
transmission or letter from a member of a national securities exchange or the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust
company in the United States of America setting forth the name of the Holder of
this Note, the principal amount of the Note to be repaid, the certificate number
or a description of the tenor and terms of this Note, a statement that the
option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee that this
Note with the form below entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed
will be received by the Trustee not later than five Business Days after the date
of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter. If the procedure
described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is followed, this Note with
form duly completed must be received by the Trustee by such fifth Business Day.
Any tender of this Note for repayment (except pursuant to a Reset Notice or an
Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment option may be exercised by
the Holder of this Note for less than the entire principal amount of the Note
provided that the principal amount of this Note remaining outstanding after
repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such partial repayment, this Note
shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the remaining principal amount
hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder of this Note.

         Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if this Note is a
Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of redemption or repayment prior
to the Stated Maturity hereof (other than pursuant to an optional redemption by
the Company at a stated Redemption Price), in lieu of the principal amount due
at the Stated Maturity hereof, shall be the Amortized Face Amount of this Note
as of the redemption date or the date of repayment, as the case may be.

         As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Registered Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the
Person surrendering the same.

         As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the Security Register of
the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the

office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State
of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security Registrar and the
Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Notes of this series, of
authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

         If an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of this
series shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all the Debt
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture.

         The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities of each series to
be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be
affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of
any series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Debt
Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Debt
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt
Security.

         Holders of Debt Securities may not enforce their rights pursuant to the
Indenture or the Debt Securities except as provided in the Indenture. No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Debt Security or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Debt Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.

         The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any larger amount that is an integral
multiple of $1,000.

         No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

         Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in full for individual Notes, this Note shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions of,
and the Company shall be subject to the same restrictions as those contained in,
the individual Notes and in the Indenture.

         In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated, destroyed, stolen

or lost and this Note or evidence of the loss, theft, or destruction hereof
(together with such indemnity and such other documents or proof as may be
required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be delivered to the principal
corporate trust office of the Trustee, a new Registered Note of like tenor and
principal amount will be issued by the Company in exchange for, or in lieu of,
this Note. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with procuring such
indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery of a new
Registered Note shall be borne by the Holder of this Note.

         UNLESS OR UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A
WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED HEREIN) TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY
A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

         Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

         This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be performed
solely in the State of New York and for all purposes be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without regard to the
conflicts of law rules of said State.

         All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

         Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been duly executed
by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any
benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purposes.

         REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS NOTE SET
FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES
HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

         This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose unless
and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its successor,
as Trustee.



         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                            SALOMON INC


                                            By__________________________
                                            Senior Vice President

[Seal]


                                            Attest:


                                            By__________________________
                                            Secretary



                         CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Debt Securities issued under the
within-mentioned Indenture.

                                           CITIBANK, N.A.,
                                             as Trustee


                                           By__________________________
                                           Authorized Signatory



                                 ABBREVIATIONS


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:


TEN COM -as tenants in common      UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ________Custodian________ 
TEN ENT -as tenants by the                            (Cust)           (Minor)  
         entireties 
JT ENT  -as joint tenants with                       Under Uniform Gifts to 
         right of survivorship                       Minors Act 
         and not as tenants in     
         common                                      -------------------------
                                                              (State)


    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list

                 --------------------------------------------

                           OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT


         The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Company
to repay $__________ principal amount of the within Note, pursuant to its terms,
on the "Optional Repayment Date" first occurring after the date of receipt of
the within Note as specified below, together with interest thereon accrued to
the date or repayment, to the undersigned at:

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Please Print or Type Name and Address of the Undersigned)

and to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new
Note or Notes representing the remaining principal amount of this Note.

         For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, this Note with the
Option to Elect Repayment duly completed must be received by the Company within
the relevant time period set forth above at its office or agency in the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, located initially at the office of
the Trustee at, if delivery is by hand, 130 John Street, Street Level, New York,
New York or, if delivery is by mail, 450 West 33rd Street, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, New York, New York 10001.


Dated:                       _________________________________________
                             Note:  The signature to this Option to Elect
                             Repayment must correspond with the name as written
                             upon the face of the within Note in every
                             particular without alteration or enlargement or any

                             change whatsoever.


              FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) 
                and transfer(s) unto


     Please insert Social Security or Other
       Identifying Number of Assignee




                             ----------------------------------------

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     Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Zip Code of Assignee

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the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting 
and appointing
                                                                    attorney   
- ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
to transfer such Note on the books of Salomon Inc with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: 
      -----------      ----------------------------------------------------
                       Signature

                       ----------------------------------------------------
                                  NOTICE:  The signature to this assignment must
                                  correspond with the name as it appears upon
                                  the face of the Note in every particular,
                                  without alteration or enlargement or any
                                  change whatsoever.




                 FORM OF SERIES G GLOBAL NOTE (FLOATING RATE)

REGISTERED NO.                                       PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

                                  GLOBAL NOTE

                                  SALOMON INC
                                NOTES, SERIES G
                                (FLOATING RATE)
                                                                 
                                                               CUSIP

                 Due More Than Nine Months from Date of Issue

         UNLESS THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

         IF APPLICABLE, THE "TOTAL AMOUNT OF OID" AND "YIELD TO MATURITY" SET
FORTH BELOW WILL BE COMPLETED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF APPLYING THE FEDERAL
INCOME TAX ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ("OID") RULES.

Issue Price:                                           Original Issue Date:

Initial Interest Rate:                                 Stated Maturity:

Authorized Denominations:
   (If other than as set forth below)

BASE RATE:   / / CD Rate   / / Commercial Paper   / / Federal Funds Rate
/ / LIBOR Telerate   / / LIBOR Reuters   / / Treasury Rate
/ / Treasury Rate Constant Maturity   / / Other (see attached)

Interest Reset Period                                 Index Maturity:
or Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:
   (If other than as set forth below)

Spread Multiplier:                                      Spread (+/-):

Maximum Interest Rate:                         Minimum Interest Rate:

Optional Redemption:   / / Yes  / / No

                  Optional Redemption Dates:

                  Redemption Prices:


Optional Repayment:   / / Yes  / / No

                  Optional Repayment Dates:

                  Optional Repayment Prices:


Amortizing Note:   / / Yes   / / No
   Amortization Schedule:

SURVIVOR'S OPTION:  / / Yes   / / No

Bond Yield to Maturity:
Bond Yield to Call:

Discount Note:  / / Yes   / / No
Total Amount of OID:
Yield to Maturity:



                  SALOMON INC, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the "Company") for
value received hereby promises to pay CEDE & Co. or registered assigns, the
Principal Amount in the Specified Currency on the Stated Maturity shown above or
earlier, if and to the extent so provided herein, and to pay accrued interest on
the Principal Amount then outstanding at the Initial Interest Rate shown above
from the Original Issue Date shown above until the first Interest Reset Date
shown above following the Original Issue Date and thereafter at the Base Rate
shown above, adjusted by the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, shown above,
determined in accordance with the provisions on the reverse hereof, until the
Principal Amount then outstanding is paid or duly provided for in accordance
with the terms hereof. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on each Interest Payment Date specified herein will, as provided
in the Indenture referred to below, be paid to the person in whose name this
Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which, in the case of any
Interest Payment Date shall be the date (whether or not a Business Day), fifteen
calendar days immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date and, in the case
of interest payable at Maturity shall be the Stated Maturity of this Note.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Note is issued between a Regular Record
Date and the related Interest Payment Date, the interest so payable for the
period from the Original Issue Date to such Interest Payment Date shall be paid
on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date to the Registered Holder hereof on
the related Regular Record Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or
duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Registered Holder
hereof on such Regular Record Date and may be paid to the Person in whose name
this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not
less than ten days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Registered Notes may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said
Indenture.

