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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.1




                               SANMINA CORPORATION

                                       TO

                WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

                                   AS TRUSTEE

                                    INDENTURE

                          DATED AS OF ___________, 200_








                             SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES


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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION...............................1

        Section 1.1   Definitions...............................................................1
        Section 1.2   Compliance Certificates and Opinions......................................8
        Section 1.3   Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee....................................9
        Section 1.4   Acts of Holders; Record Dates............................................10
        Section 1.5   Notices, etc.............................................................12
        Section 1.6   Notice to Holders; Waiver................................................12
        Section 1.7   Conflict with Trust Indenture Act........................................13
        Section 1.8   Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.................................13
        Section 1.9   Successors and Assigns...................................................13
        Section 1.10  Separability Clause......................................................13
        Section 1.11  Benefits of Indenture....................................................13
        Section 1.12  Governing Law............................................................13
        Section 1.13  Legal Holidays...........................................................14
        Section 1.14  Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations....................14
        Section 1.15  Indenture May be Executed in Counterparts................................14

ARTICLE 2 SECURITY FORMS.......................................................................14

        Section 2.1   Forms Generally..........................................................15
        Section 2.2   Form of Face of Security.................................................15
        Section 2.3   Form of Reverse of Security..............................................17
        Section 2.4   Form of Legend for Global Securities.....................................21
        Section 2.5   Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..........................22
        Section 2.6   Form of Conversion Notice................................................22

ARTICLE 3 THE SECURITIES.......................................................................23

        Section 3.1   Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.....................................24
        Section 3.2   Denominations............................................................26
        Section 3.3   Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...........................26
        Section 3.4   Temporary Securities.....................................................28
        Section 3.5   Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange......................29
        Section 3.6   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.........................30
        Section 3.7   Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved...........................31
        Section 3.8   Persons Deemed Owners....................................................32
        Section 3.9   Cancellation.............................................................33
        Section 3.10  Computation of Interest..................................................33

ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE...........................................................33

        Section 4.1   Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..................................33

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        Section 4.2   Application of Trust Money...............................................34

ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES.............................................................................35

        Section 5.1   Events of Default........................................................35
        Section 5.2   Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.......................36
        Section 5.3   Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee..........37
        Section 5.4   Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.........................................38
        Section 5.5   Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities..............38
        Section 5.6   Application of Money Collected...........................................38
        Section 5.7   Limitation on Suits......................................................39
        Section 5.8   Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
                      Interest and to Convert .................................................39
        Section 5.9   Restoration of Rights and Remedies.......................................40
        Section 5.10  Rights and Remedies Cumulative...........................................40
        Section 5.11  Delay or Omission Not Waiver.............................................40
        Section 5.12  Control by Holders.......................................................40
        Section 5.13  Waiver of Past Defaults..................................................41
        Section 5.14  Undertaking for Costs....................................................41
        Section 5.15  Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws..................................42

ARTICLE 6 THE TRUSTEE..........................................................................42

        Section 6.1   Certain Duties and Responsibilities......................................42
        Section 6.2   Notice of Defaults.......................................................42
        Section 6.3   Certain Rights of Trustee................................................43
        Section 6.4   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities...................43
        Section 6.5   May Hold Securities and Act as Trustee under Other Indentures............44
        Section 6.6   Money Held in Trust......................................................44
        Section 6.7   Compensation and Reimbursement...........................................44
        Section 6.8   Conflicting Interests....................................................45
        Section 6.9   Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility..................................45
        Section 6.10  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........................45
        Section 6.11  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...................................47
        Section 6.12  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business..............48
        Section 6.13  Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company........................48
        Section 6.14  Appointment of Authenticating Agent......................................48

ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY....................................50

        Section 7.1   Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders................50
        Section 7.2   Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders...................50
        Section 7.3   Reports by Trustee.......................................................51

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        Section 7.4   Reports by Company.......................................................51

ARTICLE 8 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE.................................51

        Section 8.1   Company May Consolidate, etc.............................................52
        Section 8.2   Successor Substituted....................................................52

ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..............................................................53

        Section 9.1   Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.......................53
        Section 9.2   Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders..........................54
        Section 9.3   Execution of Supplemental Indentures.....................................55
        Section 9.4   Effect of Supplemental Indentures........................................56
        Section 9.5   Conformity with Trust Indenture Act......................................56
        Section 9.6   Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.......................56

ARTICLE 10 COVENANTS...........................................................................56

        Section 10.1  Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest...............................56
        Section 10.2  Maintenance of Office or Agency..........................................56
        Section 10.3  Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust........................57
        Section 10.4  Statement by Officers as to Default......................................58
        Section 10.5  Existence................................................................58
        Section 10.6  Maintenance of Properties................................................59
        Section 10.7  Payment of Taxes and Other Claims........................................59
        Section 10.8  Limitation on Liens......................................................59
        Section 10.9  Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions...........................62
        Section 10.10 Waiver of Certain Covenants..............................................62

ARTICLE 11 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES............................................................63

        Section 11.1  Applicability of Article.................................................63
        Section 11.2  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee....................................63
        Section 11.3  Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed........................63
        Section 11.4  Notice of Redemption.....................................................64
        Section 11.5  Deposit of Redemption Price..............................................65
        Section 11.6  Securities Payable on Redemption Date....................................65
        Section 11.7  Securities Redeemed in Part..............................................66

ARTICLE 12 SINKING FUNDS.......................................................................66

        Section 12.1  Applicability of Article.................................................66
        Section 12.2  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities....................66
        Section 12.3  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund................................67

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ARTICLE 13 DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE..................................................67

        Section 13.1  Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.............67
        Section 13.2  Defeasance and Discharge.................................................67
        Section 13.3  Covenant Defeasance......................................................68
        Section 13.4  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance..........................68
        Section 13.5  Deposited Money and U....................................................70
        Section 13.6  Reinstatement............................................................71

ARTICLE 14 CONVERSION OF SECURITIES............................................................71

        Section 14.1  Applicability of Article.................................................71
        Section 14.2  Exercise of Conversion Privilege.........................................72
        Section 14.3  No Fractional Shares.....................................................73
        Section 14.4  Adjustment of Conversion Price...........................................73
        Section 14.5  Notice of Certain Corporate Actions......................................74
        Section 14.6  Reservation of Shares of Common Stock....................................75
        Section 14.7  Payment of Certain Taxes upon Conversion.................................75
        Section 14.8  Nonassessability.........................................................75
        Section 14.9  Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.............75
        Section 14.10 Duties of Trustee Regarding Conversion...................................76
        Section 14.11 Repayment of Certain Funds upon Conversion...............................77

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        Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

