WEATHERFORD ENTERRA INC
S-3, 1996-04-05
OIL & GAS FIELD MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT
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    AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON APRIL 5, 1996
                                                     REGISTRATION NO. 333-______
________________________________________________________________________________

                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            ________________________

                                    FORM S-3
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                            ________________________

                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                           (Exact name of registrant
                          as specified in its charter)

         DELAWARE                                                74-1681642
   (State or other jurisdiction                               (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)                            Identification No.)
                            ________________________
                                                        
                      1360 POST OAK BOULEVARD, SUITE 1000
                             HOUSTON, TEXAS  77056
                                 (713) 439-9400
         (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
            area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
                            ________________________

                               H. SUZANNE THOMAS
              SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY AND GENERAL COUNSEL
                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                      1360 POST OAK BOULEVARD, SUITE 1000
                             HOUSTON, TEXAS  77056
                                 (713) 439-9400
           (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)
                                    Copy to:
    CHARLES L. STRAUSS                                      T. MARK KELLY
FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI L.L.P.                             VINSON & ELKINS L.L.P.
 1301 MCKINNEY, SUITE 5100                             1001 FANNIN, SUITE 2300
 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77010-3095                            HOUSTON, TEXAS  77002-6760
      (713) 651-5151                                        (713) 758-2222

APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: As soon as
practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

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 statement 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.  [ ]

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
===========================================================================================================================
          Title of each class                                       Proposed          Proposed maximum
          of securities to be              Amount to be         maximum offering     aggregate offering       Amount of
               registered                   registered         price per unit (1)         price (1)       registration fee
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 <S>                                      <C>                         <C>               <C>                   <C>
 Debt Securities   . . . . . . . . . .    $300,000,000(2)             100%              $300,000,000          $103,449
===========================================================================================================================
</TABLE>
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
     pursuant to Rule 457 and exclusive of accrued interest, if any.
(2)  If any Debt Securities are issued at an original issue discount, such
     greater amount as shall result in the initial offering prices aggregating
     a maximum of $300,000,000.
                          __________________________

         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 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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*                                                                         *
*  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 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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Prospectus
                                  $300,000,000
                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                                Debt Securities


                                _______________


         Weatherford Enterra, Inc. (the "Company" or "Weatherford") may offer
and sell from time to time, in one or more series, its unsecured debt
securities consisting of notes, debentures or other evidences of indebtedness
(the "Securities") with an aggregate initial offering price not to exceed
$300,000,000 or, if applicable, the equivalent thereof in any other currency or
currency unit, on terms to be determined at the time of offering.  The specific
designation, aggregate principal amount, maturity, rate (or method of
determining the same) and time of payment of interest, premium, if any,
purchase price, any terms in addition to or different from those described
herein for redemption or repurchase, the names of and the principal amounts to
be purchased by or through agents, dealers or underwriters, if any, the
compensation of such persons and other special terms in connection with the
offering and sale of the series of Securities in respect of which this
Prospectus is being delivered are set forth in the accompanying Prospectus
Supplement (the "Prospectus Supplement"). The Securities will be effectively
subordinated to all obligations of the subsidiaries of the Company.
Consequently, the rights of the Company to receive assets of any subsidiary (and
thus the ability of holders of Securities to benefit indirectly from such
assets) are subject to the prior claims of creditors of that subsidiary. As of
December 31, 1995, $9.3 million of the Company's total debt was indebtedness of
subsidiaries, and such subsidiaries may incur additional indebtedness in the
future. The Securities will be general unsecured obligations of the Company 
and will rank pari passu with the Company's existing and future unsecured and 
unsubordinated indebtedness.


                               __________________


         The Company may sell Securities to or through underwriters and also
may sell Securities directly to other purchasers or through agents.  The
accompanying Prospectus Supplement sets forth the names of any underwriters or
agents involved in the sale of the Securities in respect of which this
Prospectus is being delivered, the principal amounts, if any, to be purchased
by underwriters and the compensation, if any, of such underwriters or agents.


    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 REPRESENTATION
                     TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.


                               __________________

         This Prospectus may not be used to consummate sales of the Securities
unless accompanied by a Prospectus Supplement.


             The date of this Prospectus is                , 1996.
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         IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, THE UNDERWRITERS, IF ANY, MAY
OVER-ALLOT OR EFFECT TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICES
OF THE SECURITIES OFFERED HEREBY AT LEVELS ABOVE THOSE WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE
PREVAIL IN THE OPEN MARKET.  SUCH TRANSACTIONS MAY BE EFFECTED IN THE
OVER-THE-COUNTER MARKET OR OTHERWISE.  SUCH STABILIZING, IF COMMENCED, MAY BE
DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.

         NO PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY
REPRESENTATION NOT CONTAINED OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THIS PROSPECTUS OR
THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFERING MADE
HEREBY, AND, IF GIVEN OR MADE, SUCH INFORMATION OR REPRESENTATION MUST NOT BE
RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE COMPANY OR BY ANY OTHER PERSON.
THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN
OFFER TO SELL OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY THE SECURITIES OFFERED BY
THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IN ANY JURISDICTION
WHERE, OR TO ANY PERSON WHOM, IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE SUCH AN OFFER OR
SOLICITATION.  NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS PROSPECTUS OR ANY PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT NOR ANY DISTRIBUTION OF SECURITIES MADE HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER
SHALL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, CREATE AN IMPLICATION THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO
CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY SINCE THE DATE HEREOF OR THEREOF OR THAT
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT IS CORRECT AS OF ANY TIME SUBSEQUENT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE DATES.

                             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").  Such reports, proxy
statements and other information filed by the Company with the Commission can
be inspected at the Public Reference Section of the Commission at Room 1024,
Judiciary Plaza, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and the
regional offices of the Commission at Northwestern Atrium Center, 500 West
Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661, and Seven World Trade
Center, New York, New York 10048.  They also may be inspected at the offices of
the New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005.  Copies
of such material may be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the
Commission at Room 1024, Judiciary Plaza, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates.

         The Company has filed with the Commission a Registration Statement on
Form S-3 (herein, together with all amendments and exhibits thereto, referred
to as the "Registration Statement") under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"), with respect to the securities offered hereby.
This Prospectus constitutes the prospectus of the Company filed as part of the
Registration Statement and does not contain all the information contained in
the Registration Statement, certain portions of which are omitted as permitted
by the rules and regulations of the Commission.  For further information with
respect to the Company and the securities offered hereby, reference is made to
the Registration Statement, including the exhibits thereto, which may be
inspected at the Commission's offices, without charge, or copies of which may
be obtained from the Commission upon payment of prescribed fees.

                INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         The following documents heretofore filed with the Commission are
incorporated by reference herein:

         (a)     The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
                 December 31, 1995.

         (b)     The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 29,
                 1995, as amended by the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K/A
                 dated February 27, 1996.

         All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this
Prospectus and before the termination of the offering made hereby shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Prospectus and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.  Any statement contained in
this Prospectus or in a document incorporated by reference in this Prospectus
shall be deemed modified or superseded for purposes of this





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Prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this Prospectus or in
any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein or in the accompanying 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 this Prospectus.

         The Company undertakes to provide without charge to each person to
whom a copy of this Prospectus has been delivered, upon the written or oral
request of any such person, a copy of any or all of the documents incorporated
by reference herein, other than the exhibits to such documents, unless such
exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference into the information that
this Prospectus incorporates.  Written or oral requests for such copies should
be directed to Weatherford Enterra, Inc., 1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1000,
Houston, Texas 77056, Attention:  Investor Relations, telephone number (713)
439-9400.

                                  THE COMPANY

         The Company is a diversified international energy service and
manufacturing company that provides a variety of services and equipment to the
exploration, production and transmission sectors of the oil and gas industry.
The Company's principal business segments include (i) the oilfield services
segment, which consists of renting specialized oilfield equipment, providing
fishing, well control assistance and other downhole services and related tools,
and providing tubular running services and related tools; (ii) the energy
products and services segment, which consists of manufacturing, selling and
servicing a variety of products, including cementation products, power
equipment, fishing and milling tools and heavy wall drill pipe, gas lift
valves, production and service packers and related equipment, electrical and
instrumentation control systems and pedestal-mounted marine cranes; (iii) the
gas compression segment, which consists of manufacturing, packaging, selling,
renting and servicing reciprocating natural gas compressors; and (iv) the
pipeline services segment, which consists of manufacturing, selling and renting
specialized pipeline equipment and services.  The Company operates in virtually
every oil and gas exploration and production region in the world, with more
than 330 locations in 47 countries, including the United States.

                                USE OF PROCEEDS

         Unless otherwise provided in the Prospectus Supplement accompanying
this Prospectus, the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities offered by
this Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement will be added to the Company's
general funds and used for repayment of debt or other general corporate
purposes.  Until so utilized, it is expected that such net proceeds will be
placed in interest bearing time deposits or invested in short-term marketable
securities.  Any allocation of the net proceeds of any offering of Securities
to a specific purpose will be determined at the time of such offering and will
be described in the related Prospectus Supplement.

                       RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

         The following table sets forth the Company's consolidated ratios of
earnings to fixed charges for the periods shown.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                           Year Ended December 31,
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       1995          1994           1993           1992           1991
       ----          ----           ----           ----           ----
        <S>          <C>            <C>            <C>            <C>

        *            5.28           6.79           6.76           5.02
</TABLE>

*   Earnings were inadequate to cover fixed charges by $14,985,000.  The 1995
    ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the Company, excluding the effect of
    acquisition-related costs and other unusual charges incurred in 1995, was
    4.34.

         For the purposes of computing the ratio of earnings to fixed charges,
"earnings" have been calculated by adding to net income (i) income tax
provision (benefit), (ii) undistributed earnings of affiliates and (iii) fixed
charges.  "Fixed charges" consist of interest expense, whether capitalized or





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expensed, and one-third of rental expense, which the Company considers
representative of the interest element of rentals.

                         DESCRIPTION OF THE SECURITIES

         The Securities will be issued under an indenture (the "Indenture")
between the Company, as issuer, and Bank of Montreal Trust Company, as trustee
(the "Trustee"), a copy of which is filed as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement of which this Prospectus is a part.  The terms of the Securities
include those stated in the Indenture and those made a part of the Indenture by
reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in effect on the date of the
Indenture (the "Trust Indenture Act").  The statements and definitions of terms
under this caption relating to the Securities and the Indenture are subject to
all such terms and are summaries and do not purport to be complete.  Such
summaries make use of certain terms defined in the Indenture and are qualified
in their entirety by express reference to the Indenture.  Wherever particular
Sections of the Indenture or terms not defined herein that are defined in the
Indenture are referred to herein or in a Prospectus Supplement, it is intended
that such Sections or defined terms shall be incorporated by reference herein
or therein, as the case may be.

         The Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series.
The following description of the Securities sets forth certain general terms
and provisions of the Securities of all series.  The particular terms of each
series of Securities offered by any Prospectus Supplement will be described in
the Prospectus Supplement relating to such series.

GENERAL

         The Indenture does not limit the amount of Securities, debentures,
notes or other evidences of indebtedness that may be issued by the Company or
any of its subsidiaries, nor does the Indenture restrict transactions between
the Company and its affiliates or dividends and other distributions by the
Company to its stockholders. In addition, other than as set forth under
"--Limitation on Liens" and "--Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions",
there are no provisions of the Indenture that afford holders of the Securities
protection in the event of either a change in control of the Company or a
highly leveraged transaction involving the Company.

         Securities may be issued under the Indenture from time to time in
separate series up to an aggregate amount from time to time authorized by the
Company for such series. The Securities will be unsecured obligations of the
Company and will rank on a parity with all other unsecured and unsubordinated
indebtedness of the Company unless the Company is required to secure the
Securities pursuant to the Indenture provisions described below under
"--Limitation on Liens".

         The applicable Prospectus Supplement relating to any Securities will
describe the following terms of the Securities: (1) the title of the
Securities; (2) any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the Securities;
(3) whether the Securities are to be issuable as Registered Securities or
Bearer Securities, or both, whether any of the Securities are to be issuable
initially in temporary global form and whether any of the Securities are to be
in permanent global form; (4) the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of
the aggregate principal amount thereof) at which the Securities will be issued;
(5) the date or dates on which the Securities will mature; (6) the rate or
rates per annum (or the method by which such will be determined) at which the
Securities will bear interest, if any, and the date or dates from which any
such interest will accrue and whether, and under what circumstances, additional
amounts with respect to the Securities shall be payable; (7) the Interest
Payment Dates on which any such interest on the Securities will be payable, the
Regular Record Date for any interest payable on any Securities that are
Registered Securities on any Interest Payment Date and the extent to which, or
the manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary global Security on an
Interest Payment Date will be paid; (8) any mandatory or optional sinking fund
or analogous provisions; (9) each office or agency where, subject to the terms
of the Indenture as described below under "--Payment and Paying Agents", the
principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities will be payable and
each office or agency where, subject to the terms of the Indenture as described
below under "--Form, Exchange, Registration and Transfer", the Securities may
be presented for registration of transfer or exchange; (10) the right, if any,
or obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem the Securities and the period
or periods, if any, within which and the price or prices at which the
Securities may, pursuant to any optional or mandatory redemption provisions, be
redeemed, in whole or in part, and the other detailed terms and provisions of
any such optional or





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mandatory redemption; (11) the denominations in which any Securities which are
Registered Securities will be issuable, if other than in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and the denomination or denominations
in which any Securities which are Bearer Securities will be issuable, if other
than in denominations of $5,000; (12) the currency or currencies (including
composite currencies) in which payment of principal of and any premium and
interest on the Securities is payable; (13) any index used to determine the
amount of payments of principal of and any premium and interest on the
Securities; (14) information with respect to book-entry procedures, if any; and
(15) any other terms of the Securities not inconsistent with the provisions of
the Indenture.  (Section 301) Any such Prospectus Supplement also will describe
any special provisions for payment of additional amounts with respect to the
Securities.

         Securities may be issued as Original Issue Discount Securities. An
Original Issue Discount Security is a Security that is issued at a price lower
than the amount payable upon the Stated Maturity thereof and that provides that
upon redemption or acceleration of the maturity thereof an amount less than the
amount payable upon the Stated Maturity thereof and determined in accordance
with the terms of such Security shall become due and payable. Special United
States federal income tax considerations applicable to Securities issued at an
original issue discount, including Original Issue Discount Securities, and
special United States tax considerations and other terms and restrictions
applicable to any Securities that are issued in bearer form, offered
exclusively to United States Aliens or denominated in other than United States
dollars, will be set forth in any Prospectus Supplement relating thereto.

         The Securities will be general unsecured obligations of the Company
and will rank pari passu with the Company's existing and future unsecured and
unsubordinated indebtedness.  Accordingly, the ability of the Company to meet
its obligations under the Indenture and the Securities will be dependent on the
earnings and cash flows of its subsidiaries and the ability of its subsidiaries
to pay dividends or to advance funds to the Company.

         The Company is a holding company, conducting substantially all of its
business through subsidiaries, and the Indenture does not restrict the
incurrence of debt by such subsidiaries.  The Securities will be effectively
subordinated to all obligations of such subsidiaries.  Consequently, the rights
of the Company to receive assets of any subsidiary (and thus the ability of
holders of Securities to benefit indirectly from such assets) are subject to
the prior claims of creditors of that subsidiary.  As of December 31, 1995,
$9.3 million of the Company's total debt was indebtedness of  subsidiaries, and
such subsidiaries may incur additional indebtedness in the future.

FORM, EXCHANGE, REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER

         Securities of a series may be issuable in definitive form solely as
Registered Securities, solely as Bearer Securities or as both Registered
Securities and Bearer Securities.  Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable
Prospectus Supplement, Bearer Securities will have interest coupons attached.
The Indenture provides that Securities of a series may be issuable in temporary
or permanent global form.  (Section 201)

         Registered Securities of any series will be exchangeable for other
Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations and of
a like aggregate principal amount and tenor. In addition, if Securities of any
series are issuable as both Registered Securities and Bearer Securities, at the
option of the Holder, subject to the terms of the Indenture, Bearer Securities
(with all unmatured coupons, except as provided below, and all matured coupons
in default) of such series will be exchangeable for Registered Securities of
the same series of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount and tenor.  Bearer Securities surrendered in exchange for
Registered Securities between a Regular Record Date or a Special Record Date
and the relevant date for payment of interest shall be surrendered without the
coupon relating to such date for payment of interest, and interest accrued as
of such date will not be payable in respect of the Registered Security issued
in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of
such coupon, when due in accordance with the terms of the Indenture. Bearer
Securities will not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities. (Section
305)

         Securities may be presented for exchange as provided above, and
Registered Securities may be presented for registration or transfer (with the
form of transfer endorsed thereon duly executed), at the office of the Security
Registrar or at the office of any transfer agent designated by the Company for
such





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purpose with respect to any series of Securities and referred to in an
applicable Prospectus Supplement, without service charge and upon payment of
any taxes and other governmental charges as described in the Indenture.  Such
transfer or exchange will be effected upon the Security Registrar or any such
transfer agent, as the case may be, being satisfied with the documents of title
and identity of the person making the request.  The Company shall serve
initially as Security Registrar.  (Section 305)  If a Prospectus Supplement
refers to any transfer agent (in addition to the Security Registrar) initially
designated by the Company with respect to any series of Securities, the Company
may at any time rescind the designation of any such transfer agent or approve a
change in the location through which any such transfer agent acts, except that,
if Securities of a series are issuable solely as Registered Securities, the
Company will be required to maintain a transfer agent in each Place of Payment
for such series and, if Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer
Securities, the Company will be required to maintain (in addition to the
Security Registrar) a transfer agent in a Place of Payment for such series
located outside the United States.  The Company may at any time designate
additional transfer agents with respect to any series of Securities. (Section
1002)

         In the event of any redemption in part, the Company shall not be
required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any
series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days prior to
the selection of Securities of that series for redemption and ending on the
close of business on (A) if Securities of the series are issuable only as
Registered Securities, the day of mailing of the relevant notice of redemption
and (B) if Securities of the series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the day
of the first publication of the relevant notice of redemption, or, if
Securities of the series also are issuable as Registered Securities and there
is no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; (ii)
register the transfer or exchange of any Registered Security, or portion
thereof, called for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Registered
Security being redeemed in part; or (iii) exchange any Bearer Security called
for redemption, except to exchange such Bearer Security for a Registered
Security of that series and like tenor that is immediately surrendered for
redemption.  (Section 305)

PAYMENT AND PAYING AGENTS

         Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement,
payment of principal of, and any premium and interest on, Bearer Securities
will be payable, subject to any applicable laws and regulations, at the offices
of such Paying Agents outside the United States as the Company may designate
from time to time, in the manner indicated in such Prospectus Supplement.
(Section 1002)  Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus
Supplement, payment of interest on Bearer Securities on any Interest Payment
Date will be made only against surrender to the Paying Agent of the coupon
relating to such Interest Payment Date. (Section 1001)  No payment with respect
to any Bearer Security will be made at any office or agency of the Company in
the United States or by check mailed to any address in the United States or by
transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, payments of principal of, and any premium and
interest on, Bearer Securities denominated and payable in U.S. dollars will be
made at the offices of the Company's Paying Agent in the City of New York, if
(but only if) payment of the full amount thereof in U.S. dollars at all offices
or agencies outside the United States is illegal or effectively precluded by
exchange controls or other similar restrictions. (Section 1002)

         Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement,
payment of principal of, and any premium and interest on, Registered Securities
will be made at the office of such Paying Agent or Paying Agents as the Company
may designate from time to time, except that at the option of the Company
payment of any interest may be made by check mailed on or before the due date
to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in
the Security Register. (Sections 307 and 1002) Unless otherwise indicated in an
applicable Prospectus Supplement, payment of any installment of interest on
Registered Securities will be made to the Person in whose name such Registered
Security is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for
such interest. (Section 307)

         Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office will be designated as a Paying Agent for
the Company for payments with respect to Securities that are issuable solely as
Registered Securities, and the Company will maintain a Paying Agent outside the
United States for payments with respect to Securities (subject to the
limitations described above in the case of Bearer Securities) that are issuable
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Registered Securities and Bearer Securities.  Any Paying Agents outside the
United States and any other Paying Agents in the United States initially
designated by the Company for the Securities will be named in an applicable
Prospectus Supplement.  The Company may at any time designate additional Paying
Agents or rescind the designation of any Paying Agent or approve a change in
the office through which any Paying Agent acts, except that, if Securities of a
series are issuable solely as Registered Securities, the Company will be
required to maintain a Paying Agent in each Place of Payment for such series
and, if Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company
will be required to maintain (i) a Paying Agent in the City of New York, for
principal payments with respect to any Registered Securities of the series (and
for payments with respect to Bearer Securities of the series in the
circumstances described above, but not otherwise), and (ii) a Paying Agent in a
Place of Payment located outside the United States where Securities of such
series and any coupons appertaining thereto may be presented and surrendered
for payment. (Section 1002)

         All monies paid by the Company to a Paying Agent for the payment of
principal of or any premium or interest on any Security that remain unclaimed
at the end of two years after such principal, premium or interest shall have
become due and payable will (subject to applicable escheat laws) be repaid to
the Company, and the Holder of such Security or any coupon will thereafter look
only to the Company for payment thereof. (Section 1003)

GLOBAL SECURITIES

         Securities of a series 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 depository identified in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such series.
Global Securities may be issued in either registered or bearer form and in
either temporary or permanent form.  Unless and until it is exchanged in whole
or in part for the individual Securities represented thereby, a global Security
may not be transferred except as a whole by the depository for such global
Security to a nominee of such depository or by a nominee of such depository to
such depository or another nominee of such depository or by the depository or
any nominee to a successor depository or any nominee of such successor.
(Section 203)

         The specific terms of the depository arrangement with respect to a
series of Securities and certain limitations and restrictions relating to a
series of Bearer Securities in the form of one or more global Securities will
be described in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such series.