                  For purposes of this Note, "Business Day" means any day, other
than a Saturday or Sunday, that is (a) not a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed in The City of New
York and (b) if the Base Rate specified above is LIBOR, a London Banking Day.
"London Banking Day" means any day on which dealings in deposits in the
Specified Currency are transacted in the London interbank market.

                  If this Note is an Amortizing Note as shown on the face
hereof, a portion or all the principal amount of the Note is payable prior to
Stated Maturity in accordance with a schedule, by application of a formula, or
by reference to an index (as described above).

                  The interest payable hereunder, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to the Person in whose
name this Debt Security, or one or more Predecessor Securities, is registered at
the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall
be the first day of the calendar month in which such Interest Payment Date
occurs; provided, however, that in the case of interest payable at Stated

Maturity, interest will be paid to the Person so registered at Stated Maturity.
Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith
cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date by
virtue of such Person having been such Holder, and may either be paid to the
Person in whose name this Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities)
is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date to be fixed by
the Trustee for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, notice of which having
been given to each Holder of Debt Securities of this series not less than 10
days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange
on which the Debt Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the
Indenture.

                  Payment of the principal of and interest on this Note will be
made by the Company to the Trustee in immediately available funds, and if such
payments are made by the Company, the Trustee in turn will make such payments to
the registered Holder hereof in funds immediately available to such Holder.

                  REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
NOTE SET FORTH BELOW, AND SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE
THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.

                  This Note shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless and until this Note has been authenticated by Citibank, N.A., or its
successor, as Trustee.


                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
executed under its corporate seal.

         Dated:
                                                     SALOMON INC


                                                     By___________________
                                                     Senior Vice President


                                                     Attest_______________
                                                     Secretary

                                           CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned
Indenture.

                                                     CITIBANK, N.A.
                                                       as Trustee


                                                     By___________________
                                                     Authorized Signatory






                                  SALOMON INC
                          MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES G
                                (FLOATING RATE)

                  This Note is one of a series of duly authorized debt
securities of the Company (the "Debt Securities") issued or to be issued in one
or more series under an indenture, dated as of December 1, 1988 (the
"Indenture") between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee",
which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) to which
indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities
and of the terms upon which the Debt Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered.

                  Unless otherwise specified above, the authorized denominations
of Registered Notes denominated in U.S. dollars will be U.S.$1,000 and any
larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000.

                  Each Registered Note will be issued initially as either a
Book-Entry Note or, if so specified above, a Certificated Note.

                  If the Holder of this Note has a Survivor's Option, as
indicated above, to elect repayment of this Note prior to Stated Maturity in the
event of the death of any beneficial owner hereof, then, pursuant to exercise of
such Survivor's Option, the Company will repay this Note (or applicable portion
hereof) when properly tendered for repayment by or on behalf of the Person (the
"Representative") that has authority to act on behalf of the deceased beneficial
owner hereof under the laws of the appropriate jurisdiction (including, without
limitation, the personal representative, executor, surviving joint tenant or
surviving tenant by the entirety of such deceased beneficial owner) at a price
equal to the Amortized Face Amount (calculated as set forth below) payable
hereunder with respect to such beneficial owner, plus accrued interest thereon
to the date of such repayment; provided, however, that the Company may, in its
sole discretion, limit to $2,500,000 the aggregate principal amount of Notes of
this series as to which exercises of the Survivor's Option will be accepted in
any calendar year (the "Annual Put Limitation") and, in the event that the
Annual Put Limitation is applied, limit to $250,000 the aggregate principal
amount of Notes (or portions thereof) as to which exercises of the Survivor's
Option will be accepted in such calendar year with respect to any individual
deceased beneficial owner of Notes; and provided, further, that the Company will
not make any principal payment pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option in
an amount that is less than $5,000, and, in the event that the foregoing
limitations would result in the partial repayment to any individual deceased
beneficial owner of Notes, the principal amount owned by such deceased
beneficial owner must not be less than $5,000 as a result of such repayment,
which is the minimum authorized denomination of the Notes. This Note, or any
portion hereof, tendered pursuant to an exercise of the Survivor's Option, may
be withdrawn by a written request of the Holder hereof received by the Trustee
prior to its repayment.


                  The Amortized Face Amount of this Note on any date shall be
the amount equal to (i) the Issue Price set forth on the face hereof plus (ii)
that portion of the difference between such Issue Price and the stated principal
amount of such Note that has accrued by such date at (x) the Bond Yield to
Maturity set forth on the face hereof or (y) if so specified, the Bond Yield to
Call set forth on the face hereof (computed in each case in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles), provided,
however, that in no event shall the Amortized Face Amount of a Note exceed its
stated principal amount. The Bond Yield to Call listed on the face of this Note
shall be computed on the basis of the first occurring Optional Redemption Date
with respect to such Note and the amount payable on such Optional Redemption
Date. In the event that such Note is not redeemed on such first occurring
Optional Redemption Date, the Bond Yield to Call with respect to such Note shall
be recomputed on such Optional Redemption Date on the basis of the next
occurring Optional Redemption Date and the amount payable on such Optional
Redemption Date, and shall continue to be so recomputed on each succeeding
Optional Redemption Date until the Note is so redeemed.

