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                                             (logo)OPPENHEIMERFUNDS
Denis Mouller                                OppenheimerFund, Inc.
Vice President and                           Two World Trade Center, 34th Floor
Associate Counsel                            New York, New York 10048-0203
                                             212 323-2000 Fax 212 323-0558



                                             October 18, 1996



Securities and Exchange Commission
OFICS File Support
Mail Stop O-7, SEC Operations Center
6432 Alexandria, VA  22312

                  Re:      Oppenheimer International Bond Fund
                           Reg. No. 33-58383; File No. 811-07255

To the Securities and Exchange Commission:

         An electronic  ("EDGAR") filing is hereby made under Rule 497(e) of the
Securities  Act of  1933 on  behalf  of the  above-captioned  Fund.  The  filing
includes  supplements  dated  October  18,  1996 to the  Fund's  Prospectus  and
Statement of Additional Information, each dated December 5, 1995.

                                               Very truly yours,


                                               /s/ Denis Molleur
                                              ------------------
                                               Denis Molleur
                                               Vice President &
                                               Associate Counsel
                                               (212) 323-0560

DM

cc:      Allan Adams, Esq.
         Deloitte & Touche LLP
         Ms. Gloria LaFond



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                       OPPENHEIMER INTERNATIONAL BOND FUND
                        Supplement Dated October 18, 1996
                    To the Prospectus dated December 5, 1995

         The Prospectus is amended as follows:

         1. The  parenthetical  in footnote 1 following the table in the section
captioned  "Shareholder  Transaction  Expenses"  on page 4 is revised to read as
follows:  "($500,000 or more for purchases by "Retirement  Plans," as defined in
"Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge" on page 28)."

         2. The first and second sentences in the sub-section captioned "Class A
Shares" in "How to Buy  Shares-Classes of Shares" on page 21 are revised to read
as follows:

         If you buy  Class A  shares,  you may pay an  initial  sales  charge on
         investments  up  to  $1  million  (up  to  $500,000  for  purchases  by
         "Retirement  Plans," as defined in "Class A Contingent  Deferred  Sales
         Charge"  on page  26).  If you  purchase  Class A shares  as part of an
         investment of at least $1 million  ($500,000 for  Retirement  Plans) in
         shares of one or more  Oppenheimer  funds,  you will not pay an initial
         sales  charge,  but if you sell any of those shares within 18 months of
         buying them, you may pay a contingent deferred sales charge.

         3. The first and second  paragraphs in the section  captioned  "Class A
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge" on page 26 are revised to read as follows:

         There is no initial  sales charge on purchases of Class A shares of any
         one or more of the Oppenheimer funds in the following cases:

         o  Purchases aggregating $1 million or more.

         o Purchases by a retirement  plan qualified  under  sections  401(a) or
         401(k)  of the  Internal  Revenue  Code,  by a  non-qualified  deferred
         compensation plan (not including  Section 457 plans),  employee benefit
         plan, group retirement plan (see "How to Buy Shares - Retirement Plans"
         in the Statement of Additional  Information  for further  details),  an
         employee's 403(b)(7) custodial plan account, SEP IRA, SARSEP, or

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         SIMPLE  plan  (all of  these  plans  are  collectively  referred  to as
         "Retirement Plans");  that: (1) buys shares costing $500,000 or more or
         (2) has, at the time of purchase, 100 or more eligible participants, or
         (3)  certifies  that it  projects  to have  annual  plan  purchases  of
         $200,000 or more.

         o Purchases by an  OppenheimerFunds  Rollover IRA if the  purchases are
         made (1)  through  a  broker,  dealer,  bank or  registered  investment
         adviser that has made special  arrangements  with the  Distributor  for
         these purchases,  or (2) by a direct rollover of a distribution  from a
         qualified  retirement plan if the  administrator  of that plan has made
         special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.

         The Distributor  pays dealers of record  commissions on those purchases
         in an amount equal to (i) 1.0% for  non-Retirement  Plan accounts,  and
         (ii) for Retirement Plan accounts, 1.0% of the first $2.5 million, plus
         0.50%  of the next  $2.5  million,  plus  0.25%  of  purchases  over $5
         million. That commission will be paid only on those purchases that were
         not  previously   subject  to  a  front-end  sales  charge  and  dealer
         commission.  No sales commission will be paid to the dealer,  broker or
         financial  institution  on sales of Class A shares  purchased  with the
         redemption proceeds of shares of a mutual fund offered as an investment
         option in a Retirement Plan in which Oppenheimer funds are also offered
         as investment options under a special  arrangement with the Distributor
         if the  purchase  occurs  more than 30 days after the  addition  of the
         Oppenheimer funds as an investment option to the Retirement Plan.

         4. Effective January 1, 1997, the second sentence in the section 
captioned "Special Arrangements with Dealers" on page 26 is deleted.