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Section 310(a)(1).............................................................................6.9
            (a)(2)............................................................................6.9
            (a)(3).................................................................Not Applicable
            (a)(4).................................................................Not Applicable
            (b).........................................................................6.8, 6.10
Section 311(a)...............................................................................6.13
            (b)..............................................................................6.13
Section 312(a)...........................................................................7.1, 7.2
            (b)...............................................................................7.2
            (c)...............................................................................7.2
Section 313(a)................................................................................7.3
            (b)...............................................................................7.3
            (c)...............................................................................7.3
            (d)...............................................................................7.3
Section 314(a)................................................................................7.4
            (a)(4).....................................................................10.1, 10.4
            (b)....................................................................Not Applicable
            (c)(1)............................................................................1.2
            (c)(2)............................................................................1.2
            (c)(3).................................................................Not Applicable
            (d)....................................................................Not Applicable
            (e)...............................................................................1.2
Section 315(a)................................................................................6.1
            (b)...............................................................................6.2
            (c)...............................................................................6.1
            (d)...............................................................................6.1
            (e)..............................................................................5.14
Section 316(a)................................................................................1.1
            (a)(1)(A)...................................................................5.2, 5.12
            (a)(1)(B)........................................................................5.13
            (a)(2).................................................................Not Applicable
            (b)...............................................................................5.8
            (c)...............................................................................1.4
Section 317(a)(1).............................................................................5.3
            (a)(2)............................................................................5.4
            (b)..............................................................................10.3
Section 318(a)................................................................................1.7
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
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        INDENTURE, dated as of ____________, 200_, between Sanmina Corporation,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the State of Delaware (herein
called the "Company"), having its principal executive office at 2700 North First
Street, San Jose, California 95134, and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National
Association, a national banking association duly organized and existing under
the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee").

                             RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

        The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as provided in this Indenture.

        All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

                   NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

        For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series
thereof appertaining, as follows:

                                    ARTICLE 1

             DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

SECTION 1.1 DEFINITIONS.

        For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

               (1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned
        to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;

               (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
        Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
        meanings assigned to them therein;

               (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
        meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted
        accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly
        provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with
        respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean
        such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such
        computation;

               (4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
        "Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case
        may be, of this Indenture; and

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               (5) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words
        of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
        particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

        "Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.4.

        "Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.

        "Attributable Debt" means, with regard to a Sale and Leaseback
Transaction with respect to any property, at the time of determination, the
lesser of: (a) the fair market value of such property (as determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of the Company); or (b) the present value of the
total net amount of rent required to be paid under such lease during the
remaining term thereof (including any period for which such lease has been
extended), discounted at the rate of interest set forth or implicit in the terms
of such lease (or, if not practicable to determine such rate, the rate of
interest borne by the Securities, or in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities, the imputed interest rate) compounded semi-annually. In the case of
any lease which is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such
net amount shall be the lesser of the net amount determined assuming termination
upon the first date such lease may be terminated (in which case the net amount
shall also include the amount of the penalty, but no rent shall be considered as
required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it
may be so terminated) or the net amount determined assuming no such termination.

        "Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.

        "Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company
or any duly authorized committee of that board empowered to act for it with
respect to this Indenture.

        "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

        "Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
or executive order to close.

        "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
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        "Common Stock" includes any stock of any class of the Company which has
no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company
and which is not subject to redemption by the Company; provided, however,
subject to the provisions of Section 14.9, shares issuable upon conversion of
Securities shall include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of
the Company at the date of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes
resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have
no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company
and which are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided, further that
if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of
each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which
the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such
reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes
resulting from all such reclassifications.

        "Company" means the corporation named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.

        "Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice
Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its principal
financial officer, its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

        "Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means, as of any particular time, the
aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly
deductible items) after deducting therefrom: (a) all current liabilities
(excluding any thereof which are by their terms extendible or renewable at the
option of the obligor thereon to a time more than 12 months after the time as of
which the amount thereof is being computed), and current maturities of debt that
has a scheduled maturity more than 12 months after the date of its creation and
current maturities of obligations under capital leases, (b) all goodwill, trade
names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like
intangibles (other than capitalized unamortized product development costs, such
as, without limitation, capitalized hardware and software development costs), to
the extent included in said aggregate amount of assets and (c) appropriate
adjustments on account of minority interests of other Persons holding stock of
the Company's Subsidiaries, all as set forth on the most recent consolidated
balance sheet of the Company and its subsidiaries and computed in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles.

      "Corporate Trust Office" means the corporate trust office of the Trustee
at _____________________________, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such
other office, designated by the Trustee by written notice to the Company, at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.

        "Corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock
company or business trust.


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        "Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 13.3.

        "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.

        "Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 13.2.

        "Depositary" means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for
such Securities as contemplated by Section 3.1.

        "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.

        "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute
successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

        "Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.

        "Global Security" means a Security that evidences all or part of the
Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 2.4 (or such
legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for such Securities).

        "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.

       "Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental
indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture,
respectively. The term "Indenture" shall also include the terms of particular
series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 3.1; provided,
however, that if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under
this Indenture due to the appointment of one or more separate Trustees for any
one or more separate series of Securities, "Indenture" shall mean, with respect
to such series of Securities for which any such Person is Trustee, this
instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented
or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant
to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular
series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as
contemplated by Section 3.1, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms
which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not
Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive
of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or more indentures
supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had become such
Trustee, but to which such person, as such Trustee, was not a party; provided,
further that in the event that this Indenture is supplemented or amended by one
or more indentures supplemental hereto which are only applicable to certain
series of Securities, the term "Indenture" for a particular series of Securities
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        "interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.

        "Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.

        "Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and
any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

        "Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

        "mortgage" has the meaning specified in Section 10.8.

        "Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 5.1(4).

        "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and
by the principal financial officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the
Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to
Section 10.4 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer
of the Company.

        "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for, or an employee of, the Company, and who shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.

        "Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides for
an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2.

        "Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except

                  (1) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
            delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

                  (2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
            necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or
            any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
            segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its
            own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that,
            if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has
            been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
            satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

                  (3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected
            pursuant to Section 13.2; and (4) Securities which have been paid
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            of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered
            pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
            respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee
            proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona
            fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations
            of the Company;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of
the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon
acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 5.2, (B)
if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a
Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall
be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as
contemplated by Section 3.1, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated
in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be
Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in
the manner provided as contemplated by Section 3.1, of the principal amount of
such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B)
above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities
owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to
be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which the Trustee knows
to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes
to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to
such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.

        "Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.

        "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.

        "Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and
interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1.

       "Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

        "Principal Property" means the land, improvements, buildings and
fixtures (to the extent they constitute real property interests) (including any
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corporate office of the Company, any manufacturing plant or any manufacturing
facility (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) which is (a) owned or leased
by the Company or any Subsidiary, (b) is located within any of the present 50
states of the United States of America (or the District of Columbia), (c) has
not been determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company not
to be of material importance to the business conducted by the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and (d) has a book value on the date of which
the determination is being made of in excess of 1% of Consolidated Net Tangible
Assets of the Company as most recently determined on or prior to such date
(including for purposes of such calculation the land, improvements, buildings
and such fixtures comprising such office, plant or facility, as the case may
be).

        "Record Date" means any Regular Record Date or Special Record Date.

        "Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.

        "Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.

        "Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 3.1.