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

         "Attributable Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Sale/Leaseback
Transaction as of any particular time, the present value (discounted at the
rate of interest implicit in the terms of the lease) of the obligations of the
lessee under such lease for net rental payments during the remaining term of
the lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended). "Net
rental payments" under any lease for any period means the sum of the rental and
other payments required to be paid in such period by the lessee thereunder, not
including, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee (whether or
not designated as rental or additional rental) on account of maintenance and
repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments or similar charges required to be paid
by such lessee thereunder contingent upon the amount of sales or deliveries,
maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments or similar charges.
(Section 101)

         "Consolidated Net Worth" means the amount of total stockholders'
equity shown in the most recent consolidated statement of financial position of
the Company.  (Section 101)

         "Current Assets" of any Person includes all assets of such Person that
would in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles be classified
as current assets.  (Section 101)

         "Current Liabilities" of any Person includes all liabilities of such
Person that would in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
be classified as current liabilities.  (Section 101)

         "Non-Recourse Indebtedness" means indebtedness of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company in respect of which the recourse of the holder of
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and whether contingent or otherwise, is effectively limited to specified
assets, and with respect to which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the
Company provides any credit support.  (Section 101)

         "Sale/Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any Person
providing for the leasing by the Company or any Subsidiary, for a period of
more than three years, of any real or personal property, which property has
been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Subsidiary to such
Person in contemplation of such leasing. (Section 101)

         "Subsidiary" of a Person means (i) any corporation more than 50% of
the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which is owned,
directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries,
or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) any partnership
or similar business organization more than 50% of the ownership interests
having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned.  For the
purposes of this definition, "securities having ordinary voting power" means
securities or other equity interests that ordinarily have voting power for the
election of directors, or persons having management power with respect to the
Person, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of securities
has such voting power by reason of any contingency. (Section 101)

LIMITATION ON LIENS

         The Indenture provides that the Company will not, and will not permit
any Subsidiary of the Company to, issue, assume or guarantee any indebtedness
for money borrowed ("Debt") if such Debt is secured by a mortgage, pledge,
security interest or lien (a "mortgage" or "mortgages") upon any real or
personal property of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or upon any
shares of stock or other equity interest or indebtedness of any Subsidiary of
the Company (whether such property, shares of stock or other equity interest or
indebtedness is now owned or hereafter acquired), without in any such case
effectively providing that the Securities shall be secured equally and ratably
with (or prior to) such Debt; provided, however, that the foregoing
restrictions shall not apply to: (a) mortgages existing on the date the
Securities are originally issued or mortgages provided for under the terms of
agreements existing on such date; (b) mortgages on Current Assets securing
Current Liabilities; (c) mortgages on any property acquired, constructed,
altered or improved by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company after the
date of the Indenture that are created or assumed contemporaneously with or
within one year after such acquisition (or in the case of property constructed,
altered or improved, after the completion and commencement of commercial
operation of such property, whichever is later) to secure or provide for the
payment of the purchase price or cost thereof, provided that in the case of any
such construction, alteration or improvement the mortgages shall not apply to
any property theretofore owned by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
other than (i) the property so altered or improved and (ii) any theretofore
unimproved real property on which the property so constructed or altered, or
the improvement, is located; (d) existing mortgages on property acquired
(including mortgages on any property acquired from a Person that is
consolidated with or merged with or into the Company or a Subsidiary of the
Company) or mortgages outstanding at the time any Person becomes a Subsidiary
of the Company that are not incurred in connection with such entity becoming a
Subsidiary of the Company; (e) mortgages in favor of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company; (f) mortgages on any property (i) in favor of
domestic or foreign governmental bodies to secure partial, progress, advance or
other payments pursuant to any contract or statute, (ii) securing indebtedness
incurred to finance all or any part of the purchase price or cost of
constructing, installing or improving the property subject to such mortgages,
including mortgages to secure Debt of the pollution control or industrial
revenue bond type, or (iii) securing indebtedness issued or guaranteed by the
United States, any State, any foreign country or any department, agency,
instrumentality or political subdivision of any such jurisdiction; and (g) any
extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals or
replacements), in whole or in part, of any mortgage referred to in the
foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f); provided, however, that the
principal amount of Debt secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount
of Debt so secured at the time of such extension, renewal or replacement,
together with the reasonable costs related to such extension, renewal or
replacement, and that such extension, renewal or replacement shall be limited
to all or a part of the property that secured the mortgage so extended, renewed
or replaced (plus improvements on such property). (Section 1006)

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and any Subsidiary of the
Company may, without securing the Securities, issue, assume or guarantee
secured Debt (that would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions) in
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aggregate amount of Attributable Indebtedness of the Company and its
Subsidiaries deemed to be outstanding in respect of all Sale/Leaseback
Transactions entered into pursuant to the provisions described below under
"--Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions" (excluding any such
Sale/Leaseback Transactions the proceeds of which have been applied in
accordance with clauses (2) or (3) under the "--Limitation on Sale/Leaseback
Transactions" covenant described below), does not exceed 10% of the
Consolidated Net Worth, as shown on a consolidated balance sheet as of a date
not more than 90 days prior to the proposed transaction prepared by the Company
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. (Section 1006)

LIMITATION ON SALE/LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS

         The Indenture provides that the Company will not, and will not permit
any of its  Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction with any
Person (other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) unless:

         (1)     at the time of entering into such Sale/Leaseback Transaction,
the Company or such  Subsidiary would be entitled to incur Debt, in a principal
amount equal to the Attributable Indebtedness with respect to such
Sale/Leaseback Transaction, secured by a mortgage on the property subject to
such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, pursuant to the provisions of the covenant
described under "--Limitation on Liens" without equally and ratably securing
the Securities pursuant to such provisions;

          (2)    after the date on which Securities are first issued and within
a period commencing six months prior to the consummation of such Sale/Leaseback
Transaction and ending six months after the consummation thereof, the Company
or such Subsidiary shall have expended for property used or to be used in the
ordinary course of business of the Company or such Subsidiary (including
amounts expended for additions, expansions, alterations, repairs and
improvements thereto) an amount equal to all or a portion of the net proceeds
of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, and the Company shall have elected to
designate such amount as a credit against such Sale/Leaseback Transaction (with
any such amount not being so designated to be applied as set forth in clause
(3) below); or

          (3)    during the 12-month period after the effective date of such
Sale/Leaseback Transaction, the Company shall have applied to the voluntary
defeasance or retirement of Securities or any pari passu indebtedness of the
Company an amount equal to the net proceeds of the sale or transfer of the
property leased in such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, which amount shall not be
less than the fair value of such property at the time of entering into such
Sale/Leaseback Transaction (adjusted to reflect the remaining term of the lease
and any amount expended by the Company as set forth in clause (2) above), less
an amount equal to the principal amount of such Securities and pari passu
indebtedness voluntarily defeased or retired by the Company within such
12-month period and not designated as a credit against any other Sale/Leaseback
Transaction entered into by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company during
such period.  (Section 1009)

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

         Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, any
of the following events will constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture
with respect to Securities of any series: (a) failure to pay any interest on
any Security of that series when due, continued for 30 days; (b) failure to pay
principal of or any premium on any Security of that series when due; (c)
failure to deposit any sinking fund payment, when due, in respect of any
Security of that series; (d) failure to perform or breach of any other covenant
of the Company in the Indenture (other than a covenant included in the
Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that
series), continued for 90 days after written notice as provided in the
Indenture; (e) the acceleration of the maturity of any indebtedness for
borrowed money of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the
Securities or Non-Recourse Indebtedness) having an aggregate principal amount
outstanding in excess of $25,000,000, if such acceleration is not rescinded or
annulled, or such indebtedness shall not have been discharged, within 15 days
after written notice thereof to the Company; (f) certain events in bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization involving the Company; and (g) any other Event of
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         If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the
time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, either the Trustee or the Holders of
at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
that series, by notice as provided in the Indenture, may declare the principal
amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms of that series) of all the Securities of that series to be due and
payable immediately. At any time after a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Securities of any series has been made, but before a judgment or
decree for payment of money has been obtained by the Trustee, the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series, under certain circumstances, may rescind and annul such acceleration.
(Section 502)

         The Indenture provides that, subject to the duty of the Trustee during
default to act with the required standard of care, the Trustee will be under no
obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the Indenture at the
request or direction of any of the Holders, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity.  (Sections 601, 603)  Subject to
such provisions for the indemnification of the Trustee, the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust
or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of that
series; provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be obligated to take any
action unduly prejudicial to Holders not joining in such direction or involving
the Trustee in personal liability.  (Section 512)

         The Company will be required to furnish to the Trustee annually a
statement as to the Company's compliance with conditions and covenants under
the Indenture.  (Section 1007)

DEFEASANCE

         If so specified with respect to any particular series of Securities,
the Company may discharge its indebtedness and its obligations or certain of
its obligations under the Indenture with respect to such series by depositing
funds or obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States of America with
the Trustee.

         Defeasance and Discharge

         The Indenture provides that, if so specified with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Company will be discharged from any and all
obligations in respect of the Securities of such series (except for certain
obligations, including those relating to temporary Securities and exchange of
Securities, registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series,
replacement of stolen, destroyed, lost or mutilated Securities of such series,
maintenance of paying agencies to hold moneys for payment in trust and payments
of additional amounts, if any, required in consequence of United States
withholding taxes imposed on payments to non-United States persons) upon the
deposit with the Trustee, in trust, of an amount of money, and/or U.S.
Government Obligations that, through the scheduled payment of interest and
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money
in an amount, sufficient to pay and discharge the principal of, and any premium
and each installment of interest on, the Securities of such series on the
Stated Maturity of such payments in accordance with the terms of the Indenture
and the Securities of such series.  (Sections 1302 and 1304)  Such a trust may
only be established if, among other things, the Company has delivered to the
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received
from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or
(ii) since the date of the Indenture there has been a change in applicable
federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon
such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of Securities of such
series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes
as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge, and will be subject to
federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had
not occurred.  (Section 1304)  In the event of any such defeasance and
discharge of Securities of such series, Holders of Securities of such series
would be entitled to look only to such trust fund for payment of principal of
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         Defeasance of Certain Obligations

         The Indenture provides that, if so specified with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Company may omit to comply with certain
restrictive covenants, including the covenants described under "--Limitation on
Liens" and "--Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions" above, and any such
omission shall not be an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
such series, upon the deposit with the Trustee, in trust, of an amount of
money, and/or U.S.  Government Obligations that, through the scheduled payment
of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms,
will provide money in an amount, sufficient to pay and discharge the principal
of, and any premium and each installment of interest on, the Securities of such
series on the Stated Maturity of such payments in accordance with the terms of
the Indenture and the Securities of such series.  The obligations of the
Company under the Indenture and the Securities of such series other than with
respect to such covenants shall remain in full force and effect.  (Sections
1303 and 1304)  Such a trust may be established only if, among other things,
the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize gain or
loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance
of certain obligations and will be subject to federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case
if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred. (Section 1304)

         Although the amount of money and U.S. Government Obligations on
deposit with the Trustee would be intended to be sufficient to pay amounts due
on the Securities of such series at the time of their Stated Maturity, in the
event the Company exercises its option to omit compliance with the covenants
defeased with respect to the Securities of any series as described above and
the Securities of such series are declared due and payable because of the
occurrence of any Event of Default, such amount may not be sufficient to pay
amounts due on the Securities of such series at the time of the acceleration
resulting from such Event of Default. The Company shall in any event remain
liable for such payments as provided in the Indenture.

         Federal Income Tax Consequences

         Under current United States federal income tax law, defeasance and
discharge likely would be treated as a taxable exchange of Securities to be
defeased for an interest in the defeasance trust. As a consequence, a holder
would recognize gain or loss equal to the difference between the holder's cost
or other tax basis for such Securities and the value of the holder's interest
in the defeasance trust, and thereafter would be required to include in income
a share of the income, gain or loss of the defeasance trust. Under current
United States federal income tax law, covenant defeasance would ordinarily not
be treated as a taxable exchange of such Securities.

MODIFICATION AND WAIVER

         Modifications and amendments of the Indenture may be made by the
Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series
affected by such modification or amendment; provided, however, that no such
modification or amendment may, without consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby, (a) change the Stated Maturity of the
principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security;
(b) change the Redemption Date with respect to any Security; (c) reduce the
principal amount of, or premium or interest rate on, any Security; (d) change
any obligation of the Company to pay additional amounts; (e) reduce the amount
of principal of an Original Issue Discount Security payable upon acceleration
of the Maturity thereof; (f) change the coin or currency in which any Security
or any premium or interest thereon is payable; (g) change the redemption right
of any Holder; (h) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any payment on or with respect to any Security; (i) reduce the percentage in
principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose
Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture or for
waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the Indenture or for waiver of
certain defaults; (j) reduce the requirements contained in the Indenture for
quorum or voting; (k) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an
office or agency in the places and for the purposes required by the Indenture;
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         The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of each series may, on behalf of the Holders of all
Securities of that series, waive, insofar as that series is concerned,
compliance by the Company with certain restrictive provisions of the Indenture.
(Section 1008)  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of each series may, on behalf of all Holders of
Securities of that series, waive any past default under the Indenture with
respect to any Securities of that series, except a default (a) in the payment
of principal of, or any premium or interest on, any Security of such series or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture that cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security of such series affected. (Section 513)

         The Indenture provides that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver thereunder
or are present at a meeting of the Holders of Securities for quorum purposes,
(i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be
deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal that would be due
and payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the
Maturity thereof, and (ii) the principal amount of a Security denominated in a
foreign currency or currencies shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined
on the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount of
such Security or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the U.S.
dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such
Security, of the amount determined as provided in clause (i) above. (Section
101)

         The Indenture contains provisions for convening meetings of the
Holders of Securities of a series if Securities of that series are issuable as
Bearer Securities. (Section 1401) A meeting may be called at any time by the
Trustee, and also, upon request by the Company or the Holders of at least 10%
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of that
series, in any such case upon notice given in accordance with the provisions
described under "--Notices" below. (Section 1402) Except for any consent that
must be given by the Holder of each Outstanding Bearer Security affected
thereby, as described above, any resolution presented at a meeting (or
adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present) may be adopted
by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Bearer Securities of that series; provided, however, that, except
for any consent or waiver that must be given by the Holder of each Outstanding
Bearer Security affected thereby, as described above, any resolution with
respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action that may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a
specified percentage, which is less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of a series, may be adopted at a
meeting (or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present) by
the affirmative vote of such specified percentage in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of that series. Any resolution passed or
decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of any series
duly held in accordance with the Indenture will be binding on all Holders of
Bearer Securities of that series and related coupons. The quorum at any
meeting, and at any reconvened meeting, will be Persons holding or representing
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Bearer Securities
of a series. (Section 1404)

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE OF ASSETS

         The Company, without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Outstanding Securities under the Indenture, may consolidate with or merge into,
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to, any other Person that is a corporation, partnership or trust
organized and validly existing under the laws of any domestic jurisdiction,
provided that any successor Person assumes the Company's obligations on the
Securities and under the Indenture, that 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
that certain other conditions are met. (Section 801)

NOTICES

         Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, notices to Holders of
Bearer Securities will be given by publication at least twice in a daily
newspaper in The City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be
specified in such Securities. Notices to Holders of Registered Securities will
be given by mail to the addresses of such Holders as they appear in the
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TITLE

         Title to any Bearer Securities (including Bearer Securities in
permanent global form) and any coupons appertaining thereto will pass by
delivery. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon and
the registered owner of any Registered Security as the owner thereof (whether
or not such Security or coupon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice
to the contrary) for the purpose of making payments and for all other purposes.
(Section 308)

REPLACEMENT OF SECURITIES

         Any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon
appertaining thereto will be replaced by the Company at the expense of the
Holder upon surrender of such Security to the Trustee.  Securities or coupons
that become destroyed, stolen or lost will be replaced by the Company at the
expense of the Holder upon delivery to the Company and the Trustee of the
Security and coupons or evidence of destruction, loss or theft thereof
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee; in the case of any coupon that
becomes destroyed, stolen or lost, such coupon will be replaced by issuance of
a new Security in exchange for the Security to which such coupon appertains.
In the case of a destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon, an indemnity
satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company may be required at the expense of
the Holder of such Security or coupon before a replacement Security will be
issued. (Section 306)

GOVERNING LAW

         The Indenture, the Securities and any coupons will be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. (Section 113)

REGARDING THE TRUSTEE

         The Company and certain affiliates from time to time borrow money
from, and maintain deposit accounts and conduct certain banking transactions
with, Bank of Montreal, an affiliate of the Trustee, in the ordinary course of
their business. Bank of Montreal is a lender under the Company's bank credit
facility.

         The Indenture and the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
incorporated by reference therein contain certain limitations on the right of
the Trustee, should it become a creditor of the Company, to obtain payment of
claims in certain cases, or to realize for its own account on certain property
received in respect of any such claim as security or otherwise.  (Section 613)
The Trustee will be permitted to engage in certain other transactions; however,
if it acquires any conflicting interest, it must eliminate such conflict or
resign. (Section 608)

                              PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

GENERAL

         The Company may sell Securities to or through underwriters or dealers,
and also may sell Securities directly to one or more other purchasers or
through agents.  The Prospectus Supplement accompanying this Prospectus sets
forth the names of any underwriters or agents involved in the sale of the
Securities and any applicable commissions or discounts.

         Underwriters, dealers or agents may offer and sell the Securities at a
fixed price or prices, which may be changed, or from time to time at market
prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to such prevailing
market prices or at negotiated prices.  In connection with the sale of the
Securities, underwriters or agents may be deemed to have received compensation
from the Company in the form of underwriting discounts or commissions and also
may receive commissions from purchasers of the Securities for whom they may act
as agent.  Underwriters or agents may sell the Securities to or through
dealers, and such dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts,
concessions or commissions from the underwriters or commissions from the
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         The Securities, when first issued, will have no established trading
market.  Any underwriters or agents to or through whom Securities are sold by
the Company for public offering and sale may make a market in such Securities,
but such underwriters or agents will not be obligated to do so and may
discontinue any market making at any time without notice.  No assurance can be
given as to the liquidity of the trading market for any Securities.

         Any underwriters, dealers or agents participating in the distribution
of the Securities may be deemed to be underwriters, and any discounts and
commissions received by them and any profit realized by them on resale of the
Securities may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the
Securities Act.  Underwriters, dealers or agents may be entitled, under
agreements entered into with the Company, to indemnification by the Company
against or contribution toward certain civil liabilities, including liabilities
under the Securities Act.

DELAYED DELIVERY ARRANGEMENTS

         If so indicated in the Prospectus Supplement, the Company will
authorize underwriters or other persons acting as the Company's agents to
solicit offers by certain institutions to purchase Securities from the Company
pursuant to contracts providing for payment and delivery on a future date.
Institutions with which such contracts may be made include commercial and
savings banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies,
educational and charitable institutions and others, but in all cases such
contracts will be subject to the approval of the Company.  The obligations of
any purchaser under any such contract will be subject to the condition that the
purchase of the Securities shall not at the time of delivery be prohibited
under the laws of the jurisdiction to which such purchaser is subject.  The
underwriters and such agents will not have any responsibility in respect of the
validity or performance of such contracts.

                                 LEGAL MATTERS

         The legality of the Securities are being passed upon by Fulbright &
Jaworski L.L.P., 1301 McKinney, Suite 5100, Houston, Texas 77010.  Certain
legal matters in connection with the Securities may be passed upon for any
underwriters, dealers or agents by Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., 1001 Fannin, Suite
2300, Houston, Texas 77002.  From time to time, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. serves
the Company as outside special counsel in certain unrelated matters.

                                    EXPERTS

         The consolidated financial statements of the Company at December 31,
1995 and 1994, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31,
1995, incorporated by reference in this Prospectus and the accompanying
Prospectus Supplement have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP, independent
public accountants, as indicated in their report 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 report.





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                                    PART II

                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.

         The following table sets forth the expenses (all of which are
estimated except for the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee)
payable by the Registrant in connection with the distribution of the securities
being registered.

<TABLE>
 <S>                                                        <C>
 Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee . . .  $     103,449
 Printing and engraving expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $      40,000
 Legal fees and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $     100,000
 Accounting fees and expenses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $      50,000
 Blue sky fees and expenses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $      10,000
 Rating agency fees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $     205,000
 Miscellaneous expenses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $      25,000
                                                            -------------
          Total  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $     533,449     
                                                            =============
</TABLE>

ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         Weatherford's Restated Certificate of Incorporation contains a
provision that eliminates the personal monetary liability of a director to
Weatherford and its stockholders for breach of his fiduciary duty of care as a
director to the extent currently allowed under the Delaware General Corporation
Law (the "DGCL").  If a director were to breach the duty of care in performing
his duties as a director, neither Weatherford nor its stockholders could
recover monetary damages from the director, and the only course of action
available to Weatherford's stockholders would be equitable remedies, such as an
action to enjoin or rescind a transaction involving a breach of the fiduciary
duty of care.  To the extent certain claims against directors are limited to
equitable remedies, this provision of Weatherford's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation may reduce the likelihood of derivative litigation and may
discourage stockholders or management from initiating litigation against
directors for breach of their duty of care.  Additionally, equitable remedies
may not be effective in many situations.  If a stockholder's only remedy is to
enjoin the completion of the Board of Directors' action, this remedy would be
ineffective if the stockholder does not become aware of a transaction or event
until after it has been completed.  In such a situation, it is possible that
the stockholders and Weatherford would have no effective remedy against the
directors.  The directors do not have liability for monetary damages for
grossly negligent business decisions (in violation of their duty of care),
including decisions made in connection with attempts to acquire Weatherford.
Liability for monetary damages remains for (i) any breach of the duty of
loyalty to Weatherford or its stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not in good
faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law,
(iii) payment of an improper dividend or improper repurchase of Weatherford's
stock under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) any transaction from which the
director derived an improper personal benefit.  Weatherford's Restated
Certificate of Incorporation further provides that in the event the DGCL is
amended to allow the further elimination or limitation of the liability of
directors, then the liability of Weatherford's directors shall be limited to
the fullest extent permitted by the amended DGCL.

         The DGCL permits a corporation to indemnify certain persons, including
officers and directors, who are (or are threatened to be made) parties to any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the
right of the corporation) by reason of their being officers or directors of the
corporation.  The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys' fees),
judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by an indemnified officer or director, provided he acted in good faith
and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
corporation's best interests and, in the case of criminal proceedings, provided
he had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.  The
Bylaws of Weatherford provide indemnification to the fullest extent allowed
pursuant to the foregoing provisions of the DGCL.

         The DGCL further permits a corporation to indemnify certain persons,
including officers and directors, who are (or are threatened to be made)
parties to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the
right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of their
being





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<PAGE>   17
officers or directors of the corporation.  The indemnity may include expenses
(including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the indemnified
officer or director, provided he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation's best
interests.  However, no such person will be indemnified as to matters for which
he is found to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his
duty to the corporation unless, and only to the extent that, indemnification is
ordered by a court.  The Bylaws of Weatherford provide indemnification to the
fullest extent allowed pursuant to the foregoing provisions of the DGCL.

         Weatherford also has entered into an indemnification agreement with
each of its directors and certain of its officers.  Each such indemnification
agreement provides for indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by the
DGCL and for the advancement of expenses, including attorneys' fees and other
costs, expenses and obligations, paid or incurred in connection with
investigating, defending, being a witness in or participating in (including on
appeal) any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding related
to the fact that such director or officer was serving for or at the request of
Weatherford.  To the extent that the Board of Directors or the stockholders of
Weatherford may in the future wish to limit or repeal the ability of
Weatherford to indemnify or advance expenses to officers and directors, such
repeal or limitation may not be effective as to officers and directors who are
parties to an indemnification agreement, since their rights to full protection
are contractually assured by the indemnification agreement.

         Delaware corporations also are authorized to obtain insurance to
protect officers and directors from certain liabilities, including liabilities
against which the corporation cannot indemnify its directors and officers.
Weatherford currently has in effect a directors' and officers' liability
insurance policy providing aggregate coverage in the amount of $10,000,000.

         All of the foregoing indemnification provisions include statements
that such provisions are not to be deemed exclusive of any other right to
indemnity to which a director or officer may be entitled under any bylaw,
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.

