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<LEGEND>
     (This schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from (A)
Consolidated Balance Sheets,  Statements of Operations,  Changes in Stockholders
Equity and Cash Flows and is  qualified in its entirety by reference to such (B)
annual report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 1996)
</LEGEND>
       
                                     
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