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                                                     Amendment No. 2 to    
                                                     SEC File No. 70-8913  

                          SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                WASHINGTON, DC  20549

                                       FORM U-1

                                     APPLICATION

                                        UNDER

                THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 ("Act")

                           GPU INTERNATIONAL, INC. ("GPUI")
                                 One Upper Pond Road
                            Parsippany, New Jersey  07054        
                      (Name of company filing this statement and
                       address of principal executive offices)

                                     GPU, INC. ("GPU")                     

             (Name of top registered holding company parent of applicant)

          M. A. Nalewako, Secretary               W. S. Greengrove, Secretary
          M. J. Connolly, Esq., Assistant         GPU International, Inc.
            General Counsel                       One Upper Pond Road
          GPU Service, Inc.                       Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
          100 Interpace Parkway
          Parsippany, New Jersey  07054

                                   Douglas E. Davidson, Esq.
                                   Berlack, Israels & Liberman LLP
                                   120 West 45th Street
                                   New York, New York  10036

                                                                          

                     (Names and addresses of agents for service)<PAGE>





                    GPUI  hereby amends  its  Application on  Form U-1,  as

          heretofore amended, docketed in SEC File No. 70-8913, as follows:

                    1.   By  revising  paragraphs  A  through G  of  Item 1

          thereof to read in their entirety as follows:

                    A.   GPUI (formerly known as Energy Initiatives, Inc.),

          a  direct wholly owned subsidiary of GPU, is primarily engaged in

          the  business  of  developing, owning  and  operating generation,

          transmission and distribution facilities in the United States and

          in  foreign countries  and  related activities.   GPUI  proposes,

          directly or through a direct or indirect wholly owned  subsidiary

          ("Subsidiary"), to  invest  in an  enterprise (the  "Enterprise")

          with one  or  more  unaffiliated  entities for  the  purposes  of

          developing,  manufacturing  and  marketing stationary  electrical

          power systems employing fuel cell technology.

                    A fuel cell is  an electrochemical device that produces

          electricity directly  without combustion,  cleanly and  with high

          efficiency.   In  a  fuel cell,  hydrogen fuel  (in pure  form or

          obtained  from natural gas or methanol) and oxygen (from the air)

          are  combined to produce electricity,  heat and water.   Unlike a

          battery,  a fuel cell does not require recharging, as it provides

          power  as  long as  fuel is  supplied.   By  contrast, combustion

          engines  operate by burning fuel  to create heat,  turn heat into

          mechanical  energy  and  convert   this  mechanical  energy  into

          electric  power.  These multiple  processes,  however,  result in

          lower efficiency and create more pollution.

                    GPUI  thus believes  that  fuel cell  stationary  power

          plants can become an attractive low emission source of power, for

          both utility and  non-utility applications.   As such, fuel  cell

          power  plants   could  be   utilized  by   electric  distribution<PAGE>





          companies,  such   as  the   GPU  Energy  companies,   and  their

          commercialization could generate additional revenues and earnings

          for the GPU System.

                    B.   GPUI   has   been    holding   discussions    with

          representatives  of a  company (the  "Developer") which  has been

          engaged  for several  years  in the  business  of developing  and

          marketing fuel cell-based power  systems with a primary  focus on

          certain limited applications.   The Developer and GPUI  have also

          determined that there exists  an accessible market for stationary

          fuel cell-based  systems, i.e.,  systems  having a  more or  less

          fixed  situs.  This market would include, among other things, so-

          called  "remote"  or   "distributed  generation".    "Distributed

          generation"  is commonly  considered to include  electrical power

          generating systems  which are  smaller than the  typical utility-

          owned  central generating  station  and are  used as  stand-alone

          systems at the  point of  use to power  a particular  residential

          commercial or industrial site or to address a specific, localized

          utility need by providing supplemental power to the utility grid.

          Use of distributed generation can defer expansion of transmission

          and  distribution  systems,   reduce  line  losses   and  improve

          reliability and power quality.  It is expected that power systems

          of  1 kw or more would be  within the business of the Enterprise,

          although smaller  systems  might also  be  included if  they  are

          otherwise consistent with the concept of "stationary" systems.

                    C.   GPUI will invest, directly  or through a direct or

          indirect wholly owned subsidiary, up to $23.25 million in the 
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          Enterprise(1) (which amount includes the purchase price of two 

          field  test power  plants  to  be  purchased  by  GPUI  from  the

          Enterprise),  from time  to time  through 1998.   The  timing and

          amount of each such  investment will be based on  the achievement

          of specified milestones by the Enterprise relating to formulation

          of  a  business  plan, consummation  of  other  financing  by the

          Enterprise  and  completion of  prototype  and  field test  power

          plants.
                    In consideration for its  investment, GPUI will acquire

          (in addition to the two field  test units) Class B Voting  Common

          shares and Class C Non-Voting Preferred Shares of the Enterprise,

          as well as options to acquire, for an aggregate purchase price of

          $1.00, a specified number of additional shares of the Enterprise.

          Upon  making its  full investment  and exercise  in full  of such

          options, GPUI will own  securities in the Enterprise representing

          not in excess of 9.9% of the total voting power and not in excess

          of 20% of the equity  of the Enterprise.  The Developer  will own

          the  remainder  of  the  outstanding shares  of  the  Enterprise,

          although  it is currently expected that one or more be additional

          investors will acquire equity interests  in the Enterprise in the

          future.

                    As the  holder of  Class B  Voting Common Shares,  GPUI

          will have the right  to designate one member of  the Enterprise's

          board of directors.  An additional director will be designated by

          the Enterprise's  management and  the Developer will  designate a

          majority of the  board, which  will, except as  set forth  below,

          generally act 

          by ordinary majority vote.  Under the Unanimous Shareholder
          ____________________
          1    Additional information about the  Enterprise is set forth in
          Exhibit  I hereto which is being filed separately under a request
          for confidential treatment pursuant to Rule 104(b) under the Act.
           
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           Agreement, GPUI will have  the right to cause the  Enterprise or

          the  Developer  to purchase  GPUI's  interest  in the  Enterprise

          undercertain  circumstances,  including  the  taking  of  certain

          specified  actions by the Enterprise  over GPUI's objection.  The

          Class  C  Non-Voting  Preferred  Shares will  entitle  GPUI  to a

          preference, in the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding

          up of  the Enterprise, in an  amount equal to  its $23.25 million

          investment.

                    GPUI's voting  and liquidation  rights, and  its rights

          with  respect  to   significant  actions,  will  terminate   upon

          consummation of the Enterprise's initial public offering.

                    The  Developer  will  transfer  to  the  Enterprise all

          assets, and  license to  the Enterprise all  relevant technology,

          relating  to the  development,  manufacturing  and  marketing  of

          stationary  fuel cell-based  power systems.   The  Developer will

          also  provide  administrative  and   management  support  to  the

          Enterprise  for up to two years  and will sell the requisite fuel

          cells and related components  to the Enterprise for incorporation

          into the systems to be produced and sold by the Enterprise.

                    D.   GPUI  therefore requests authority  (1) to acquire

          an  interest  in  the  stationary fuel  cell-based  power  system

          business  as aforesaid  and (2)  to acquire  the securities  of a

          Subsidiary and/or, directly or  indirectly, the securities of the

          Enterprise.     The  Enterprise  will  not  own  or  operate  any

          facilities  for the generation,  transmission or  distribution of

          electric  energy.   Therefore,  neither  any  Subsidiary nor  the

          Enterprise will  become an "electric utility  company" as defined

          in  Section 2(a)(3) of the  Act.  GPUI's  aggregate investment in

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          the  Enterprise will not exceed $30 million, which is expected to

          be  funded through  capital  contributions  from GPU,  internally

          generated sources  at GPUI or  drawdowns by  GPUI under  existing

          lines of credit, or any combination of the foregoing.

                    E.   GPUI will also be granted warrants exercisable for

          five years  to purchase up  to 100,000 shares of  common stock of

          the Developer  at an exercise price  equal to the  average of the

          closing  prices   of  such   shares  from  October 23,   1996  to

          December 2, 1996.  It is  requested that the Commission authorize

          the   acquisition  of   such  warrants,   but  that   it  reserve

          jurisdiction over the exercise of such warrants.

                    F.  The authorization  requested herein with respect to

          the  acquisition  of  securities   of  a  Subsidiary  and/or  the

          Enterprise shall expire upon  the first to occur of  (i) December

          31, 2000 and (ii) the adoption by the Commission of proposed Rule

          58  (HCAR  No.  35-26313, June  20,  1995)  or  such other  rule,

          regulation  or order as  shall exempt the  transactions as herein

          proposed from Section 9(a) of the Act.

                    G.   Certain personnel of GPUI familiar with the market

          for,   and  marketing  of,  distributed  generation  may  provide

          consulting or other marketing-related services to the Enterprise.