         The following exhibits are filed herewith unless otherwise indicated:

       1                  Form of Underwriting Agreement.
       4 .1               Form of Indenture, between Weatherford Enterra, Inc.
                          and Bank of Montreal Trust Company, as Trustee.
       4 .2               Corrected Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
                          Weatherford Enterra, Inc., as amended through January
                          26, 1996 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to
                          Weatherford's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
                          ended December 31, 1995 (File No. 1-7867)).
       4 .3               Bylaws of Weatherford Enterra, Inc., as amended
                          through March 17, 1994 (incorporated by reference to
                          Exhibit 3.1 to Weatherford's Current Report on Form
                          8-K dated April 28, 1994 (File No. 1-7867)).
       5                  Opinion of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., regarding
                          legality of securities.
       12                 Statement re computation of ratios of earnings to
                          fixed charges.
       23.1               Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.
       23.2               Consent of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (contained in
                          Exhibit 5).
       24                 Powers of Attorney (included on Page II-5 hereof).
       25                 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the
                          Trustee on Form T-1.






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ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1)     To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, 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;

                 (ii)     to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                 arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement
                 (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which,
                 individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
                 change in the information set forth in the Registration
                 Statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or
                 decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar
                 value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
                 registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
                 estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form
                 of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
                 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price
                 represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate
                 offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration
                 Fee" table in the effective Registration Statement;

                 (iii)    to include any material information with respect to
                 the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                 Registration Statement or any material change to such
                 information in the Registration Statement;

provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
(a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports
filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.

         (2)     That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post- effective amendment 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.

         (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.

(b)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the 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, 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 the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.





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(d)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

(1)      For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, 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.

(2)      For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, 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.





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                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant 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 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas on the 4th day of
April, 1996.

                                        WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        By         /s/ Philip Burguieres       
                                          -------------------------------------
                                                    Philip Burguieres
                                             Chairman of the Board, President
                                               and Chief Executive Officer

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Philip Burguieres and H. Suzanne Thomas,
and each of them, either one of whom may act without joinder of the other, his
true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this Registration Statement, and
to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or the substitute or
substitutes of any or all of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         Signature                        Title                         Date
         ---------                        -----                         ----
<S>                               <C>                               <C>


     PHILIP BURGUIERES            Chairman of the Board,            April 4, 1996
- --------------------------        President and Chief Executive                  
Philip Burguieres                 Officer (Principal Executive 
                                  Officer)                     
                                                               

      NORMAN W. NOLEN             Senior Vice President,            April 4, 1996
- --------------------------        Chief Financial Officer and                             
Norman W. Nolen                   Treasurer (Principal Financial  
                                  and Accounting Officer)         
                                                                  

     THOMAS N. AMONETT            Director                          April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                
Thomas N. Amonett


     WILLIAM E. GREEHEY           Director                          April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                
William E. Greehey
</TABLE>





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<TABLE>
<S>                               <C>                                        <C>
       JOHN A. HILL               Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                        
John A. Hill                      
                                  
                                  
     JOHN W. JOHNSON              Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                
John W. Johnson                   
                                  
                                  
     WILLIAM E. MACAULAY          Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                
William E. Macaulay               
                                  
                                  
     ROBERT K. MOSES, JR.         Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                        
Robert K. Moses, Jr.              
                                  
                                  
     ROBERT L. PARKER, SR.        Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                        
Robert L. Parker, Sr.             
                                  
                                  
  R. RUDOLPH REINFRANK            Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                
R. Rudolph Reinfrank              
                                  
                                  
     ROGER M. WIDMANN             Director                                   April 4, 1996
- --------------------------                                                                
Roger M. Widmann                  
</TABLE>





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                          INDEX TO EXHIBITS



       1                  Form of Underwriting Agreement.

       4.1                Form of Indenture, between Weatherford Enterra, Inc.
                          and Bank of Montreal Trust Company, as Trustee.

       4.2                Corrected Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
                          Weatherford Enterra, Inc., as amended through January
                          26, 1996 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to
                          Weatherford's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
                          ended December 31, 1995 (File No. 1-7867)).

       4.3                Bylaws of Weatherford Enterra, Inc., as amended
                          through March 17, 1994 (incorporated by reference to
                          Exhibit 3.1 to Weatherford's Current Report on Form
                          8-K dated April 28, 1994 (File No. 1-7867)).

       5                  Opinion of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., regarding
                          legality of securities.

       12                 Statement re computation of ratios of earnings to
                          fixed charges.

       23.1               Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.

       23.2               Consent of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (contained in
                          Exhibit 5).

       24                 Powers of Attorney (included on Page II-5 hereof).

       25                 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the
                          Trustee on Form T-1.



<PAGE>   1
                                                                       DRAFT
                                                                   April 3, 1996


                                                                      EXHIBIT 1



                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                            (a Delaware corporation)


                             Senior Debt Securities


                             UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

                                                        __________________, 1996

MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
         Incorporated
North Tower
World Financial Center
New York, New York 10281-1209

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         Weatherford Enterra, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
proposes to issue and sell up to $ ___________ million in  aggregate principal
amount of its senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities"), from time to
time, in or pursuant to one or more offerings on terms to be determined at the
time of sale.

         The Debt Securities will be issued in one or more series under an
indenture, dated as of ____________, 1996 (the "Indenture"), between the
Company and [_______], as trustee (the "Trustee").  Each series of Debt
Securities may vary, as applicable, as to title, aggregate principal amount,
rank, interest rate or formula and timing of payments thereof, stated maturity
date, redemption and/or repayment provisions, sinking fund requirements,
conversion provisions (and terms of the related Underlying Securities) and any
other variable terms established by or pursuant to the Indenture.

         Whenever the Company determines to make an offering of Debt Securities
through Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
("Merrill Lynch"), or through an underwriting syndicate managed by Merrill
Lynch, the Company will enter into an agreement (each, "Terms Agreement")
providing for the sale of such Debt Securities to, and the purchase and
offering thereof by, Merrill Lynch and such other underwriters, if any,
selected by Merrill Lynch (the "Underwriters", which term shall include Merrill
Lynch, whether acting as sole Underwriter or as a member of an underwriting
syndicate, as well as any Underwriter substituted pursuant to Section 10
hereof).  The Terms Agreement relating to the offering of Debt Securities shall
specify the aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities to be issued (the
"Underwritten Securities"), the
<PAGE>   2
name of each Underwriter participating in such offering (subject to
substitution as provided in Section 10 hereof) and the name of any Underwriter
other than Merrill Lynch acting as co-manager in connection with such offering,
the aggregate principal amount of Underwritten Securities which each such
Underwriter severally agrees to purchase, whether such offering is on a fixed
or variable price basis and, if on a fixed price basis, the initial offering
price, the price at which the Underwritten Securities are to be purchased by
the Underwriters, the form, time, date and place of delivery and payment of the
Underwritten Securities and any other material variable terms of the
Underwritten Securities.  The Terms Agreement, which shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to Merrill Lynch, may take the form of an exchange of
any standard form of written telecommunication between the Company and Merrill
Lynch, acting for itself and, if applicable, as representative of any other
Underwriters.  Each offering of Underwritten Securities through Merrill Lynch
as sole Underwriter or through an underwriting syndicate managed by Merrill
Lynch will be governed by this Underwriting Agreement, as supplemented by the
applicable Terms Agreement.

         The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-o) [and
pre-effective amendment[s] no[s]. o thereto] for the registration of the Debt
Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and
the offering thereof from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 of the rules
and regulations of the Commission under the 1933 Act (the "1933 Act
Regulations"), and the Company has filed such post-effective amendments thereto
as may be required prior to the execution of the applicable Terms Agreement.
Such registration statement (as so amended, if applicable) has been declared
effective by the Commission and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "1939 Act").  Such registration
statement (as so amended, if applicable), including the information, if any,
deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430A(b) of the 1933 Act
Regulations (the "Rule 430A Information") or Rule 434(d) of the 1933 Act
Regulations (the "Rule 434 Information"), is referred to herein as the
"Registration Statement"; and the final prospectus and the prospectus
supplement relating to the offering of the Underwritten Securities, in the form
first furnished to the Underwriters by the Company for use in connection with
the offering of the Underwritten Securities, are collectively referred to
herein as the "Prospectus"; provided, however, that all references to the
"Registration Statement" and the "Prospectus" shall be deemed to include all
documents incorporated therein by reference pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), prior to the execution of the
applicable Terms Agreement; provided, further, that if the Company files a
registration statement with the Commission pursuant to Section 462(b) of the
1933 Act Regulations (the "Rule 462 Registration Statement"), then, after such
filing, all references to "Registration Statement" shall be deemed to include
the Rule 462 Registration Statement; and provided, further, that if the Company
elects to rely upon Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, then all references
to "Prospectus" shall be deemed to include the final or preliminary prospectus
and the applicable term sheet or abbreviated term sheet (the "Term Sheet"), as
the case may be, in the form first furnished to the Underwriters by the Company
in reliance upon Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, and all references in
this Underwriting Agreement to the date of the Prospectus shall mean the date
of the Term Sheet.  A "preliminary prospectus" shall be deemed to refer to any
prospectus used before the registration statement became effective and any
prospectus that omitted, as applicable, the Rule 430A Information, the Rule 434
Information or other information to be included upon pricing in a form of
prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act
Regulations, that




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<PAGE>   3
was used after such effectiveness and prior to the execution and delivery of
the applicable Terms Agreement.  For purposes of this Underwriting Agreement,
all references to the Registration Statement, Prospectus, Term Sheet or
preliminary prospectus or to any amendment or supplement to any of the
foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission
pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system
("EDGAR").

         All references in this Underwriting Agreement to financial statements
and schedules and other information which is "contained," "included" or
"stated" (or other references of like import) in the Registration Statement,
Prospectus or preliminary prospectus shall be deemed to mean and include all
such financial statements and schedules and other information which is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or
preliminary prospectus, as the case may be; and all references in this
Underwriting Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration
Statement, Prospectus or preliminary prospectus shall be deemed to mean and
include the filing of any document under the 1934 Act which is incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary prospectus,
as the case may be.

         SECTION 1.       Representations and Warranties.

         (a)     Representations and Warranties by the Company.  The Company
represents and warrants to Merrill Lynch, as of the date hereof, and to each
Underwriter named in the applicable Terms Agreement, as of the date thereof, as
of the Closing Time (as defined below), as follows:

                 (1)      Compliance with Registration Requirements.  The
         Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act.
         Each of the Registration Statement and any Rule 462(b) Registration
         Statement has become effective under the 1933 Act and no stop order
         suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any Rule
         462(b) Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act and
         no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending
         or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated by the
         Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for
         additional information has been complied with.  The Indenture has been
         duly qualified under the 1939 Act.

                 At the respective times the Registration Statement, any Rule
         462(b) Registration Statement and any post-effective amendments
         thereto (including the filing of the Company's most recent Annual
         Report on Form 10-K with the Commission (the "Annual Report on Form
         10-K")) became effective and at the Closing Time, the Registration
         Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement and any amendments
         and supplements thereto complied and will comply in all material
         respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act
         Regulations and the 1939 Act and the rules and regulations of the
         Commission under the 1939 Act (the "1939 Act Regulations") and did not
         and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
         state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
         make the statements therein not misleading.  At the date of the
         Prospectus and at the Closing Time, the Prospectus and any amendments
         and supplements thereto did not and will not include 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





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<PAGE>   4
         which they were made, not misleading.  If the Company elects to rely
         upon Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, the Company will comply
         with the requirements of Rule 434.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
         representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to
         statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement or the
         Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
         furnished to the Company in writing by any Underwriter through Merrill
         Lynch expressly for use in the Registration Statement or the
         Prospectus.

                 Each preliminary prospectus and prospectus filed as part of
         the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any
         amendment thereto, or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the 1933 Act,
         complied when so filed in all material respects with the 1933 Act
         Regulations and, if applicable, each preliminary prospectus and the
         Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with
         the offering of Underwritten Securities will, at the time of such
         delivery, be identical to the electronically transmitted copies
         thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the
         extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

                 (2)      Incorporated Documents.  The documents incorporated
         or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration
         Statement and the Prospectus, when they became effective or at the
         time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied
         and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the
         1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
         (the "1934 Act Regulations") and, when read together with the other
         information in the Prospectus, at the date of the Prospectus and at
         the Closing Time, did not and will not include an untrue statement of
         a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
         statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
         were made, not misleading.

                 (3)      Independent Accountants.  The accountants who
         certified the financial statements and supporting schedules included
         in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are independent
         public accountants as required by the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act
         Regulations.

                 (4)      Financial Statements.  The financial statements of
         the Company included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
         together with the related schedules and notes, as well as those
         financial statements, schedules and notes of any other entity included
         therein, present fairly the financial position of the Company and its
         consolidated subsidiaries, or such other entity, as the case may be,
         at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders'
         equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated
         subsidiaries, or such other entity, as the case may be, for the
         periods specified.  Such financial statements have been prepared in
         conformity with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP")
         applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved.  The
         supporting schedules, if any, included in the Registration Statement
         and the Prospectus present fairly in accordance with GAAP the
         information required to be stated therein.  The selected financial
         data and the summary financial information included in the Prospectus
         present fairly the information shown therein and have been compiled on
         a basis consistent





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         with that of the audited financial statements included in the
         Registration Statement and the Prospectus.  [In addition, any pro
         forma financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries and the
         related notes thereto included in the Registration Statement and the
         Prospectus present fairly the information shown therein, have been
         prepared in accordance with the Commission's rules and guidelines with
         respect to pro forma financial statements and have been properly
         compiled on the bases described therein, and the assumptions used in
         the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used
         therein are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and
         circumstances referred to therein.]

                 (5)      No Material Adverse Change in Business.  Since the
         respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
         Statement and the Prospectus, except as otherwise stated therein, (A)
         there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial
         or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business
         prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one
         enterprise (a "Material Adverse Effect"), whether or not arising in
         the ordinary course of business, (B) there have been no transactions
         entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, other than
         those arising in the ordinary course of business, which are material
         with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one
         enterprise and (C) except for regular dividends on the Company's
         common stock or preferred stock, in amounts per share that are
         consistent with past practice or the applicable charter document or
         supplement thereto, respectively, there has been no dividend or
         distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any
         class of its capital stock.

                 (6)      Good Standing of the Company.  The Company has been
         duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good
         standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has corporate
         power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to
         conduct its business as described in the Prospectus and to enter into
         and perform its obligations under, or as contemplated under, this
         Underwriting Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement.  The
         Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact
         business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which
         such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or
         leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the
         failure to so qualify or be in good standing would not result in a
         Material Adverse Effect.

                 (7)      Good Standing of Subsidiaries.  Each subsidiary of
         the Company (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X
         promulgated under the 1933 Act) (each, a "subsidiary" and,
         collectively, the "subsidiaries") has been duly organized and is
         validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of
         the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has corporate power and
         authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its
         business as described in the Prospectus and is duly qualified as a
         foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in
         each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by
         reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of
         business, except where the failure to so qualify or be in good
         standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as
         otherwise stated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or
         as set forth on Schedule A hereto, all of the issued and outstanding
         capital stock of each subsidiary has been duly authorized and is
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         non-assessable and is owned by the Company, directly or through
         subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage,
         pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim or equity.  None of the outstanding
         shares of capital stock of the subsidiaries was issued in violation of
         preemptive or other similar rights arising by operation of law, under
         the charter or by-laws of any subsidiary or under any agreement to
         which the Company or any subsidiary is a party, or otherwise.

                 (8)      Capitalization.  If the Prospectus contains a
         "Capitalization" section, the authorized, issued and outstanding
         shares of capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the column
         entitled "Actual" under such section (except for subsequent issuances
         thereof, if any, pursuant to employee benefit plans referred to in the
         Prospectus or pursuant to the exercise of convertible securities or
         options referred to in the Prospectus).  Such shares of capital stock
         have been duly authorized and validly issued by the Company and are
         fully paid and non-assessable, and none of such shares of capital
         stock were issued in violation of preemptive or other similar rights
         arising by operation of law, under the charter and by-laws of the
         Company or under any agreement to which the Company or any of its
         subsidiaries is a party, or otherwise.

                 (9)      Authorization of this Underwriting Agreement and
         Terms Agreement.  This Underwriting Agreement has been, and the
         applicable Terms Agreement as of the date thereof will have been, duly
         authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

                 (10)     Authorization of Debt Securities.  The Underwritten
         Securities have been, or as of the date of such Terms Agreement will
         have been, duly authorized by the Company for issuance and sale
         pursuant to this Underwriting Agreement and such Terms Agreement. Such
         Underwritten Securities, when issued and authenticated in the manner
         provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the
         consideration therefor specified in such Terms Agreement, will
         constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company,
         enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except
         as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
         reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or
         affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equitable
         principles, and except further as enforcement thereof may be limited
         by (A) requirements that a claim with respect to any Debt Securities
         denominated other than in U.S. dollars (or a foreign or composite
         currency judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S.
         dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant
         to applicable law or (B) governmental authority to limit, delay or
         prohibit the making of payments outside the United States.  Such
         Underwritten Securities will be in the form contemplated by, and each
         registered holder thereof is entitled to the benefits of, the
         Indenture.

                 (11)     Authorization of the Indenture. The Indenture has
         been, or prior to the issuance of the Debt Securities thereunder will
         have been, duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and,
         upon such authorization, execution and delivery, will constitute a
         valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable
         against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the
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         bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
         laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by
         general equitable principles.

                 (12)     Descriptions of the Underwritten Securities and
         Indenture.  The Underwritten Securities being sold pursuant to the
         applicable Terms Agreement and the Indenture, as of the date of the
         Prospectus, will conform in all material respects to the statements
         relating thereto contained in the Prospectus and will be in
         substantially the form filed or incorporated by reference, as the case
         may be, as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

                 (13)     Absence of Defaults and Conflicts.  Neither the
         Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or
         by-laws or in default in the performance or observance of any
         obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
         contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit
         agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the
         Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which or any of
         them may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the
         Company or any subsidiary is subject (collectively, "Agreements and
         Instruments"), except for such defaults that would not result in a
         Material Adverse Effect.  The execution, delivery and performance of
         this Underwriting Agreement, the applicable Terms Agreement and the
         Indenture and any other agreement or instrument entered into or issued
         or to be entered into or issued by the Company in connection with the
         transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or in the Registration
         Statement and the Prospectus and the consummation of the transactions
         contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement and the
         Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Underwritten
         Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the
         Underwritten Securities as described under the caption "Use of
         Proceeds") and compliance by the Company with its obligations
         hereunder and thereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary
         corporate action and do not and will not, whether with or without the
         giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or
         constitute a breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as defined
         below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien,
         charge or encumbrance upon any assets, properties or operations of the
         Company or any subsidiary pursuant to, any Agreements and Instruments,
         except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults, events or liens,
         charges or encumbrances that would not result in a Material Adverse
         Effect, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions
         of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any subsidiary or any
         applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or
         decree of any government, government instrumentality or court,
         domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any
         subsidiary or any of their assets, properties or operations.  As used
         herein, a "Repayment Event" means any event or condition which gives
         the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness
         (or any person acting on such holder's behalf) the right to require
         the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such
         indebtedness by the Company or any subsidiary.

                 (14)     Absence of Labor Dispute.  No labor dispute with the
         employees of the Company or any subsidiary exists or, to the knowledge
         of the Company, is imminent, and the Company is not aware of any
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         of any of its or any subsidiary's principal suppliers, manufacturers,
         customers or contractors, which, in either case, may reasonably be
         expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

                 (15)     Absence of Proceedings.  There is no action, suit,
         proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by any court or
         governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or to
         the knowledge of the Company threatened, against or affecting the
         Company or any subsidiary thereof which is required to be disclosed in
         the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (other than as stated
         therein), or which might reasonably be expected to result in a
         Material Adverse Effect, or which might reasonably be expected to
         materially and adversely affect the assets, properties or operations
         thereof or the consummation of this Underwriting Agreement, the
         applicable Terms Agreement or the  Indenture or the transactions
         contemplated herein or therein.  The aggregate of all pending legal or
         governmental proceedings to which the Company or any subsidiary
         thereof is a party or of which any of their respective assets,
         properties or operations is the subject which are not described in the
         Registration Statement and the Prospectus, including ordinary routine
         litigation incidental to the business, could not reasonably be
         expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

                 (16)     Accuracy of Exhibits.  There are no contracts or
         documents which are required to be described in the Registration
         Statement, the Prospectus or the documents incorporated by reference
         therein or to be filed as exhibits thereto which have not been so
         described and/or filed as required.

                 (17)     Absence of Further Requirements.  No filing with, or
         authorization, approval, consent, license, order registration,
         qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or
         agency is necessary or required for the performance by the Company of
         its obligations under this Underwriting Agreement,  the applicable
         Terms Agreement or the Indenture or in connection with the
         transactions contemplated under this Underwriting Agreement, such
         Terms Agreement or the  Indenture, except such as have been already
         obtained or as may be required under state securities laws.

                 (18)     Possession of Intellectual Property.  The Company and
         its subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms,
         adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights,
         know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or
         unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or
         procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names or other
         intellectual property (collectively, "Intellectual Property")
         necessary to carry on the business now operated by them, and neither
         the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice or is
         otherwise aware of any infringement of or conflict with asserted
         rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or of any
         facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property
         invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of the Company or any of
         its subsidiaries therein, and which infringement or conflict (if the
         subject of any unfavorable decision, ruling or finding) or invalidity
         or inadequacy, singly or in the aggregate, would result in a Material
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                 (19)     Possession of Licenses and Permits.  The Company and
         its subsidiaries possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents
         and other authorizations (collectively, "Governmental Licenses")
         issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory
         agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by
         them.  The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with the
         terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where
         the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result
         in a Material Adverse Effect.  All of the Governmental Licenses are
         valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of
         such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental
         Licenses to be in full force and effect would not result in a Material
         Adverse Effect.  Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
         received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or
         modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the
         aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or
         finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.

                 (20)     Commodity Exchange Act.  The Debt Securities, upon
         issuance, will be excluded or exempted under, or beyond the purview
         of, the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (the "Commodity Exchange
         Act"), and the rules and regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading
         Commission under the Commodity Exchange Act (the "Commodity Exchange
         Act Regulations").

                 (21)     Investment Company Act.  The Company is not, and upon
         the issuance and sale of the Underwritten Securities as herein
         contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as
         described in the Prospectus will not be, an "investment company"
         within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended
         (the "1940 Act").

                 (22)     Environmental Laws.  Except as otherwise stated in
         the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and except such
         violations as would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a
         Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company nor any of its
         subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign
         statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of
         common law and any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof
         including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or
         judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the
         environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface
         water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife,
         including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the
         release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants,
         wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum
         products (collectively, "Hazardous Materials") or to the manufacture,
         processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport
         or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, "Environmental
         Laws"), (B) the Company and its subsidiaries have all permits,
         authorizations and approvals required under any applicable
         Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements,
         (C) there are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or
         judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens,
         notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings
         relating to any Environmental Law against the Company or any of its
         subsidiaries and (D) there are no events or circumstances that might
         reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or
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         any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting
         the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to any Hazardous
         Materials or the violation of any Environmental Laws.