                  This Note (or any portion hereof), if tendered pursuant to a
valid exercise of the Survivor's Option, will be accepted promptly based on the
order in which all such Notes (or any portion thereof) are tendered, unless the
acceptance hereof would (i) contravene the Annual Put Limitation or (ii) result
in the acceptance during the then current calendar year of an aggregate
principal amount of Notes (or portions thereof) exceeding $250,000 with respect
to any individual deceased beneficial owner. If, as of the end of any calendar
year, the Company has not imposed the Annual Put Limitation or the aggregate
principal amount of Notes that have been accepted pursuant to exercise of the
Survivor's Option during such year has not exceeded the Annual Put Limitation
for such year, any exercise of the Survivor's Option with respect to this Note
(or any portion hereof) not accepted during such calendar year because more than
$250,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes (or portions thereof) was tendered
with respect to the individual deceased beneficial owner hereof will be accepted
in the order all such Notes were tendered, to the extent that any such exercise
would not trigger the Annual Put Limitation, if any, for such calendar year.
This Note (or portion hereof), if accepted for repayment pursuant to exercise of
the Survivor's Option, will be repaid on the first Interest Payment Date that
occurs twenty or more calendar days after the date of such acceptance. If this
Note (or any portion hereof) is tendered for repayment and is not accepted in
any calendar year due to the application of the Annual Put Limitation, then this
Note (or any such portion) will be deemed to be tendered in the following
calendar year based on the order in which all such Notes (or any portion
thereof) were originally tendered, unless this Note (or any such portion hereof)
is withdrawn by the Holder. In the event that this Note (or any portion hereof)
tendered for repayment pursuant to valid exercise of the Survivor's Option is
not accepted, the Trustee will deliver a notice to the affected Representative
by first-class mail to the broker or other entity that represents the deceased
beneficial owner of this Note that states the reasons this Note (or such
portion) has not been accepted for repayment.

                  Subject to the foregoing, in order for the Survivor's Option
to be validly exercised, the Trustee must receive (i) a written request for
repayment signed by the Representative, and such signature must be guaranteed by
a member firm of a registered national securities exchange or of the National

Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company
having an office or correspondent in the United States, (ii) tender of this Note
(or applicable portion hereof), (iii) appropriate evidence satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee that (A) the Representative has authority to act on
behalf of the applicable deceased beneficial owner hereof, (B) the death of such
beneficial owner has occurred and (C) the deceased was a beneficial owner hereof
at the time of death, and (iv) a certificate satisfactory to the Trustee from
the broker or other entity through which the deceased beneficial owner has an
interest in this Note stating that such broker or other entity represents the
deceased beneficial owner. All questions as to the eligibility or validity of
any exercise of the Survivor's Option will be determined by the Company, in its
sole discretion, which determination will be final and binding.

                  This Note will not be subject to any sinking fund.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, the Company may, at its
option, redeem this Note in whole, or from time to time in part, on or after the
date designated as the Initial Redemption Date on the face hereof, at prices
declining from a specified premium, if any, to par, together with accrued
interest to the date of redemption. The Company may exercise such option by
causing the Trustee to mail a notice of such redemption at least 30 but not more
than 60 days prior to the date of redemption unless otherwise specified on the
face hereof. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or
Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

                  If so specified on the face hereof, this Note will be
repayable prior to Maturity at the option of the Holder on the Optional
Repayment Dates shown on the face hereof at the Optional Repayment Prices shown
on the face hereof, together with accrued interest to the date of repayment. In
order for this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at least 30 but not
more than 45 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date (i) this Note with the
form below entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" duly completed; or (ii) a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter from a member of a national
securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a
commercial bank or trust company in the United States of America setting forth
the name of the Holder of this Note, the principal amount of the Note to be
repaid, the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of this
Note, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby
and a guarantee that this Note with the form below entitled "Option to Elect
Repayment" duly completed will be received by the Trustee not later than five
Business Days after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter. If the procedure described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence is
followed, this Note with form duly completed must be received by the Trustee by
such fifth Business Day. Any tender of this Note for repayment (except pursuant
to a Reset Notice or an Extension Notice) shall be irrevocable. The repayment
option may be exercised by the Holder of this Note for less than the entire
principal amount of the Note provided that the principal amount of this Note
remaining outstanding after repayment is an authorized denomination. Upon such
partial repayment, this Note shall be cancelled and a new Note or Notes for the
remaining principal amount hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder of
this Note.

                  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if this Note

is a Discount Note, the amount payable in the event of redemption or repayment
prior to the Stated Maturity hereof (other than pursuant to an optional
redemption by the Company at a stated Redemption Price), in lieu of the
principal amount due at the Stated Maturity hereof, shall be the Amortized Face
Amount of this Note as of the redemption date or the date of repayment, as the
case may be.

                  This Note will bear interest from its Original Issue Date to
the first Interest Reset Date (as defined below) at the Initial Interest Rate
set forth on the face hereof. Thereafter, the interest rate hereon for each
Interest Reset Period (as defined below) will be determined by reference to the
Base Rate specified on the face hereof, plus or minus the Spread, if any, or
multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
Base Rates that may be specified on the face hereof are LIBOR, the Commercial
Paper Rate, the Treasury Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or any other
Base Rate specified on the face hereof. "H.15(519)" means the publication
entitled "Statistical Release H.15(519), Selected Interest Rates" or any
successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.

                  As specified on the face hereof, this Note may also have
either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per annum on a
simple interest basis): (i) a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the rate at
which interest may accrue during any interest period ("Maximum Interest Rate")
and (ii) a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest may
accrue during any interest period ("Minimum Interest Rate"). In addition to any
Maximum Interest Rate that may be specified on the face hereof, the interest
rate will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable
law, as the same may be modified by United States law of general application.

                  The interest rate hereon will be reset daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, semiannually or annually (such period being the "Interest Reset
Period" specified on the face hereof, and the first day of each Interest Reset
Period being an "Interest Reset Date"). Unless otherwise specified on the face
hereof, the Interest Reset Dates will be, if this Note resets daily, each
Business Day; if this Note (unless this Note is a Treasury Rate Note) resets
weekly, Wednesday of each week; if this Note is a Treasury Rate Note that resets
weekly, Tuesday of each week (except as provided below under "Determination of
Treasury Rate"); if this Note resets monthly, the third Wednesday of each month;
if this Note resets quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and
December of each year; if this Note resets semiannually, the third Wednesday of
the two months of each year specified on the face hereof; and if this Note
resets annually, the third Wednesday of the month of each year specified on the
face hereof. If an Interest Reset Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding
Business Day, except that, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is
LIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such
Interest Reset Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the interest
payable hereon on each Interest Payment Date shall be the accrued interest from
and including the Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has
been paid, as the case may be, to but excluding such Interest Payment Date,
provided, however, that if the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, the

interest payable hereon shall be the accrued interest from and including the
Original Issue Date or the last date to which interest has been accrued and
paid, as the case may be, to but excluding the Record Date immediately preceding
such Interest Payment Date, except that, at Maturity, the interest payable will
include interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of Maturity.
                  If more than one Interest Reset Date occurs during any period
for which accrued interest is being calculated, accrued interest shall be
calculated by multiplying the principal amount hereof by an accrued interest
factor. Such accrued interest factor will be computed by adding the interest
factors calculated for each day in the period for which accrued interest is
being calculated. The interest factor (expressed as a decimal calculated to
seven decimal places without rounding) for each such day is computed, unless
otherwise specified on the face hereof, by dividing the interest rate in effect
on such day by 360 if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the
Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the
actual number of days in the year, if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof
is the Treasury Rate. In all other cases, accrued interest shall be calculated
by multiplying the principal amount hereof (or if this Note is an Indexed
Principal Note, the Face Amount specified on the face hereof) by the interest
rate in effect during the period for which accrued interest is being calculated,
and multiplying that product by the quotient obtained by dividing the number of
days in the period for which accrued interest is being calculated by 360 if the
Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Commercial Paper Rate, the Federal
Funds Rate, the CD Rate or LIBOR, or by the actual number of days in the year,
if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury Rate. For purposes
of making the foregoing calculations, the interest rate in effect on any
Interest Reset Date will be the applicable rate as reset on such date.