          These services may include analysis of specific user requirements

          and  of the applications  and size  ranges of  stationary systems

          that will have the  broadest market appeal.  GPUI  personnel will

          also participate in development  of the Enterprise's business and

          marketing  plans  and monitor  their  implementation.   Any  such

          services provided to the Enterprise at a time when the Enterprise

          is a  "subsidiary company" of  GPU will  be provided  at cost  in

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          compliance with Rules 90  and 91 under the Act,  unless otherwise

          authorized by the Commission.

                    2.   By  completing  Item  2  thereof to  read  in  its

          entirety as follows:

          Item 2.   Fees, Commissions and Expenses.

                    The  estimated  fees, commissions  and  expenses to  be

          incurred in connection herewith are as follows:

               Filing fees - Securities and
                    Exchange Commission                     $  2,000
               Legal fees:
                    Berlack, Israels & Liberman LLP          110,000
                    Special Local Counsel                     60,000
               Accounting fees:
                    Ernst & Young LLP                         15,000
               Miscellaneous                                  13,000
                                                            ________

                    Total                                   $200,000

                    3.   By  filing  the  following exhibits  in  Item 6(a)

          thereof.

                    A-1       Form  of  Certificate  of   Incorporation  of
                              Subsidiary

                    A-2       Form of By-Laws of Subsidiary

                    A-3       Form of Subsidiary stock certificate

                    F         Opinion of Berlack, Israels & Liberman LLP

                    4.   By  separately  filing  the  following  additional

          exhibits  in Item 6(a)  thereof under a  request for confidential

          treatment pursuant to Rule 104(b) under the Act:

                    A-4       Form  of Articles  of  Incorporation  of  the
                              Enterprise

                    A-5       Form of Bylaws of the Enterprise

                    B-1       Form of Subscription Agreement

                    B-2       Form of Unanimous Shareholder Agreement

                    I         Description of the Enterprise

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                                    SIGNATURE

                    PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY
          HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935, THE UNDERSIGNED COMPANY HAS DULY
          CAUSED THIS STATEMENT TO BE SIGNED ON ITS BEHALF BY THE UNDERSIGNED
          THEREUNTO DULY AUTHORIZED.


                                        GPU INTERNATIONAL, INC.



                                        By:     /s/B. L. Levy
                                             B. L. Levy, President

          Date:  December 6, 1996
          























<PAGE>







                           (EXHIBITS TO BE FILED BY EDGAR)


          Exhibits:


                    A-1       Form  of  Certificate  of   Incorporation  of
                              Subsidiary

                    A-2       Form of By-Laws of Subsidiary

                    A-3       Form of Subsidiary stock certificate

                    F         Opinion of Berlack, Israels & Liberman LLP<PAGE>







                                                                EXHIBIT A-1

                   FORM OF [CERTIFICATE/ARTICLES] OF INCORPORATION


              I.    The name of the Corporation is _____________________.

             II.    The location and post  office address of the registered
                    office  of  the Corporation  in _______________________
                    is:


                    ________________________________________________________
                    ________________________________________________________
                    ________________________________________________________

            III.    The purposes for which the  Corporation is incorporated
                    are  to  engage  in   all  lawful  business  for  which
                    corporations may be incorporated under  the [applicable
                    corporate law].

             IV.    The Corporation is incorporated under the provisions of
                    the [applicable corporate law].

              V.    The  term  of existence  of  the  Corporation shall  be
                    perpetual.

             VI.    The aggregate  number of shares  which the  Corporation
                    shall     have    the    authority    to    issue    is
                    _________________________  (_____)  shares  of the  par
                    value  of  $_____ per  share,  all  of  which shall  be
                    designated "Common Shares".

            VII.    The  name  and  address  of the  sole  incorporator  is
                    ______________________________________________________.

           VIII.    The  number of directors shall not be less than one nor
                    more than twelve.  The number of directors  within said
                    minimum  and maximum limits  which shall constitute the
                    Board of Directors shall be specified in the By-Laws of
                    the Corporation.


               IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF, the  Incorporator has  hereunto signed
               [this  Certificate] [these  Articles] of  Incorporation this
               ____ day of _____, 199_.




                                   ________________________________________
                                             Sole Incorporator<PAGE>







                                                                EXHIBIT A-2

                                   FORM OF BY-LAWS


                                       Offices

               1.   The  principal office  of the  Corporation shall  be in
          __________________.   The  Corporation may  also have  offices at
          such other places as the Board of Directors may from time to time
          designate or the business of the Corporation may require.

                                         Seal

               2.   The  corporate seal  shall have  inscribed thereon  the
          name  of the Corporation, the  year of its  organization, and the
          words "Corporate Seal" and  "________________".  If authorized by
          the  Board of Directors, the corporate seal may be affixed to any
          certificates  of  stock,   bonds,  debentures,  notes  or   other
          engraved,  lithographed  or  printed instruments,  by  engraving,
          lithographing  or  printing  thereon  such seal  or  a  facsimile
          thereof,  and  such  seal   or  facsimile  thereof  so  engraved,
          lithographed or  printed thereon shall  have the  same force  and
          effect,  for all  purposes, as  if such  corporate seal  had been
          affixed thereto by indentation.

                                Shareholders' Meetings

               3.   All  meetings  of shareholders  shall  be  held at  the
          principal office of  the Corporation  or at such  other place  as
          shall be  stated in  the notice  of the  meeting.   Such meetings
          shall  be presided  over by  the chief  executive officer  of the
          Corporation  or, in his absence,  by such other  officer as shall
          have been designated for  the purpose by the Board  of Directors,
          except when by  statute the  election of a  presiding officer  is
          required.

               4.   Annual meetings  of shareholders  shall be  held during
          the month of  May in each  year on such day  and at such  time as
          shall  be determined by the  Board of Directors  and specified in
          the  notice  of  the   meeting.    At  the  annual   meeting  the
          shareholders  entitled to vote shall  elect by ballot  a Board of
          Directors and  transact such  other business  as may properly  be
          brought before the meeting.

               5.   Except  as  otherwise  provided   by  law,  or  by  the
          [Certificate/Articles] of Incorporation, as amended  from time to
          time,  the holders of  a majority of  the shares of  stock of the
          Corporation issued and outstanding  and entitled to vote, present
          in  person or  by  proxy,  shall  be  requisite  for,  and  shall
          constitute a quorum  at, any  meeting of the  shareholders.   If,
          however, the holders  of a majority of such shares of stock shall
          not be present  or represented by proxy at any  such meeting, the
          shareholders  entitled to vote  thereat, present in  person or by
          proxy, shall have power, by vote of the holders of  a majority of
          the  shares of  capital  stock  present  or  represented  at  the
          meeting,  to adjourn the meeting from time to time without notice<PAGE>





          other  than announcement at the meeting, until the holders of the
          amount of stock requisite  to constitute a quorum, as  aforesaid,
          shall be present in person or by proxy.  At any adjourned meeting
          at which such quorum shall be present, in person or by proxy, any
          business may  be transacted which  might have been  transacted at
          the meeting as originally noticed.

               6.   At each  meeting of  the shareholders  each shareholder
          having the right to vote  shall be entitled to vote in  person or
          by proxy appointed by  an instrument executed in writing  by such
          shareholder, or  by his  duly appointed  attorney;  but no  proxy
          shall be valid  after the  expiration of eleven  months from  the
          date of its execution  unless the shareholder executing  it shall
          have specified therein the  length of time it  is to continue  in
          force, which shall be for some specified period permitted by law.
          Each  holder  of record  of stock  having  voting power  shall be
          entitled to one vote for each share of stock standing in the name
          of  such holder on the  stock transfer books  of the Corporation.
          The vote for directors, and upon the demand of any shareholder or
          duly authorized  proxy, the  vote upon  any  question before  the
          meeting, shall be by ballot.  For all elections of directors, the
          candidates receiving the highest number of  votes from each class
          or  group  of  classes,  if  any,  entitled  to  elect  directors
          separately  up to  the number of  directors to be  elected by the
          class or group of  classes shall be elected.   All other  matters
          shall be determined by a vote of the holders of a majority of the
          shares of the capital  stock present or represented at  a meeting
          and voting on  such questions.   Shares of capital  stock of  the
          Corporation,  belonging to  the Corporation  or to  a corporation
          controlled by the Corporation  through stock ownership or through
          majority representation on the  Board of Directors, shall  not be
          voted.

               7.   A complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at
          any meeting of shareholders, arranged in alphabetical order, with
          the residence of  each, and  the number of  shares held by  each,
          shall be prepared  by the  Secretary and filed  in the  principal
          office  of  the  Corporation at  least  fifteen  days  before the
          meeting,  and shall be open to the examination of any shareholder
          at  all times prior to  such meeting, during  the usual hours for
          business, and shall  be available at the  time and place  of such
          meeting and open to the examination of any shareholder.