                 (23)     Compliance with Cuba Act.  The Company has complied
         with, and is and will be in compliance with, the provisions of that
         certain Florida act relating to disclosure of doing business with
         Cuba, codified as Section 517.075 of the Florida statutes, and the
         rules and regulations thereunder or are exempt therefrom.

         (b)     Officers' Certificates.  Any certificate signed by any officer
of the Company or any subsidiary and delivered to any Underwriter or to counsel
for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Underwritten
Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to each
Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby on the date of such certificate
and, unless subsequently amended or supplemented, at the Closing Time.

         SECTION 2.       Sale and Delivery to Underwriters; Closing.

         (a)     Underwritten Securities.  The several commitments of the
Underwriters to purchase the Underwritten Securities pursuant to the applicable
Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the
representations and warranties herein contained and shall be subject to the
terms and conditions herein set forth.

         (b)     Payment.  Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of,
the Underwritten Securities shall be made at the office of Vinson & Elkins
L.L.P., 2300 First City Tower, 1001 Fannin, Houston, Texas  77002-6760, or at
such other place as shall be agreed upon by Merrill Lynch and the Company, at
9:00 A.M. (Houston time) on the third (fourth, if the pricing occurs after 3:30
P.M. (Houston time) on any given day) business day after the date hereof
(unless postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 hereof), or
such other time not later than ten business days after such date as shall be
agreed upon by Merrill Lynch and the Company (such time and date of payment and
delivery being herein called "Closing Time").

         Payment shall be made to the Company by certified or official bank
check or checks drawn in New York Clearing House funds or similar next day
funds payable to the order of the Company (or if Merrill Lynch and the Company
agree, by means of a wire transfer of same day funds to one or more accounts
designated by the Company pursuant to terms whereby the Underwriters are
compensated for the use of such funds), against delivery to Merrill Lynch for
the respective accounts of the Underwriters of the Underwritten Securities to
be purchased by them.  It is understood that each Underwriter has authorized
Merrill Lynch, for its account, to accept delivery of, receipt for, and make
payment of the purchase price for, the Underwritten Securities which it has
severally agreed to purchase.  Merrill Lynch, individually and not as
representative of the Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make
payment of the purchase price for the Underwritten Securities to be purchased
by any Underwriter whose check has not been received by the Closing Time or the
relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be, but such payment shall not
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         (d)     Denominations; Registration.  The Underwritten Securities,
shall be in such denominations and registered in such names as Merrill Lynch
may request in writing at least one full business day prior to the Closing Time
or the relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be.  The Underwritten
Securities will be made available for examination and packaging by Merrill
Lynch in The City of New York not later than 10:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on the
business day prior to the Closing Time.

         SECTION 3.       Covenants of the Company.  The Company covenants and
agrees with Merrill Lynch and with each Underwriter participating in the
offering of Underwritten Securities, as follows:

                 (a)      Compliance with Securities Regulations and Commission
         Requests.  The Company, subject to Section 3(b), will comply with the
         requirements of Rule 430A of the 1933 Act Regulations and/or Rule 434
         of the 1933 Act Regulations, if and as applicable, and will notify the
         Representative(s) immediately, and confirm the notice in writing, of
         (i) the effectiveness of any post-effective amendment to the
         Registration Statement or the filing of any supplement or amendment to
         the Prospectus, (ii) the receipt of any comments from the Commission,
         (iii) any request by the Commission for any amendment to the
         Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the
         Prospectus or for additional information, and (iv) the issuance by the
         Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
         Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the
         use of any preliminary prospectus, or of the suspension of the
         qualification of the Underwritten Securities for offering or sale in
         any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any
         proceedings for any of such purposes.  The Company will promptly
         effect the filings necessary pursuant to Rule 424 and will take such
         steps as it deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the
         Prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424 was received for
         filing by the Commission and, in the event that it was not, it will
         promptly file the Prospectus.  The Company will make every reasonable
         effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order and, if any stop
         order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest
         possible moment.

                 (b)      Filing of Amendments.  The Company will give Merrill
         Lynch notice of their intention to file or prepare any amendment to
         the Registration Statement (including any filing under Rule 462(b) of
         the 1933 Act Regulations), any Term Sheet or any amendment, supplement
         or revision to either the prospectus included in the Registration
         Statement at the time it became effective or to the Prospectus,
         whether pursuant to the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or otherwise, will
         furnish Merrill Lynch with copies of any such documents a reasonable
         amount of time prior to such proposed filing or use, as the case may
         be, and will not file or use any such document to which Merrill Lynch
         or counsel for the Underwriters shall object.

                 (c)      Delivery of Registration Statements.  The Company has
         furnished or will deliver to Merrill Lynch and counsel for the
         Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration
         Statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto (including
         exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein and
         documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
         therein) and signed copies of all consents and certificates of
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         copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and of each
         amendment thereto (without exhibits) for each of the Underwriters.
         The copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto
         furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically
         transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to
         EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

                 (d)      Delivery of Prospectuses.  The Company will deliver
         to each Underwriter, without charge, as many copies of each
         preliminary prospectus as such Underwriter may reasonably request, and
         the Company hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes
         permitted by the 1933 Act.  The Company will furnish to each
         Underwriter, without charge, during the period when the Prospectus is
         required to be delivered under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, such
         number of copies of the Prospectus as such Underwriter may reasonably
         request.  The Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto
         furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically
         transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to
         EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

                 (e)      Continued Compliance with Securities Laws.  The
         Company will comply with the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and
         the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations so as to permit the
         completion of the distribution of the Underwritten Securities as
         contemplated in this Underwriting Agreement and the applicable Terms
         Agreement and in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. If at
         any time when the Prospectus is required by the 1933 Act or the 1934
         Act to be delivered in connection with sales of the Securities, any
         event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is
         necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters or for the
         Company, to amend the Registration Statement in order that the
         Registration Statement will not contain an untrue statement of a
         material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated
         therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or
         to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus
         will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
         state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
         therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at
         the time it is delivered to a purchaser, or if it shall be necessary,
         in the opinion of such counsel, at any such time to amend the
         Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Prospectus in order
         to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act
         Regulations, the Company will promptly prepare and file with the
         Commission, subject to Section 3(b), such amendment or supplement as
         may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the
         Registration Statement or the Prospectus comply with such
         requirements, and the Company will furnish to the Underwriters,
         without charge, such number of copies of such amendment or supplement
         as the Underwriters may reasonably request.

                 (f)      Blue Sky Qualifications.  The Company will use its
         best efforts, in cooperation with the Underwriters, to qualify the
         Underwritten Securities for offering and sale under the applicable
         securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or
         foreign) as Merrill Lynch may designate and to maintain such
         qualifications in effect for a period of not less than one year from
         the date of the applicable Terms Agreement; provided, however, that
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         process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in
         securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to
         subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any
         jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.  In each
         jurisdiction in which the Underwritten Securities have been so
         qualified, the Company will file such statements and reports as may be
         required by the laws of such jurisdiction to continue such
         qualification in effect for a period of not less than one year from
         the date of such Terms Agreement.

                 (g)      Earnings Statement.  The Company will timely file
         such reports pursuant to the 1934 Act as are necessary in order to
         make generally available to its security holders as soon as
         practicable an earnings statement for the purposes of, and to provide
         the benefits contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section ll(a) of
         the 1933 Act.

                 (i)      Use of Proceeds.  The Company will use the net
         proceeds received by it from the sale of the Underwritten Securities
         in the manner specified in the Prospectus under "Use of Proceeds".

                 (j)      Listing.  The Company will use its best efforts to
         effect the listing of the Underwritten Securities and any related
         Underlying Securities, prior to the Closing Time, on any national
         securities exchange or quotation system if and as specified in the
         applicable Terms Agreement.

                 (k)      Restriction on Sale of Securities.  Between the date
         of the applicable Terms Agreement and the Closing Time or such other
         date specified in such Terms Agreement, the Company will not, without
         the prior written consent of Merrill Lynch, directly or indirectly,
         issue, sell, offer to sell, grant any option for the sale of, or
         otherwise dispose of, the securities specified in such Terms
         Agreement.

                 (l)      Reporting Requirements.  The Company, during the
         period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933
         Act or the 1934 Act, will file all documents required to be filed with
         the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act within the time periods
         required by the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations.

         SECTION 4.       Payment of Expenses.   (a)        Expenses.  The
Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations
under this Underwriting Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, including
(i) the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement
(including financial statements and exhibits) as originally filed and of each
amendment thereto, (ii) the preparation, printing and delivery to the
Underwriters of this Underwriting Agreement, any Terms Agreement, any Agreement
among Underwriters, the Indenture and such other documents as may be required
in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the
Underwritten Securities, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the
Underwritten Securities to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of
the Company's counsel, accountants and other advisors or agents (including
transfer agents and registrars), as well as the fees and disbursements of the
Trustee and its counsel, (v) the qualification of the Underwritten Securities
under state securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(f)
hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of
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connection with the preparation, printing and delivery of the Blue Sky Survey
and any Legal Investment Survey, and any amendment thereto, (vi) the printing
and delivery to the Underwriters of copies of each preliminary prospectus, any
Term Sheet, and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, (vii)
the fees charged by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations for
the rating of the Underwritten Securities, (viii) the fees and expenses
incurred with respect to the listing of the Underwritten Securities, if
applicable, and (ix) the filing fees incident to, and the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in connection with, the review, if
any, by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") of
the terms of the sale of the Underwritten Securities.

         (b)     Termination of Agreement.  If the applicable Terms Agreement
is terminated by Merrill Lynch in accordance with the provisions of Section 5
or Section 9(b)(i) hereof, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for all
of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters.

         SECTION 5.       Conditions of Underwriters' Obligations.  The
obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Underwritten
Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement are subject to the
accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in
Section 1 hereof or in certificates of any officer of the Company delivered
pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its
covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further
conditions:

                 (a)      Effectiveness of Registration Statement.  The
         Registration Statement, including any Rule 462(b) Registration
         Statement, has become effective under the 1933 Act and no stop order
         suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have
         been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor initiated or
         threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the
         Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to
         the reasonable satisfaction of counsel to the Underwriters.  A
         prospectus containing information relating to the description of the
         Underwritten Securities, the specific method of distribution and
         similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission in
         accordance with Rule 424(b)(1), (2), (3), (4) or (5), as applicable
         (or any required post-effective amendment providing such information
         shall have been filed and declared effective in accordance with the
         requirements of Rule 430A), or, if the Company has elected to rely
         upon Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, a Term Sheet including the
         Rule 434 Information shall have been filed with the Commission in
         accordance with Rule 424(b)(7).

                 (b)      Opinion of Counsel for Company.  At Closing Time,
         Merrill Lynch shall have received the favorable opinion, dated as of
         Closing Time, of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., counsel for the Company,
         in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters,
         together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of
         the other Underwriters, covering such matters as counsel to the 
         Underwriters may reasonably request.

                 (c)      Opinion of General Counsel.  At Closing Time, Merrill
         Lynch shall have received the favorable opinion, dated as of Closing
         Time, of H. Suzanne Thomas, Senior Vice President, Secretary and
         General Counsel of the Company, in form and substance





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         satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or
         reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters,
         covering such matters as counsel to the Underwriters may reasonably 
         request.

                 (d)      Opinion of Counsel for Underwriters.  At Closing
         Time, Merrill Lynch shall have received the favorable opinion, dated
         as of Closing Time, of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., counsel for the
         Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter
         for each of the other Underwriters, covering such matters as Merrill
         Lynch may reasonably request.  In giving such opinion, such counsel
         may rely, as to all matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions
         other than the law of the State of Texas, the State of New York, the
         federal law of the United States and the General Corporation Law of
         the State of Delaware, upon the opinions of counsel satisfactory to
         Merrill Lynch.  Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such
         opinion involves factual matters, they have relied, to the extent they
         deem proper, upon certificates of officers of the Company and its
         subsidiaries and certificates of public officials.

                 (e)      Officers' Certificate.  At Closing Time, there shall
         not have been, since the date of the applicable Terms Agreement or
         since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
         Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or
         otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects
         of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise,
         whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, and Merrill
         Lynch shall have received a certificate of the President or a Vice
         President of the Company and of the chief financial officer or chief
         accounting officer of the Company, dated as of Closing Time, to the
         effect that (i) there has been no such material adverse change, (ii)
         the representations and warranties in Section 1 are true and correct
         with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of
         the Closing Time, (iii) the Company have complied with all agreements
         and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied
         at or prior to the Closing Time, and (iv) no stop order suspending the
         effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no
         proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or threatened by the
         Commission.

                 (f)      Accountant's Comfort Letter.  At the time of the
         execution of the applicable Terms Agreement, Merrill Lynch shall have
         received from Arthur Andersen LLP a letter dated such date, in form
         and substance satisfactory to Merrill Lynch, together with signed or
         reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters,
         containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included
         in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to the
         financial statements and certain financial information contained in
         the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.

                 (g)      Bring-down Comfort Letter.  At Closing Time, Merrill
         Lynch shall have received from Arthur Andersen LLP a letter, dated
         as of Closing Time, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements
         made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (e) of this
         Section 5, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date
         not more than three business days prior to the Closing Time.





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                 (h)      Ratings.  At Closing Time, the Underwritten
         Securities shall have the ratings accorded by any "nationally
         recognized statistical rating organization", as defined by the
         Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations,
         if and as specified in the applicable Terms Agreement, and the Company
         shall have delivered to Merrill Lynch a letter, dated as of such date,
         from each such rating organization, or other evidence satisfactory to
         Merrill Lynch, confirming that the Underwritten Securities have such
         ratings.  Since the time of execution of such Terms Agreement, there
         shall not have occurred a downgrading in the rating assigned to the
         Underwritten Securities or any of the Company's other securities by
         any such rating organization, and no such rating organization shall
         have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with
         possible negative implications, its rating of the Underwritten
         Securities or any of the Company's other securities.

                 (i)      Approval of Listing.  At Closing Time, the
         Underwritten Securities shall have been approved for listing, subject
         only to official notice of issuance, if and as specified in the
         applicable Terms Agreement.

                 (j)      No Objection.  If the Registration Statement or an
         offering of Underwritten Securities has been filed with the NASD for
         review, the NASD shall not have raised any objection with respect to
         the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and
         arrangements.

                 (k)      Lock-up Agreements.  On the date of the applicable
         Terms Agreement, Merrill Lynch shall have received, in form and
         substance satisfactory to it, each lock-up agreement, if any,
         specified in such Terms Agreement as being required to be delivered by
         the persons listed therein.

                 (l)      Additional Documents.  At Closing Time, counsel for
         the Underwriters shall have been furnished with such documents and
         opinions as they may require for the purpose of enabling them to pass
         upon the issuance and sale of the Underwritten Securities as herein
         contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the
         representations or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the
         conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company
         in connection with the issuance and sale of the Underwritten
         Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and
         substance to Merrill Lynch and counsel for the Underwriters.

                 (m)      Termination of Terms Agreement.  If any condition
         specified in this Section 5 shall not have been fulfilled when and as
         required to be fulfilled, the applicable Terms Agreement may be
         terminated by Merrill Lynch by notice to the Company at any time at or
         prior to the Closing Time, and such termination shall be without
         liability of any party to any other party except as provided in
         Section 4 and except that Sections 1, 6 and 7 shall survive any such
         termination and remain in full force and effect.





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         SECTION 6.       Indemnification.

         (a)     Indemnification of Underwriters.  The Company agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any, who
controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or
Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:

                 (1)      against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage
         and expense whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue
         statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in
         the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including the
         Rule 430A Information and the Rule 434 Information deemed to be a part
         thereof, if applicable, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom
         of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
         the statements therein not misleading or arising out of any untrue
         statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included in
         any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or
         supplement thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of
         a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
         the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
         misleading;

                 (2)      against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage
         and expense whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate
         amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any investigation or
         proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or
         threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue
         statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or
         omission; provided that (subject to Section 6(d) below) any such
         settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company; and

                 (3)      against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred
         (including the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by Merrill
         Lynch), reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending
         against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any
         governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim
         whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any
         such alleged untrue statement or omission, to the extent that any such
         expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above;

provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss,
liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue
statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance
upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any
Underwriter through Merrill Lynch expressly for use in the Registration
Statement (or any amendment thereto), including the 430A Information and the
Rule 434 Information deemed to be a part thereof, if applicable, or any
preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement
thereto).

         (b)     Indemnification of Company, Directors and Officers.  Each
Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each
of its directors, each of the officers who signed the Registration Statement,
and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section
15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act against any and all loss,
liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in
subsection (a) of this





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Section, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions,
or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement
(or any amendment thereto), including the Rule 430A Information and the Rule
434 Information deemed to be a part thereof, if applicable, or any preliminary
prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company by such Underwriter through Merrill Lynch expressly for use in the
Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or such preliminary
prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto).

         (c)     Actions against Parties; Notification.  Each indemnified party
shall give notice as promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying
party of any action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be
sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party shall not
relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it
is not materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not
relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of
this indemnity agreement.  In the case of parties indemnified pursuant to
Section 6(a) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by
Merrill Lynch, and, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(b)
above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Company.  An
indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of any
such action; provided, however, that counsel to the indemnifying party shall
not (except with the consent of the indemnified party) also be counsel to the
indemnified party.  In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for
fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel)
separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in connection with
any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same
jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances.  No
indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified
parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with
respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any
governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever
in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this
Section 6 or Section 7 hereof (whether or not the indemnified parties are
actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or
consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from
all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or
claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault,
culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

         (d)     Settlement without Consent if Failure to Reimburse.  If at any
time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to
reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such
indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the
nature contemplated by Section 6(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if
(i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such
indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall
have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to
such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not
have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to
the date of such settlement.





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         SECTION 7.       Contribution.  If the indemnification provided for in
Section 6 hereof is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold
harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims,
damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall
contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages
and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (i) in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the
Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the
offering of the Underwritten Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms
Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by
applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the
relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault
of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other hand, in
connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses,
liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations.

         The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and
the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the
Underwritten Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement shall be
deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from
the offering of such Underwritten Securities (before deducting expenses)
received by the Company and the total underwriting discount received by the
Underwriters, in each case as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus, or, if
Rule 434 is used, the corresponding location on the Term Sheet bear to the
aggregate initial public offering price of such Underwritten Securities as set
forth on such cover.

         The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the
Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among
other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties'
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or
prevent such statement or omission.

         The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro
rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of
the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 7.  The
aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred
by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 7 shall be deemed
to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified
party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any
investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or
threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.

         Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Underwriter shall
be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total
price at which the Underwritten Securities underwritten by it and distributed
to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages
which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such
untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.





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         No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning
of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any
person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

         For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls an
Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of
the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter,
and each director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the
Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act
shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company.  The Underwriters'
respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in
proportion to the aggregate principal amount of Underwritten Securities set
forth opposite their respective names in the applicable Terms Agreement, and
not joint.

         SECTION 8.       Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive
Delivery.  All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this
Underwriting Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement or in certificates of
officers of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company submitted pursuant
hereto or thereto shall remain operative and in full force and effect,
regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or
controlling person, or by or on behalf of the Company, and shall survive
delivery of and payment for the Underwritten Securities.

         SECTION 9.       Termination.

         (a)     Underwriting Agreement.  This Underwriting Agreement
(excluding the applicable Terms Agreement) may be terminated for any reason at
any time by the Company or by Merrill Lynch upon the giving of 30 days' prior
written notice of such termination to the other party hereto.

         (b)     Terms Agreement.  Merrill Lynch may terminate the applicable
Terms Agreement, by notice to the Company, at any time at or prior to the
Closing Time, if (i) there has been, since the time of execution of such Terms
Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or
otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the
Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not
arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) there has occurred any
material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or, if
the Underwritten Securities are denominated or payable in, or indexed to, one
or more foreign or composite currencies, in the international financial
markets, or any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity
or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in
national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each
case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of Merrill
Lynch, impracticable to market the Underwritten Securities or to enforce
contracts for the sale of the Underwritten Securities, or (iii) trading in any
securities of the Company has been suspended or limited by the Commission or
the American Stock Exchange, or if trading generally on the New York Stock
Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the over-the-counter market has
been suspended or limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been
fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by either of said
exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, the NASD or any
other governmental authority, or





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(iv) a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York or
Texas authorities or, if the Underwritten Securities are denominated or payable
in, or indexed to, one or more foreign or composite currencies, by the relevant
authorities in the related foreign country or countries.

         (c)     Liabilities.  If this Underwriting Agreement or the applicable
Terms Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section 9, such termination
shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided
in Section 4 hereof, and provided further that Sections 1, 6 and 7 shall
survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.

         SECTION 10.      Default by One or More of the Underwriters.  If one
or more of the Underwriters shall fail at the Closing Time to purchase the
Underwritten Securities which it or they are obligated to purchase under the
applicable Terms Agreement (the "Defaulted Securities"), then Merrill Lynch
shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one
or more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other underwriters, to
purchase all, but not less than all, of the Defaulted Securities in such
amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms herein set forth; if, however,
Merrill Lynch shall not have completed such arrangements within such 24-hour
period, then:

                 (a)      if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted
         Securities does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of
         Underwritten Securities to be purchased on such date pursuant to such
         Terms Agreement, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated,
         severally and not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the
         proportions that their respective underwriting obligations under such
         Terms Agreement bear to the underwriting obligations of all
         non-defaulting Underwriters, or

                 (b)      if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted
         Securities exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of
         Underwritten Securities to be purchased on such date pursuant to such
         Terms Agreement, such Terms Agreement shall terminate without
         liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter.

         No action taken pursuant to this Section 10 shall relieve any
defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of its default.

         In the event of any such default which does not result in a
termination of the applicable Terms Agreement, either Merrill Lynch or the
Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Time for a period not
exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any other documents or
arrangements.

         SECTION 11.      Notices.  All notices and other communications
hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if
mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication.  Notices to
the Underwriters shall be directed to Merrill Lynch at World Financial Center,
North Tower, New York, New York 10281-1201, attention of the Debt Syndicate
Department; and notices to the Company shall be directed to them at 1360 Post
Oak Boulevard, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas  77056, attention of Chief Financial
Officer.





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         SECTION 12.      Parties.  This Underwriting Agreement and the
applicable Terms Agreement shall each inure to the benefit of and be binding
upon the Company, Merrill Lynch and, upon execution of such Terms Agreement,
any other Underwriters and their respective successors.  Nothing expressed or
mentioned in this Underwriting Agreement or such Terms Agreement is intended or
shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the
Underwriters, the Company and its successors and the controlling persons and
officers and directors referred to in Sections 6 and 7 and their heirs and
legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or
in respect of this Underwriting Agreement or such Terms Agreement or any
provision herein or therein contained.  This Underwriting Agreement and such
Terms Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof and thereof are
intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and
thereto and their respective successors, and said controlling persons and
officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the
benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Underwritten
Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor by reason
merely of such purchase.

         SECTION 13.      GOVERNING LAW.  THIS UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT AND ANY
APPLICABLE TERMS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

         SECTION 14.      Effect of Headings.  The Article and Section headings
herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.