                  Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, all percentages
resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest hereof will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all currency amounts
used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest
one-hundredth of a unit (with .005 of a unit being rounded upward).

                  Interest on each Note will be payable, in arrears, either
monthly, quarterly or semi-annually. In the case of a Note that provides for
monthly interest payments, interest will be payable on the fifteenth day of each
calendar month; provided, however, that in the case of such Note issued between
a Regular Record Date (as defined below) and an Interest Payment Date, interest
will be payable on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date. In the case of a
Note that is three months from (i) the Original Issue Date, if such Note is
issued on the fifteenth day of a calendar month, or (ii) the preceding fifteenth
day of a calendar month prior to the Original Issue Date. In the case of a Note
that provides for semi-annual interest payments, interest will be payable
commencing on the day that is six months from (i) the Original Issue Date, if
such Note is issued on the fifteenth day of a calendar month, or (ii) the
preceding fifteenth day of a calendar month prior to the Original Issue Date.
The Regular Record Date with respect to any interest Payment Date for a Note
will be the first day of the calendar month in which such Interest Payment Date
occurs, except that the Regular Record Date with respect to the final Interest
Payment Date will be the final Interest Payment Date. Each payment of interest
in respect of an Interest Payment Date will include interest accrued to such
Interest Payment Date.


                  The Company has appointed and entered into an agreement with
an agent (a "Calculation Agent") to calculate the interest rates on Floating
Rate Notes. Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, Citibank, N.A. shall
be the Calculation Agent. At the request of the Holder hereof, the Calculation
Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect and, if determined, the
interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest Reset Date. All
determinations of interest rates by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder
hereof.

                  Subject to applicable provisions of law and except as
specified herein, on each Interest Reset Date the rate of interest shall be the
rate determined in accordance with the provisions of the applicable heading
below.

Determination of CD Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the CD Rate,
this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to the CD Rate and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if
any, specified on the face hereof. The "CD Rate" for each Interest Reset Period
shall be the rate as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "CD Rate Determination Date") for negotiable
certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof
as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (Secondary Market)". In the
event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining to such CD Rate Determination
Date, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the rate on such
CD Rate Determination Date for negotiable certificates of deposit of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof as published by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York in its daily statistical release "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for
U.S. Government Securities" ("Composite Quotations") under the heading
"Certificates of Deposit". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite
Quotations, then the "CD Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be calculated
by the Calculation Agent and will be the arithmetic mean of the secondary market
offered rates as of 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such CD Rate
Determination Date of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable U.S. dollar
certificates of deposit in The City of New York selected by the Calculation
Agent for negotiable certificates of deposit of major United States money center
banks of the highest credit standing (in the market for negotiable certificates
of deposit) with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity on the face
hereof in a denomination of $5,000,000, provided, however, that if the dealers
selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as
mentioned in this sentence, the CD Rate for such Interest Reset Period will be
the same as the CD Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or,
if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any CD Rate Determination
Date shall be the tenth calendar day after such CD Rate Determination Date or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of Commercial Paper Rate


                  If the Base Rate shown on the face hereof is the Commercial
Paper Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Commercial Paper Rate and the
Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The
"Commercial Paper Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be determined by the
Calculation Agent as of the second Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date
for such Interest Reset Period (a "Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date")
and shall be the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such Commercial Paper
Rate Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate shall be published in
H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper". In the event that such rate is
not published prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth calendar day
after such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, (the "Calculation Date") then
the Commercial Paper Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money
Market Yield on such Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of the rate for
commercial paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof as published
in Composite Quotations under the heading "Commercial Paper". If by 3:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on such Calculation Date such rate is not yet published in
either H.15(519) or Composite Quotations, then the "Commercial Paper Rate" for
such Interest Reset Period shall be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic
mean of the offered rates as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such
Commercial Paper Rate Determination Date of three leading dealers of commercial
paper in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for commercial
paper of the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof placed for an
industrial issuer whose bonds are rated "AA" or the equivalent by a nationally
recognized rating agency, provided, however, that if the dealers selected as
aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting offered rates as mentioned in
this sentence, the "Commercial Paper Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the Commercial Paper Rate for the immediately preceding Interest
Reset Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial
Interest Rate).

                  "Money Market Yield" shall be the yield calculated in
accordance with the following formula: 

                                        D x 360
              Money Market yield =                  x 100
                                     360 - (D x M)               
 

where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for
commercial paper quoted on a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal and
"M" refers to the actual number of days in the Index Maturity specified on the
face hereof.

Determination of Federal Funds Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Federal
Funds Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Federal Funds Rate and Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Federal Funds
Rate" for each Interest Reset Period shall be the effective rate on the Interest

Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date") for Federal Funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal
Funds (Effective)". In the event that such rate is not published prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date (as defined below) pertaining
to such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such
Interest Reset Period shall be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination
Date as published in Composite Quotations under the heading "Federal
Funds/Effective Rate". If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date, such rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or Composite
Quotations, then the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall
be the rate on such Federal Funds Rate Determination Date made publicly
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is equivalent to the
rate which appears in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)",
provided, however, that if such rate is not made publicly available by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Calculation Date, the "Federal Funds Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will
be the same as the Federal Funds Rate in effect for the immediately preceding
Interest Reset Period (or, if there is no such Interest Reset Period, the
Initial Interest Rate). If this Note resets daily, the interest rate on this
Note for the period from and including a Monday to but excluding the succeeding
Monday will be reset by the Calculation Agent on such second Monday (or, if not
a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) to a rate equal to the
average of the Federal Funds Rates in effect with respect to each such day in
such week.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Federal Funds Rate
Determination Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

Determination of LIBOR

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is LIBOR, this
Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the interest rate
calculated with reference to LIBOR and the Spread or Spread Multiplier, if any,
specified on the face hereof. "LIBOR" for each Interest Reset Period will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as follows:

                  (i) On the second London Banking Day prior to the Interest
Reset Date for such Interest Reset Period (a "LIBOR Determination Date"), the
Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note will determine the arithmetic mean of the
offered rates for deposits in the Specified Currency for the period of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date,
which appear on the Designated LIBOR Page at approximately 11:00 a.m., London
time, on such LIBOR Determination Date. "Designated LIBOR Page" means either (a)
if "LIBOR Telerate" is designated on the face hereof, the display designated as
page "3750" on the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace
page "3750" on such service or such other service as may be nominated by the
British Bankers' Association for the purpose of displaying the London interbank
offered rates of major banks) or (b) if "LIBOR Reuters" is designated on the
face hereof, the display designated as page "LIBO" on the Reuters Monitor Money
Rates Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBO page on such service
or such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers' Association
for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of major banks). If
neither LIBOR Reuters nor LIBOR Telerate is specified on the face hereof, LIBOR
will be determined as if LIBOR Telerate had been specified. If at least two such

offered rates appear on the Designated LIBOR Page, "LIBOR" for such Interest
Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such offered rates as determined by
the Calculation Agent for such LIBOR Note.