        "Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary which owns any Principal
Property; provided, however, that the term "Restricted Subsidiary" shall not
include any Subsidiary which is engaged primarily in financing receivables or
which is otherwise engaged primarily in the finance business including, without
limitation thereto, financing the operations of, or the purchase of products
which are products of or incorporate products of, the Company and/or its
Subsidiaries; provided, further, that the term "Restricted Subsidiary" shall not
include any Subsidiary less than 80% of the voting stock of which is owned,
directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries if
the common stock of such Subsidiary is traded on any national securities
exchange or quoted on the Nasdaq National Market or in the over-the-counter
market.

        "Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any Person
providing for the leasing by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of any
Principal Property which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person, other than any such
transaction involving a lease for a term of not more than three years or any
such transaction between the Company and a Restricted Subsidiary or between
Restricted Subsidiaries.

        "Secured Debt" has the meaning specified in Section 10.8.

        "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.

        "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute
successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.


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        "Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 3.5.

        "Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.

        "Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.

        "Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any corporation of
which more than 66-2/3% of the outstanding voting stock is at the time, and (ii)
any partnership of which more than 66-2/3% of the equity capital or profit
interest is at the time, owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, by one
or more other Subsidiaries or by the Company and one or more Subsidiaries. For
the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock which ordinarily has
voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long
as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

        "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force
at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in
the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust
Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

        "Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean
or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there
is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities
of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.

        "U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in Section 13.4.

        "Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."

SECTION 1.2 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.


        Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an
Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an
Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in
this Indenture.



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        Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include,

               (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
        opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
        relating thereto;

               (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
        examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
        contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

               (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he
        or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
        enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
        such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

               (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
        individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

SECTION 1.3 FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.

        In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

        Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is
based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.

        Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.

SECTION 1.4 ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES.

        Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or
taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided,


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such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. The Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of all such
instrument or instruments delivered to the Trustee. Such instrument or
instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein
sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture
and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company,
if made in the manner provided in this Section.

        The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a
certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him or her the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his or her individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his or her authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such
instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may
also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

        The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

        Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.

       The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to
give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, vote, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the
Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph
shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice,
declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders,
shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be
effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date
by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such
series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a
record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the
record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person
be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action
is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the
proposed



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action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the
Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in
the manner set forth in Section 1.6.

        The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join
in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of
acceleration referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 5.7(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in
Section 5.12, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant
series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause
notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable
Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of
Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.

        With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party
hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the "Expiration
Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the
proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and
to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date
is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section,
the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

        Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any
action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to
all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with
regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

SECTION 1.5 NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.

        Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,



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               (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
        sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
        filed in writing (or by facsimile transmissions, provided that oral
        confirmation of receipt shall have been received) to or with the
        Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust
        Department, or

               (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
        sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
        expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
        prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal
        office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any
        other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
        Company, Attention: Chief Financial Officer.

SECTION 1.6 NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.

        Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, or delivered by hand or
overnight courier to each Holder affected by such event, at its address as it
appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and
not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such
notice. Neither the failure to mail or deliver by hand or overnight courier any
such notice, nor any defect in any such notice so mailed or delivered by hand or
overnight courier, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice
in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to
receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be
the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with
the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity
of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

        In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason
of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then
such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

SECTION 1.7 CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.

        If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision
of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and
govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of
this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act
which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to
apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

SECTION 1.8 EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

        The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

SECTION 1.9 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.


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        All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 1.10 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.

        In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

SECTION 1.11 BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.

        Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 1.12 GOVERNING LAW.

        THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO SUCH
STATE'S CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.

SECTION 1.13 LEGAL HOLIDAYS.

        In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security or the last date on which a Holder has the right to
convert a Security at a particular conversion price shall not be a Business Day
at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which
specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section))
payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) or, if applicable to a
particular series of Securities, conversion need not be made at such Place of
Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at
such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest
Payment Date or Redemption Date, at the Stated Maturity or on such last day for
conversion, as the case may be.

SECTION 1.14 INDENTURE AND SECURITIES SOLELY CORPORATE OBLIGATIONS.

        No recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect
thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of
the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any
Security, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby,
shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, agent, officer, or
director or subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of
any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any
successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of
law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being


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expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and
released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this
Indenture and the issue of the Securities.

SECTION 1.15 INDENTURE MAY BE EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS.

        This instrument may by executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but
one and the same instruments.

                                    ARTICLE 2
                                 SECURITY FORMS

SECTION 2.1 FORMS GENERALLY.

        The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set
forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of
such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company
Order contemplated by Section 3.3 for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities. Any such Board Resolution or record of such action shall have
attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security referred to
therein approved by or pursuant to such Board Resolution.

        The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined
by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.

SECTION 2.2 FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY.

        [INSERT ANY LEGEND REQUIRED BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND THE
REGULATIONS THEREUNDER.]

                               SANMINA CORPORATION

NO.  __________                                                     $__________

                                                             CUSIP:____________

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        Sanmina Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company," which term includes any successor
Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to ____________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of
_____________ Dollars on _____________________________ [IF THE SECURITY IS TO
BEAR INTEREST PRIOR TO MATURITY, INSERT -- , and to pay interest thereon from
__________ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on ___________ and __________ in
each year, commencing _________., at the rate of ___% per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT --
, provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest,
which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the
extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the
dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment,
and such interest shall be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as
provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ______ or
______ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such
Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided
for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date
and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series
not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided
in said Indenture].

        [IF THE SECURITY IS NOT TO BEAR INTEREST PRIOR TO MATURITY, INSERT --
The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall
bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due
until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue
principal or premium shall be payable on demand. [Any such interest on overdue
principal or premium which is not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate
of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest on interest
shall be legally enforceable), from the date of such demand until the amount so
demanded is paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest
shall be payable on demand.]]

        Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [IF APPLICABLE,
INSERT -- any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in _______, in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT -- ;
provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be
made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register].



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        Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

        Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.

Dated: ____________                    SANMINA CORPORATION

                                       By:
                                           -----------------------------------

                                       Title:
                                             ---------------------------------

ATTEST:


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SECTION 2.3 FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY.

        This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of __________ (herein called the
"Indenture," which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such
instrument), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National
Association, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the
Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [IF APPLICABLE,
INSERT -- , limited in aggregate principal amount to $________].

        [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT -- 30] days' notice by
mail, [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- (1) on __________ in any year commencing with the
year ________ and ending with the year ________ through operation of the sinking
fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal
amount, and (2)] at any time [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- on or after __________,
20__], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following
Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If
redeemed [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- on or before __________, ___%, and if
redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ____________ of the years
indicated,


YEAR              REDEMPTION PRICE            YEAR            REDEMPTION PRICE
----              ----------------            ----            ----------------






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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- (whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities,
or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]

        [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than [if applicable, insert 30] days' notice by mail,
(1) on __________ in any year commencing with the year _____ and ending with the
year _____ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the
Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below,
and (2) at any time [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- on or after __________], as a whole
or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for
redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as
percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed
during the 12-month period beginning __________ of the years indicated,

                     REDEMPTION PRICE FOR                 REDEMPTION PRICE FOR
                      REDEMPTION THROUGH                   REDEMPTION THROUGH
                       OPERATION OF THE                     OPERATION OF THE
  YEAR                   SINKING FUND                         SINKING FUND
  ----               -------------------                   -------------------




and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]

        [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT -- Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may
not, prior to __________, redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated
by [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of,
or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or
indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company
(calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less
than ___% per annum.]