               8.   Special meetings of the shareholders for any purpose or
          purposes,  unless   otherwise  prescribed   by  law  or   by  the
          [Certificate/Articles] of  Incorporation, may  be  called by  the
          Chairman of  the Board of Directors  or by the President  or by a
          majority of the Executive  Committee, and shall be called  by the
          President  or Secretary at the  request in writing  of holders of
          record of twenty  percent of the  shares of capital stock  of the
          Corporation  issued   and  outstanding  and   entitled  to  vote.
          Business transacted  at all special meetings  of the shareholders
          shall be confined to the purposes stated in the call.


               9.   (a)  Notice of  every meeting of  shareholders, setting
          forth the  time and the place and briefly the purpose or purposes<PAGE>





          thereof,  shall be  given, not less  than ten nor more than fifty
          days prior to such meeting, to each shareholder of record (at the
          shareholder's  address  appearing  on  the  stock  books  of  the
          Corporation,  unless the  shareholder shall  have filed  with the
          Secretary  of  the Corporation  a  written  request that  notices
          intended for such shareholder be mailed to some other address, in
          which case it shall  be mailed to the address  designated in such
          request) as of a date fixed by the Board of Directors pursuant to
          Section 41 of the By-Laws.   Except as otherwise provided by law,
          by the [Certificate/Articles] of Incorporation, as amended, or by
          the By-Laws, items of business, in addition to those specified in
          the notice of meeting, may be transacted at the annual meeting.

                    (b)  Whenever  by any  provision  of law,  the vote  of
          shareholders  at a meeting thereof is required or permitted to be
          taken in connection  with any corporate  action, the meeting  and
          vote  of  shareholders   may  be  dispensed  with,   if  all  the
          shareholders who would have been entitled to vote upon the action
          if  such meeting  were held,  shall consent  in writing  prior or
          subsequent  to such  corporate action  being taken, and  all such
          consents shall  be filed with  the Secretary of  the Corporation.
          However, this section shall  not be construed to alter  or modify
          any  provision  of  law   or  of  the  [Certificate/Articles]  of
          Incorporation under which  the written consent of the  holders of
          less  than all  outstanding  shares is  sufficient for  corporate
          action.

                                      Directors

               10.  The business  and affairs  of the Corporation  shall be
          managed  under  the direction  of its  Board of  Directors, which
          shall  consist  of  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  twelve
          directors.  Each director  shall be at least twenty-one  years of
          age.   Directors  need not  be shareholders  of  the Corporation.
          Directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders,
          or, if any such  election shall not be  held, at a  shareholders'
          meeting called  and held  in  accordance with  the provisions  of
          applicable  law.  Each director shall serve until the next annual
          meeting  of  shareholders and  thereafter  until such  director's
          successor shall have been elected and shall qualify.

               11.  In  addition to the powers and authority by the By-Laws
          expressly conferred upon  it, the Board of Directors may exercise
          all such  powers of the  Corporation and do all  such lawful acts
          and things as are not by law or by the [Certificate/Articles]  of
          Incorporation, as amended, or by the By-Laws directed or required
          to be exercised or done by the shareholders.

               12.  Unless  otherwise required  by law,  in the  absence of
          fraud no contract or transaction between the Corporation  and one
          or  more of its directors or officers, or between the Corporation
          and  any domestic  or foreign  corporation, partnership,  firm or
          association  of any  type or  kind in  which one  or more  of its
          directors  or  officers  are  directors  or  officers or  have  a
          financial or other interest, shall be void or voidable solely for
          such  reason,  or  solely because  such  director  or  officer is
          present  at  or  participates in  the  meeting  of  the Board  or<PAGE>





          committee thereof  which authorizes the contract  or transaction,
          or solely because  the votes  of such director  or directors  are
          counted for such purposes if:

                    (a)  the  material  facts  as  to the  relationship  or
                    interest  and as  to  the contract  or transaction  are
                    disclosed or are  known to the  Board of Directors  and
                    the Board authorizes the contract or transaction by the
                    affirmative votes  of a majority  of the  disinterested
                    directors even though  the disinterested directors  are
                    less than a quorum;

                    (b)  the  material  facts  as to  such  relationship or
                    interest  and as  to  the contract  or transaction  are
                    disclosed or are known  to the shareholders entitled to
                    vote  thereon  and  the  contract  or  transaction   is
                    specifically approved  in good  faith by vote  of those
                    shareholders; or

                    (c)  the  contract or  transaction  is fair  as to  the
                    Corporation as  of the time it  is authorized, approved
                    or  ratified   by  the   Board  of  Directors   or  the
                    shareholders.

               No director or  officer shall  be liable to  account to  the
          Corporation for any  profit realized by such  director or officer
          from  or  through  any  such  contract  or   transaction  of  the
          Corporation by reason of the interest of such director or officer
          as  aforesaid in such contract or transaction if such contract or
          transaction  shall   be  authorized,  approved   or  ratified  as
          aforesaid.

               No contract or other transaction between the Corporation and
          any of  its affiliates shall in  any case be void  or voidable or
          otherwise affected because of the fact that directors or officers
          of the Corporation are directors  or officers of such  affiliate,
          nor shall any such director or officer, because of such relation,
          be deemed  interested in such contract or other transaction under
          any  of the  provisions of this  Section 12,  nor shall  any such
          director  be liable to account because of such relation.  For the
          purpose of this Section  12, the term "affiliate" shall  mean any
          corporation which is an "affiliate" of the Corporation within the
          meaning of the  Public Utility  Holding Company Act  of 1935,  as
          said Act shall at the time be in effect.

               Nothing herein  shall create liability in any  of the events
          described  in  this  Section  12 or  prevent  the  authorization,
          ratification or approval, in any other manner provided by law, of
          any contract or transaction described in this Section 12.

                          Meetings of the Board of Directors

               13.  The first  meeting of the  Board of Directors,  for the
          purpose  of  organization,  the  election of  officers,  and  the
          transaction  of  any other  business  which may  come  before the
          meeting, shall be held  on call of  the Chairman within one  week
          after  the annual meeting of shareholders.  If the Chairman shall<PAGE>





          fail  to call such meeting, it may  be called by the President or
          by  any director.  Notice of such  meeting shall be  given in the
          manner prescribed for special meetings of the Board of Directors.

               14.  Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may  be held
          without notice except for the purpose of taking action on matters
          as to which  notice is in  the By-Laws required  to be given,  at
          such time and  place as shall from time to  time be designated by
          the Board, but in any  event at intervals of not more  than three
          months.  Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called
          by the  Chairman  or  by  the President  or  in  the  absence  or
          disability  of  the  Chairman  and   the  President,  by  a  Vice
          President,  or by any two directors, and  may be held at the time
          and place designated in the call and notice of the meeting.

               15.  Except as  otherwise provided by the  By-Laws, any item
          or  business may  be transacted at  any meeting  of the  Board of
          Directors, whether or not  such item of business shall  have been
          specified in the  notice of meeting.  Where notice of any meeting
          of the Board of Directors is required to be given by the By-Laws,
          the Secretary or other officer  performing such duties shall give
          notice  either  personally  or  by  telephone or  telegraph    or
          facsimile  transmission at  least  twenty-four hours  before  the
          meeting,  or  by mail  at least  three  days before  the meeting.
          Meetings may be held at any time and place without  notice if all
          the directors are present or if those not present waive notice in
          writing either before or after the meeting.

               16.  At  all  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Directors  or  a
          committee thereof  a majority  of the  entire Board  or committee
          shall  be requisite for, and  shall constitute, a  quorum for the
          transaction  of  business,  and the  act  of  a  majority of  the
          directors  present and voting at any  meeting at which there is a
          quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors,  except as may
          be   otherwise   specifically  provided   by   law   or  by   the
          [Certificate/Articles] of Incorporation or any  amendment thereto
          or by the By-Laws.

               17.  Any action  required or  permitted to  be taken  by the
          Board  or any  committee  of the  Board  may be  taken  without a
          meeting  if, prior or subsequent  to such action,  all members of
          the Board or the committee consent  in writing to the adoption of
          a  resolution authorizing  the action.   The  resolution  and the
          written consents thereto by the members of the Board or committee
          shall be filed  with the minutes of the  proceedings of the Board
          or committee.  Any regular or special meeting may be adjourned to
          any time or  place by a majority of the  directors present at the
          meeting whether or not a quorum shall be present at such meeting,
          and  no notice of the  adjourned meeting shall  be required other
          than announcement at the meeting.

                                      Committees

               18.  The Board of Directors  may, by the vote of  a majority
          of  the  directors  in  office, create  an  Executive  Committee,
          consisting of two or more members, of whom one shall be the chief
          executive officer of the  Corporation.  The other members  of the<PAGE>





          Executive Committee shall be designated by the Board of Directors
          from their number, shall hold office for such period as the Board
          of Directors shall determine  and may be removed  at any time  by
          the Board of Directors.  When a member of the Executive Committee
          ceases to be  a director, he  shall cease to  be a member of  the
          Executive  Committee.  The Executive Committee shall have all the
          powers specifically  granted to  it by  the By-Laws and,  between
          meetings of the  Board of  Directors, may also  exercise all  the
          powers  of the Board  of Directors;  provided, however,  that the
          Executive Committee  shall not  have  power or  authority to  (i)
          submit to the shareholders  any action requiring approval of  the
          shareholders under applicable law,  (ii) create or fill vacancies
          on the Board of Directors, (iii) amend or repeal these By-Laws or
          adopt new By-Laws,  (iv) amend  or repeal any  resolution of  the
          Board that  by its terms is  amendable or repealable only  by the
          Board, or (v) act on any matter committed by these  By-Laws or by
          resolution of the Board to another committee of the Board.