             (ii) If fewer than two offered rates appear on the Designated LIBOR
Page on such LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will request the
principal London offices of each of four major banks in the London interbank
market selected by the Calculation Agent to provide the Calculation Agent with
its offered quotations for deposits in the Specified Currency for the period of
the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such Interest
Reset Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00
a.m., London time, on such LIBOR Determination Date and in a principal amount
equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the approximate equivalent
thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative of a single transaction
in such market at such time. If at least two such quotations are provided,
"LIBOR" for such Interest Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of such
quotations. If fewer than two such quotations are provided, "LIBOR" for such
Interest Reset Period will be the arithmetic mean of rates quoted by three major
banks in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent at approximately
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such LIBOR Determination Date for loans in
the Specified Currency to leading European banks for the period of the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, commencing on such Interest Reset Date,
and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 or the
approximate equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency that is representative
of a single transaction in such market at such time, provided, however, that if
fewer than three banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are
quoting rates as mentioned in this sentence, "LIBOR" for such Interest Reset
Period will be the same as LIBOR for the immediately preceding Interest Reset
Period (or, if there was no such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest
Rate).

Determination of Treasury Rate

                  If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is the Treasury
Rate, this Note will bear interest for each Interest Reset Period at the
interest rate calculated with reference to the Treasury Rate and the Spread or
Spread Multiplier, if any, specified on the face hereof. The "Treasury Rate" for
each Interest Reset Period will be the rate for the auction held on the Treasury
Rate Determination Date (as defined below) for such Interest Reset Period of
direct obligations of the United States ("Treasury bills") having the Index
Maturity specified on the face hereof, as published in H.15(519) under the
heading "U.S. Government Securities-Treasury bills-auction average (investment)"
or, if not so published by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth calendar
day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) (the "Calculation Date"), the
auction average rate (expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of
365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis) on such Treasury
Rate Determination Date as otherwise announced by the United States Department
of the Treasury. In the event that the results of the auction of Treasury bills
having the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof are not published or
reported as provided above by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Calculation
Date, or if no such auction is held on such Treasury Rate Determination Date,
then the "Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period shall be calculated by
the Calculation Agent and shall be a yield to maturity (expressed as a bond

equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied
on a daily basis) of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates as of
approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Treasury Rate Determination
Date, of three leading primary United States government securities dealers
selected by the Calculation Agent for the issue of Treasury bills with a
remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof,
provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation
Agent are not quoting bid rates as mentioned in this sentence, then the
"Treasury Rate" for such Interest Reset Period will be the same as the Treasury
Rate for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Period (or, if there was no
such Interest Reset Period, the Initial Interest Rate).

                  The "Treasury Rate Determination Date" for each Interest Reset
Period will be the day of the week in which the Interest Reset Date for such
Interest Reset Period falls on which Treasury bills would normally be auctioned.
Treasury bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that
day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the
following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday.
If, as the result of a legal holiday, an auction is so held on the preceding
Friday, such Friday will be the Treasury Rate Determination Date pertaining to
the Interest Reset Period commencing in the next succeeding week. If an auction
date shall fall on any day that would otherwise be an Interest Reset Date for a
Note whose Base Rate is the Treasury Rate, then such Interest Reset Date shall
instead be the Business Day immediately following such auction date.

                  If "Constant Maturity" is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the "Treasury Rate" for each Interest Reset Period will be the rate
that is set forth in the Federal Reserve Board publication H.15(519) opposite
the caption "U.S. Government/Securities/ Treasury Constant Maturities/" in the
Index Maturity with respect to the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date (as defined below). If the H.15(519) is not published, the
"Constant Maturity -- Treasury Rate" shall be the rate that was set forth on
Telerate Page 7055, or its successor page (as determined by the Calculation
Agent), on the applicable Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date
opposite the applicable Index Maturity. If no such rate is set forth, then the
constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset Period shall be
established by the Calculation Agent as follows. The Calculation Agent will
contact the Federal Reserve Board and request the Constant Maturity Treasury
Rate, in the applicable Index Maturity, for the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date. If the Federal Reserve Board does not provide such
information, then the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of bid-side quotations, expressed in terms of
yield, reported by three leading U.S. government securities dealers (one of
which may be Salomon Brothers Inc), according to their written records, as of
3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate
Determination Date, for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in
maturity to the Index Maturity, but not less than exactly the Index Maturity and
for the noncallable U.S. Treasury Note that is nearest in maturity to the Index
Maturity, but not more than exactly the Index Maturity. The Calculation Agent
shall calculate the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate by interpolating to the
Index Maturity based on an actual/actual date count basis, the yield on the two
Treasury Notes selected. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such
adjusted quotations, the Constant Maturity Treasury Rate for such Interest Reset
Date will be the arithmetic mean of all such quotations, or if only one such

quotation is obtained, such quotation, obtained by the Calculation Agent. In all
events, the Calculation Agent shall continue polling dealers until at least one
adjusted yield quotation can be determined.

                  "The Constant Maturity Treasury Rate Determination Date" shall
be the tenth Business Day prior to the Interest Reset Date for the applicable
Interest Reset Period.

                  The "Calculation Date" pertaining to any Treasury Rate
Determination Date or Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable,
shall be the tenth calendar day after such Treasury Rate Determination Date or
Constant Maturity Rate Determination Date, as applicable, or, if such a day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Other

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Registered Notes of different authorized denominations, as
requested by the Person surrendering the same.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the
Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration
of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan,
the City and State of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Notes of
this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the Holder hereof
for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company,
the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of
this series shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all the Debt
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in this manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture.

                  In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated,
destroyed, stolen or lost and this Note or evidence of the loss, theft, or
destruction hereof (together with such indemnity and such other documents or
proof as may be required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be delivered to
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, a new Registered Note of
like tenor and principal amount will be issued by the Company in exchange for,
or in lieu of, this Note. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with

procuring such indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery
of a new Registered Note shall be borne by the Holder of this Note.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities at the time outstanding of each
series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether
or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon the Debt Security.

