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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
                                           Vice President, General Counsel
                                               and Corporate Secretary

Date: April 21, 1995