        [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- The sinking fund for this series provides for
the redemption on __________ in each year beginning with the year ______ and
ending with the year ______ of [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- not less than $_______
("mandatory sinking fund") and not more than]


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$_______ aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of
this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [IF
APPLICABLE, INSERT-- mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against
subsequent [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT -- mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise
required to be made [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- , in the inverse order in which
they become due].]

        [IF THE SECURITY IS SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION OF ANY KIND, INSERT -- In the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]

        [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT-- The Indenture contains provisions for
defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or]
[certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this
Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in
the Indenture.]

      [IF THE SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE INTO COMMON STOCK OF THE COMPANY, INSERT--
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security is
entitled, at its option, at any time on or before [insert date] (except that, in
case this Security or any portion hereof shall be called for redemption, such
right shall terminate with respect to this Security or portion hereof, as the
case may be, so called for redemption at the close of business on the first
Business Day next preceding the date fixed for redemption as provided in the
Indenture unless the Company defaults in making the payment due upon
redemption), to convert the principal amount of this Security (or any portion
hereof which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof), into fully paid and
non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th
of a share) of the Common Stock of the Company, as said shares shall be
constituted at the date of conversion, at the conversion price of $______
principal amount of Securities for each share of Common Stock, or at the
adjusted conversion price in effect at the date of conversion determined as
provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of this Security, together with the
conversion notice hereon duly executed, to the Company at the designated office
or agency of the Company in __________, accompanied (if so required by the
Company) by instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and to
the Trustee, duly executed by the Holder or by its duly authorized attorney in
writing. Such surrender shall, if made during any period beginning at the close
of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on
the Interest Payment Date next following such Regular Record Date (unless this
Security or the portion being converted shall have been called for redemption on
a Redemption Date during the period beginning at the close of business on a
Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business
Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment
Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day), also be accompanied
by payment in funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Security
then being converted. Subject to the aforesaid requirement for payment and, in
the case of a conversion after the Regular Record Date next preceding any
Interest Payment Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, to the right
of the Holder of this Security (or any Predecessor Security) of record at such
Regular Record Date to receive an installment of interest (with certain
exceptions


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provided in the Indenture), no adjustment is to be made on conversion
for interest accrued hereon or for dividends on shares of Common Stock issued on
conversion. The Company is not required to issue fractional shares upon any such
conversion, but shall make adjustment therefor in cash on the basis of the
current market value of such fractional interest as provided in the Indenture.
The conversion price is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In
addition, the Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or
mergers to which the Company is a party or the sale of substantially all of the
assets of the Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent of
any Holders of Securities, so that this Security, if then outstanding, will be
convertible thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible as
specified above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other
property receivable upon the consolidation, merger or sale by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock into which this Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or sale (assuming such
holder of Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election and received
per share the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of non-electing
shares). In the event of conversion of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities for the unconverted portion hereof shall be issued in the
name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]

        [IF THE SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE INTO OTHER SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY,
SPECIFY THE CONVERSION FEATURES.]

        [IF THE SECURITY IS NOT AN ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY, INSERT --
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and
be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared
due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]

        [IF THE SECURITY IS AN ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY, INSERT -- If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to -- INSERT FORMULA FOR DETERMINING THE
AMOUNT. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable
and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each
case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the
principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series
shall terminate.]

        The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of more than 50% in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security


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issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in
lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Security.

      As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for
any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60
days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon
on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

        No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and
interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.

        As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of
this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.

        The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $______ and any integral multiple thereof.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal
amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

        No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

        Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


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        All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

SECTION 2.4 FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITIES.

        Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for the
Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A
SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE
REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE
THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

SECTION 2.5 FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.

        The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:

        This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                   WELLS FARGO BANK,
                                   NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                   As Trustee

                                   By:
                                      --------------------------------------
                                      Authorized Officer

SECTION 2.6 FORM OF CONVERSION NOTICE.

        Conversion notices shall be in substantially the following form:



To Sanmina Corporation:

The undersigned owner of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the option
to convert this Security, or portion hereof (which is $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof) below designated, into shares of Common Stock of the Company
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, and
directs that the shares issuable and deliverable upon the conversion, together
with any check in payment for fractional shares and any Securities representing
any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the
registered holder hereof unless a different


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name has been indicated below. If this Notice is being delivered on a date after
the close of business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the opening of
business on the related Interest Payment Date (unless this Security or the
portion thereof being converted has been called for redemption on a Redemption
Date during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record
Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not
a Business Day, the second such Business Day), this Notice is accompanied by
payment, in funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date of the principal of this Security to be
converted. If shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the
undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect
hereto. Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest
accompanies this Security.

        Principal Amount to be Converted
(in an integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all)

        U.S. $_________

Dated:  ___________

                                             Signature(s) must be guaranteed by
                                             an eligible guarantor institution
                                             (banks, stock brokers, savings and
                                             loan associations and credit unions
                                             with membership in an approved
                                             signature guarantee medallion
                                             program) pursuant to Securities and
                                             Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15.

                                             ----------------------------------
                                             Signature Guaranty

        Fill in for registration of shares of Common Stock and Security if to be
issued otherwise than to the registered Holder.

------------------------------               ----------------------------------
(Name)                                       Social Security or Other Taxpayer
                                             Identification Number

------------------------------
(Address)


------------------------------
Please print Name and Address
(including zip code number)



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[The above conversion notice is to be modified, as appropriate, for conversion
into other securities or property of the Company.]

                                    ARTICLE 3
                                 THE SECURITIES

SECTION 3.1 AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES.

        The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

        The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 3.3,
set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of Securities of any series,

               (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
        distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other
        series);

               (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
        Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under
        this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
        registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
        Securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6 or 11.7
        and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 3.3, are deemed
        never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

               (3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series
        shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security
        (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
        business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;

               (4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities
        of the series is payable;

               (5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall
        bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest
        shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest
        shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest
        payable on any Interest Payment Date;

               (6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium
        and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;

               (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
        which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the
        series may be redeemed, in whole or in part,


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        at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution,
        the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the
        Securities shall be evidenced;

               (8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
        any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
        provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or
        periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and
        conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or
        purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

               (9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
        multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the
        series shall be issuable;

               (10) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on
        any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an
        index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall
        be determined;

               (11) if other than the currency of the United States of America,
        the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or
        any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable
        and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of
        the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of
        the definition of "Outstanding" in Section 1.1;

               (12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any
        Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the
        Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency
        units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be
        payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the
        principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which
        such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the
        terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the
        amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be
        determined);

               (13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the
        portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which
        shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
        thereof pursuant to Section 5.2;

