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<LEGEND>
     This  schedule  contains  summary  financial   infomration  extracted  from
     BIOETHICS, LTD. June 30, 1996 financial  statements and is  qualified
     in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>

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<NAME>                        BIOETHICS, LTD.

       
                             
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