         5. The seventh  subparagraph  under the section  captioned  "Waivers of
Class A Sales Charges - Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges
for Certain  Purchasers"  on page 27 is deleted and replaced  with the following
subparagraph:

                  |_| (1) investment  advisors and financial planners who charge
                  an advisory,  consulting  or other fee for their  services and
                  buy shares for their own  accounts  or the  accounts  of their
                  clients, (2) Retirement Plans and deferred  compensation plans
                  and trusts used to fund those Plans  (including,  for example,
                  plans  qualified or created under sections  401(a),  403(b) or
                  457

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                  of the Internal  Revenue  Code),  and "rabbi  trusts" that buy
                  shares for their own accounts, in each case if those purchases
                  are  made  through  a  broker  or  agent  or  other  financial
                  intermediary  that  has  made  special  arrangements  with the
                  Distributor  for  those  purchases;  and (3)  clients  of such
                  investment  advisors or financial  planners who buy shares for
                  their own  accounts may also  purchase  shares  without  sales
                  charge  but  only if their  accounts  are  linked  to a master
                  account of their  investment  advisor or financial  planner on
                  the  books  and  records  of the  broker,  agent or  financial
                  intermediary  with which the Distributor has made such special
                  arrangements  (each of these investors may be charged a fee by
                  the broker,  agent or financial  intermediary  for  purchasing
                  shares).

         6. The section captioned "Waivers of Class A Sales Charges - Waivers of
the Class A  Contingent  Deferred  Sales Charge for Certain  Redemptions"  as it
appears for the second time on page 28 is revised to read as follows:

         The Class A contingent  deferred  sales charge is also waived if shares
         that would otherwise be subject to the contingent deferred sales charge
         are redeemed in the following cases:

                  o to make Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments that are limited
                    annually to no more than 12% of the original account value;

                  o involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law or 
                    involuntary redemptions of small accounts (see "Shareholder 
                    Account Rules and Policies," below);

                  o        if, at the time a purchase  order is placed for Class
                           A shares that would otherwise be subject to the Class
                           A contingent deferred sales charge, the dealer agrees
                           in  writing  to accept  the  dealer's  portion of the
                           commission  payable  on the sale in  installments  of
                           1/18th of the  commission  per month ( and no further
                           commission will be payable if the shares are redeemed
                           within 18 months of purchase);

                  o for distributions from a TRAC-2000 401(k) plan sponsored by 
                    the

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                           Distributor  due to the  termination of the TRAC-2000
program.

                 o for distributions from Retirement Plans, deferred
                   compensation plans or other employee benefit plans for any 
                   of the following purposes: (1) following the death or 
                   disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) of the 
                   participant or beneficiary (the death or disability must 
                   occur after the participant's account was established);
                   (2) to return excess contributions; (3) to return 
                   contributions made due to a mistake of fact; (4) hardship 
                   withdrawals, as defined in the plan; (5) under a Qualified 
                   Domestic Relations Order, as defined in the Internal Revenue 
                   Code; (6) to meet the minimum distribution requirements of 
                   the Internal Revenue Code; (7) to establish "substantially 
                   equal periodic payments" as described in Section 72(t)
                   of the Internal Revenue Code; (8) for retirement 
                   distributions or loans to participants or beneficiaries; (9) 
                   separation from service; (10) participant-directed 
                   redemptions to purchase shares of a mutual fund (other than 
                   a fund managed by the Manager or its subsidiary) offered
                   as an investment option in a Retirement Plan in which 
                   Oppenheimer funds are also offered as investment options 
                   under a special arrangement with the Distributor; or (11) 
                   plan termination or "in-service distributions", if the 
                   redemption proceeds are rolled over directly to an 
                   OppenheimerFunds IRA.

October 18, 1996                                                     PS0880.007




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                       OPPENHEIMER INTERNATIONAL BOND FUND
                    Supplement dated October 18, 1996 to the
           Statement of Additional Information dated December 5, 1995

         The Statement of Additional Information is amended as follows:

         1. The section captioned "How To Buy Shares" on page 37 is  
revised by adding the following to the end of that section:

         Retirement Plans. In describing certain types of employee benefit plans
that may purchase Class A shares without being subject to the Class A contingent
differed  sales  charge,  the term  "employee  benefit  plan"  means any plan or
arrangement,  whether  or not  "qualified"  under  the  Internal  Revenue  Code,
including, medical savings accounts, payroll deduction plans or similar plans in
which  Class A shares  are  purchased  by a  fiduciary  or other  person for the
account of participants  who are employees of a single employer or of affiliated
employers,  if the Fund account is  registered  in the name of the  fiduciary or
other person for the benefit of participants in the plan.

         The term "group  retirement  plan" means any qualified or non-qualified
retirement plan (including 457 plans,  SEPs,  SARSEPs,  403(b) plans, and SIMPLE
plans) for  employees of a  corporation  or a sole  proprietorship,  members and
employees of a partnership or association  or other  organized  group of persons
(the members of which may include other  groups),  if the group has made special
arrangements with the Distributor and all members of the group  participating in
the plan purchase Class A shares of the Fund through a single investment dealer,
broker or other financial institution designated by the group.


October 18, 1996                                                     PX0880.003







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