               (14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of
        any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or
        more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be
        deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date
        for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount
        thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the
        Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any
        date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in
        which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be
        determined);

               (15) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole
        or any specified part, shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 13.2 or
        Section 13.3 or both such Sections, or any other defeasance provisions
        applicable to any Securities of that series, and, if other than by a


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        Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to
        defease such Securities shall be evidenced;

               (16) if applicable, the terms of any right to convert or exchange
        Securities of the series into shares of Common Stock of the Company or
        other securities or property;

               (17) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be
        issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
        Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such
        Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be
        borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set
        forth in Section 2.4 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of
        those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 3.5 in
        which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for
        Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole
        or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than
        the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;

               (18) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which
        applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of
        the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the
        principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2;

               (19) any Authenticating Agents, Paying Agents, Security
        Registrars or such agents necessary in connection with the issuance of
        the Securities, including, without limitation, Exchange Rate Agents and
        Calculation Agents;

               (20) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in
        Article 10 which applies to Securities of the series; and

               (21) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
        inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted
        by Section 9.1(5)).

        All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except
as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the
Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 3.3) set forth, or
determined in the manner provided, in the Officers' Certificate referred to
above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

        If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.

SECTION 3.2 DENOMINATIONS.

        The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form
without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1. In the absence of


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any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series,
the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and
any integral multiple thereof.

SECTION 3.3 EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.

        The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive
Officer, its principal financial officer, its President or one of its Vice
Presidents, attested by its Treasurer, Secretary or one of its Assistant
Treasurers or Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

        Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

        At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the
form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or
pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1,
in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in
relying upon, a copy of such Board Resolution, the Officers' Certificate setting
forth the terms of the series and an Opinion of Counsel, with such Opinion of
Counsel stating,

               (1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
        pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 2.1, that such form
        has been established in conformity with the provisions of this
        Indenture;

               (2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or
        pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 3.1, that such
        terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
        Indenture; and

               (3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
        Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
        conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid
        and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance
        with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
        transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
        applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general
        equity principles.

        If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the



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Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this
Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee.

        Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise
required pursuant to Section 3.1 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the
authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered
at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security
of such series to be issued.

        Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

        No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder
but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such
Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 3.9, for all
purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.

        Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility for
any defect in the CUSIP number that appears on any Security, check, advice of
payment or redemption notice, and any such document may contain a statement to
the effect that CUSIP numbers have been assigned by an independent service for
convenience of reference and that neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be
liable for any inaccuracy in such numbers.

SECTION 3.4 TEMPORARY SECURITIES.

        Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they
are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

       If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without
charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor
and aggregate




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principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities of such series and tenor.

SECTION 3.5 REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.

        The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and
transfers of Securities as herein provided.

        Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series
at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities
of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and
aggregate principal amount.

        At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged
for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of
like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to
be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.

        All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

        Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.

        No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4, 9.6 or 11.7 not involving any transfer.

      If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are
to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register
the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and
specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any
such Securities selected for redemption under Section 11.3 and ending at the
close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer
of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part,
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        The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only
to Global Securities:

               (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall
        be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global
        Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a
        nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security
        shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

               (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no
        Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities
        registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may
        be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for
        such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i)
        has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
        Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing
        agency registered under the Exchange Act, (B) there shall have occurred
        and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global
        Security or (C) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in
        addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this
        purpose as contemplated by Section 3.1.

               (3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global
        Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all
        Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion
        thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such
        Global Security shall direct.

               (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration
        of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or
        any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 3.4, 3.6,
        9.6 or 11.7 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the
        form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is
        registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such
        Global Security or a nominee thereof.

SECTION 3.6 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.

        If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

      If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii)
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and
any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security
of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding.

        In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
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        Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

        Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu
of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

        The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

SECTION 3.7 PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.

        Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1 with respect
to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid
to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest.

        Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:

             (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
        to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
        respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
        business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
        Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
        shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest
        proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the
        proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with
        the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed
        to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
        arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to
        the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be
        held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
        Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee
        shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
        Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10
        days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10
        days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
        payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
        Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the
        Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such
        Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given
        to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth
        in Section 1.6, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
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        Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so
        mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
        whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective
        Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such
        Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
        following Clause (2).

               (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
        Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
        with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such
        Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
        such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of
        the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment
        shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

        Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

        Subject to the provisions of Section 14.2, in the case of any Security
(or any part thereof) which is converted after any Regular Record Date and on or
prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Security the
principal of (or premium, if any, on) which shall become due and payable,
whether at Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration prior to such
Interest Payment Date), interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest
Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such
conversion and such interest (whether or not punctually paid or duly provided
for) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or any one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular
Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding
sentence or in Section 14.2, in the case of any Security (or any part thereof)
which is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after the date of
conversion of such Security (or such part thereof) shall not be payable.

SECTION 3.8 PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.

        Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and
(subject to Section 3.7) any interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 3.9 CANCELLATION.



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        All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may
deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the
Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.

SECTION 3.10 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.

        Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

                                    ARTICLE 4
                           SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 4.1 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.

        This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect
(except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when

               (1)    either

                      (A)  all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen
and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6 and (ii)
Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Trustee or the Company and thereafter repaid
to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

                      (B)   all such Securities not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation

                             (i)    have become due and payable, or


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                             (ii)   will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or

                             (iii)  are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,

and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose
money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on
such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case
of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;

               (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and

               (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture have been complied with.

        Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and the last
paragraph of Section 10.3 shall survive.

SECTION 4.2 APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY.

        Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and
interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.

                                    ARTICLE 5
                                    REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT.

        "Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
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voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):

               (1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of
        that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
        default for a period of 30 days; or

               (2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on
        any Security of that series at its Maturity; or

               (3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and
        as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or

               (4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
        warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
        warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
        this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been
        included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of
        Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or
        breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered
        or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and
        the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
        Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such
        default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
        notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or

               (5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of
        (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
        involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
        bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a
        decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or
        approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
        arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
        under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian,
        receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
        official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
        ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
        continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other
        decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive
        days; or

               (6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
        proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
        reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding
        to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the
        entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
        involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
        bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
        commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
        it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking
        reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or
        the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment
        of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
        trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any
        substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment
        for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its
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        become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in
        furtherance of any such action; or

               (7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to
        Securities of that series.

SECTION 5.2 ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.

        If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.1(5) or 5.1(6)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that
series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be
specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice
in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(5)
or 5.1(6) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding
occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms
thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the
part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.

       At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if

               (1)    the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
        sufficient to pay

                      (A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,

                      (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
        Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such
        declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or
        rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,

                      (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
        interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor
        in such Securities, and

                      (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and
        the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
        Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

               (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
        series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of
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       such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided
       in Section 5.13. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default
       or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 5.3 COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.

        The Company covenants that if

               (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
        Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default
        continues for a period of 30 days, or

               (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
        premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof, the Company
        will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
        Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on
        such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the
        extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable,
        interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue
        interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
        and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to
        cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
        compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
        agents and counsel.