               19.  The Executive Committee shall  cause to be kept regular
          minutes  of its  proceedings,  which may  be  transcribed in  the
          regular minute book of the  Corporation, and all such proceedings
          shall  be  reported  to  the  Board  of  Directors  at  its  next
          succeeding meeting.  The action of the Executive  Committee shall
          be subject to revision  or alteration by the Board  of Directors,
          provided that no rights which, in the absence of such revision or
          alteration, third  persons would  have had  shall be  affected by
          such  revision  or  alteration.    A  majority of  the  Executive
          Committee shall constitute a quorum at any meeting.  The Board of
          Directors  may by  vote  of a  majority  of the  total  number of
          directors  provided for  in Section  10 of  the By-Laws  fill any
          vacancies in  the Executive  Committee.  The  Executive Committee
          shall  designate one of its  number as Chairman  of the Executive
          Committee and  may,  from  time  to  time,  prescribe  rules  and
          regulations for  the  calling  and conduct  of  meetings  of  the
          Committee, and  other matters relating  to its procedure  and the
          exercise of its powers.

               20.  From time  to time the  Board of Directors  may appoint
          any other  committee or committees  for any purpose  or purposes,
          which committee or  committees shall  have such  powers and  such
          tenure  of  office as  shall be  specified  in the  resolution of
          appointment.   The  chief  executive officer  of the  Corporation
          shall  be  a member  ex officio  of all  committees of  the Board
          unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  Board  in  respect  of  any
          committee or committees.

                     Compensation and Reimbursement of Directors
                        and Members of the Executive Committee

               21.  Directors,   other  than   salaried  officers   of  the
          Corporation  or its  affiliates,  shall receive  compensation for
          their services as directors at such  rate as shall be fixed  from
          time to time by the Board,  and all directors shall be reimbursed
          for their  reasonable  expenses, if  any, of  attendance at  each
          regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors.<PAGE>





               22.  Directors,   other  than   salaried  officers   of  the
          Corporation or its affiliates,  who are members of any  committee
          of the  Board shall  receive compensation  for their  services as
          such members at such rate as shall  be fixed from time to time by
          the Board, and shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses,
          if  any, in  attending meetings  of  such committee  or otherwise
          performing their duties as members of such committee.

                                       Officers

               23.  The officers of the Corporation shall be chosen by vote
          of  a  majority  of  the  directors  in  office  and  shall  be a
          President,  one  or  more  Vice  Presidents, a  Secretary  and  a
          Treasurer, and may include a Chairman, a Comptroller, one or more
          Assistant Secretaries, one or  more Assistant Treasurers, and one
          or more Assistant Comptrollers.   If a Chairman shall  be chosen,
          the Board of Directors shall designate either the Chairman or the
          President  as chief executive officer  of the Corporation.   If a
          Chairman  shall not be chosen,  the President shall  be the chief
          executive  officer of the Corporation.  The Chairman, if there be
          one, and a President who is designated chief executive officer of
          the Corporation, shall  be chosen  from among the  directors.   A
          President  who is not chief executive  officer of the Corporation
          and  none  of the  other  officers  need be  a  director.   If  a
          Comptroller shall  not be  chosen, the  Board of Directors  shall
          designate another officer as  principal accounting officer of the
          Corporation who in his capacity as such shall have the duties and
          responsibilities set forth in Section 33 hereof.  Any two offices
          may  be occupied and the  duties thereof may  be performed by one
          person, but no  officer shall execute, acknowledge  or verify any
          instrument  in the  name  of the  Corporation  in more  than  one
          capacity.

               24.  The  salaries and  other compensation  of  the officers
          (other  than  assistant officers)  of  the  Corporation shall  be
          determined from  time to  time by  the Board  of Directors.   The
          salaries and other compensation of the assistant officers of  the
          Corporation  shall  be  determined  from  time  to  time  by  the
          President.

               25.  The Board  of Directors  may appoint such  officers and
          such  representatives or agents as shall be deemed necessary, who
          shall  hold office for such  terms, exercise such powers, perform
          such duties, and receive such  salaries or other compensation, as
          shall be determined from time  to time by action of the  Board of
          Directors.

               26.  The salary or other compensation of all other employees
          shall  be fixed by the chief executive officer of the Corporation
          or by such other officer as shall be designated for  that purpose
          by the Board of Directors.

               27.  The officers of the Corporation shall hold office until
          the  first meeting  of  the Board  of  Directors after  the  next
          succeeding  annual   meeting  of  shareholders  and  until  their
          respective  successors  are  chosen  and qualify.    Any  officer
          elected pursuant to Section 23  of the By-Laws may be  removed at<PAGE>





          any time, with  or without cause,  by the vote  of a majority  of
          directors   then  in   office.     Any  other  officer   and  any
          representative,  employee  or agent  of  the  Corporation may  be
          removed at  any time,  with or  without cause,  by action  of the
          Board of Directors, or, in the  absence of action by the Board of
          Directors,  by the  Executive Committee,  or the  chief executive
          officer of the Corporation,  or such other officer as  shall have
          been designated for  that purpose by the  chief executive officer
          of the Corporation.

                                    The Chairman 

               28.  (a)  If  a  Chairman shall  be chosen  by the  Board of
          Directors, such  Chairman shall preside  at all  meetings of  the
          Board at which such Chairman shall be present.

                    (b)  If  a Chairman  shall be  chosen by  the Board  of
          Directors and  is  designated by  the  Board as  chief  executive
          officer of the Corporation, such Chairman

                         (i)  shall have supervision, direction and control
                         of the conduct of the business of the Corporation,
                         subject, however,  to the control of  the Board of
                         Directors and the Executive Committee, if there be
                         one;

                         (ii) may  sign in the  name and  on behalf  of the
                         Corporation any and  all contracts, agreements  or
                         other  instruments  pertaining  to  matters  which
                         arise in  the ordinary  course of business  of the
                         Corporation, and, when authorized  by the Board of
                         Directors  or the Executive Committee, if there be
                         one, may sign  in the  name and on  behalf of  the
                         Corporation any and  all contracts, agreements  or
                         other instruments of any nature pertaining  to the
                         business of the Corporation;

                         (iii) may, unless otherwise  directed by the Board
                         of  Directors pursuant  to Section  38 of  the By-
                         Laws, attend  in person or by  substitute or proxy
                         appointed  by such  Chairman and  act and  vote on
                         behalf of  the Corporation at all  meetings of the
                         shareholders  of  any  corporation  in  which  the
                         Corporation  holds stock  and  grant any  consent,
                         waiver, or  power of  attorney in respect  of such
                         stock;

                         (iv) shall, whenever it may in the opinion of such
                         Chairman  be  necessary or  appropriate, prescribe
                         the  duties  of  officers  and  employees  of  the
                         Corporation   whose   duties  are   not  otherwise
                         defined; and

                         (v)  shall have such other powers and perform such
                         other  duties as  may be  prescribed from  time to
                         time  by law, by the  By-Laws, or by  the Board of
                         Directors.<PAGE>





                    (c)  If a  Chairman shall  be  chosen by  the Board  of
          Directors and is not  designated by the Board as  chief executive
          officer of the Corporation, such Chairman

                         (i)  may sign  in the name  and on  behalf of  the
                         Corporation  any and all  contracts, agreements or
                         other  instruments  pertaining  to  matters  which
                         arise in  the ordinary  course of business  of the
                         Corporation and,  when authorized by  the Board of
                         Directors or the Executive  Committee, if there be
                         one, may sign  in the  name and on  behalf of  the
                         Corporation  any and all  contracts, agreements or
                         other instruments  of any nature pertaining to the
                         business of the Corporation; and

                         (ii) shall have such other powers and perform such
                         other  duties as  may be  prescribed from  time to
                         time  by law, by the  By-Laws, or by  the Board of
                         Directors.

                                    The President

               29.  (a)  If  a Chairman shall not be chosen by the Board of
          Directors, the  President shall  preside at all  meetings of  the
          Board at which such President shall be present.