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         If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our
agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof,
whereupon this Underwriting Agreement, along with all counterparts, will become
a binding agreement between Merrill Lynch and the Company in accordance with
its terms.

                                        Very truly yours,
                                        
                                        WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                                        
                                        
                                        By:
                                            -------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
                                        
                                        

CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,
  as of the date first above written:

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH
  INCORPORATED

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





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                                                                    EXHIBIT 4.1



                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.


                                      AND


                         BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY

                                    TRUSTEE





                                _______________


                                   INDENTURE

                                _______________


                          DATED AS OF APRIL ___, 1996
<PAGE>   2
                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.

    RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND INDENTURE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Trust Indenture
   Act Section                                                                               Indenture Section
- -----------------                                                                            -----------------
<S>                                                                                           <C>
Section  310(a)(1)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     609
      (a)(2)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     609
      (a)(3)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
      (a)(4)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
      (a)(5)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     609
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     608
                  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     610
      (c)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
Section  311(a)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     613
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     613
      (c)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
Section  312(a)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     701
                  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     702
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     702
      (c)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     702
Section  313(a)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     703
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     703
      (c)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     703
      (d)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     703
Section  314(a)(1)-(3)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     704
      (a)(4)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     704
                  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     1007
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
      (c)(1)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     102
      (c)(2)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     102
      (c)(3)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
      (d)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
      (e)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     102
Section  315(a)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     601
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     602
      (c)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     601
      (d)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     601
      (e)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     514
Section  316(a)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     101
      (a)(1)(A)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     502
                  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     512
      (a)(1)(B)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     513
      (a)(2)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     Not Applicable
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     508
      (c)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     104
Section  317(a)(1)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     503
      (a)(2)      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     504
      (b)         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     1003
Section  318(a)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     108
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NOTE:  This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
       part of the Indenture.
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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS


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         RECITALS OF THE COMPANY  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

                                                       ARTICLE  ONE


                                 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

         SECTION 101.     Definitions.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
         SECTION 102.     Compliance Certificates and Opinions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
         SECTION 103.     Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
         SECTION 104.     Acts of Holders.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
         SECTION 105.     Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
         SECTION 106.     Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
         SECTION 107.     Language of Notices, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
         SECTION 108.     Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
         SECTION 109.     Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
         SECTION 110.     Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         SECTION 111.     Separability Clause.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         SECTION 112.     Benefits of Indenture.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         SECTION 113.     Governing Law.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         SECTION 114.     Legal Holidays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11

                                                       ARTICLE  TWO


                                                      SECURITY FORMS

         SECTION 201.     Forms Generally.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         SECTION 202.     Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
         SECTION 203.     Securities in Global Form.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
         SECTION 204.     Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

                                                      ARTICLE THREE


                                                      THE SECURITIES

         SECTION 301.     Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
         SECTION 302.     Denominations.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
         SECTION 303.     Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
         SECTION 304.     Temporary Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
         SECTION 305.     Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
         SECTION 306.     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities and Coupons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
         SECTION 307.     Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         SECTION 308.     Persons Deemed Owners.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
         SECTION 309.     Cancellation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
         SECTION 310.     Computation of Interest.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
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                                                      ARTICLE  FOUR


                                                SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

         SECTION 401.     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
         SECTION 402.     Application of Trust Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25

                                                      ARTICLE  FIVE


                                                         REMEDIES

         SECTION 501.     Events of Default.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
         SECTION 502.     Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
         SECTION 503.     Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
         SECTION 504.     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
         SECTION 505.     Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or Coupons. . . . . . . . . . .  28
         SECTION 506.     Application of Money Collected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
         SECTION 507.     Limitation on Suits.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
         SECTION 508.     Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.  . . . . . . . .  30
         SECTION 509.     Restoration of Rights and Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
         SECTION 510.     Rights and Remedies Cumulative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
         SECTION 511.     Delay or Omission Not Waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
         SECTION 512.     Control by Holders of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
         SECTION 513.     Waiver of Past Defaults.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
         SECTION 514.     Undertaking for Costs.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
         SECTION 515.     Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32

                                                       ARTICLE  SIX


                                                       THE TRUSTEE

         SECTION 601.     Certain Duties and Responsibilities.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
         SECTION 602.     Notice of Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
         SECTION 603.     Certain Rights of Trustee.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
         SECTION 604.     Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
         SECTION 605.     May Hold Securities.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
         SECTION 606.     Money Held in Trust.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
         SECTION 607.     Compensation and Reimbursement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
         SECTION 608.     Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
         SECTION 609.     Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
         SECTION 610.     Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
         SECTION 611.     Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
         SECTION 612.     Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
         SECTION 613.     Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
         SECTION 614.     Appointment of Authenticating Agent.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
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                                                      ARTICLE  SEVEN


                                    HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

         SECTION 701.     Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
         SECTION 702.     Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
         SECTION 703.     Reports by Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
         SECTION 704.     Reports by Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39

                                                      ARTICLE  EIGHT


                                   CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

         SECTION 801.     Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
         SECTION 802.     Successor Substituted.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40

                                                      ARTICLE  NINE


                                                 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

         SECTION 901.     Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
         SECTION 902.     Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
         SECTION 903.     Execution of Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
         SECTION 904.     Effect of Supplemental Indentures.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
         SECTION 905.     Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
         SECTION 906.     Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43

                                                       ARTICLE  TEN


                                                        COVENANTS

         SECTION 1001.  Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
         SECTION 1002.   Corporate Existence and Maintenance of Office or Agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
         SECTION 1003.  Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  44
         SECTION 1004.  Additional Amounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45
         SECTION 1005.  Purchase of Securities by Company or Subsidiary.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
         SECTION 1006.  Limitation on Liens.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
         SECTION 1007.  Statement by Officer as to Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
         SECTION 1008.  Waiver of Certain Covenants.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
         SECTION 1009.  Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
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                                                     ARTICLE  ELEVEN

                                                 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

         SECTION 1101.  Applicability of Article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
         SECTION 1102.  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
         SECTION 1103.  Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
         SECTION 1104.  Notice of Redemption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
         SECTION 1105.  Deposit of Redemption Price.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 1106.  Securities Payable on Redemption Date.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 1107.  Securities Redeemed in Part.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50

                                                     ARTICLE  TWELVE


                                                      SINKING FUNDS

         SECTION 1201.  Applicability of Article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51
         SECTION 1202.  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51
         SECTION 1203.  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51

                                                    ARTICLE  THIRTEEN


                                            DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

         SECTION 1301.  Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
         SECTION 1302.  Defeasance and Discharge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
         SECTION 1303.  Covenant Defeasance.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
         SECTION 1304.  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
         SECTION 1305.  Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in
                             Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
         SECTION 1306.  Reinstatement.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54

                                                    ARTICLE  FOURTEEN


                                         MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF BEARER SECURITIES

         SECTION 1401.  Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  55
         SECTION 1402.  Call, Notice and Place of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  55
         SECTION 1403.  Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  55
         SECTION 1404.  Quorum; Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  55
         SECTION 1405.  Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings.  . . . . . . . . . . . .  56
         SECTION 1406.  Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  57
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         THIS INDENTURE, dated as of April ___, 1996, between Weatherford
Enterra, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at
1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77056, and Bank of Montreal
Trust Company, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee").

                            RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

         The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided.

         This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended, that are required to be part of this Indenture and shall,
to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

         All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

         NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

         For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of a series thereof,
as follows:


                                  ARTICLE  ONE

                        DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
                             OF GENERAL APPLICATION

SECTION 101.     Definitions.

         For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

                 (1)      the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
         assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the
         singular;

                 (2)      all other terms used herein which are defined in the
         Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
         meanings assigned to them therein;

                 (3)      all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein
         have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally
         accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, and,
         except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "generally
         accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation
         required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles
         as are generally accepted in the United States of America at the date
         of such computation; and

                 (4)      the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and
         other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and
         not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision, and the
         words "date of this Indenture" and "date hereof" and other words of
         similar import refer to the effective date of the original execution
         and delivery of this Indenture, viz. April ___, 1996.

         "Act," when used with respect to any Holder of a Security, has the
meaning specified in Section 104.





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         "Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person.  For the purposes of this definition
"control," when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.

         "Attributable Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Sale/Leaseback
Transaction as of any particular time, the present value (discounted at the
rate of interest implicit in the terms of the lease) of the obligations of the
lessee under such lease for net rental payments during the remaining term of
the lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended).  "Net
rental payments" under any lease for any period means the sum of the rental and
other payments required to be paid in such period by the lessee thereunder, not
including, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee (whether or
not designated as rental or additional rental) on account of maintenance and
repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments or similar charges required to be paid
by such lessee thereunder contingent upon the amount of sales or deliveries,
maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments or similar charges.

         "Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.

         "Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, in the English language or
in an official language of the country of publication, customarily published on
each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays,
and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is
used or in the financial community of such place.  Where successive
publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive
publications may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same
city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.

         "Bearer Security" means any Security in the form established pursuant
to Section 201 which is payable to bearer, including, without limitation, a
Security in temporary or permanent global form.

         "Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.

         "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors or any committee thereof, and to be in full force and
effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

         "Book-Entry Security" means a Security bearing the legend specified in
Section 204, evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the
Depository for such series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such
Depository or nominee.  Book-Entry Securities shall not be deemed to be
Securities in global form for purposes of Sections 201 and 203 and Article
Three of this Indenture.

         "Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any
other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities,
means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day
on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or other location are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close except as may
otherwise be provided with respect to Securities of any given series.

         "Certification Date" means with respect to Securities of any series
(i) if Bearer Securities of such series are not to be initially represented by
a temporary global Security, the date of delivery of the definitive Bearer
Security and (ii) if Bearer Securities of such series are initially represented
by a temporary global Security, the earlier of (A) the Exchange Date with
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Interest Payment Date with respect to Securities of such series is prior to
such Exchange Date, such Interest Payment Date.

         "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

         "Common Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 304.

         "Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.

         "Company Order" or "Company Request" means a written order or request
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President
or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

         "Consolidated Net Worth" means the amount of total stockholders'
equity shown in the most recent consolidated statement of financial position of
the Company.

         "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in
New York, New York, at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered.

         The term "corporation" means a corporation, association, limited
liability company, joint-stock company, business trust or similar organization.

         The term "coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.

         "Current Assets" of any Person includes all assets of such Person
which would in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles be
classified as current assets.

         "Current Liabilities" of any Person includes all liabilities of such
Person which would in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
be classified as current liabilities.

         "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.

         "Depository" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Book-Entry
Securities, the clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

         "Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal
tender for the payment of public and private debts.

         "Euro-clear" means the operator of the Euro-clear System.

         "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.

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         "Holder," when used with respect to any Security, means in the case of
a Registered Security the Person in whose name the Security is registered in
the Security Register and in the case of a Bearer Security the bearer thereof
and, when used with respect to any coupon, means the bearer thereof.

         "Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301 and the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that
are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument.

         The term "interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue
Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means
interest payable after Maturity.

         "Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.

         "Issue Date" means the Date on which Securities are originally issued
under this Indenture.

         "Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any installment
of principal thereof, means the date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal, as the case may be, becomes due and payable as
therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

         "Non-Recourse Indebtedness" means indebtedness of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company in respect of which the recourse of the holder of
such indebtedness, whether direct or indirect and whether contingent or
otherwise, is effectively limited to specified assets, and with respect to
which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company provides any credit
support.

         "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate complying with the
provisions of Section 102 signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President or
a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company and delivered to the Trustee.

         "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or counsel for the Company.

         "Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which is issued
at a price lower than the principal amount payable upon the Stated Maturity
thereof and which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof
to be due and payable upon redemption thereof or upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.

         "Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:

                 (i)      Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
         delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

                 (ii)     Securities for whose payment or redemption money in
         the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee
         or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
         segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its
         own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities and any coupons
         appertaining thereto, provided that, if such Securities are to be
         redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to
         this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has
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                 (iii)    Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section
         306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
         authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
         such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
         the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by
         a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
         obligations of the Company;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or whether a
quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of Securities (a) the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and
payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 502, (b) the principal amount of a Security
denominated in a foreign currency or currencies, including composite
currencies, shall be the Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original
issuance of such Security in the manner provided as contemplated by Section
301, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such
Security of the amount determined as provided in (a) above) of such Security,
and (c) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, or upon any such
determination as to the presence of a quorum, only Securities which the Trustee
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which have
been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company, or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor.

         "Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.

         "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

         "Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places as specified in accordance with Section 301
where, subject to the provisions of Section 1002, the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable.

         "Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
the Security to which the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains, as the case may be.

         "Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.

         "Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.

         "Registered Security" means any Security in the form established
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         "Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of any series means the date specified for
that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

         "Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, shall
mean any officer in the corporate trust department (or any successor group) of
the Trustee, including any Vice President, any Trust Officer, or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively,
or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office
because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

         "Sale/Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any Person
providing for the leasing by the Company or any Subsidiary, for a period of
more than three years, of any real or personal property, which property has
been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Subsidiary to such
Person in contemplation of such leasing.

         "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture.

         "Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.

         "Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 307.

         "Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.

         "Subsidiary" of a Person means (i) any corporation more than 50% of
the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which is owned,
directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries,
or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) any partnership
or similar business organization more than 50% of the ownership interests
having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned.  For the
purposes of this definition, "securities having ordinary voting power" means
securities or other equity interests which ordinarily have voting power for the
election of directors, or persons having management power with respect to the
Person, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of securities
has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

         "Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder,
and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.

         "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided
in Section 905.

         "United States" means the United States of America (including the
States and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and
other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

         "United States Alien" means any Person who, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual,
a non-resident 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
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purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual or a
non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

         "U.S. Government Obligations" has the meaning specified in Section
1304.

         "Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president."

SECTION 102.     Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

         Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act.  Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of
an Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an
Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in
this Indenture.

         Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include

                 (1)      a statement that each Person signing such certificate
         or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
         herein relating thereto;

                 (2)      a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
         examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
         contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

                 (3)      a statement that, in the opinion of each such Person,
         such Person has made such examination or investigation as is necessary
         to enable such Person to express an informed opinion as to whether or
         not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

                 (4)      a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each
         such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

SECTION 103.     Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

         In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

         Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous.  Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
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         Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.

SECTION 104.     Acts of Holders.

         (a)     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent
duly appointed in writing.  If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer
Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders of such  series may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the
record of Holders of Securities of such series voting in favor thereof, either
in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of
Securities of such series duly called and held in accordance with the
provisions of Article Fourteen, or a combination of such instruments and any
such record. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments or record or both are
delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company.  Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments and so voting at
any such meeting.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent or proxy or of the holding by any Person of a
Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to
Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the
manner provided in this Section.  The record of any meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1406.

         (b)     The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.  Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority.  The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

         (c)     The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act, fix any day as the record date for the purpose of determining
the Holders of Registered Securities of any series entitled to give or take any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, or to vote on any action, authorized or permitted to be given or taken
by Holders of Securities of such series.  If not set by the Company prior to
the first solicitation of a Holder of Securities of such series made by any
Person in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior
to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the 30th day
(or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be
provided pursuant to Section 701) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as
the case may be.  With regard to any record date for action to be taken by the
Holders of one or more series of Securities, only the Holders of Securities of
such series on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled
to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.

         (d)     The principal amount and serial numbers of Registered
Securities held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be
proved by the Security Register.

         (e)     The principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities
held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, may be proved by the
production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as
depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever
situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be
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Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer
Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or
affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate or
affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory.  The Trustee and the
Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until
(1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of
the same Bearer Security is produced, or  (2) such Bearer Security is produced
to the Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered
in exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer
Outstanding.  The principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, may also be proved in any
other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

         (f)     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.  Any Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act as to
his Security or portion of his Security; provided, however, that such
revocation shall be effective only if the Trustee receives notice of such
revocation before the date the Act becomes effective.

         (g)     Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to
give or take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do
so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or
by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any different part of such principal amount.

SECTION 105.     Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.

         Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

                 (1)      the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
         sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
         filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
         Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or

                 (2)      the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
         sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
         expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
         prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its
         principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture,
         to the attention of its Treasurer, or at any other address previously
         furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company; and in the case of
         Bearer Securities, at the address of an office or agency located
         outside the United States maintained by the Company in accordance with
         Section 1002.

SECTION 106.     Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.

         Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any event,

                 (1)      such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
         Registered Securities if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
         prepaid, to each Holder of a Registered Security affected by such
         event, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Security
         Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the
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                 (2)      such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
         Bearer Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City
         of New York and in such other city or cities as may be specified in
         such Securities on a Business Day at least twice, the first such
         publication to be not earlier than the earliest date, and not later
         than the latest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.

         In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to
Holders of Registered Securities by mail, then such notification as shall be
made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to
such Holders for every purpose hereunder.  In any case where notice to Holders
of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a
Registered Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
other Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to
Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein.

         In case by the reason of the suspension of publication of any
Authorized Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause
it shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities
as provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as
shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient
notice to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.  Neither the failure to
give notice by publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above,
nor any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any
notice to Holders of Registered Securities given as provided herein.

         Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice
may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice.  Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be filed with the
Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

SECTION 107.     Language of Notices, Etc.

         Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of
the country of publication.

SECTION 108.     Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

         If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with any
provision of the Trust Indenture Act, or any other provision included in this
Indenture by any provision of the Trust Indenture Act, such provision of the
Trust Indenture Act or included provision shall control.  If any provision of
this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act
that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to
apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

SECTION 109.     Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

         The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

SECTION 110.     Successors and Assigns.

         All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
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SECTION 111.     Separability Clause.

         In case any provision in this Indenture or the Securities or coupons
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.

SECTION 112.     Benefits of Indenture.

         Nothing in this Indenture or the Securities or coupons, express or
implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, their
successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities and coupons, any benefit or
any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 113.     Governing Law.

         This Indenture and the Securities and coupons shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard
to principles of conflicts of laws.

SECTION 114.     Legal Holidays.

         In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons other than a provision in the Securities of any series
which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this
Section) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be
made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect
as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated
Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for
the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity, as the case may be.

                                  ARTICLE  TWO

                                 SECURITY FORMS

SECTION 201.     Forms Generally.

         The Registered Securities, if any, of each series and the Bearer
Securities, if any, of each series and related coupons shall be in
substantially the form (including temporary or permanent global form) as shall
be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with law, or with the rules of any securities exchange or to
conform to general usage, all as may, consistently herewith, be determined by
the officers executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by their
execution of the Securities or coupons.  If temporary Securities of any series
are issued in global form as permitted by Section 304, the form thereof shall
be established as provided in the preceding sentence.  A copy of the Board
Resolution establishing the forms of Securities or coupons of any series (or
any such temporary global Security) shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities (or any such temporary global
Security) or coupons.

         Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Securities
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         The definitive Securities and coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities or
coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or coupons.

SECTION 202.     Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.

         The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:

         "This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                        BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY,
                                           as Trustee


                                        By 
                                           ----------------------------------
                                                 Authorized Signature."


SECTION 203.     Securities in Global Form.

         If Securities of a series are issuable in global form, as specified in
the manner contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (10) of
Section 301 and the provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall
represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be
specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount
of Outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and that the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may be reduced
to reflect exchanges.  Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect
the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and
upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein
or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303
or Section 304.  Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable,
Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent
global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons
specified therein or in the applicable Company Order.  If a Company Order
pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any
instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or
redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply
with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

         The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any
Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never
issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the
Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not
comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented
thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence
of Section 303.

         Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 201 and 307, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of and
any premium and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made
to the Person or Persons specified therein.

SECTION 204.     Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities.

         Any Book-Entry Security authenticated and delivered  hereunder shall
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         "This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository
or a nominee of a Depository.  This Security is exchangeable for Securities
registered in the name of a Person other than the Depository or its nominee
only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and no transfer
of this Security (other than a transfer of this Security 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) may be registered except
in such limited circumstances."


                                 ARTICLE THREE

                                 THE SECURITIES

SECTION 301.     Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

         The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

         The Securities may be issued in one or more series, and each such
series shall rank equally and pari passu with each other series.  There shall
be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section
303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers'
Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:

                 (1)      the title of the Securities of the series (which
         shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other
         Securities);

                 (2)      any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
         Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered
         under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and
         delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in
         lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305,
         306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to
         Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
         hereunder);

                 (3)      whether Securities of the series are to be issuable
         as Registered Securities, Bearer Securities or both, whether any
         Securities of the series are to be issuable initially in temporary
         global form and whether any Securities of the series are to be
         issuable in permanent global form, as Book Entry Securities, or
         otherwise, with or without coupons, and, if so, whether beneficial
         owners of interests in any such permanent global Security may exchange
         such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
         authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any
         such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in
         Section 305;

                 (4)      the Person to whom any interest on any Registered
         Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in
         whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
         registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for
         such interest, the manner in which, or the Person to whom, any
         interest on any Bearer Security  of the series shall be payable, if
         otherwise than upon presentation and surrender of the coupons
         appertaining thereto as they severally mature, and the extent to
         which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary
         global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than
         in the manner provided in Section 304;

                 (5)      the date or dates on which the principal of (and
         premium, if any, on) the Securities of the series is payable or the
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                 (6)      the rate or rates at which the Securities of the
         series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate
         shall be determined, the date or dates from which any such interest
         shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest
         shall be payable, the Regular Record Date for any interest payable on
         any Registered Securities on any Interest Payment Date and whether,
         and under what circumstances, additional amounts with respect to such
         Securities shall be payable as set forth in Section 1004;

                 (7)      the place or places where, subject to the provisions
         of Section 1002, the principal of and any premium and interest on
         Securities of the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities
         of the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer,
         Securities of the series may be surrendered for exchange and notices
         and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of the
         series and this Indenture may be served;

                 (8)      the right, if any, of the Company to redeem
         Securities of the series, in whole or in part, at its option and the
         period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
         terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be so
         redeemed;

                 (9)      the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem,
         purchase, or repay Securities of the series pursuant to any mandatory
         redemption, sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a
         Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or
         prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of
         the series shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in
         part, pursuant to such obligation;

                 (10)     the denominations in which any Registered Securities
         of the series shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000
         and any integral multiple thereof, and the denomination or
         denominations in which any Bearer Securities of the series shall be
         issuable, if other than the denomination of $5,000;

                 (11)     the currency or currencies, including composite
         currencies, in which payment of the principal of and any premium and
         interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable if other
         than the currency of the United States and the manner of determining
         the equivalent thereof in the currency of the  United States for
         purposes of the definition of "Outstanding" in Section  101;

                 (12)     if the amount of payments of principal of and any
         premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined
         with reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts shall be
         determined;

                 (13)     if other than the principal amount thereof, the
         portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which
         shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
         thereof pursuant to Section 502;

                 (14)     if the principal of and any premium or interest on
         the Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the
         Company or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies, including
         composite currencies, other than that or those in which the Securities
         are stated to be payable, the currency or currencies in which payment
         of the principal of and any premium and interest on Securities of such
         series as to which such election is made shall be payable, and the
         periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such
         election is to be made;

                 (15)     whether the Securities of the series shall be issued
         upon original issuance in whole or in part in the form of one or more
         Book-Entry Securities and, in such case, (a) the Depository with
         respect to such Book-Entry Security or Securities and (b) the
         circumstances under which any such Book-Entry Security may be
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         transfer of such Book-Entry Security may be registered to, a Person
         other than such Depository or its nominee, if other than as set forth
         in Section 305;

                 (16)     if either or both of the provisions of Section 1302
         or 1303 are applicable to the Securities of such series and any
         additional means of discharge pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 and any
         additional conditions to the provisions of Section 1302 or 1303;

                 (17)     any other Events of Default or covenants with respect
         to the Securities of such series or any deletion or modifications to
         the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein with respect to
         the Securities of such series; and

                 (18)     any other terms of the series (which terms shall not
         be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture except as
         permitted by Section 901(5)).