      If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

SECTION 5.4 TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.

        In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any other
obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall
be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to
take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to
have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In
particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or
other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the
same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator
or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized
by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7.

        No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee
to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan
of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided,
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that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors'
or other similar committee.

SECTION 5.5 TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.

        All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.

SECTION 5.6 APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in
the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of
the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium or
interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

        FIRST:  To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
6.7; and

        SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal
of and any premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in respect of which
or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on
such Securities for principal and any premium, if any, and interest,
respectively.

        THIRD:  The balance, if any, to the Company or any other Person or
Persons entitled thereto.

SECTION 5.7 LIMITATION ON SUITS.

        No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture,
or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless

               (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
        Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
        of that series;

               (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
        Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to
        the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default
        in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

               (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
        indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
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               (4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
        request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
        proceeding; and

               (5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
        given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
        majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
        series; it being understood and intended that no one or more of such
        Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by
        availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
        prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to
        seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or
        to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
        provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.

SECTION 5.8 UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND
            INTEREST AND TO CONVERT.

        Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 3.7)
interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date), to convert
such Securities in accordance with Article 14 to the extent that such right to
convert is applicable to such Security and to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent
of such Holder.

SECTION 5.9 RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.

        If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

SECTION 5.10 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.

        Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of
Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee
or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and
in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

SECTION 5.11 DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.


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        No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities
to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or
an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law
to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee (subject to the limitations
contained in this Indenture) or by the Holders, as the case may be.

SECTION 5.12   CONTROL BY HOLDERS.

        The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities of such series, provided that

               (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
        or with this Indenture and the Trustee shall not have determined that
        the action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to Holders of
        Securities of that series, or any other series, not taking part in such
        direction; and

               (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
        Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction or this Indenture.

SECTION 5.13 WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.

        The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such
series and its consequences, except

               (1) a default in the payment of the principal of or any premium
        or interest on an Security of such series, or

               (2) to the extent such right is applicable to such Security, a
        failure by the Company on request to convert any Security into Common
        Stock; or

               (3) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
        Article 9 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
        Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.

        Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 5.14 UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.


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      In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to
file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against
any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust
Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act
shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to
make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or in any suit for
the enforcement of the right to convert any Security in accordance with Article
14.

SECTION 5.15 WAIVER OF USURY, STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.

        The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

                                    ARTICLE 6
                                   THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 6.1 CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

        The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise
incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder,
or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein
expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct
or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section.

SECTION 6.2 NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.

        If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series,
the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such
default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided,
however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section
5.1(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders
shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the
purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of such series.

SECTION 6.3 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.



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        Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:

               (1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
        refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
        instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
        bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
        document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
        presented by the proper party or parties;

               (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
        shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order,
        and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently
        evidenced by a Board Resolution;

               (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
        shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
        taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
        other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) is entitled to and
        may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
        Certificate;

               (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice
        of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
        authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
        omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

               (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
        the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
        direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
        Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
        indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
        incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

               (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
        the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
        instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
        bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
        document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
        inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
        and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
        investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
        premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and

               (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder
        or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents
        or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct
        or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due
        care by it hereunder.

SECTION 6.4    NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES

        The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any
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representations as to the validity, sufficiency or priority of this Indenture or
of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be
accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the
proceeds thereof.

SECTION 6.5 MAY HOLD SECURITIES AND ACT AS TRUSTEE UNDER OTHER INDENTURES.

        The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections
6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would
have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such other agent.

        Subject to the limitations imposed by the Trust Indenture Act, nothing
in this Indenture shall prohibit the Trustee from becoming and acting as trustee
under other indentures under which other securities, or certificates of interest
of participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding in the same
manner as if it were not Trustee hereunder.

SECTION 6.6 MONEY HELD IN TRUST.

        Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company.

SECTION 6.7 COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.

        The Company agrees:

                  (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
            compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
            compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard
            to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

                  (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
            reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
            disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
            accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
            reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
            agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or
            advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith
            and

                  (3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
            against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence
            or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
            acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder,
            including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
            claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
            any of its powers or duties hereunder.



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        To secure the Company's payment obligations to the Trustee pursuant to
this Section 6.7, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all
money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust
for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities.

        The Company's payment obligations to the Trustee pursuant to this
Section 6.7 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Trustee
incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.1(5) or
(6), the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under
any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.

SECTION 6.8 CONFLICTING INTERESTS.

        If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent
permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting
interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to
Securities of more than one series.

SECTION 6.9 CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.

        There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for
Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has (or if the
Trustee is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company
has) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person
or bank holding company publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by
the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person or bank
holding company shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

SECTION 6.10 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.

        No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 6.11.

        The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one
or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.11 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.

        The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of
any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.

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               (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8 after
        written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
        bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

               (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and
        shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
        any such Holder, or

               (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
        adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
        property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
        control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
        rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such case, (A)
        the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to
        all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been
        a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf
        of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
        competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to
        all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

      If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or
if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to
the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities
of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may
be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series
and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year after such resignation,
removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee
so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that
extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 6.11, the retiring Trustee may petition, or any Holder who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.

        The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of
a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders
of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 1.6. Each notice
shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 6.11 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.



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        In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect
to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of
its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money
held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.

       In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring
Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more
series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each
successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such
provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which
the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee
is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue
to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate
the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon
the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series
to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of
the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those
series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

        Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the
first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.

        No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.

SECTION 6.12 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.



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        Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee (including the administration of the trust created by this
Indenture), shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

SECTION 6.13 PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.

        If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).

SECTION 6.14 APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.

The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or
more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue
and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or
pursuant to Section 3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof
or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having (or if the Authenticating Agent is a member of a bank holding
company system, its bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus of
not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal
or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition
at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital
and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

        Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
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Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

        An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such
appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.6 to all Holders of Securities
of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.

        The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 6.7.

        If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to
this Section 6.12, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative
certificate of authentication in the following form:

        This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                   WELLS FARGO BANK,
                                   NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                   As Trustee


                                   By:
                                      -----------------------------------------
                                      As Authenticating Agent

                                   By:
                                      -----------------------------------------
                                      Authorized Officer

                                    ARTICLE 7
                HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

SECTION 7.1 COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.



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        The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee

               (1) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after the Regular
        Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require,
        of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series
        as of such Regular Record Date, as the case may be, and

               (2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
        within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
        list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
        prior to the time such list is furnished; provided that no such list
        need be furnished by the Company to the Trustee so long as the Trustee
        is acting as Security Registrar.

SECTION 7.2 PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.

        The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

        The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to
their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding
rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust
Indenture Act.

        Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 7.3 REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.

        The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the
Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

        Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not more
than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than July 1 in each calendar year,
commencing with the first July 1 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant
to this Indenture.

        A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.

SECTION 7.4 REPORTS BY COMPANY.