                    (b)  If the President shall  be designated by the Board
          of Directors  as chief executive officer of  the Corporation, the
          President

                         (i)  shall have supervision, direction and control
                         of the conduct of the business of the Corporation,
                         subject, however,  to the control of  the Board of
                         Directors and the Executive Committee, if there be
                         one;

                         (ii) may  sign in  the name and  on behalf  of the
                         Corporation any  and all contracts,  agreements or
                         other  instruments  pertaining  to  matters  which
                         arise in  the ordinary  course of business  of the
                         Corporation, and,  when authorized by the Board of
                         Directors or the Executive Committee, if  there be
                         one, may sign  in the  name and on  behalf of  the
                         Corporation any  and all contracts,  agreements or
                         other instruments of any  nature pertaining to the
                         business of the Corporation;

                         (iii) may,  unless otherwise directed by the Board
                         of  Directors pursuant  to Section  38 of  the By-
                         Laws, attend  in person or by  substitute or proxy
                         appointed by  such President  and act and  vote on
                         behalf of  the Corporation at all  meetings of the
                         shareholders  of  any  corporation  in  which  the
                         Corporation holds  stock  and grant  any  consent,
                         waiver, or  power of  attorney in respect  of such
                         stock;<PAGE>





                         (iv) shall, whenever it may in the opinion of such
                         President be necessary  or appropriate,  prescribe
                         the  duties  of  officers  and  employees  of  the
                         Corporation   whose   duties  are   not  otherwise
                         defined; and

                         (v)  shall have such other powers and perform such
                         other  duties as  may be  prescribed from  time to
                         time  by law, by the  By-Laws, or by  the Board of
                         Directors.

                    (c)  If the  Chairman shall be designated  by the Board
          of Directors as chief  executive officer of the  Corporation, the
          President,

                         (i)  shall be  the chief operating  officer of the
                         Corporation;

                         (ii) shall have supervision, direction and control
                         of the conduct of the business of the Corporation,
                         in the  absence  or disability  of  the  Chairman,
                         subject, however,  to the control of  the Board of
                         Directors and the Executive Committee, if there be
                         one;

                         (iii)  may sign in the  name and on  behalf of the
                         Corporation  any and all  contracts, agreements or
                         other  instruments  pertaining  to  matters  which
                         arise in  the ordinary  course of business  of the
                         Corporation, and, when authorized by the Board  of
                         Directors or the Executive  Committee, if there be
                         one, may sign  in the  name and on  behalf of  the
                         Corporation  any and all  contracts, agreements or
                         other instruments  of any nature pertaining to the
                         business of the Corporation;

                         (iv) at  the   request  or  in   the  absence   or
                         disability of the  Chairman, may, unless otherwise
                         directed by  the Board  of  Directors pursuant  to
                         Section 38 of the By-Laws, attend  in person or by
                         substitute  or proxy  appointed by  such President
                         and act and  vote on behalf of the  Corporation at
                         all   meetings  of   the   shareholders   of   any
                         corporation in  which the Corporation  holds stock
                         and  grant  any  consent,   waiver,  or  power  of
                         attorney in respect of such stock;

                         (v)  at  the   request  or   in  the  absence   or
                         disability   of  the  Chairman,  whenever  in  the
                         opinion of  such President it may  be necessary or
                         appropriate,   shall   prescribe  the   duties  of
                         officers  and employees  of the  Corporation whose
                         duties are not otherwise defined; and

                         (vi) shall have such other powers and perform such
                         other  duties as  may be  prescribed from  time to<PAGE>





                         time  by law, by the  By-Laws, or by  the Board of
                         Directors.

                                    Vice President

               30.  (a)  The  Vice  President  shall,  in  the  absence  or
          disability of the President, if the President has been designated
          chief executive officer of the Corporation or if the President is
          acting pursuant to the provisions of Subsection  29(c)(ii) of the
          By-Laws, have  supervision, direction and control  of the conduct
          of the  business of  the Corporation,  subject,  however, to  the
          control of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, if
          there be one.

                    (b)  The  Vice President may sign in the name of and on
          behalf of the  Corporation any and  all contracts, agreements  or
          other  instruments  pertaining  to  matters which  arise  in  the
          ordinary  course  of  business  of  the  Corporation,  and,  when
          authorized by the Board of Directors or the Executive  Committee,
          if  there  be one,  may sign  in the  name and  on behalf  of the
          Corporation  any   and   all  contracts,   agreements  or   other
          instruments  of  any nature  pertaining  to the  business  of the
          Corporation except  in cases where  the signing thereof  shall be
          expressly  delegated by the  Board of Directors  or the Executive
          Committee to some other officer or agent of the Corporation.

                    (c)  The Vice President may,  if the President has been
          designated chief  executive officer of the Corporation  or if the
          President is acting pursuant  to the provisions of Subsection  29
          (c) (ii)  of the By-Laws,  at the  request or in  the absence  or
          disability of  the President  or in  case of  the failure  of the
          President  to  appoint  a  substitute  or  proxy  as provided  in
          Subsections  29 (b) (iii) and 29  (c) (iv) of the By-Laws, unless
          otherwise directed by  the Board of Directors pursuant to Section
          38  of the  By-Laws, attend in  person or by  substitute or proxy
          appointed by such Vice  President and act and  vote on behalf  of
          the  Corporation at  all  meetings  of  the shareholders  of  any
          corporation in  which the Corporation  holds stock and  grant any
          consent, waiver, or power of attorney in respect of such stock.

                    (d)  The Vice  President shall  have such other  powers
          and perform such  other duties as may be prescribed  from time to
          time by law, by the By-Laws, or by the Board of Directors.

                    (e)  If  there be  more  than one  Vice President,  the
          Board  of  Directors  may designate  one  or  more  of such  Vice
          Presidents  as  an  Executive  Vice  President.    The  Board  of
          Directors  may assign  to such  Vice Presidents  their respective
          duties  and  may,  if the  President  has  been designated  chief
          executive  officer of  the  Corporation or  if  the President  is
          acting  pursuant to the provisions  of Subsection 29  (c) (ii) of
          the By-Laws,  designate the  order in  which the respective  Vice
          Presidents shall  have supervision, direction and  control of the
          business of the Corporation  in the absence or disability  of the
          President.

                                    
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                                    The Secretary

               31.  (a)  The  Secretary shall  attend all  meetings of  the
          Board  of Directors  and  all meetings  of  the shareholders  and
          record  all votes and the minutes of  all proceedings in books to
          be kept for  that purpose; and shall perform like  duties for the
          Executive Committee and any other committees created by the Board
          of Directors.

                    (b)  The Secretary  shall give,  or cause to  be given,
          notice  of  all  meetings  of  the  shareholders,  the  Board  of
          Directors, or the Executive Committee of which notice is required
          to be given by law or by the By-Laws.

                    (c)  The  Secretary shall  have such  other  powers and
          perform such other duties  as may be prescribed from time to time
          by law, by the By-Laws, or by the Board of Directors.

                    (d)  Any  records kept  by the  Secretary shall  be the
          property  of  the  Corporation  and  shall  be  restored  to  the
          Corporation  in  case  of  the  Secretary's  death,  resignation,
          retirement or removal from office.

                    (e)  The Secretary  shall be the custodian  of the seal
          of the Corporation and, pursuant to Section 45 of the By-Laws and
          in  other instances where the execution of documents on behalf of
          the  Corporation is authorized by the By-Laws  or by the Board of
          Directors, may affix the seal to all instruments requiring it and
          attest the ensealing and the execution of such instruments.

                    (f)  The  Secretary shall  have  control  of the  stock
          ledger, stock  certificate book and all  books containing minutes
          of  any  meeting  of the  shareholders,  Board  of Directors,  or
          Executive Committee  or other committee  created by the  Board of
          Directors,  and of all  formal records and  documents relating to
          the corporate affairs of the Corporation.

                    (g)  Any Assistant Secretary  or Assistant  Secretaries
          shall assist the Secretary in the performance of the  Secretary's
          duties,  shall exercise the powers and duties of the Secretary at
          the request or in the absence or disability of the Secretary, and
          shall  exercise such other powers and duties as may be prescribed
          by the Board of Directors.

                                    The Treasurer

               32.  (a)  The   Treasurer  shall  be   responsible  for  the
          safekeeping  of  the  corporate   funds  and  securities  of  the
          Corporation, and  shall maintain  and keep  custody  of full  and
          accurate  accounts  of  receipts   and  disbursements  in   books
          belonging to the  Corporation, and shall  deposit all moneys  and
          other funds of  the Corporation in the name and  to the credit of
          the Corporation, in such depositories as may be designated by the
          Board of Directors.

                    (b)  The  Treasurer  shall disburse  the  funds  of the
          Corporation in  such manner as  may be  ordered by  the Board  of
          Directors, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements.<PAGE>





                    (c)  Pursuant  to  Section  45   of  the  By-Laws,  the
          Treasurer may, when authorized  by the Board of Directors,  affix
          the  seal to  all  instruments  requiring  it  and    attest  the
          ensealing and the execution of such instruments.

                    (d)  The  Treasurer  shall  exhibit  at  all reasonable
          times   such  accounts  and  records   to  any  director  of  the
          Corporation upon application during  business hours at the office
          of the Corporation where such accounts and records are kept.