         All Securities of any one series and the coupons appertaining to any
Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except, in
the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above
and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided,
in the Officers' Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture
supplemental hereto.

         If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company
and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.

SECTION 302.     Denominations.

         Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, any Registered Securities of a series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and any
Bearer Securities of a series shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000.

SECTION 303.     Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

         The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board,  its President, its Treasurer or its Chief Financial
Officer, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary
or one of its Assistant Secretaries.  The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile.  Coupons shall bear the facsimile
signature of the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company.

         Securities and coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased
to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities or
coupons.

         At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with
any coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that,
unless otherwise provided with respect to such series, in connection with its
original issuance, during the "restricted period" (as defined in Section
1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7) of the United States Treasury Regulations) (the
"restricted period") no Bearer Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered
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respect to such series, a Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with
its original issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer
Security shall have furnished a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A
to this Indenture, dated no earlier than the Certification Date, or such other
form of certification as shall contain such information as may then be required
by U.S. federal income tax law or as shall be otherwise provided with respect
to a series.  If any Security shall be represented by a permanent global Bearer
Security, then, for purposes of this Section and Section 304, the notation of a
beneficial owner's interest therein upon original issuance of such Security or
upon exchange of a portion of a temporary global Security shall be deemed to be
delivery in connection with its original issuance during the restricted period
of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security.  Except
as permitted by Section 306, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any
Bearer Security unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have
been detached and cancelled.

         In authenticating Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to  Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating:

                 (a)      that the forms of such Securities and coupons
         established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as contemplated by
         Section 201 have been established in conformity with the provisions of
         this Indenture;

                 (b)      if the terms of such Securities and any coupons have
         been established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by
         Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with
         the provisions of this Indenture; and

                 (c)      that such Securities, together with any coupons
         appertaining thereto, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
         and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions
         specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and
         legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance
         with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
         transfer, reorganization and other laws of general applicability
         relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity
         principles.

Such Opinion of Counsel shall also cover such other matters as the Trustee may
reasonably request.

         The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities the
forms or terms of which have been established by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will
affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and
this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee.

         Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the two preceding
paragraphs, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at
one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate
otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of
Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraphs at or prior to
the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents
are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued.

         After the original issuance of the first Security of such series to be
issued, any separate request by the Company that the Trustee authenticate
Securities of such series for original issuance will be deemed to be a
certification by the Company (which, subject to Section 601, the Trustee shall
be fully protected in relying on) that it is in compliance with all conditions
precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication and
delivery of such Securities.

         Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication; and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date of
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         No Security or coupon shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on
such Security, or the Security to which such coupon appertains, a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall  be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any
Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued
and sold by the Company, and the Company  shall deliver such Security to the
Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written
statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied
by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and
sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be
deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

SECTION 304.     Temporary Securities.

         Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered
form or, if authorized, in bearer form with one or more coupons or without
coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.  In the case of any series
issuable as Bearer Securities, such temporary Securities may be in global form.
A temporary Bearer Security shall be delivered only in compliance with the
conditions set forth in Section 303.

         Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall
be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of the following paragraphs), if
temporary  Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to Section 1002 in a Place
of Payment for such series for the purpose of exchanges of Securities of such
series without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any
one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any unmatured
coupons appertaining thereto),  the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like aggregate principal amount
of definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor of authorized
denominations; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be
issued in exchange for a temporary Registered Security.

         If temporary Securities of any series are issued in global form, any
such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be
delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the
"Common Depositary"), for the benefit of Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A., for credit
to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to
such other accounts as they may direct).

         Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global
Security of a series (the "Exchange Date"), the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee definitive Securities of that series in aggregate principal amount
equal to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by
the Company.  On or after the Exchange Date such temporary global Security
shall be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company's
agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part,
for definitive Securities of that series without charge and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such temporary global
Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the
same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of
such temporary global Security to be exchanged; provided, however, that, unless
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such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security
shall be accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent
date and signed by Euro-clear as to the portion of such temporary global
Security held for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the
Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by CEDEL S.A. as to the portion
of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged,
each in the form set forth in Exhibit B to this Indenture, or such other form
of certification as shall contain such information as may then be required by
U.S. federal income tax law or as shall be otherwise provided with respect to a
series.  The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such
temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any combination
thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, and if any combination
thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof;
provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security or permanent global
Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security except
in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 303.

         Unless otherwise specified in the temporary global Security, the
interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global
Security shall be exchanged on the Exchange Date for definitive Securities (and
where the form of the definitive Securities is not specified by the Holder for
an interest in a permanent global Security) of the same series and of like
tenor unless, on or prior to the Exchange Date, such beneficial owner has not
delivered to Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A., as the case may be, a certificate in the
form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture, or such other form of
certification as shall contain such information as may then be required by U.S.
federal income tax law or as shall be otherwise provided with respect to a
series, dated no earlier than the Certification Date, copies of which
certificate shall be available from the offices of Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A.,
the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed for such series of Securities
and each Paying Agent, and after the Exchange Date, the interest of a
beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global Security shall
be exchanged for definitive Securities (and where the form of the definitive
Securities is not specified by the Holder for an interest in a permanent global
Security) of the same series and of like tenor following such beneficial
owner's delivery to Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A., as the case may be, of a
certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture, or such other
form of certification as shall contain such information as may then be required
by U.S. federal income tax law or as shall be otherwise provided with respect
to a series, dated no earlier than the Certification Date.  Unless otherwise
specified in such temporary global Security, any exchange shall be made free of
charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that
a Person receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance,
postage, transportation and the like in the event that such Person does not
take delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the offices of
Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A. Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered
in exchange for any portion of a temporary global Security shall be delivered
only outside the United States.

         Until exchanged in full  as hereinabove provided, the temporary
Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like
tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, interest payable on a temporary
global Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series shall
be payable to Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A. on such Interest Payment Date upon
delivery by Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A. to the Trustee of a certificate or
certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit B to this Indenture, or such
other form of certification as shall contain such information as may then be
required by U.S. federal income tax law or as shall be otherwise provided with
respect to a series, for credit without further interest on or after such
Interest Payment Date to the respective accounts of the Persons who are the
beneficial owners of such temporary global Security on such Interest Payment
Date and who have each delivered to Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A., as the case may
be, a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture; and
except that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date for
Securities of such series occurring on or after the applicable Exchange Date
shall be payable to Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A. on such Interest Payment Date but
shall not be credited by Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A. to the account of any Person
who is a beneficial owner of such temporary global Security on such Interest
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shall exchange his interest in such temporary global Security in full as
hereinabove provided.  Any interest so received by Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A.
and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to the Trustee immediately
prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order
to be repaid to the Company in accordance with Section 1003.

SECTION 305.     Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

         The Company shall cause to be kept at an office or agency to be
maintained by the Company in accordance with Section 1002 a register (being the
combined register of the Security Registrar and all transfer agents designated
pursuant to Section 1002 for the purpose of registration of transfer of
Securities and sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security Register")
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the
Company shall provide for the registration of each series of Registered
Securities and the registration of transfers of such Registered Securities.
The Company shall serve initially as "Security Registrar" for the purpose of
registering Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities as
herein provided.

         Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security
of any series at the office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to
Section 1002 for such purpose in a Place of Payment for such series, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered
Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations and of a like
aggregate principal amount and tenor.

         At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may
be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor,
upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which
the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.  Unless otherwise
provided with respect to any series of Securities, Bearer Securities may not be
issued in exchange for Registered Securities.

         At the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon
surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any such office or
agency, with all unmatured coupons and all matured coupons in default thereto
appertaining.  If the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such
unmatured coupon or coupons or matured coupon or coupons in default, such
exchange may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in
funds acceptable to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of such
missing coupon or coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons
may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such
security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying
Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to
any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment
shall have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of
such payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section
1002, interest represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation
and surrender of those coupons at an office or agency located outside the
United States.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any
series is surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered
Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of business at such
office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or
(ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office
or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such
Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, and
interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such
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case may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such
Bearer Security but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

         Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be
exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph.  If the beneficial owners of
interests in a permanent global Security are entitled to exchange such
interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount
of another authorized form and denomination, as specified as contemplated by
Section 301, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the
earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall
deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities of that series in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of such permanent global
Security, executed by the Company.  On or after the earliest date on which such
interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Security shall be
surrendered from time to time in accordance with instructions given to the
Trustee and the Common Depositary (which instructions shall be in writing but
need not comply with Section 102 or be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) by
the Common Depositary or such other depositary or Common Depositary as shall be
specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the
Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or in part, for
definitive Securities of the same series without charge and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such permanent global
Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the
same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of
such permanent global Security to be exchanged which, unless the Securities of
the series are not issuable both as Bearer Securities and as Registered
Securities, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, shall be in the form
of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination thereof, as
shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof; provided, however, that no
such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business
15 days before any selection of Securities of that series is to be redeemed and
ending on the relevant Redemption Date; and provided, further, that no Bearer
Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security
shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States.
Promptly following any such exchange in part, such permanent global Security
shall be returned by the Trustee to the Common Depositary or such other
depositary or Common Depositary referred to above in accordance with the
instructions of the Company referred to above.  If a Registered Security is
issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent global Security after the
close of business at the office or agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any
Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency
on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed
date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the
case may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date
for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but
will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as
the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion
of such permanent global Security is payable in accordance with provisions of
this Indenture.

         All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

         Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee or any
transfer agent) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar or any
transfer agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
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         No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.

         The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the
opening of business 15 days before any selection of Securities of that series
to be redeemed and ending at the close of business on (A) if Securities of the
series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of
the relevant notice of redemption and (B) if Securities of the series are
issuable as Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of the relevant
notice of redemption, or if Securities of the series are also issuable as
Registered Securities and there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant
notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any
Registered Security so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Registered Security being redeemed in part, or (iii)
to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for redemption except that such a
Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and
like tenor, provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously
surrendered for redemption.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as otherwise specified or
contemplated by Section 301, any Book-Entry Security shall be exchangeable
pursuant to this Section 305 or Sections 304, 906 and 1107 for Securities
registered in the name of, and a transfer of a Book-Entry Security of any
series may be registered to, any Person other than the Depository for such
Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depository notifies the Company that
it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Book-Entry
Security or if at any time such Depository ceases to be a clearing agency
registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) the
Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such
Book-Entry Security shall be so exchangeable and the transfer thereof so
registrable or (iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of such series.  Upon the occurrence in
respect of any Book-Entry Security of any series of any one or more of the
conditions specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of the preceding sentence or
such other conditions as may be specified, such Book-Entry Security may be
exchanged for Securities registered in the names of, and the transfer of such
Book-Entry Security may be registered to, such Persons (including Persons other
than the Depository with respect to such series and its nominees) as such
Depository shall direct.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture, any Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, any Book-Entry Security shall
also be a Book-Entry Security and shall bear the legend specified in Section
204 except for any Security authenticated and delivered in exchange for, or
upon registration of transfer of, a Book-Entry Security pursuant to the
preceding sentence.

SECTION 306.     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities and Coupons.

         If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon
appertaining thereto is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the
coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.

         If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security or coupon and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by
them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in
the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or
coupon has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed,
lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed,
lost or stolen coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed,
lost or stolen), a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with
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the coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
to the Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains.

         In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security or coupon;
provided, however, that the principal of and any premium  and interest on
Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, be
payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States.

         Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses
(including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

         Every new Security of any series with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its
coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and any such new Security and coupons, if any, shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of that series and their coupons, if any, duly
issued hereunder.

         The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
coupons.

SECTION 307.     Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

         Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, interest on any Registered Security which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest.  Unless otherwise so provided, at the option of
the Company, payment of interest on any Registered Security may be made by
check mailed on or before the due date to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register.

         Any interest on any Registered Security of any series which is
payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having
been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at
its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

                 (1)      The Company may elect to make payment of any
         Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered
         Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
         are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for
         the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
         following manner.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of
         the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
         Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed
         payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
         Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to
         be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
         arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the
         date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in
         trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
         Interest as in this Clause provided.  Thereupon the Trustee shall fix
         a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which
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         than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the
         proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
         Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.  The Trustee shall
         promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the
         name  and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
         proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
         Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
         Holder of Registered Securities of such series at the address of such
         Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days
         prior to such Special Record Date.  Notice of the proposed payment of
         such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having
         been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons
         in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their
         respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
         business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
         pursuant to the following clause (2).

                 (2)      The Company may make payment of any Defaulted
         Interest on the Registered Securities of any series in any other
         lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
         exchange on which such Securities may be then listed, and upon such
         notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by
         the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
         Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
         Trustee.

         Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 305,
each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of
or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.

SECTION 308.     Persons Deemed Owners.

         Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as
the owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) any
interest on such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee
nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.

         Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto
shall pass by delivery.  The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
or the Trustee may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of
any coupon as the owner of such Bearer Security or coupon for the purpose of
receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupon be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Book-Entry
Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, any agent of
the Company or any agent of the Trustee from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depository or
impair, as between a Depository and holders of beneficial interests in any
Book-Entry Security, the operation of customary practices governing the
exercise of the rights of the Depository (or its nominee) as Holder of such
Book-Entry Security.

SECTION 309.     Cancellation.

         All Securities and coupons surrendered for payment, redemption,
registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund
payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee.  All Registered Securities and matured coupons so
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cancelled by the Trustee.  All Bearer Securities  and unmatured coupons so
delivered shall be held by the Trustee and, upon instruction by a Company
Order, shall be cancelled or held for reissuance.  Bearer Securities and
unmatured coupons held for reissuance may be reissued only in replacement of
mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bearer Securities of the same series and
like tenor or the related coupons pursuant to Section 306.  All Bearer
Securities and unmatured coupons held by the Trustee pending such cancellation
or reissuance shall be deemed to be delivered for all purposes of this
Indenture and the Securities.  The Company may at any time deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may
deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the
Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be
promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  No Securities shall be authenticated in
lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  All cancelled
Securities and coupons held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance
with its customary practice.

SECTION 310.     Computation of Interest.

         Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.


                                 ARTICLE  FOUR

                           SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 401.     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

         This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further
effect with respect to Securities of a series (except as to any surviving
rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly
provided for, and any right to receive additional amounts, as provided in
Section 1004), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute
proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to Securities of a series, when

         (1)     either

                 (A)      all Securities of such series theretofore
         authenticated and delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining
         thereto (other than (i) coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities
         surrendered for exchange for Registered Securities and maturing after
         such exchange, whose surrender is not required or has been waived as
         provided in Section 305, (ii) Securities and coupons which have been
         destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
         provided in Section 306, (iii) coupons appertaining to Securities
         called for redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date,
         whose surrender has been waived as provided in Section 1106, and (iv)
         Securities and coupons for whose payment money has theretofore been
         deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
         thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as
         provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for
         cancellation; or

                 (B)      all such Securities and, in the case of (i) or (ii)
         below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to
         the Trustee for cancellation

                          (i)     have become due and payable, or

                          (ii)    will become due and payable at their Stated 
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                          (iii)   are to be called for redemption within one
                 year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the
                 giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and
                 at the expense, of the Company;

         and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
         deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in
         trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the
         entire indebtedness on such Securities and coupons not theretofore
         delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium,
         if any) and any interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of
         Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated
         Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

         (2)     the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and

         (3)     the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture have been complied with.

         Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (1)(B) of this Section,
the obligations of the Company under Sections 306, 610(e) and 701 and the
obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section
1003 shall survive.

SECTION 402.     Application of Trust Money.

         Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the
coupons and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and
any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been so deposited.


                                 ARTICLE  FIVE

                                    REMEDIES

SECTION 501.     Events of Default.

         "Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order, rule
or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), unless it is either
inapplicable to a particular series of Securities or it is specifically deleted
or modified in or pursuant to the terms of such series or in the form of
Security of such series:

                 (1)      default in the payment of any interest upon any
         Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and
         continuation of such default for a period of 30 days; or

                 (2)      default in the payment of the principal of (or
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                 (3)      default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment,
         when and as due by the terms of any Security of that series; or

                 (4)      default in the performance, or breach, of any
         covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a
         covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is
         elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has
         expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of
         series of Securities other than that series), and continuation of such
         default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given,
         by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to
         the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
         principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a
         written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to
         be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
         hereunder; or

                 (5)      the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the
         premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company
         in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or
         state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or
         (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company as bankrupt or insolvent,
         or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
         arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
         under any applicable Federal or state law, or appointing a custodian,
         receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
         official of the Company or of any substantial part of the property of
         the Company, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs,
         and the continuation of any such decree or order for relief or any
         such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90
         consecutive days; or

                 (6)      the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case
         or proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
         insolvency, reorganization or other similar law for the relief of
         debtors or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated as
         bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree
         or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case
         or proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
         insolvency, reorganization or other similar law for the relief of
         debtors or the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or
         proceeding against the Company, or the filing by the Company of a
         petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization, arrangement,
         adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any
         applicable Federal or state law, or the consent by the Company to the
         filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession
         by  a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator
         or similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of the
         property of the Company, or the making by the Company of an assignment
         for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company in
         writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become
         due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance
         of any such action; or

                 (7)      the acceleration of the maturity of any indebtedness
         for borrowed money of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
         (other than the Securities or Non-Recourse Indebtedness) having an
         aggregate principal amount outstanding in excess of $25,000,000, if
         such acceleration is not rescinded or annulled, or such indebtedness
         shall not have been discharged, within 15 days after written notice
         thereof to the Company; or

                 (8)      any other Event of Default provided with respect to
         Securities of that series.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 501, if the
principal of, or premium, if any, or any interest on, any Security of any
series is payable in a currency or currencies (including a composite currency)
other than Dollars and such currency (or currencies) is (or are) not available
to the Company for making payment thereof due to the imposition of exchange
controls or other circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Company,
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Securities of such series by making such payment in Dollars in an amount equal
to the Dollar equivalent of the amount payable in such other currency or
currencies, as determined by the Trustee by reference to the noon buying rate
in The City of New York for cable transfers for such currency or currencies
("Exchange Rate"), as such Exchange Rate is reported or otherwise made
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the date of such payment,
or, if such rate is not then available, on the basis of the most recently
available Exchange Rate.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 501, any payment made under such circumstances in Dollars where the
required payment is in a currency or currencies other than Dollars will not
constitute an Event of Default under this Indenture.

SECTION 502.     Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

         If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the
time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if any of the
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms
thereof) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
amount) shall become immediately due and payable.

         At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in
this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if

                 (1)      the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a 
         sum sufficient to pay

                          (A)     all overdue interest on, and any additional
                 amounts payable as set forth in Section 1004 on, all
                 Securities of that series and any coupons appertaining
                 thereto,

                          (B)     the principal of (and premium, if any, on)
                 any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise
                 than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest
                 thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
                 Securities,

                          (C)     to the extent that payment of such interest
                 is lawful, interest upon overdue interest, and any additional
                 amounts payable as set forth in Section 1004, at the rate or
                 rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and

                          (D)     all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
                 hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
                 disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
                 counsel;

         and

                 (2)      all Events of Default with respect to Securities of
         that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities
         of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of
         acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.

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SECTION 503.     Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
                 Trustee.

         The Company covenants that if

                 (1)      default is made in the payment of any interest on any
         Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default
         continues for a period of 30 days, or

                 (2)      default is made in the payment of the principal of
         (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,

the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and coupons, the whole amount then due and payable
on such Securities and coupons for principal and any premium and interest and,
to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable,
interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at
the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities (or, in the case of
Original Issue Discount Securities, the Securities' yield to maturity) and, in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

         If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute
a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.

         If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
and any related coupons by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee
shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for
the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in
aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy.

SECTION 504.     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

         In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company(or any
other obligor upon the Securities), or the property or the creditors of the
Company, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust
Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in
any such proceeding.  In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect
and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee,
trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments
to the  Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making
of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due
it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607.

         No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee
to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided,
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behalf of Holders, vote for the election of a trustee of bankruptcy or similar
official and be a member of a creditors' or other similar committee.

SECTION 505.     Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or
                 Coupons.

         All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any proceeding
relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment shall, after provision for the payment of reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be
for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities and coupons in respect
of which such judgment has been recovered.

SECTION 506.     Application of Money Collected.

         Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any
premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities or coupons, or both as
the case may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid
and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

                 FIRST:  To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
         Section 607;

                 SECOND:  To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
         principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities and
         coupons in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has
         been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
         according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities and
         coupons for principal and any premium and interest, respectively; and

                 THIRD:  The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
         thereto.

         In any case in which Securities are Outstanding that are denominated
in more than one currency and the Trustee is directed to make ratable payments
under this Section to Holders of such Securities, unless otherwise provided
with respect to any series of Securities, the Trustee shall calculate the
amount of such payments as follows: (i) as of the day the Trustee collects an
amount under this Article, the Trustee shall, as to each Holder of a Security
to whom an amount is due and payable under this Section that is denominated in
a foreign currency, determine that amount in Dollars that would be obtained for
the amount owing such Holder, using the rate of exchange at which in accordance
with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in the City of New
York Dollars with such amount owing; (ii) calculate the sum of all Dollar
amounts determined under (i) and add thereto any amounts due and payable in
Dollars; and (iii) using the individual amounts determined in (i) or any
individual amounts due and payable in Dollars, as the case may be, as a
numerator, and the sum calculated in (ii) as a denominator, calculate as to
each Holder of a Security to whom an amount is owed under this Section the
fraction of the amount collected under this Article payable to such Holder.
Any expenses incurred by the Trustee in actually converting amounts owing
Holders of Securities denominated in a currency other than that in which any
amount is collected under this Article shall be likewise (in accordance with
this paragraph) borne ratably by all Holders of Securities to whom amounts are
payable under this Section.

         To the fullest extent allowed under applicable law, if for the purpose
of obtaining judgment against the Company in any court it is necessary to
convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or premium, if any, or
interest on, the Securities of any series (the "Required Currency") into a
currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the
rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal
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Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the Business Day in The City of
New York next preceding that on which final judgment is given.  Neither the
Company nor the Trustee shall be liable for any shortfall nor shall it benefit
from any windfall in payments to Holders of Securities under this Section
caused by a change in exchange rates between the time the amount of a judgment
against the Company is calculated as above and the time the Trustee converts
the Judgment Currency into the Required Currency to make payments under this
Section to Holders of Securities, but payment of such judgment shall discharge
all amounts owed by the Company on the claim or claims underlying such
judgment.

SECTION 507.     Limitation on Suits.

         No Holder of any Security of any series or any related coupons shall
have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect
to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any
other remedy hereunder, unless:

                 (1)      such Holder has previously given written notice to
         the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
         Securities of that series;

                 (2)      the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
         of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written
         request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
         Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

                 (3)      such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
         reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
         incurred in compliance with such request;

                 (4)      the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
         notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any
         such proceeding; and

                 (5)      no direction inconsistent with such written request
         has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders
         of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
         that series;

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.