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        The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit
to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries
thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and
in the manner provided pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any
such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the
Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the
Commission.

                                    ARTICLE 8
              CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

SECTION 8.1 COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.

        The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
(in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving corporation) or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to any Person, unless:

               (1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into
        another Person (in a transaction in which the Company is not the
        surviving corporation) or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
        assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by
        such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person
        which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the
        properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall
        be a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust, shall
        be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of
        America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
        expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
        delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due
        and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on
        all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant
        of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed
        and the conversion rights shall be provided for in accordance with
        Article 14, if applicable, or as otherwise specified pursuant to Section
        3.1, by supplemental indenture satisfactory in form to the Trustee,
        executed and delivered to the Trustee, by the Person (if other than the
        Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company shall
        have been merged or by the Person which shall have acquired the
        Company's assets;

               (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and
        treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or
        any Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been incurred
        by the Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no
        Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or
        both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be
        continuing; and

               (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
        Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
        consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a
        supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction,
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        supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
        precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
        complied with.

SECTION 8.2 SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED.

      Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into,
any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and
assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section
8.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of,
the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor
Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case
of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

                                    ARTICLE 9
                             SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 9.1 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.

        Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

               (1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company,
        or successive successions, and the assumption by any such successor of
        the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or

               (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
        Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to
        be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
        such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of
        such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
        the Company; or

               (3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of
        the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional
        Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
        Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly
        being included solely for the benefit of such series); or

               (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
        to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
        issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as
        to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or
        facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or



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               (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
        Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that
        any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to
        any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such
        supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor
        (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect
        to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no
        such Security Outstanding; or

               (6) to secure the Securities; or

               (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
        as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1; or

               (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
        hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
        or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
        Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
        administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
        pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11; or

               (9) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of
        Holders pursuant to the requirements of Article 14, including providing
        for the conversion of the securities into any security (other than the
        Common Stock of the Company) or property of the Company; or

               (10) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
        provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
        provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
        matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such
        action pursuant to this Clause (10) shall not adversely affect the
        interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material
        respect; or

               (11) to supplement any of the provisions of the Indenture to such
        extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and
        discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Articles Four and
        Thirteen, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the
        interests of the Holders of Securities of such series or any other
        series of Securities in any material respect.

SECTION 9.2 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.

        With the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture,
by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company,
when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
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                  (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
        installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce
        the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any
        premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of
        the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other
        Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of
        acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, or
        change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which,
        any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or
        impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
        payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
        redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or

               (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
        Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for
        any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
        required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
        Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided
        for in this Indenture, or

               (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or
        Section 10.10, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
        certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
        without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
        thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to
        require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the
        references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and
        Section 10.10, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
        requirements of Sections 6.11 and 9.1(8), or

               (4) if applicable, make any change that adversely affects the
        right to convert any security as provided in Article 14 or pursuant to
        Section 3.1 (except as permitted by Section 9.1(9)) or decrease the
        conversion rate or increase the conversion price of any such security.

        A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

        It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

SECTION 9.3 EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.

        In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.3) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture
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authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

SECTION 9.4 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.

        Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.

SECTION 9.5 CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.

        Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 9.6 REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.

        Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if
required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to
any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so
determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

                                   ARTICLE 10
                                    COVENANTS

SECTION 10.1 PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.

        The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium
and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of
the Securities and this Indenture.

SECTION 10.2 MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.

        The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented
or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities of that series may be
surrendered for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company
in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and
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office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands. Unless otherwise provided in a supplemental indenture or
pursuant to Section 3.1 hereof, the Place of Payment for any series of
Securities shall be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

        The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office
or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such
designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other
office or agency.

SECTION 10.3 MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.

        If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a
sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due
until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to
act.

        Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series
of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying
Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the
Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

       The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the
continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the
Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in
respect of the Securities of that series.

        The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
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Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.

        Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for a period
ending on the earlier of the date that is ten Business Days prior to the date
such money would escheat to the State or two years after such principal, premium
or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company
Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust;
and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general
creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the
Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability
of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however,
that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such
repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a
newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in each Place of Payment, notice that
such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which
shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

SECTION 10.4 STATEMENT BY OFFICERS AS TO DEFAULT.

        The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof
the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms,
provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of
grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be
in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge. The fiscal year of the Company currently ends on
September 30; and the Company will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any
change of its fiscal year.

SECTION 10.5 EXISTENCE.

        Subject to Article 8, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence.

SECTION 10.6 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES.

        The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of
its business to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working
order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all
necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof,
all as, and to the extent, in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so
that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and
advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this
Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation or
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judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business and not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

SECTION 10.7 PAYMENT OF TAXES AND OTHER CLAIMS.

        The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and
governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company upon the income, profits
or property of the Company, and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and
supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the
Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or
discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or
claim (i) whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) if the failure to pay or discharge
would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations,
properties or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

SECTION 10.8 LIMITATION ON LIENS.

        Unless the terms of a particular series of Securities otherwise provide,
so long as any Securities of such series remain outstanding, the Company shall
not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, issue, incur, create,
assume or guarantee any Secured Debt (as defined below) without in any such case
effectively providing concurrently with the issuance, incurrence, creation,
assumption or guaranty of any such Secured Debt, or the grant of such mortgage
(as defined below), that the Securities (together with, if the Company shall so
determine, any other indebtedness of or guarantee by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary ranking equally with the Securities) shall be secured
equally and ratably with (or, at the option of the Company, prior to) such
Secured Debt. The foregoing restriction with respect to Secured Debt, however,
will not apply to:

               (1) mortgages on property existing at the time of acquisition
        thereof by the Company or any Subsidiary, whether or not assumed,
        provided that such mortgages were in existence prior to the
        contemplation of such acquisitions;

               (2) mortgages on property, shares of stock or indebtedness or
        other assets of any corporation existing at the time such corporation
        becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, provided that such mortgages are not
        incurred in anticipation of such corporation becoming a Restricted
        Subsidiary (which may include property previously leased by the Company
        and leasehold interests thereon, provided that the lease terminates
        prior to or upon the acquisition);

               (3) mortgages on property, shares of stock or indebtedness
        existing at the time of acquisition thereof by the Company or a
        Restricted Subsidiary (including leases) or mortgages thereon to secure
        the payment of all or any part of the purchase price thereof, or
        mortgages on property, shares of stock or indebtedness to secure any
        indebtedness for borrowed money incurred prior to, at the time of or
        within 12 months after, the latest of the acquisition thereof, or, in
        the case of property, the completion of construction, the completion of
        improvements, or the commencement of substantial commercial operation of
        such

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        property for the purpose of financing all or any part of the
        purchase price thereof, such construction, or the making of such
        improvements;

               (4) mortgages to secure indebtedness owing to the Company or to
        a Restricted Subsidiary;

               (5) mortgages existing at the date of this Indenture;