                    (e)  The Treasurer  shall  render  an  account  of  all
          transactions as Treasurer at all regular meetings of the Board of
          Directors,  or whenever  the Board  may require  it, and  at such
          other times as  may be requested by the Board  or by any director
          of the Corporation.

                    (f)  If  required  by  the   Board  of  Directors,  the
          Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond, the premium on which
          shall be  paid by  the Corporation, in  such form and  amount and
          with  such surety  or sureties  as shall  be satisfactory  to the
          Board,  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  the
          Treasurer's office, and for the restoration to the Corporation in
          case of the death, resignation, retirement or removal from office
          of the Treasurer, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other
          property of  whatever kind  belonging to  the Corporation in  the
          possession or under the control of the Treasurer .

                    (g)  The Treasurer shall  perform all duties  generally
          incident  to the office of Treasurer, and shall have other powers
          and duties as from time to time  may be prescribed by law, by the
          By-Laws, or by the Board of Directors.

                    (h)  Any  Assistant  Treasurer or  Assistant Treasurers
          shall assist the  Treasurer in the performance of the Treasurer's
          duties,  shall exercise the powers and duties of the Treasurer at
          the request or in the absence or disability of the Treasurer, and
          shall  exercise such other powers and duties as may be prescribed
          by the Board of Directors. If required by the Board of Directors,
          any Assistant  Treasurer shall give  the Corporation a  bond, the
          premium on which  shall be  paid by the  Corporation, similar  to
          that which may be required to be given by the Treasurer.

                                     Comptroller

               33.  (a)  The Comptroller  of the  Corporation shall  be the
          principal  accounting officer  of  the Corporation  and shall  be
          accountable  and report  directly to  the Board of  Directors. If
          required by  the Board of  Directors, the Comptroller  shall give
          the Corporation a bond, the premium on which shall be paid by the
          Corporation,  in such  form and  amount and  with such  surety or
          sureties  as shall be satisfactory to the Board, for the faithful
          performance of the duties of the Comptroller's office.

                    (b)  The  Comptroller shall  keep or  cause to  be kept
          full  and  complete books  of account  of  all operations  of the
          Corporation and of its assets and liabilities.<PAGE>





                    (c)  The   Comptroller  shall   have  custody   of  all
          accounting records  of the Corporation  other than the  record of
          receipts and disbursements  and those relating to  the deposit or
          custody of money or securities of the Corporation, which shall be
          in the custody of the Treasurer.

                    (d)  The  Comptroller shall  exhibit at  all reasonable
          times such books  of account and records  to any director  of the
          Corporation upon application during  business hours at the office
          of  the Corporation where such  books of account  and records are
          kept.

                    (e)  The   Comptroller  shall  render  reports  of  the
          operations and business and  of the condition of the  finances of
          the  Corporation at regular  meetings of the  Board of Directors,
          and  at such other times  as may be requested by  the Board or by
          any  director  of  the  Corporation,  and  shall  render  a  full
          financial  report at the  annual meeting of  the shareholders, if
          called upon to do so.

                    (f)  The Comptroller shall receive and keep  custody of
          an original copy of each written contract made by or on behalf of
          the Corporation.  

                    (g)  The  Comptroller  shall  receive periodic  reports
          from  the  Treasurer  of  the Corporation  of  all  receipts  and
          disbursements, and shall see that correct vouchers  are taken for
          all disbursements for any purpose.

                    (h)  The Comptroller shall perform all duties generally
          incident  to the office of Comptroller, and shall have such other
          powers and duties as from time  to time may be prescribed by law,
          by the By-Laws, or by the Board of Directors.

                    (i)  Any    Assistant    Comptroller    or    Assistant
          Comptrollers shall  assist the Comptroller in  the performance of
          the Comptroller's duties, shall exercise the powers and duties of
          the Comptroller at the request or in the absence or disability of
          the Comptroller, and shall exercise  such other powers and duties
          as may be   prescribed by the Board of Directors.  If required by
          the Board of Directors, any Assistant Comptroller shall  give the
          Corporation a  bond, the premium  on which  shall be paid  by the
          Corporation, similar to that which may be required to be given by
          the Comptroller.

                                      Vacancies

               34.  If the  office of any  director becomes vacant  for any
          reason,  including vacancies  resulting from  an increase  in the
          number of directors, the directors then in office,  although less
          than a quorum, by a majority vote, may fill such vacancy and each
          person  so selected shall hold  office for the  unexpired term in
          respect of  which such vacancy  occurred.   If the office  of any
          officer  of the Corporation  shall become vacant  for any reason,
          the  Board of Directors, at a  meeting, the notice of which shall
          have  specified the  filling  of  such  vacancy  as  one  of  its
          purposes,  may choose a successor  who shall hold  office for the<PAGE>





          unexpired  term  in  respect  of  which  such  vacancy  occurred.
          Pending action by  the Board  of Directors at  such meeting,  the
          Board  of  Directors or  the  Executive  Committee may  choose  a
          successor temporarily to serve as an officer of the Corporation.

                                     Resignations

               35.  An  officer  or any  director  of  the Corporation  may
          resign at  any time, such resignation  to be made in  writing and
          transmitted to the Secretary.  Such resignation shall take effect
          from the  time of its   receipt by  the Corporation,  unless some
          time  be fixed  in  the resignation,  and  then from  that  time.
          Nothing  herein  shall  be deemed  to  relieve  any officer  from
          liability for breach of any contract of employment resulting from
          any such resignation.<PAGE>





                         Duties of Officers May be Delegated

               36.  In  case of the absence or disability of any officer of
          the Corporation, or for  any other reason the Board  of Directors
          may  deem sufficient,  the  Board,  by  vote  of  a  majority  of
          directors  then  in  office,   may,  notwithstanding  any   other
          provisions  of  the By-Laws,  delegate  or assign,  for  the time
          being, the powers  or duties, or any of them,  of such officer to
          any other officer or to any director.

                 Indemnification of Directors, Officers and Employees

               37.  (a)  The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was
          or  is a  party  or  is threatened  to  be made  a  party to  any
          threatened,  pending or  completed  action,  suit or  proceeding,
          whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, whether
          formal or informal, and whether brought by or in the right of the
          Corporation, its shareholders or otherwise, by reason of the fact
          that  such  person was  a director,  officer  or employee  of the
          Corporation (and may indemnify any person who was an agent of the
          Corporation),  or  a  person  serving   at  the  request  of  the
          Corporation as a director, officer, partner, fiduciary or trustee
          of  another  corporation,   partnership,  joint  venture,  trust,
          employee  benefit plan or other enterprise, to the fullest extent
          permitted  by law,  including without  limitation indemnification
          against expenses  (including attorneys' fees  and disbursements),
          damages,  punitive  damages,  judgments,  penalties,   fines  and
          amounts paid  in settlement  actually and reasonably  incurred by
          such  person in connection with such proceeding unless the act or
          failure  to act giving rise  to the claim  for indemnification is
          finally  determined  by  a  court  to  have  constituted  willful
          misconduct or recklessness.   If any such person is  not entitled
          to  indemnification in respect of a portion of any liabilities to
          which  such   person  may  be  subject,   the  Corporation  shall
          nonetheless indemnify such  person to the maximum  extent for the
          remaining portion of the liabilities.

                    (b)  The Corporation shall  pay the expenses (including
          attorneys'  fees  and  disbursements)  actually   and  reasonably
          incurred  in  defending  a  civil  or criminal  action,  suit  or
          proceeding on  behalf of  any person entitled  to indemnification
          under  subsection (b) in advance of the final disposition of such
          proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such
          person  to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined
          that  such  person  is not  entitled  to  be  indemnified by  the
          Corporation,  and may pay such  expenses in advance  on behalf of
          any agent on  receipt of  a similar undertaking.   The  financial
          ability of  such person  to make  such repayment  shall not  be a
          prerequisite to the making of an advance.

                    (c)   For purposes of this Section: (i) the Corporation
          shall be deemed  to have requested an officer, director, employee
          or  agent to  serve  as fiduciary  with  respect to  an  employee
          benefit  plan where the performance  by such person  of duties to
          the  Corporation also  imposes duties  on, or  otherwise involves
          services by, such person as a fiduciary with respect to the plan;
          (ii) excise taxes  assessed with respect to  any transaction with<PAGE>





          an  employee  benefit plan  shall  be deemed  "fines";  and (iii)
          action  taken  or  omitted by  such  person  with  respect to  an
          employee  benefit plan in the performance of duties for a purpose
          reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and
          beneficiaries  of the plan  shall be deemed  to be  for a purpose
          which is not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation.

                    (d)  To   further  effect,   satisfy   or  secure   the
          indemnification obligations  provided  herein or  otherwise,  the
          Corporation may  maintain insurance,  obtain a letter  of credit,
          act  as  self-insurer,  create  a reserve,  trust,  escrow,  cash
          collateral or  other fund or account,  enter into indemnification
          agreements,  pledge or grant a security interest in any assets or
          properties  of the  Corporation,  or use  any other  mechanism or
          arrangement whatsoever in  such amounts, at such costs,  and upon
          such other terms and  conditions as the Board of  Directors shall
          deem appropriate.