                  Holders of Debt Securities may not enforce their rights
pursuant to the Indenture or the Note except as provided in the Indenture. No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.

                  This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made and to be
performed solely in the State of New York and for all purposes be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State without regard to the
conflicts of law rules of said State.

                  Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, until
exchanged in full for individual Notes, this Note shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions of,
and the Company shall be subject to the same restrictions as those contained in,
the individual Notes and in the Indenture.

                  UNLESS OR UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED HEREIN) TO A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A
SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

                  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been duly
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to
any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purposes.



                                 ABBREVIATIONS


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:


TEN COM -as tenants in common      UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ________Custodian________ 
TEN ENT -as tenants by the                            (Cust)           (Minor)  
         entireties 
JT ENT  -as joint tenants with     Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
         right of survivorship 
         and not as tenants in     ---------------------------------- 
         common                                  (State)

    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list

                 --------------------------------------------

                           OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT


         The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Company
to repay $__________ principal amount of the within Note, pursuant to its terms,
on the "Optional Repayment Date" first occurring after the date of receipt of
the within Note as specified below, together with interest thereon accrued to
the date or repayment, to the undersigned at:

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Please Print or Type Name and Address of the Undersigned)

and to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new
Note or Notes representing the remaining principal amount of this Note.

         For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, this Note with the
Option to Elect Repayment duly completed must be received by the Company within
the relevant time period set forth above at its office or agency in the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, located initially at the office of
the Trustee at, if delivery is by hand, 130 John Street, Street Level, New York,
New York or, if delivery is by mail, 450 West 33rd Street, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, New York, New York 10001.


Dated:                       _________________________________________
                             Note:  The signature to this Option to Elect
                             Repayment must correspond with the name as written
                             upon the face of the within Note in every
                             particular without alteration or enlargement or any
                             change whatsoever.



              FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) 
                and transfer(s) unto


     Please insert Social Security or Other
       Identifying Number of Assignee




                             ----------------------------------------

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     Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Zip Code of Assignee

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting 
and appointing
                                                                    attorney   
- ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
to transfer such Note on the books of Salomon Inc with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: 
      -----------      ----------------------------------------------------
                       Signature

                       ----------------------------------------------------
                                  NOTICE:  The signature to this assignment must
                                  correspond with the name as it appears upon
                                  the face of the Note in every particular,
                                  without alteration or enlargement or any
                                  change whatsoever





                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                          ---------------------------

                                    FORM T-1

                            STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
                   UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
                    CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

Check if an application to determine eligibility of a trustee pursuant to 
Section 305(b)(2) _____
                           ------------------------

                                 CITIBANK, N.A.
              (Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

                                                 13-5266470
                                                 (I.R.S. employer
                                                 identification no.)

399 Park Avenue, New York, New York                 10043
(Address of principal executive office)             (Zip Code)

                     -------------------------------------

                                  Salomon Inc.
              (Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

         Delaware                                      22-1660266
         (State or other jurisdiction of               (I.R.S. employer
         incorporation or organization)                identification no.)

         Seven World Trade Center
         New York, New York                                   10048
         (Address of principal executive offices)             (Zip Code)

                           ------------------------

                             Senior Debt Securities
                      (Title of the indenture securities)


<PAGE>

Item 1.  General Information.

         Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

         (a)      Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
                  which it is subject.

                  Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C.

                  Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
                  33 Liberty Street,
                  New York, NY

                  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.

         (b)      Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

                           Yes.

Item 2.  Affiliations with the Obligor.

                  If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each
                  such affiliation

                           None.

Item 16. List of Exhibits.

                  List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
                  Eligibility.

                  Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the
                  Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as exhibits
                  hereto.

                  Exhibit 1 -       Copy of Articles of Association of the
                                    Trustee, as now in effect.  (Exhibit 1 to
                                    T-1 to Registration Statement No. 2-79983)

                  Exhibit 2 -       Copy of certificate of authority of the
                                    Trustee to commence business.. (Exhibit 2 to
                                    T-1 to Registration Statement No. 2-29577)

                  Exhibit 3 -       Copy of authorization of the Trustee to
                                    exercise corporate trust powers.  (Exhibit 3
                                    to T-1 to Registration Statement No.
                                    2-55519)

                                                                 2
<PAGE>

                  Exhibit 4 -       Copy of existing By-Laws of the Trustee. 

                                    (Exhibit 4 to T-1 to Registration Statement
                                    No. 33-34988)

                  Exhibit 5 -       Not applicable.

                  Exhibit 6 -       The consent of the Trustee required by
                                    Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of
                                    1939. (Exhibit 6 to T-1 to Registration
                                    Statement No. 33-19227.)

                  Exhibit 7 -       Copy of the latest Report of Condition of
                                    Citibank, N.A. as of December 31, 1995 -
                                    attached)

                  Exhibit 8 -       Not applicable.

                  Exhibit 9 -       Not applicable.


                             ---------------------

                                   SIGNATURE

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the
Trustee, Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement
of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, all in The City of New York and State of New York, on the 3rd day of
April, 1996.


                                       CITIBANK, N.A.


                                       By       /s/ Arthur W. Aslanian
                                                ----------------------
                                                Vice President


<PAGE>
                               Charter No. 1461
                          Comptroller of the Currency
                             Northeastern District
                              REPORT OF CONDITION
                                 CONSOLIDATING
                             DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
                                SUBSIDIARIES OF

                                Citibank, N.A.

of New York in the State of New York, at the close of business on December 31,
1995, published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under
Title 12, United States Code, Section 161. Charter Number 1461 Comptroller of
the Currency Northeastern District.
                                                                    Thousands
                                                                    of dollars
                                                                    ----------
ASSETS

Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
  Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin               $  7,451,000
  Interest-bearing balances                                           9,256,000
Held-to-maturity securities                                                   0
Available-for-sale securities                                        15,587,000
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to 
  resell in domestic offices of the bank and of its Edge and 
  Agreement subsidiaries, and in IBFs: Federal funds sold             3,981,000
Securities purchased under agreements to resell                         423,000
Loans and lease financing receivables: 
  Loans and Leases, net of unearned income     $145,221,000 
  LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses       4,403,000 
                                               ------------
Loans and leases, net of un-earned income, allowance, and 
  reserve                                                           140,818,000
Trading assets                                                       28,407,000 
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)              3,454,000 
Other real estate owned                                                 849,000 
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated 
  companies                                                           1,181,000 
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding          1,542,000 
Intangible assets                                                        14,000 
Other assets                                                          7,147,000 
                                                                   ------------
TOTAL ASSETS                                                       $220,110,000 
                                                                   ============

