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10(b)**   --  Assignment and Assumption of Consulting Agreement
              effective as of July 1, 1995 by and between Zapata Corporation and
              Zapata Protein, Inc.
27        --  Financial Data Schedule.

          (b)       Reports on Form 8-K

Current report on Form 8-K dated June 9, 1995 (Item 5.  Other events -reported
the election of Robert V. Leffler, Jr. and W. George Loar to serve as Class III
Directors, filling the vacancies left by the resignations of Myrl S. Gelb and
Luther W. Miller).

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