                    (e)  All rights of  indemnification under this  Section
          shall be deemed a contract between the Corporation and the person
          entitled to indemnification under  this Section pursuant to which
          the  Corporation and each such person intend to be legally bound.
          Any repeal, amendment or modification hereof shall be prospective
          only  and  shall  not  limit,  but  may  expand,  any  rights  or
          obligations in respect of  any proceeding whether commenced prior
          to or after such change to the extent such proceeding pertains to
          actions or failures to act occurring prior to such change.

                    (f)  The   indemnification,   as  authorized   by  this
          Section, shall not  be deemed  exclusive of any  other rights  to
          which those  seeking indemnification  or advancement  of expenses
          may   be  entitled   under  any   statute,  agreement,   vote  of
          shareholders or disinterested directors  or otherwise, both as to
          actions in an official  capacity and as  to actions in any  other
          capacity  while holding  such  office.   The indemnification  and
          advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this
          Section shall continue  as to a  person who has  ceased to be  an
          officer,  director,  employee  or  agent in  respect  of  matters
          arising prior to such time, and shall inure to the benefit of the
          heirs, executors and administrators of such person.

                             Stock of Other Corporations

               38.  The  Board of  Directors  may authorize  any  director,
          officer or other person  on behalf of the Corporation  to attend,
          act and vote at  meetings of the shareholders of  any corporation
          in  which  the  Corporation shall  hold  stock,  and  to exercise
          thereat any  and all  of the  rights and  powers incident  to the
          ownership of such stock and to execute waivers  of notice of such
          meetings and calls therefor.

                                Certificates of Stock

               39.  The certificates  of stock of the  Corporation shall be
          numbered and shall be entered in the books of  the Corporation as
          they are issued.  They shall exhibit the holder's name and number
          of  shares and may include  the holder's address.   No fractional<PAGE>





          shares of stock shall be issued.  Certificates of stock shall  be
          signed by  the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer
          or  an  Assistant Treasurer  or  the  Secretary or  an  Assistant
          Secretary, and shall be  sealed with the seal of  the Corporation
          or  a facsimile  thereof.   Where  any  certificate of  stock  is
          countersigned  by a  transfer agent  or registrar  who is  not an
          officer or  employee of  the Corporation,  the signatures of  any
          such President,  Vice President, Secretary,  Assistant Secretary,
          Treasurer, or  Assistant Treasurer  upon such certificate  may be
          facsimiles,  engraved or printed.   In case any  such officer who
          has  signed or whose facsimile  signature has been  placed upon a
          certificate shall have ceased to  be such before such certificate
          of stock is issued, it may be issued by the  Corporation with the
          same  effect as if such officer had  not ceased to be such at the
          date of its issue.

                                  Transfer of Stock

               40.  Transfers  of stock shall be  made on the  books of the
          Corporation only by  the person  named in the  certificate or  by
          attorney, lawfully constituted in  writing, and upon surrender of
          the certificate therefor.

                                Fixing of Record Date

               41.  The Board  of Directors is  hereby authorized to  fix a
          time,  not exceeding fifty days preceding the date of any meeting
          of shareholders or the date fixed for the payment of any dividend
          or  the  making  of any  distribution,  or  for  the delivery  of
          evidences  of rights or evidences of interests arising out of any
          change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, as a record time
          for  the determination of the shareholders  entitled to notice of
          and  to vote  at  such meeting  or entitled  to receive  any such
          dividend, distribution, rights  or interests, as the case may be;
          and all persons who are holders of record of capital stock at the
          time so  fixed, and no others, shall be entitled to notice of and
          to vote at such meeting, and  only shareholders of record at such
          time shall  be entitled  to receive  any  such notice,  dividend,
          distribution, rights or interests.

                               Registered Shareholders

               42.  The Corporation  shall be entitled to  treat the holder
          of any share or shares of stock as the holder in fact thereof and
          accordingly shall  not  be bound  to recognize  any equitable  or
          other claim to,  or interest in,  such share on  the part of  any
          other  person,  whether or  not it  shall  have express  or other
          notice thereof,  save as  expressly provided  by statutes  of the
          Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

                                  Lost Certificates

               43.  Any person claiming  a certificate of stock  to be lost
          or destroyed shall make an affidavit or affirmation of that fact,
          whereupon  a new certificate may be  issued of the same tenor and
          for the same  number of shares as  the one alleged to  be lost or
          destroyed;  provided, however,  that the  Board of  Directors may<PAGE>





          require, as a condition to the issuance of a new certificate, the
          payment  of  the  reasonable expenses  of  such  issuance  or the
          furnishing of a  bond of  indemnity in such  form and amount  and
          with such surety or sureties, or  without surety, as the Board of
          Directors  shall determine, or both the  payment of such expenses
          and  the  furnishing  of such  bond,  and  may  also require  the
          advertisement  of  such  loss in  such  manner  as  the Board  of
          Directors may prescribe.

                                 Inspection of Books

               44.  The  Board of  Directors may  determine whether  and to
          what  extent,  and  at  what  time  and  places  and  under  what
          conditions  and  regulations,  the  accounts  and  books  of  the
          Corporation  (other than the books required by statute to be open
          to the inspection of shareholders), or any of them, shall be open
          to the inspection of shareholders,  and no shareholder shall have
          any right  to inspect  any account  or  book or  document of  the
          Corporation, except as such right may be conferred by statutes of
          the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  or  by  the  By-Laws  or  by
          resolution of the Board of Directors or of the shareholders.

                      Checks, Notes, Bonds and Other Instruments

               45.  (a)  All  checks or demands for  money and notes of the
          Corporation  shall be signed by  such person or  persons (who may
          but need not be an officer or officers of the Corporation) as the
          Board  of Directors  may  from  time  to time  designate,  either
          directly or through such officers of the Corporation as shall, by
          resolution of the Board of  Directors, be authorized to designate
          such person or persons.  If authorized by the Board of Directors,
          the signatures of such  persons, or any of them, upon  any checks
          for  the payment of money may be made by engraving, lithographing
          or  printing thereon a facsimile  of such signatures,  in lieu of
          actual signatures,  and  such facsimile  signatures so  engraved,
          lithographed  or printed thereon  shall have  the same  force and
          effect as if such persons had actually signed the same.

                    (b)  All   bonds,   mortgages  and   other  instruments
          requiring a seal, when required in  connection with matters which
          arise  in the ordinary course  of business or  when authorized by
          the  Board of  Directors,  shall be  executed  on behalf  of  the
          Corporation by the President or a Vice President, and the seal of
          the Corporation shall be thereupon affixed by the Secretary or an
          Assistant Secretary  or the Treasurer or  an Assistant Treasurer,
          who shall,  when required, attest the ensealing  and execution of
          said  instrument.   If authorized  by the  Board of  Directors, a
          facsimile of the  seal may be employed and such  facsimile of the
          seal  may be engraved, lithographed or printed and shall have the
          same force and effect as an impressed seal.  If authorized by the
          Board of Directors,  the signatures  of the President  or a  Vice
          President  or  the Secretary  or  an Assistant  Secretary  or the
          Treasurer  or   an  Assistant   Treasurer   upon  any   engraved,
          lithographed  or  printed  bonds,  debentures,   notes  or  other
          instruments may  be made by engraving,  lithographing or printing
          thereon  a facsimile  of  such  signatures,  in  lieu  of  actual
          signatures,   and   such   facsimile   signatures   so  engraved,<PAGE>





          lithographed  or printed  thereon shall have  the same  force and
          effect as if such officers had actually signed the same.  In case
          any officer who has signed,  or whose facsimile signature appears
          on, any such bonds, debentures, notes  or other instruments shall
          cease  to be such officer before such bonds, debentures, notes or
          other instruments  shall have been delivered  by the Corporation,
          such  bonds,   debentures,   notes  or   other  instruments   may
          nevertheless  be adopted  by the  Corporation and  be issued  and
          delivered  as though  the person  who signed  the same,  or whose
          facsimile signature appears  thereon, had not  ceased to be  such
          officer of the Corporation.

                               Receipts for Securities

               46.  All receipts  for stocks, bonds or  other securities by
          the  Corporation shall be signed by the Treasurer or an Assistant
          Treasurer, or by  such other person  or persons as  the Board  of
          Directors or Executive Committee shall designate.

                                     Fiscal Year

               47.  The fiscal year shall begin the first day of January in
          each year.

                                      Dividends

               48.  (a)  Dividends in the form  of cash or securities, upon
          the  capital stock of the Corporation, to the extent permitted by
          law, may be declared by the  Board of Directors at any regular or
          special meeting.