SECTION 508.     Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
                 and Interest.

         Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security or coupon shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and
(subject to Sections 305 and 307) any interest on such Security or payment of
such coupon on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security or
coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be
impaired without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 509.     Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

         If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or coupon has instituted
any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been
determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such
case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee
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shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

SECTION 510.     Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

         Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the
last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or
reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise.  The assertion or employment of any right or  remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

SECTION 511.     Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

         No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security
or coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default
shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event
of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this
Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons may
be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or coupons, as the case may be.

SECTION 512.     Control by Holders of Securities.

         The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities of such series, provided that

                 (1)      such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule
         of law or with this Indenture;

                 (2)      the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper
         by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and

                 (3)      the Trustee shall not be obligated to take any action
         unduly prejudicial to Holders not joining in such direction or
         involving the Trustee in personal liability.

SECTION 513.     Waiver of Past Defaults.

         The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of
such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to the Securities of
such series and its consequences, except a default

                 (1)      in the payment of the principal of or any premium or
         interest on any Security of such series, or

                 (2)      in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which
         under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent
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         Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 514.     Undertaking for Costs.

         In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit
to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs
against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in
the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust
Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an
undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the
Company.

SECTION 515.     Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.

         The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim to take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.


                                  ARTICLE  SIX

                                  THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 601.     Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

         The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture
relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection
to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.

SECTION 602.     Notice of Defaults.

         If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any
series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice
of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act;
provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified
in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to
Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.
For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is,
or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of such series.

SECTION 603.     Certain Rights of Trustee.

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                 (1)      the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
         or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
         instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
         order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
         paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
         or presented by the proper party or parties;

                 (2)      any request or direction of the Company mentioned
         herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company
         Order or as otherwise expressly provided herein and any resolution of
         the Board of Directors of the Company shall be sufficiently evidenced
         by a Board Resolution;

                 (3)      whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
         Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
         prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
         Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
         in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
         Certificate;

                 (4)      the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written
         advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and
         complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
         suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
         thereon;

                 (5)      the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
         any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
         request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
         unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
         security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
         which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
         direction;

                 (6)      the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
         investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
         certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
         direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
         indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
         discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
         facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall
         determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
         entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
         personally or by agent or attorney; and

                 (7)      the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
         hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
         through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
         for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
         appointed with due care by it hereunder.

SECTION 604.     Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

         The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication) and in any coupons shall be taken as
the statements of the Company and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent
assumes no responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons.  The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the
proceeds thereof.

SECTION 605.     May Hold Securities.

         The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and coupons and,
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it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.

SECTION 606.     Money Held in Trust.

         Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.

SECTION 607.     Compensation and Reimbursement.

         The Company agrees

                 (1)      to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
         compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
         compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
         the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

                 (2)      except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
         reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request
         for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or
         made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture
         (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
         disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
         disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or
         bad faith; and

                 (3)      to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee
         for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense
         incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of
         or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or
         trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself
         against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
         performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

         As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds
held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities.

         Any expenses and compensation for any services rendered by the Trustee
after the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of
Section 501 shall constitute expenses and compensation for services of
administration under all applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar laws.

         The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.

SECTION 608.     Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.

         If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

SECTION 609.     Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

         There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States,
any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $5,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority; provided that, in the case of any Trustee that is a successor to the
Trustee at the date as of which this Indenture was executed (including, without
limitation, any successor by assignment, merger, operation of law or otherwise),
the Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000.
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of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.  No
obligor upon any Security issued under this Indenture or a person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such obligor
shall serve as  Trustee under this Indenture.

SECTION 610.     Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

         (a)     No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of
a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.

         (b)     The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company.  If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.

         (c)     The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee
and to the Company.

         (d)     If at any time:

                 (1)      the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608
         after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a
         Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least
         six months, or

                 (2)      the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section
         609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
         Company or by any such Holder, or

                 (3)      the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall
         be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or
         of its property shall be appointed or a public officer shall take
         charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
         purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

then, in any case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee
with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder of a
Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

         (e)     If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee for any cause,
with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect
to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such
successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or
more or all series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.  If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
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a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that
extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.  If no
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been
so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder of a
Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.  Such court may
thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a
successor Trustee.

         (f)     The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
in the manner provided in Section 106.  Each notice shall include the name of
the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 611.     Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

         (a)     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee
with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee, with like effect as
if originally named Trustee hereunder; but, on the request of the Company or
the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its
charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall
duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.  Any Trustee ceasing to act
shall, nevertheless, retain a prior lien upon all property or funds held or
collected by such Trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the
provisions of, and subject to the limitations set forth in, Section 607.

         (b)     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary
or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with
respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed
necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those
series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be
vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate
the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees as co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon
the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, trusts and duties of
the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to
which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the
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property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates.

         (c)     Upon request of any successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.

         (d)     No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such  successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.

SECTION 612.     Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

         Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder
(provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article) without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto.  In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

SECTION 613.     Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

         If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Company(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject
to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).

SECTION 614.     Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

         The Trustee may, by an instrument in writing, appoint an
Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities
which may be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of such series issued upon original issue or upon exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section
306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
authenticated by the Trustee hereunder.  Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or
the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent or a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent, as the case may be.  Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times
be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia (or, if Bearer
Securities, authorized to act as Authenticating Agent under the laws of the
country in which the Bearer Securities are eligible), authorized under such
laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of
not less than $50,000,000 or equivalent amount expressed in a foreign currency,
as the case may be, and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or
State authority (or, if Bearer Securities, an authority of the country in which
the Bearer Securities are eligible).  If such Authenticating Agent publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published.  If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
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         Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of such Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent (provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section) without  the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent.

         An Authenticating Agent may, and if it shall cease to be eligible
shall, resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and
to the Company.  The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an
Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating
Agent and to the Company.  Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon
such termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease
to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee
may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, to all Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of the series
with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register.  Any successor Authenticating Agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an Authenticating Agent.  No successor Authenticating Agent
shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.

         The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payment, subject to the
provisions of Section 607.

         If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative
certificate of authentication in the following form:

                 "This is one of the Securities of the series designated
         therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                        BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY,
                                        As Trustee
                                        
                                        
                                        By: 
                                            --------------------------------
                                                As Authenticating Agent
                                        
                                        
                                        By: 
                                            --------------------------------
                                                Authorized Signature"

         If all the Securities of a series may not be originally issued at one
time, and if the Company has an Affiliate eligible to be appointed as an
Authenticating Agent hereunder or the Trustee does not have an office capable
of authenticating Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of
Payment where the Company wishes to have Securities of such series
authenticated upon original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested by the
Company in writing (which writing need not comply with Section 102 and need not
be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel), shall appoint in accordance with this
Section an Authenticating Agent (which, if so requested by the Company, shall
be such Affiliate of the Company) having an office in a Place of Payment
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                                 ARTICLE  SEVEN

               HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

SECTION 701.     Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

         With respect to each series of Securities, the Company will furnish or
cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

         (a)     semi-annually, not later than 15 days after a Regular Record
Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, containing
all the information in the possession or control of the Company, or any of its
Paying Agents other than the Trustee, as to the names and addresses of the
Holders of Securities as of the immediately preceding Regular Record Date, and

         (b)     at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time
such list is furnished;

excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.

SECTION 702.     Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

         (a)     The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701, and the
names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar.  The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

         (b)     The rights of the Holders to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and
the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act.

         (c)     Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and
holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held
accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and
addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act and that the
Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material
pursuant to a request made under Section 702(b).

SECTION 703.     Reports by Trustee.

         (a)     On or before July 15 in each year following the date hereof,
the Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and
its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

         (b)     A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon
which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company.  The
Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed (or delisted) on
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SECTION 704.     Reports by Company.

         In addition to the certificates delivered to the Trustee pursuant to
Section 1007, the Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and
transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at
the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto; provided that any such
information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so
required to be filed with the Commission.


                                 ARTICLE  EIGHT

              CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

SECTION 801.     Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

         The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any other Person, unless:

                 (1)      the Person formed by such consolidation or into which
         the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or
         transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company
         substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or
         trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the
         United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
         expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
         delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due
         and punctual payment of  the principal of and any premium and interest
         (including all additional amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section
         1004) on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every
         other covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be
         performed or observed;

                 (2)      immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
         no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time
         or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
         continuing; and

                 (3)      the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
         Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
         consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such
         supplemental indenture comply with this Article Eight and that all
         conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
         have been complied with.

SECTION 802.     Successor Substituted.

         Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company
into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties
and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety to any other Person in
accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation
or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or
lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every
right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if
such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter,
except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and coupons
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                                 ARTICLE  NINE

                            SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 901.     Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.

         Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time
and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

                 (1)      to evidence the succession of another Person to the
         Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
         the Company herein and in the Securities pursuant to Article Eight; or

                 (2)      to add to the covenants of the Company for the
         benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities and any
         coupons appertaining thereto (and if such covenants are to be for the
         benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
         covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
         series), to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property
         to or with the Trustee or otherwise secure any series of the
         Securities or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
         the Company; or

                 (3)      to add any additional Events of Default with respect
         to all or any series of the Securities (and, if such Event of Default
         is applicable to less than all series of Securities, specifying the
         series to which such Event of Default is applicable); or

                 (4)      to add to or change any of the provisions of this
         Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to
         principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of
         principal of or any premium or interest on Bearer Securities, to
         permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered
         Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for
         Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or to permit or
         facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided
         that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the
         Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any
         material respect; or

                 (5)      to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions
         of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities,
         provided that if any such addition, change or elimination shall
         adversely affect the interest of Holders of Securities of any series
         or any coupons appertaining thereto in any material respect, such
         change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no
         Security of such series Outstanding; or


                 (6)      to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements
         of Section 1006 or otherwise; or

                 (7)      to establish the form or terms of Securities of any
         series and any related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301;
         or

                 (8)      to evidence and provide for the acceptance of
         appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the
         Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the
         provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
         facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
         Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611(b); or

                 (9)      to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
         provision herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be
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         in any supplemental indenture, or to make any other provisions with
         respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture;
         provided, that such action shall not adversely affect the interests of
         the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any
         material respect.

SECTION 902.     Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.

         With the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding, changing
in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
and any related coupons under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby,

                 (1)      change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or
         any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or
         reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or
         any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the
         Redemption Date thereof, or change any obligation of the Company to
         pay additional amounts pursuant to Section 1004 (except as
         contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or
         reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount
         Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of
         acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or
         change the coin or currency in which any Security or any premium or
         interest thereon is payable, or change any right of redemption,
         purchase or repayment by the Company at the option of the Holder, or
         impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
         payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
         redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or

                 (2)      reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
         Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
         required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
         Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain
         provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
         consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or reduce the
         requirements of Section 1404 for quorum or voting, or

                 (3)      change any obligation of the Company to maintain an
         office or agency in the places and for the purposes specified in
         Section 1002, or

                 (4)      modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section
         513 or Section 1008 except to increase any such percentage or to
         provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be
         modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
         Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this
         clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder of a
         Security or coupon with respect to changes in the references to "the
         Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1008 or
         the deletion of this provision, in accordance with the requirements of
         Sections 611(b) and 901(8).

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

         It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance
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SECTION 903.     Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

         In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture
is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.  The Trustee may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

SECTION 904.     Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

         Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every
Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder and of any coupons appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.

SECTION 905.     Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

         Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

SECTION 906.     Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

         Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture.  If the Company
shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in
the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture
may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series and of like
tenor.


                                  ARTICLE  TEN

                                   COVENANTS

SECTION 1001.  Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

         The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the
terms of the Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any
series of Securities, any interest due on Bearer Securities on or before
Maturity shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several
coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they
severally mature.

SECTION 1002.   Corporate Existence and Maintenance of Office or Agency.

         Except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Company will do
or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and
effect the corporate existence of the Company.

         If Securities of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities,
the Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for such series an office or
agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for
payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of
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exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served.  If Securities of a
series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain (A) in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where any
Registered Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for
payment, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for
registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served and where Bearer
Securities of that series and related coupons may be presented or surrendered
for payment in the circumstances described in the following paragraph (and not
otherwise), (B) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a
Place of Payment for that series which is located outside the United States, an
office or agency where Securities of that series and related coupons may be
presented or surrendered for payment (including payment of any additional
amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1004);
provided, however, that if the Securities of that series are listed on The
International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
Limited, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located
outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company
will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in London,
Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United States, as the
case may be, so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such
exchange, and (C) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a
Place of Payment for that series which is located outside the United States, an
office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may
be surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the
Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be
served.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee and prompt
notices to the Holders as provided in Section 106 of the location, and any
change in the location, of any such office or agency.  If at any time the
Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency in respect of
any series of Securities or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations and surrenders of Securities of that series may be
made and notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that series and the
related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment
of any additional amounts payable on Bearer Securities of that series pursuant
to Section 1004) at any Paying Agent for such series located outside the United
States, and the Company hereby appoints the same as its agents to receive such
respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

         No payment of principal of or premium or interest on Bearer Securities
shall be made at any office or agency of the Company in the United States or by
check mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to an account
maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, that,
if the Securities of a series are denominated and payable in Dollars, payment
of principal of and any premium and interest on any Bearer Security (including
any additional amounts payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section
1004) shall be made at the office of the Company's Paying Agent in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the
full amount of such principal, premium, interest or additional amounts, as the
case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained
for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is illegal or
effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.

         The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such designation  or rescission shall
in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or
agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of
any series for such purposes.  The Company will give prompt written notice to
the Trustee and the Holders of any such designation or rescission and of any
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SECTION 1003.  Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.

         If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, it
will, on or before each due date of the principal of and any premium or
interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the
principal and any premium or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be
paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will
promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure to so act.

         Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of
and any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium or interest
so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent
is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure to so act.

         The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
(other than the Company or the Trustee) to execute and deliver to the Trustee
an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject
to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent
and (ii) during the continuation of any default by the Company (or any other
obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in
respect of the Securities of that series, and upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying
Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.

         The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held
in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.

         Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of and any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal and any premium or interest has become due and payable
shall be paid to the Company on Company Request (unless otherwise required by
mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law), or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and
the Holder of such Security or any coupon appertaining thereto shall (unless
otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned
or unclaimed property law) thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look
only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the
Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in an Authorized
Newspaper in each Place of Payment, notice that such money remains unclaimed
and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days
from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Company.

SECTION 1004.  Additional Amounts.

         If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Security of such series or
any coupon appertaining thereto additional amounts as provided therein.
Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of
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any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or
payment of any related coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or
exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include
mention of the payment of additional amounts provided for in this Section to
the extent that, in such context, additional amounts are, were or would be
payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and
express mention of the payment of additional amounts (if applicable) in any
provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding additional amounts in
those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

         If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect
to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear
interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and
any premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of
principal and any premium or interest if there has been any change with respect
to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the
Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company's principal Paying Agent or
Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers' Certificate
instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such
payment of principal of and any premium or interest on the Securities of that
series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series or any related
coupons who are United States Aliens without withholding for or on account of
any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of
that series.  If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers'
Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be
withheld on such payments to such  Holders of Securities or coupons and the
Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the additional amounts
required by this Section.  The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and
any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part
arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in
reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.

SECTION 1005.  Purchase of Securities by Company or Subsidiary.

         If and so long as the Securities of a series are listed on The
International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
Limited and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will not, and
will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, purchase any Securities of that
series by private treaty at a price (exclusive of expenses and accrued
interest) which exceeds 120% of the mean of the nominal quotations of the
Securities of that series as shown in The Stock Exchange Daily Official List
for the last trading day preceding the date of purchase.

SECTION 1006.  Limitation on Liens.

         (a)     So long as any Securities are Outstanding, the Company will
not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary of the Company to, issue, assume or
guarantee any indebtedness for money borrowed (hereinafter in this Article Ten
referred to as "Debt"), if such Debt is secured by a mortgage, pledge, security
interest or lien (any mortgage, pledge, security interest or lien being
hereinafter in this Article Ten referred to as a "mortgage" or "mortgages")
upon any real or personal property of the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company or upon any shares of stock or other equity interest or indebtedness of
any  Subsidiary of the Company (whether such property, shares of stock or other
equity interest or indebtedness is now owned or hereafter acquired), without in
any such case effectively providing, concurrently with the issuance, assumption
or guarantee of such Debt, that the Securities (together with, if the Company
shall so determine, any other indebtedness of or guaranteed by the Company or
such Subsidiary ranking equally with the Securities then outstanding and
existing or thereafter created) shall be secured equally and ratably with (or
prior to) such Debt; provided, however, that the foregoing restriction shall
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                 (1)      mortgages (i) existing on the date such Securities
         were originally issued under this Indenture or (ii) provided for under
         the terms of agreements existing on such date securing indebtedness
         existing on such date;

                 (2)      mortgages on Current Assets to secure Current
         Liabilities;

                 (3)      mortgages on property acquired, constructed, altered
         or improved by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company after the
         date of this Indenture which are created or assumed contemporaneously
         with, or within one year after, such acquisition (or in the case of
         property constructed, altered or improved, after the completion and
         commencement of commercial operation of such property, whichever is
         later) to secure or provide for the payment of any part of the
         purchase price of such property or the cost of such construction,
         alteration or improvement, it being understood that if a commitment
         for such a financing is obtained prior to or within such one year
         period, the applicable mortgage shall be deemed to be included in this
         clause (3) whether or not such mortgage is created within such one
         year period; provided that in the case of any such construction,
         alteration or improvement the mortgage shall not apply to any property
         theretofore owned by the Company or any  Subsidiary of the Company,
         other than (i) the property so altered or improved and (ii) any
         theretofore unimproved real property on which the property so
         constructed or altered, or the improvement, is located;

                 (4)      mortgages on any property existing at the time of
         acquisition thereof (including mortgages on any property acquired from
         a Person which is consolidated with or merged with or into the Company
         or a Subsidiary of the Company) and mortgages outstanding at the time
         any Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company that are not incurred
         in connection with such entity becoming a Subsidiary of the Company;

                 (5)      mortgages in favor of the Company or any Subsidiary
         of the Company;

                 (6)      mortgages on any property (i) in favor of the United
         States, any State, any foreign country or any department, agency,
         instrumentality or political subdivision of any such jurisdiction, to
         secure partial, progress, advance or other payments pursuant to any
         contract or statute, (ii) securing any indebtedness incurred for the
         purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or the cost
         of constructing, installing or improving the property subject to such
         mortgages, including, without limitation, mortgages to secure Debt of
         the pollution control or industrial revenue bond type, or (iii)
         securing indebtedness issued or guaranteed by the United States, any
         State thereof, any foreign country, or any department, agency,
         instrumentality or political subdivision of any such jurisdiction; and

                 (7)      any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive
         extensions, renewals or replacements), in whole or in part, of any
         mortgage referred to in any of the foregoing clauses (1), (2), (3),
         (4), (5) and (6); provided, however, that the principal amount of Debt
         secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of Debt so
         secured at the time of such extension, renewal or replacement,
         together with the reasonable costs related to such extension, renewal
         or replacement, and that such extension, renewal or replacement shall
         be limited to all or a part of the property which secured the mortgage
         so extended, renewed or replaced (plus improvements on such property).

         (b)     Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this
Section 1006, the Company and any  Subsidiary of the Company may issue, assume
or guarantee secured Debt, which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing
restrictions, in an aggregate amount which, together with all other such
secured Debt and together with the aggregate amount of Attributable
Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries deemed to be outstanding in
respect of all Sale/Leaseback Transactions entered into pursuant to Section
1009 (excluding any such Sale/Leaseback Transactions the proceeds of which have
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clause (b) or (c) of Section 1009) does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net
Worth, as shown on a consolidated balance sheet, as of a date not more than 90
days prior to the proposed transaction, prepared by the Company in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles.

SECTION 1007.  Statement by Officer as to Default.

         The Company shall, so long as any Securities are Outstanding, deliver
to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company beginning in 1996, a brief certificate from the principal executive
officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his
or her knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions and covenants
under this Indenture.  For purposes of this Section 1007, such compliance shall
be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
under this Indenture.  Such certificate shall comply with Section 314(a)(4) of
the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 1008.  Waiver of Certain Covenants.

         The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision or condition set forth in Section 1005, 1006 or 1009 with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition,
but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become
effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and
effect.

SECTION 1009.  Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions.

         So long as any Securities are Outstanding, the Company shall not, and
shall not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to, enter into any
Sale/Leaseback Transaction with any Person (other than the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company) unless:

                 (a)      at the time of entering into such Sale/Leaseback
         Transaction, the Company or such Subsidiary would be entitled to incur
         Debt, in a principal amount equal to the Attributable Indebtedness
         with respect to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, secured by a mortgage
         on the property subject to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, pursuant
         to Section 1006 without equally and ratably securing the Securities
         pursuant to such Section; or

                 (b)      after the Issue Date and within a period commencing
         six months prior to the consummation of such Sale/Leaseback
         Transaction and ending six months after the consummation thereof, the
         Company or such Subsidiary shall have expended for property used or to
         be used in the ordinary course of business of the Company or such
         Subsidiary (including amounts expended for additions, expansions,
         alterations, repairs and improvements thereto) an amount equal to all
         or a portion of the net proceeds of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction,
         and the Company shall have elected to designate such amount as a
         credit against such Sale/Leaseback Transaction (with any such amount
         not being so designated to be applied as set forth in clause (c)
         below); or

                 (c)      during the 12-month period after the effective date
         of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, the Company shall have applied to
         the voluntary defeasance or retirement of Securities or any pari passu
         indebtedness of the Company an amount equal to the net proceeds of the
         sale or transfer of the real or personal property leased in such
         Sale/Leaseback Transaction, which amount shall not be less than the
         fair value of such property at the time of entering into such
         Sale/Leaseback Transaction (adjusted to reflect the remaining term of
         the lease and any amount expended by the Company as set forth in
         clause (b) above), less an amount equal to the principal amount of
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         and pari passu indebtedness voluntarily defeased or retired by the
         Company within such 12-month period and not designated as a credit
         against any other Sale/Leaseback Transaction entered into by the
         Company or any Subsidiary of the Company during such period.


                                ARTICLE  ELEVEN

                            REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 1101.  Applicability of Article.

         Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.

SECTION 1102.  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

         The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be
evidenced by a Board Resolution.  In the case of any redemption at the election
of the Company of less than all the  Securities of any series, the Company
shall, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company
(unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the
Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such
series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities of
such series to be redeemed.  In the case of any redemption of Securities (i)
prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the
terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an
election of the Company which is subject to a condition specified in the terms
of such Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers'
Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.

SECTION 1103.  Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed.

         If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed
(unless all of the Securities of such series of a specified tenor are to be
redeemed), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of
the principal amount of Registered Securities of such series of a denomination
larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series
or of the principal amount of global Securities of such series.  If less than
all of the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for
redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.

         The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected
for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

         For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
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SECTION 1104.  Notice of Redemption.

         Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section
106 to the Holders of Securities to be redeemed not less than 30 nor more than
60 days prior to the Redemption Date.

         All notices of redemption shall state:

                 (1)      the Redemption Date,

                 (2)      the Redemption Price,

                 (3)      if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any
         series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of
         partial redemption of any Securities, the principal amounts) of the
         particular Securities to be redeemed, and that on and after the
         Redemption Date, upon surrender of the Securities, new Securities of
         such series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed part thereof
         will be issued,

                 (4)      that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
         become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if
         applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after
         said date,

                 (5)      the place or places where such Securities, together
         in the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining
         thereto, if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be
         surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and

                 (6)      that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is
         the case.

A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section 106 need not
identify particular Registered Securities to be redeemed.

         Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.

SECTION 1105.  Deposit of Redemption Price.

         On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of
money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption
Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date.

SECTION 1106.  Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

         Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest and the coupons for such
interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the
extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for
redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security shall be
paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on Bearer
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office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise
provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest,
and provided, further, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301, installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders
of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such
at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date or Special Record
Date, as the case may be, according to their terms and the provisions of
Section 307.

         If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal
to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such
missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there
be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save
each of them and any Paying Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such
Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption
Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted;
provided, however, that interest represented by coupons shall be payable only
at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise
provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons.

         If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the Security or, in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities, the
Securities' yield to maturity.

SECTION 1107.  Securities Redeemed in Part.

         Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at a Place of Payment thereof (with, if the Company or the Trustee
so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security without service charge, a new Registered Security or Securities of the
same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by
such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.


                                ARTICLE  TWELVE

                                 SINKING FUNDS

SECTION 1201.  Applicability of Article.

         The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.

         The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment."  If provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction
as provided in Section 1202.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
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SECTION 1202.  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

         The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other
than any previously called for redemption), together in the case of any Bearer
Securities of such series with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto, and
(2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed
either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities
or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant
to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any
part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of such series
required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by
the terms of such series, provided that such Securities have not been
previously so credited.  Such Securities shall be received and credited for
such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such
Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount
of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

SECTION 1203.  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

         Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee a Company Order
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
credited.  Not less than 45 days before each such sinking fund payment date the
Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 1104.  Such notice having been duly given,
the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the
manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.


                               ARTICLE  THIRTEEN

                       DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

SECTION 1301.  Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

         If specified to be applicable with respect to Securities of a series
pursuant to Section 301, the Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at
any time, elect to have either Section 1302 or Section 1303 applied to the
Outstanding Securities of any series upon compliance with the conditions set
forth below in this Article Thirteen.

SECTION 1302.  Defeasance and Discharge.

         Upon the Company's exercise of the option provided in Section 1301
applicable to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged
from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities of any series
on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter,
"defeasance").  For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall
be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by
the Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under the Securities of such series and this Indenture insofar as
the Securities of such series are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except
for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder:  (A) the rights of Holders of the Securities of such series to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully
set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Securities of such series when such payments are
due, (B) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under
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powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this
Article Thirteen.  Subject to compliance with this Article Thirteen, the
Company may exercise its option under this Section 1302 notwithstanding the
prior exercise of its option under Section 1303.

SECTION 1303.  Covenant Defeasance.

         Upon the Company's exercise of the option provided in Section 1301
applicable to this Section, (i) the Company shall be released from its
obligations with respect to the Securities of such series under Sections 801,
1005, 1006 and 1009, and (ii) the occurrence of an event specified in Sections
501(3), (4), (7) or (8) shall not be deemed to be an Event of Default on and
after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter,
"covenant defeasance"), but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities
shall be unaffected thereby.  For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means
that the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect
of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or clause
whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to
any such Section or clause or by reason of any reference in any such Section or
clause to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the
remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

SECTION 1304.  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

         The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section
1302 or Section 1303 to the then Outstanding Securities of any series:

                 (1)      The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or
         caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying
         the requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the
         provisions of this Article Thirteen applicable to it) as trust funds
         in trust for the purpose of making the following payments,
         specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the
         benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series, (A) money in
         an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the
         scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in
         accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day
         before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a
         combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
         recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
         written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
         discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other
         qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of (and
         premium, if any, on) and each installment of interest on the
         Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on the Stated Maturity
         of such principal (and premium, if any) or installment of interest in
         accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of the Securities of
         such series.  For this purpose, "U.S. Government Obligations" means
         securities that are (x) direct obligations of the United States for
         the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (y)
         obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an
         agency or instrumentality of the United States the payment of which is
         unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by
         the United States, which, in either case, are not callable or
         redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include
         a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2)
         of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian with respect
         to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of
         principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation held
         by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depository
         receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is
         not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the
         holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
         custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific
         payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligation
         evidenced by such depository receipt.

                 (2)      In the case of an election under Section 1302, the
         Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
         stating that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been
         published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the
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         been a change in the applicable United States Federal income tax law,
         in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion
         shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such
         series will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States
         Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance
         and discharge and will be subject to United States Federal income tax
         on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would
         have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not
         occurred.

                 (3)      In the case of an election under Section 1303, the
         Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to
         the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such
         series will not recognize gain or loss for United States Federal
         income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant
         defeasance and will be subject to United States Federal income tax on
         the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would
         have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not
         occurred.

                 (4)      No Event of Default or event which with notice or
         lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to
         the Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on
         the date of such deposit or, insofar as subsections 501(5) and (6) are
         concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 121st day after
         the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition
         shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

                 (5)      Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not
         cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of
         the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any securities of the Company.

                 (6)      Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not
         result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
         other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by
         which it is bound.

                 (7)      The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
         Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
         conditions precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance
         under Section 1302 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1303 (as
         the case may be) have been complied with.

                 (8)      Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not
         result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an
         investment company as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940,
         as amended, or such trust shall be qualified under such Act or exempt
         from regulation thereunder.

SECTION 1305.  Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in
               Trust;
                      Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

         Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof)
deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee -- collectively, for
purposes of this Section 1305, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1304 in
respect of the Securities of such series shall be held in trust and applied by
the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities of such
series and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the Securities of such series, of all
sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if
any) and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.

         The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee
or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
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interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other
charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding
Securities.

         Anything in this Article Thirteen to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any  money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee as
provided in Section 1304 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm
of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then
be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant
defeasance.

SECTION 1306.  Reinstatement.

         If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with Section 1302 or 1303 by reason of any order or judgment of any
court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities of such series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit
had occurred pursuant to this Article Thirteen until such time as the Trustee
or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section
1302 or 1303; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of or any premium or interest on any Security following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holders of the Securities of such series to receive such payment from
the money held by the Trustee or the Paying Agent.


                               ARTICLE  FOURTEEN

                    MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF BEARER SECURITIES

SECTION 1401.  Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.

         If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, a meeting
of Holders of Securities of such series may be called at any time and from time
to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series.

SECTION 1402.  Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.

         (a)     The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of
Bearer Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1401, to
be held at such time and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, or in London or such other location as the Trustee shall determine.
Notice of every meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of any series, setting
forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action
proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in
Section 106, not less than 21 nor more than 120 days prior to the date fixed
for the meeting.

         (b)     In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board
Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Bearer Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to
call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose
specified in Section 1401, by written request setting forth in reasonable
detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall
not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21
days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the
meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of
Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be,
may determine the time and the place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, or in London or such





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other location as the Trustee shall determine for such meeting and may call
such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in
subsection (a) of this Section.

SECTION 1403.  Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.

         To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities
a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Bearer Securities or (b) be a
Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or
more Bearer Securities.  The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present
or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities shall be the Persons
entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of
the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its
counsel.

SECTION 1404.  Quorum; Action.

         The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for
a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series. In the absence of a quorum
within 30 minutes following the time appointed for any such meeting, the
meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such
series, be dissolved.  In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a
period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting
prior to the adjournment of such meeting.  In the absence of a quorum at any
such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a
period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting
prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.  Notice of the reconvening
of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1402(a), except
that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the
date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened.  Notice of the
reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as
provided above, of the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of such series which shall constitute a quorum.

         Except as limited by Section 512 or the proviso to the first paragraph
of Section 902, any resolution presented to a meeting (or adjourned meeting
duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid) may be adopted by
the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Bearer Securities of that series; provided, however, that any
resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture expressly provides
may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is
less than a majority, in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Bearer
Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting (or an adjourned meeting
duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid) by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal
amount of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of that series.

         To the extent consistent with the terms of this Indenture, any
resolution passed or action taken at any meeting of Holders of Bearer
Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related
coupons, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.

SECTION 1405.  Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
               Meetings.

         (a)     Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any
meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of a series in regard to proof of the
holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in
regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and
examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote,
and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem
appropriate.  Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such
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Bearer Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and
the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section
104 or by having the signature of the Person executing the proxy witnessed or
guaranteed by any trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to
certify to the holding of Bearer Securities.  Such regulations may provide that
written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed
valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.

         (b)     The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by
the Company or by Holders of Bearer Securities as provided in Section 1402(b),
in which case the Company or the Holders of Bearer Securities of the series
calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a
temporary chairman.  A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the
meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
represented at the meeting.

         (c)     At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or
proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided,
however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any
Bearer Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the
meeting to be not Outstanding.  The chairman of the meeting shall have no right
to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.

         (d)     Any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of any series duly
called pursuant to Section 1402 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned
from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting; and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

SECTION 1406.  Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.

         The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of
Bearer Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be
subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of
their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of
the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them.  The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the permanent secretary of the meeting their verified
written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting.  A record, at
least in duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Bearer
Securities of any series shall be prepared by the permanent secretary of the
meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the
inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one
or more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the
notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in
Section 1402 and, if applicable, Section 1404.  Each copy shall be signed and
verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and permanent secretary of
the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to
the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto
the ballots voted at the meeting.  Any record so signed and verified shall be
conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

                          ____________________________

         This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.





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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

                                        COMPANY
                                        
                                        WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
                                        
                                        
                                        By 
                                           -----------------------------
                                        
                                        
                                        TRUSTEE
                                        
                                        BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY
                                        
                                        
                                        By 
                                           -----------------------------
                                        




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                                   EXHIBIT A

                       FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY
                              BENEFICIAL OWNER OF
                    INTEREST IN A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY


                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.

                             [Title of Securities]

                               (the "Securities")


         This is to certify that as of the date hereof, and except as set forth
below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i) are owned
by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic
partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income of which
is subject to United States Federal income taxation regardless of its source
("United States persons"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are
(A) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (as defined in
U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.165- 12(c)(1)(v)) ("financial
institutions") purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (B) United
States person(s) who acquired Securities through the foreign branches of the
United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such
United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (A)
or (B), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own
behalf or through its agent, to comply with the requirements of Section
165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
the regulations thereunder), or (iii) are owned by United States or foreign
financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period
(as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and
in addition if the owner of the Securities is a United States or foreign
financial institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also
described in clause (i) or (ii)), this is to further certify that such
financial institution has not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale
directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the
United States or its possessions.

         If the Securities are of the category contemplated in Section
230.903(c)(3) of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Act"), then this is also to certify that, except as set forth below, the
Securities are beneficially owned by (a) non-U.S. person(s) or (b) U.S.
person(s) who purchased the Securities in transactions which did not require
registration under the Act.

         As used herein, "United States" or "U.S." means the United States
(including the States and District of Columbia); and its "possessions" include
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the
Northern Mariana Islands.

         We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or prior to the
date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to the
Securities held by you for our account in accordance with your Operating
Procedures if any applicable statement herein is not correct on such date, and
in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this
certification applies as of such date.

         This certification excepts and does not relate to $________ of such
interest in the above Securities in respect of which we are not able to certify
and as to which we understand exchange and delivery of definitive Securities
(or, if relevant, exercise of any rights or collection of any interest) cannot
be made until we do so certify.





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         We understand that this certification is required in connection with
certain tax laws and, if applicable, certain securities laws of the United
States.  In connection therewith, if administrative or legal proceedings are
commenced or threatened in connection with which this certification is or would
be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certification to any
interested party in such proceedings.

*Dated: ______________, 199__.


                                           NAME OF PERSON MAKING CERTIFICATION


By: 
    --------------------------------




_______________________________

* To be dated no earlier than the Certification Date.





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                                   EXHIBIT B

                    FORM OF CERTIFICATION TO BE GIVEN BY THE
                       EURO-CLEAR OPERATOR OR CEDEL S.A.

                           WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.

                             [Title of Securities]

                               (the "Securities")


         This is to certify that, based solely on certifications we have
received in writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from member
organizations appearing in our records as persons being entitled to a portion
of the principal amount set forth below (our "Member Organizations"),
substantially to the effect set forth in the Indenture, dated as of April ___,
1996, between Weatherford Enterra, Inc. and Bank of Montreal Trust Company, as
of the date hereof, [       ] principal amount of the above-captioned
Securities (i) is owned by persons that are not citizens or residents of the
United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation
regardless of its source ("United States persons"), (ii) is owned by United
States persons that are (A) foreign branches of United States financial
institutions (as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section
1.165-12(c)(1)(v)) ("financial institutions") purchasing for their own account
or for resale, or (B) United States persons who acquired the Securities through
foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the
Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof
(and in either case (A) or (B), each such United States financial institution
has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that it will comply with
the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) is owned by
United States or foreign financial institutions for purposes of resale during
the restricted period (as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section
1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and to the further effect that the United States or
foreign financial institutions described in clause (iii) above (whether or not
also described in clause (i) or (ii)) have certified that they have not
acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a
United States person or to a person within the United States or its
possessions.

         If the Securities are of the category contemplated in Section
230.903(c)(3) of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
then this is also to certify with respect to such principal amount of
Securities set forth above that, except as set forth below, we have received in
writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission, from our Member
Organizations entitled to a portion of such principal amount, certifications
with respect to such portion, substantially to the effect set forth in the
Indenture.

         We further certify (i) that we are not making available herewith for
exchange (or, if relevant, exercise of any rights or collection of any
interest) any portion of the temporary global Security excepted in such
certifications and (ii) that as of the date hereof we have not received any
notification from any of our Member Organizations to the effect that the
statements made by such Member Organizations with respect to any portion of the
part submitted herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, exercise of any rights
or collection of any interest) are no longer true and cannot be relied upon as
of the date hereof.

         We understand that this certification is required in connection with
certain tax laws and, if applicable,





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certain securities laws of the United States.  In connection therewith, if
administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection
with which this certification is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize
you to produce this certification or a copy hereof to any interested party in
such proceedings.

Dated:  _______________, 199__.

 (dated the Exchange Date or the Interest
  Payment Date)

                                        [Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
                                         York, as operator of the Euro-clear
                                         System]
                                        
                                        or
                                        
                                        [CEDEL S.A.]
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        By: 
                                            -----------------------------------




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                                                                       EXHIBIT 5

                    FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI L.L.P. [LETTERHEAD]

April 4, 1996

Weatherford Enterra, Inc.
1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas  77056

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We have acted as counsel for Weatherford Enterra, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with its filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") of a Registration Statement on Form
S-3 on April 5, 1996 (the "Registration Statement") with respect to the
Company's debt securities (the "Securities") to be issued from time to time
pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for an
aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $300,000,000.

         We have examined (i) the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and
Bylaws of the Company, each as amended to date, (ii) a draft of an Indenture 
(the "Indenture"), between the Company and Bank of Montreal Trust
Company, as Trustee, and (iii) such certificates, statutes and other
instruments and documents as we considered appropriate for purposes of the
opinions hereafter expressed.

         In connection with this opinion, we have assumed that (i) the
Registration Statement, and any amendments thereto (including post-effective
amendments), will have become effective; (ii) a Prospectus Supplement will have
been prepared and filed with the Commission describing the Securities offered
thereby; (iii) all Securities will be issued and sold in compliance with
applicable federal and state securities laws and in the manner stated in the
Registration Statement and the appropriate Prospectus Supplement; and (iv) a
definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement with respect to any
Securities offered will have been duly authorized and validly executed and
delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto.

         Based upon and subject to the foregoing, and having regard for such
legal considerations as we have deemed relevant, we are of the opinion that,
when (i) the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended; (ii) the Board of Directors of the Company and its designated
committee have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and
terms of the Securities, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters;
and (iii) the Securities have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and
delivered in accordance with the provisions of the
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Weatherford Enterra, Inc.
April 4, 1996
Page 2

Indenture and in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase,
underwriting or similar agreement approved by the Board of Directors of the
Company or its designated committee upon payment of the consideration therefore
provided for therein, the Securities will be legally issued and will constitute
valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company
in accordance with their terms, except as such enforcement is subject to any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or
affecting creditors' rights generally and general principles of equity and will
be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

         We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the statements made with respect to us under the
caption "Legal Matters" in the Prospectus included as part of the Registration
Statement.

                                        
                                        Very truly yours,
                                        
                                        /s/  FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI L.L.P.
                                        
                                        Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

<PAGE>   1
                                                                      EXHIBIT 12

                   WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
                          (In thousands except ratios)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        1995         1994         1993         1992         1991
                                                      ---------    ---------    ---------    ---------    ---------
 <S>                                                   <C>         <C>            <C>          <C>         <C>
 FIXED CHARGES:
  Interest on debt                                      $17,217       $8,847       $4,027       $3,026      $4,371
  Interest element of rentals                             4,690        5,110        4,563        3,391       3,525
                                                      ---------    ---------    ---------    ---------    ---------
 TOTAL FIXED CHARGES                                    $21,907      $13,957       $8,590       $6,417      $7,896
                                                      =========    =========    =========    =========    =========

 EARNINGS AVAILABLE TO COVER FIXED CHARGES:
  Net income (loss)                                    $(10,558)     $41,977      $35,175      $26,760     $14,234

  Add back:

  Provision (benefit) for income taxes                   (4,616)      16,958       13,635       10,292      18,523
  Undistributed earnings of affiliates                      189          868          905          (99)     (1,021)
  Fixed charges                                          21,907       13,957        8,590        6,417       7,896
                                                      ---------    ---------    ---------    ---------    ---------
 TOTAL EARNINGS AVAILABLE TO COVER FIXED CHARGES         $6,922      $73,760      $58,305      $43,370     $39,632
                                                      =========    =========    =========    =========    =========
 RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES                                     5.28         6.79         6.76        5.02
                                                                   =========    =========    =========    =========
 AMOUNT BY WHICH EARNINGS WERE INADEQUATE TO COVER
 FIXED CHARGES                                          $14,985(1)
                                                      =========
</TABLE>


(1)      Excluding the effect of acquisition-related costs and other unusual
         charges totaling $88,182,000, the 1995 ratio of earnings to fixed
         charges for the Company was 4.34.

<PAGE>   1
                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.1


                  CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS


As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the incorporation by
reference in this registration statement on Form S-3 of our report dated 
February 29, 1996, included in Weatherford Enterra, Inc.'s Form 10-K for the 
year ended December 31, 1995 and our report dated February 23, 1996 included in
Weatherford Enterra, Inc.'s Form 8-K/A dated February 27, 1996 and to all
references to our firm included in this registration statement.


Arthur Andersen LLP

Houston, Texas
April 4, 1996



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                                                                     EXHIBIT 25

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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 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) ____

                       BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY
             (EXACT NAME OF TRUSTEE AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

                 New York                                        13-4941093
(JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION                (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
        IF NOT A US NATIONAL BANK)                           IDENTIFICATION NO.)

              77 Water Street
             New York, New York                                    10005
   (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)                      (ZIP CODE)

                             Mark F. McLaughlin
                       Bank of Montreal Trust Company
                    77 Water Street, New York, NY  10005
                               (212) 701-7602
          (NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

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

                          WEATHERFORD ENTERRA, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF OBLIGOR AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

          Delaware                                             74-1681642
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF                             (I.R.S.  EMPLOYER
INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION)                            IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

                     1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1000
                            Houston, Texas  77056
                  (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

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

                        ____% SENIOR NOTES DUE ______
                     (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.

                        Federal Reserve Bank of New York
                        33 Liberty Street, New York NY 10045

                        State of New York Banking Department
                        2 Rector Street, New York, NY 10006

        (b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

                   The Trustee is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

ITEM 2.       AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR.

              If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each
              such affiliation.

                   The obligor is not an affiliate of the trustee.

ITEM 16.      LIST OF EXHIBITS.

         List below all exhibits filed as part of this statement of eligibility.

         1.   Copy of Organization Certificate of Bank of Montreal Trust
              Company to transact business and exercise corporate trust powers;
              incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit "A" filed with Form
              T-1 Statement, Registration No.  33-46118.

         2.   Copy of the existing By-Laws of Bank of Montreal Trust
              Company; incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit "B" filed 
              with Form T-1 Statement, Registration No. 33-80928.

         3.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the
              Act; incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit "C" with Form 
              T-1 Statement, Registration No. 33-46118.

         4.   A copy of the latest report of condition of Bank of Montreal
              Trust Company published pursuant to law or the requirements of 
              its supervising or examining authority, attached hereto as 
              Exhibit "D".

                                  SIGNATURE

              Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 the Trustee, Bank of Montreal 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 2nd day of April, 1996.

                       BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY



                          By  /s/ Therese Gaballah
                             ----------------------
                               Therese Gaballah
                                Vice President
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                                                                     EXHIBIT "D"

                             STATEMENT OF CONDITION
                         BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY
                                    NEW YORK

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

<TABLE>
  <S>                                                             <C>
  ASSETS                                                         
                                                                 
  Due From Banks                                                  $ 1,570,159
                                                                  -----------
  Investment Securities:                                         
          State & Municipal                                        17,025,354
          Other                                                           100
                                                                  -----------
                   TOTAL SECURITIES                                17,025,454
                                                                  -----------
  Loans and Advances                                             
          Federal Funds sold                                       12,000,000
          Overdrafts                                                 (336,057)
                                                                  -----------
                   TOTAL LOANS AND ADVANCES                        11,663,943
                                                                  -----------
                                                                 
  Investment in Harris Trust, NY                                    6,656,129
  Premises and Equipment                                              509,422
  Other Assets                                                      2,494,863
                                                                  -----------
                   TOTAL ASSETS                                   $39,919,970
                                                                  ===========
                                                                 
  LIABILITIES                                                    
  Trust Deposits                                                  $ 9,859,384
  Other Liabilities                                                 9,239,409
                                                                  -----------
                   TOTAL LIABILITIES                               19,098,793
                                                                  -----------
                                                                 
  CAPITAL ACCOUNTS                                               
  Capital Stock, Authorized, Issued and                          
          Fully Paid - 10,000 Shares of $100 Each                   1,000,000
  Surplus                                                           4,222,188
  Retained Earnings                                                15,510,844
  Equity - Municipal Gain/Loss                                         88,145
                                                                  -----------
                   TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS                          20,281,177
                                                                  -----------
                   TOTAL LIABILITIES                             
                   AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS                           $39,919,970
                                                                  ===========
</TABLE>

         I, Mark F. McLaughlin, Vice President, 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.

                               Mark F. McLaughlin
                               December 31, 1995

         We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this
statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by
us, and to the best or our knowledge and belief has been prepared in
conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.

                                 Sanjiv Tandon
                                Kevin O. Healey
                              Steven R. Rothbloom


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