LIABILITIES 

Deposits:
  In domestic offices                                              $ 35,377,000 
    Noninterest-bearing                         $13,214,000 
    Interest-bearing                             22,163,000 
                                                -----------

  In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement 
    subsidiaries, and IBFs                                          121,599,000 
    Noninterest-bearing                           8,014,000 
    Interest-bearing                            113,585,000
                                                -----------
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements
to repurchase in domestic offices of the bank and of its Edge
and Agreement subsidiaries, and in IBFs: 
  Federal funds purchased                                             1,852,000 
  Securities sold under agreements to repurchase                        556,000 
Trading liabilities                                                  17,544,000 
Other borrowed money: 
  With original maturity of one year or less                          7,740,000 
  With original maturity of more than one year                        5,788,000 
Mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases           95,000 
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding              1,559,000 
Subordinated notes and debentures                                     4,700,000 
Other liabilities                                                     8,483,000 
                                                                   ------------
TOTAL LIABILITIES                                                  $205,293,000 
                                                                   ============
EQUITY CAPITAL 

Common stock                                                       $    751,000 
Surplus                                                               6,744,000 
Undivided profits and capital reserves                                7,816,000 
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale
  securities                                                             62,000 
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments                    (556,000)
                                                                   ------------
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL                                               $ 14,817,000 
                                                                   ------------
TOTAL LIABILITIES, LIMITED-LIFE PREFERRED STOCK, AND 
  EQUITY CAPITAL                                                   $220,110,000 
                                                                   ============

          I, Roger W. Trupin, Controller of the above-named bank do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief. 

                                                            ROGER W. TRUPIN 

          We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this
Report of Condition. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the
best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions and is true and correct. 

                                                              PEI-YUAN CHIA 
                                                          WILLIAM R. RHODES 
                                                            PAUL J. COLLINS 
                                                                  DIRECTORS


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                                 UNITED STATES
                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             --------------------
                                   FORM T-1
                                       
   STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 
   OF A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
                                       
   CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE 
   PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ___________

                        ------------------------------
                                       
                             BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
              (Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

NEW YORK                                          13-4941247
(Jurisdiction of Incorporation or                 (I.R.S. Employer
organization if not a U.S. national bank)         Identification no.)


FOUR ALBANY STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK                                10006
(Address of principal                             (Zip Code)
executive offices)

                             Bankers Trust Company
                                Legal Department
                         130 Liberty Street, 31st Floor
                            New York, New York 10006
                                 (212) 250-2201
           (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
                       ---------------------------------
                                       
                                  SALOMON INC
              (Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

DELAWARE                                          22-1660266
(State or other jurisdiction of                   (I.R.S. employer
Incorporation or organization)                    Identification no.)


SEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER
NEW YORK, NEW YORK                                10048
(Address of principal executive offices)          (Zip Code)
                        
                        ------------------------------
                                       
                         SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
                      (Title of the indenture securities)
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Item   1.         General Information.
                  Furnish the following information as to the trustee.

                  (a) Name and address of each examining or supervising
                      authority to which it is subject.

                  Name                                        Address
                  ----                                        ------- 

                  Federal Reserve Bank (2nd District)         New York, NY
                  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation       Washington, D.C.
                  New York State Banking Department           Albany, NY

                  (b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust
                      powers.

                      Yes.

Item   2.         Affiliations with Obligor.

                  If the obligor is an affiliate of the Trustee, describe each
                  such affiliation.

                  None.

Item   3. -15.    Not Applicable

Item  16.         List of Exhibits.

                  Exhibit 1 - Restated Organization Certificate of Bankers Trust
                              Company dated August 7, 1990 and Certificate of
                              Amendment of the Organization Certificate of
                              Bankers Trust Company dated June 21, 1995 -
                              Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 1
                              filed with Form T-1 Statement, Registration No.
                              33-65171.

                  Exhibit 2 - Certificate of Authority to commence business -
                              Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2
                              filed with Form T-1 Statement, Registration No.
                              33-21047.


                  Exhibit 3 - Authorization of the Trustee to exercise corporate
                              trust powers - Incorporated herein by reference to
                              Exhibit 2 filed with Form T-1 Statement,
                              Registration No. 33-21047.

                  Exhibit 4 - Existing By-Laws of Bankers Trust Company, dated
                              as amended on October 19, 1995. - Incorporated
                              herein by reference to Exhibit 4 filed with Form
                              T-1 Statement, Registration No. 33-65171



                  Exhibit 5 - Not applicable.

                  Exhibit 6 - Consent of Bankers Trust Company required by
                              Section 321(b) of the Act. - Incorporated herein
                              by reference to Exhibit 4 filed with Form T-1
                              Statement, Registration No. 22-18864.

                  Exhibit 7 - A copy of the latest report of condition of
                              Bankers Trust Company dated as of December 31,
                              1995.

                  Exhibit 8 - Not Applicable.

                  Exhibit 9 - Not Applicable.




                                       
                                   SIGNATURE



         Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, the trustee, Bankers Trust Company, a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement
of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, all in The City of New York, and State of New York, on the 4th day
of April 1996.


                                        BANKERS TRUST COMPANY



                                        By: /s/Jackie Bartnick
                                           -----------------------------------
                                               Jackie Bartnick
                                               Assistant Vice President






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<S>                   <C>                          <C>                  <C>                <C>
Legal Title of Bank:  Bankers Trust Company        Call Date: 12/31/95  ST-BK:   36-4840   FFIEC 031
Address:              130 Liberty Street           Vendor ID: D         CERT: 00623        Page RC-1
City, State  ZIP:     New York, NY  10006                                                    11
FDIC Certificate No.: |  0 |  0 |  6 |  2 |  3

</TABLE>

Consolidated Report of Condition for Insured Commercial
and State-Chartered Savings Banks December 31, 1995

All schedules are to be reported in thousands of dollars. Unless otherwise
indicated, reported the amount outstanding as of the last business day of the
quarter.