                    (b)  The Board of Directors shall have power to fix and
          determine, and from time to time vary, the amount  to be reserved
          as  working capital; to determine  whether any, and  if any, what
          part  of any,  surplus of  the Corporation  shall be  declared as
          dividends; to determine the date or dates for the declaration and
          payment or distribution of dividends; and, before payment of  any
          dividend or the making of  any distribution, to set aside out  of
          the  surplus of  the Corporation  such amount  or amounts  as the
          Board of Directors from time to time, in its absolute discretion,
          may think proper  as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for
          equalizing  dividends, or for such other purpose as it shall deem
          to be in the interests of the Corporation.

                                       Notices

               49.  (a)  Whenever  under  the  provisions  of  the  By-Laws
          notice  is required  to  be given  to  any director,  officer  or
          shareholder,  it  shall  not  be construed  to  require  personal
          notice,  but, except  as  otherwise  specifically provided,  such
          notice may be given in writing, by first class or express mail or
          by depositing a copy of the same in a post office, letter  box or
          mail chute,  maintained by  the United  States Postal  Service or
          Courier  Service for  delivery to  that person,  postage prepaid,
          addressed to such shareholder, officer or director, at his or her
          address as the same appears on the books of the Corporation.<PAGE>





                    (b)  A shareholder,  director or  officer may  waive in
          writing any notice  required to be given to him  or her by law or
          by the By-Laws.

                        Participation in Meetings by Telephone

               50.  At any meeting of  the Shareholders, Board of Directors
          or the Executive  Committee or any other  committee designated by
          the Board of Directors, one or more directors or shareholders may
          participate  in such meeting in  lieu of attendance  in person by
          means of  the  conference  telephone  or  similar  communications
          equipment  by means  of which  all persons  participating in  the
          meeting will be able to hear and speak.

                              Oath of Judges of Election

               51.  The judges of election appointed  to act at any meeting
          of the shareholders shall, before entering upon  the discharge of
          their  duties, be sworn faithfully to execute the duties of judge
          at  such meeting  with strict  impartiality and according  to the
          best of their ability.

                                      Amendments

               52.  The  By-Laws   may  be   altered  or  amended   by  the
          affirmative  vote of  the holders  of a  majority of  the capital
          stock  represented and  entitled  to vote  at  a meeting  of  the
          shareholders duly held, provided that the notice of such  meeting
          shall  have included  notice  of such  proposed  amendment.   The
          By-Laws may also be altered or amended by the affirmative vote of
          a majority of directors then in office at a meeting  of the Board
          of Directors, the notice  of which shall have included  notice of
          the proposed amendment.

               In  the event of the  adoption, amendment, or  repeal of any
          By-Law  by the Board of Directors pursuant to this Section, there
          shall  be  set  forth  in  the notice  of  the  next  meeting  of
          shareholders for the election of directors the By-Law so adopted,
          amended  or repealed  together with  a concise  statement of  the
          changes  made.   By  the affirmative  vote  of the  holders  of a
          majority of the capital stock represented and entitled to vote at
          such meeting, the By-Laws may, without further notice, be altered
          or amended by amending  or repealing such action by the  Board of
          Directors.<PAGE>







                                                                EXHIBIT A-3


                              FORM OF STOCK CERTIFICATE


          Incorporated under the Laws     of the State of _______________

          Number 1                        ______ Shares



                            ______________________________
                              Common Stock ______ Shares



               THIS CERTIFIES THAT  _______________________  is  the record
          holder of  _______ fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares of
          the Capital  Stock of the  above Corporation transferable  on the
          share  register  of  said  Corporation  in   Person  or  by  duly
          authorized Attorney  upon surrender of  this Certificate properly
          endorsed or assigned.

                    WITNESS the Seal of  the Corporation and the signatures
          of its duly authorized officers.

          Dated:  ___________________


          __________________, Secretary       __________________, President<PAGE>







               FOR  VALUE RECEIVED,  _________________________________ does
          hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
          ______________  (______)  Common  Shares  of  the  Capital  Stock
          represented   by  the   within  Certificate,   and   does  hereby
          irrevocably  constitute and appoint _________________ Attorney to
          transfer  the said  Stock  on  the  books  of  the  within  named
          Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

          Dated:  _______________

                                             _______________________________

          In Presence Of:
                                             Signature guaranteed<PAGE>







          Assignment Separate From Certificate


                    FOR VALUE  RECEIVED, _____________________________ does
          hereby  sell, assign and transfer  unto                          
          ______________  (______) Common  Shares of  the Capital  Stock of
          ___________________________ standing in its  name on the books of
          said Corporation  represented by Certificate No.  __ herewith and
          does hereby irrevocably  constitute and appoint _________________
          Attorney to transfer the  said Stock on  the books of the  within
          named  Corporation  with  full   power  of  substitution  in  the
          premises.

          Dated: _______________
                                             ______________________________


          In Presence Of:
                                             Signature guaranteed<PAGE>










                                                                  Exhibit F







                                             December 6, 1996




          Securities and Exchange Commission
          450 Fifth Street, N.W.
          Washington, D.C. 20549

                    Re:  GPU International, Inc.
                         Application on Form U-1
                         SEC File No. 70-8913   

          Gentlemen:

                    We  have examined  the Application  on Form  U-1, dated
          September 11, 1996, under the  Public Utility Holding Company Act
          of 1935  (the "Act"), filed  by GPU International,  Inc. ("GPUI")
          with the  Securities and Exchange  Commission (the  "Commission")
          and docketed in SEC File No. 70-8913, as amended by Amendment No.
          1  thereto,  dated October  21,  1996, and  as to  be  amended by
          Amendment No. 2 thereto,  dated this date, of which  this opinion
          is to  be a part.   (The Application,  as thus amended  and to be
          amended, is hereinafter referred to as the "Application".)

                    The Application contemplates,  among other things,  the
          acquisition by GPUI of  an interest in the stationary  fuel cell-
          based  power  system   business  (the  "Business")   through  the
          acquisition,  directly  or  indirectly  through  a  wholly  owned
          subsidiary  ("Subsidiary"),   of  the   securities  of  a   newly
          established  entity (the "Enterprise")  formed by  a nonaffiliate
          for the  purpose of developing, manufacturing  and marketing such
          systems.

                    The  Application  also  contemplates  that  GPUI  would
          provide  services relating  to  the Business  to the  Enterprise,
          which services would be provided at cost in accordance with Rules
          90  and  91 if  provided  at  a time  when  the  Enterprise is  a
          "subsidiary company" of GPU, Inc., GPUI's parent company ("GPU").

                    For  many  years,  we   have  participated  in  various
          proceedings related to the issuance and sale of securities by GPU
          and its subsidiaries, and  we are familiar with the terms  of the
          outstanding  securities of  the corporations  comprising  the GPU
          holding company system.<PAGE>





          Securities and Exchange Commission
          December 6, 1996

           
                    We have examined copies, signed, certified or otherwise
          proven to  our satisfaction, of the  Certificate of Incorporation
          and  By-Laws of GPUI.   In addition, we  have examined such other
          instruments,  agreements  and  documents and  made  such  further
          investigation as we  have deemed  necessary as a  basis for  this
          opinion.

                    We are  members of the Bar of the State of New York and
          do not purport to be expert in the laws of any jurisdiction other
          than the laws of  the State of New  York and the Federal laws  of
          the United  States.   We  have,  however, reviewed  the  Delaware
          General Corporation Law  to the extent  necessary to express  the
          opinions set forth herein.

                      We have  assumed that  (i) any Subsidiary  and/or the
          Enterprise will be duly formed and validly existing in accordance
          with  the  respective  laws  of  the  jurisdiction  of  formation
          thereof, (ii) all necessary corporate action required on the part
          of  GPUI and any Subsidiary and/or the Enterprise shall have been
          duly taken, (iii) the  execution and delivery of any  security by
          any  Subsidiary  and/or  the  Enterprise  will  not  violate  any
          applicable  law  or  any  restriction imposed  by  any  court  or
          governmental body  having jurisdiction  over the issuer  thereof,
          and  (iv) with respect to  any security issued  by any Subsidiary
          and/or  the Enterprise,  the  issuer thereof  will have  received
          consideration  therefor at least equal to the par or stated value
          (or equivalent amount) of such security.

                    Based upon  and subject to the  foregoing, and assuming
          that  the  transactions  therein  proposed  are  carried  out  in
          accordance  with the Application, we are of the opinion that when
          the Commission shall have entered an order forthwith granting the
          Application,

                    (a)  all State  laws  applicable to  the  proposed
               transactions will have been complied with; 

                    (b)  GPUI  will legally acquire  the securities  of any
               Subsidiary or the Enterprise acquired by it; and

                    (c)  the consummation of the proposed transactions
               will not violate the legal rights of the holders of any
               securities  issued  by GPU  or any  "associate company"
               thereof, as defined in the Act.

                    We hereby consent to  the filing of this opinion  as an
          exhibit  to the  Application and  in  any proceedings  before the
          Commission that may be held in connection therewith.

                                             Very truly yours,

                                             BERLACK, ISRAELS & LIBERMAN LLP

<PAGE>


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