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SUPPLEMENT DATED MARCH 6, 1996
TO BE ATTACHED TO DIVERSIFIED INVESTORS VARIABLE FUNDS PROSPECTUS
DATED MAY 1, 1995
On February 21, 1996, AUSA and Diversified Investors Variable Funds filed
an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC")
requesting an order approving a proposal to substitute interests in the
International Series of Diversified Investors Portfolios (the "Diversified
International Series") for the shares of the International Portfolio of the
Scudder Variable Investment Fund (the "Scudder International Portfolio")
currently held by the International Equity Subaccount of Diversified Investors
Variable Funds (the "Substitution"). The Diversified International Series is an
actively managed portfolio of marketable foreign equity investments which offer
the opportunity to provide a high level of long term capital appreciation. The
investment objectives of the Diversified International Series are substantially
similar to those of the Scudder International Portfolio. The investment advisor
to the Diversified International Series is Diversified Investment Advisors, Inc.
Diversified has entered into a subadvisory agreement with respect to the
Diversified International Series with Capital Guardian Trust Company.
AUSA and Diversified Investors Variable Funds will effect the substitution
by simultaneously placing orders to redeem shares of the Scudder International
Portfolio and orders to purchase interests in the Diversified International
Series so that purchases will be for the exact amounts of redemption proceeds.
AUSA will bear the expenses of the substitution and will send a notice to
contract participants within 5 business days after the substitution together
with the revised prospectus. In the event that AUSA were to impose any
limitation on transfers among Diversified Investors Variable Funds' Subaccounts
(AUSA has no present intention to do so), any transfer made within 30 days of
receipt of such notice would not be subject to any such limitation.
Form 2529 Rev. 3/96 33-73734
