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                                   SIGNATURES


     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



                              ZAPATA CORPORATION



                              By: /s/ Joseph L. von Rosenberg, III 
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                                    Joseph L. von Rosenberg, III
                                    Executive Vice President, General
                                    Counsel and Secretary



Date: April 23, 1996

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