Schedule RC--Balance Sheet

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                              --------------
                                                                                                              |  C400      |
                                                              Dollar Amounts in Thousands           | RCFD   Bil Mil Thou  |
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                                                                              <C>                       <C>
ASSETS                                                                                              | / / / / / /          |   
  1.    Cash and balances due from depository institutions (from Schedule RC-A):                    | / / / / / /          |   
         a.   Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin(1) .........................       | 0081      2,306,000  |1.a.
         b.   Interest-bearing balances(2) ..................................................       | 0071      1,982,000  |1.b.
  2.    Securities:                                                                                 |  
         a.   Held-to-maturity securities (from Schedule RC-B, column A) ....................       | 1754              0  |2.a.
         b.   Available-for-sale securities (from Schedule RC-B, column D)...................       | 1773      3,419,000  |2.b.
  3    Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell in domestic offices   |  / / / / / / / / /   |
        of the bank and of its Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and in IBFs:                        |  / / / / / / / / /   |
        a.   Federal funds sold .............................................................       | 0276      2,917,000  |3.a.
        b.   Securities purchased under agreements to resell ................................       | 0277      5,238,000  |3.b.
  4.   Loans and lease financing receivables:                                                       |  / / / / / / / / /   |
        a.   Loans and leases, net of unearned income (from Schedule RC-C)  RCFD 2122 18,863,000    |  / / / / / / / / /   |4.a.
        b.   LESS:   Allowance for loan and lease losses....................RCFD 3123    941,000    | / / / / / /          |4.b.
        c.   LESS:   Allocated transfer risk reserve .......................RCFD 3128          0    | / / / / / /          |4.c.
        d.   Loans and leases, net of unearned income,                                              |  / / / / / / /       |
             allowance, and reserve (item 4.a minus 4.b and 4.c) ............................       | 2125     17,922,000  |4.d. 
  5.   Assets held in trading accounts ......................................................       | 3545     35,142,000  |5.
  6.   Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases) .............................       | 2145        834,000  |6.
  7.   Other real estate owned (from Schedule RC-M) .........................................       | 2150        248,000  |7.
  8.   Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies (from Schedule RC-M)     | 2130        248,000  |8.
  9.   Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding .........................       | 2155        500,000  |9.
 10.   Intangible assets (from Schedule RC-M) ................................................      | 2143         12,000  |10.
 11.   Other assets (from Schedule RC-F) .....................................................      | 2160      8,312,000  |11.

 12.   Total assets (sum of items 1 through 11) ..............................................      | 2170     79,080,000  |12.
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(1)      Includes cash items in process of collection and unposted debits.
(2)      Includes time certificates of deposit not held in trading accounts.



<TABLE>
<S>                   <C>                          <C>                  <C>                <C>
Legal Title of Bank:  Bankers Trust Company        Call Date: 12/31/95    ST-BK:   36-4840   FFIEC 031
Address:              130 Liberty Street           Vendor ID: D           CERT:    00623     Page RC-2
City, State  ZIP:     New York, NY  10006                                                    12
FDIC Certificate No.: |  0 |  0 |  6 |  2 |  3
</TABLE>

Schedule RC--Continued

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                +----------------------------+
                                                                                |                            | 
                                                  Dollar Amounts in Thousands   | ////////      Bil Mil Thou |
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
<S>                                                                             <C>                          <C>
LIABILITIES                                                                     | ////////////////////////   |
13. Deposits:                                                                   | ////////////////////////   |
    a.   In domestic offices (sum of totals of columns A and C                  |                            |
           from Schedule RC-E, part I)                                          | RCON 2200   7,430,000      |13.a.      
         (1)   Noninterest-bearing(1).............RCON 6631   2,815,000......   | ////////////////////////   |13.a.(1)   
         (2)  Interest-bearing....................RCON 6636   4,615,000......   | ////////////////////////   |13.a.(2)   
    b.   In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries,                   | ////////////////////////   |
           and IBFs (from Schedule RC-E part II)                                | RCFN 2200  20,714,000      |13.b.
         (1)   Noninterest-bearing................RCFN 6631     645,000......   | ////////////////////////   |13.b.(1)
         (2)   Interest-bearing...................RCFN 6636  20,069,000......   | ////////////////////////   |13.b.(2)
14. Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase  | ////////////////////////   |
    in domestic offices of the bank and of its Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, | ////////////////////////   |
    and in IBFs:                                                                | ////////////////////////   |
    a.   Federal funds purchased.............................................   | RCFD 0278   3,451,000      |14.a.
    b.   Securities sold under agreements to repurchase......................   | RCFD 0279   1,347,000      |14.b.
15. a.   Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury............................   | RCON 2840           0      |15.a.
    b.   Trading liabilities.................................................   | RCFD 3548  19,087,000      |15.b.
16. Other borrowed money:                                                       | ////////////////////////   |
    a.   With original maturity of one year or less..........................   | RCFD 2332  10,943,000      |16.a.
    b.   With original maturity of more than one year........................   | RCFD 2333   4,168,000      |16.b.
17. Mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases...........   | RCFD 2910      34,000      |17.
18. Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.................   | RCFD 2920     500,000      |18.
19. Subordinated notes and debentures........................................   | RCFD 3200   1,226,000      |19.
20. Other liabilities (from Schedule RC-G)...................................   | RCFD 2930   5,844,000      |20.
21. Total liabilities (sum of items 13 through 20)...........................   | RCFD 2948  74,744,000      |21.
                                                                                | ////////////////////////   |
22. Limited-life preferred stock and related surplus.........................   | RCFD 3282           0      |22.
EQUITY CAPITAL                                                                  | ////////////////////////   |
23. Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus............................   | RCFD 3838     500,000      |23.
24. Common stock.............................................................   | RCFD 3230     852,000      |24.
25. Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock).................   | RCFD 3839     528,000      |25.
26. a.   Undivided profits and capital reserves..............................   | RCFD 3632   2,822,000      |26.a.
    b.   Net unrealized holding gains (losses)                                  | ////////////////////////   |
           on available-for-sale securities..................................   | RCFD 8434  (    1,000)     |26.b.
27. Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments......................   | RCFD 3284  (  365,000)     |27.
28. Total equity capital (sum of items 23 through 27)........................   | RCFD 3210   4,336,000      |28.

29. Total liabilities, limited-life preferred stock, and equity capital         | ////////////////////////   |
      (sum of items 21, 22, and 28)..........................................   | RCFD 3300  79,080,000      |29.
                                                                                +----------------------------+
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<CAPTION>
Memorandum
To be reported only with the March Report of Condition.
<S>
   1.    Indicate in the box at the right the number of the statement below    <C>
         that best describes the most comprehensive level of auditing work                 Number            
         performed for the bank by independent external auditors as of          +----------------------------+
         any date during 1994................................................   | RCFD 6724          NA      |M.1
                                                                                +----------------------------+

   1  =  Independent audit of the bank conducted in accordance         4   =   Directors' examination of the bank performed by other
         with generally accepted auditing standards by a certified             external auditors (may be required by state 
         public accounting firm which submits a report on the bank             chartering authority)
   2  =  Independent audit of the bank's parent holding company        5   =   Review of the bank's financial statements by external
         conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing              auditors
         standards by a certified public accounting firm which         6   =   Compilation of the bank's financial statements by 
         submits a report on the consolidated holding company                  external auditors
         (but not on the bank separately)                              7   =   Other audit procedures (excluding tax preparation 
   3  =  Directors' examination of the bank conducted in                       work)
         accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by      8   =   No external audit work
         a certified public accounting firm (may be required by 
         state chartering authority)
</TABLE>
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(1) Including total demand deposits and noninterest-bearing time and savings
    deposits.


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