               (6) mortgages on property of a corporation existing at the time
        such corporation is merged into or consolidated with the Company or a
        Restricted Subsidiary or at the time of a sale, lease or other
        disposition of the properties of a corporation as an entirety or
        substantially as an entirety to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary,
        provided that such mortgage was not incurred in anticipation of such
        merger or consolidation or sale, lease or other disposition;

               (7) mortgages in favor of the United States or any State,
        territory or possession thereof (or the District of Columbia), or any
        department, agency, instrumentality or political subdivision of the
        United States or any State, territory or possession thereof (or the
        District of Columbia), (i) to secure partial, progress, advance or other
        payments pursuant to any contract or statute, (ii) to secure any
        indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of
        the purchase price of the cost of constructing, repairing or improving
        the property subject to such mortgages or (iii) to secure taxes,
        assessments or other governmental charges or levies which are not yet
        due and payable or are payable without penalty or of which amount,
        applicability or validity is being contested by the Company and/or any
        Restricted Subsidiary in good faith by appropriate proceedings and the
        Company and/or such Restricted Subsidiary shall have set aside in its
        books reserves which it deems to be adequate with respect thereto
        (segregated to the extent required by generally accepted accounting
        principles);

               (8) mortgages created in connection with the acquisition of
        assets or a project financed with, and created to secure, a nonrecourse
        obligation;

               (9) mortgages for materialmen's, mechanics', workmen's,
        repairmen's, landlord's mortgages for rent, or other similar mortgages
        arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations
        which are not yet overdue or which are being contested by the Company or
        any Restricted Subsidiary in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;

               (10) mortgages consisting of zoning restrictions, licenses,
        easements and restrictions on the use of real property and minor defects
        and irregularities in the title thereto, which do not materially impair
        the use of such property by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in
        the operation of business or the value of such property for the purpose
        of such business; and

               (11) extensions, renewals, refinancings or replacements of any
        mortgage referred to in the foregoing clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5),
        (6), (7), (8) and (9) provided, however, that any mortgages permitted by
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        (9) shall not extend to or cover any property of the Company or such
        Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, other than the property, if
        any, specified in such clauses and improvements thereto, and provided
        further that any refinancing or replacement of any mortgages permitted
        by the foregoing clauses (7) and (8) shall be of the type referred to in
        such clauses (7) or (8), as the case may be.

        For purposes of this Indenture:

                             (i)    "Secured Debt" means any debt for borrowed
        money secured by a mortgage upon any Principal Property or upon any
        shares of stock or indebtedness for borrowed money or evidenced by a
        bond, note, debenture or similar instrument of any Restricted
        Subsidiary owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (whether
        such Principal Property, shares or indebtedness are now existing or
        owed or hereafter created or acquired); and

                             (ii)   "mortgage" means a mortgage, security
        interest, pledge, lien, charge or other encumbrance.

        Notwithstanding the restrictions outlined in the preceding paragraph,
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may issue, incur, create, assume or
guarantee Secured Debt which would otherwise be subject to such restrictions
("Exempted Secured Debt"), without equally and ratably securing the Securities,
provided that after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of all Secured
Debt then outstanding (not including mortgages permitted under any of clauses
(1) through (11) above) plus Attributable Debt of the Company and Restricted
Subsidiaries in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions entered into after
the date of original issuance of the Securities other than any Sale and
Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Principal Property as to which the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled to incur indebtedness
secured by a mortgage on such Principal Property at least equal in amount to the
Attributable Debt with respect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction under any
of clauses (1) through (11) above) does not at the time such debt is issued,
incurred, created, assumed or guaranteed exceed an amount equal to the greater
of $300 million or 10% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company.

SECTION 10.9 LIMITATIONS ON SALE AND LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS.

        Unless the terms of a particular series of Securities otherwise provide,
so long as any Securities of such series remain outstanding, the Company shall
not, the Company shall not, nor shall it permit any Restricted Subsidiary to,
enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Principal
Property, unless: (a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be
entitled to incur Secured Debt on the Principal Property involved in such
transaction at least equal in amount to the Attributable Debt with respect to
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, without equally and ratably securing the
Securities, pursuant to the limitation on liens described in Section 10.8; or
(b) the Company shall apply an amount equal to the greater of the net proceeds
of such sale or the Attributable Debt with respect to such Sale and Leaseback
Transaction within 180 days of such sale to either (or a combination of) (i) the
retirement (other than any mandatory retirement, mandatory prepayment or sinking
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money of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that has a scheduled maturity
more than 12 months after its creation or (ii) the purchase, construction,
improvement or development of other comparable property.

        Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.9, the
Company and any one or more Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into an
arrangement that provides for the leasing to the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary of any Principal Property which would otherwise be subject to the
foregoing restrictions, without applying the net proceeds of such transactions
in the manner set forth in clause (b) above, provided that after giving effect
thereto, the aggregate amount of such Sale and Leaseback Transactions, together
with the aggregate amount of all Secured Debt (not including mortgages permitted
by clauses (1) through (11) under the limitation on liens described in Section
10.9), does not exceed the greater of $300 million or 10% of the Consolidated
Net Tangible Assets of the Company.

SECTION 10.10 WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.

        Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for
Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of
any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision
or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 3.1(19),
9.1(2), 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 or 10.9 for the benefit of the Holders of such series
if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of
such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall
extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term,
provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

                                   ARTICLE 11
                            REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 11.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.

        Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for such Securities) in
accordance with this Article.

SECTION 11.2 ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.

        The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced
by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section
3.1 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of less than all the Securities of any series (including any such
redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 45
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prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption
Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and,
if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any
redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate
evidencing compliance with such restriction.

SECTION 11.3 SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.

        If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless
all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or
unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series
not previously called for redemption, by lot, or in the Trustee's discretion, on
a pro-rata basis, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount
of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less
than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all
the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed
(unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series
and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the
preceding sentence.

        If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part
before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the
Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so
far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have
been converted during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated
by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection.

        The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities
selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed.

        The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with
respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such
redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.

        For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.

SECTION 11.4 NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.



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        Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at its address appearing in the
Security Register.

        All notices of redemption shall state:

               (1) the Redemption Date,

               (2) the Redemption Price (including accrued interest, if any),

               (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
        consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the
        identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such
        Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
        redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
        consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount
        of the particular Security to be redeemed,

               (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
        due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if
        applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said
        date,

               (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be
        surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price,

               (6) if applicable, the conversion price, the date on which the
        right to convert the principal of the Securities or the portions thereof
        to be redeemed will terminate, and the place or places where such
        Securities may be surrendered for conversion,

               (7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
        case, and

               (8) the CUSIP number or numbers of the Security being redeemed.

        Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.

SECTION 11.5 DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.

        On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) an amount of
money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption
Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date.

        If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited
with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for
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(subject to the right of any Holder of such Security to receive interest as
provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.7) be paid to the Company on Company
Request, or if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.

SECTION 11.6 SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.

        Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is
on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 3.7.

        If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the Security.

SECTION 11.7 SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.

        Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered
at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires,
due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of
any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered.

                                   ARTICLE 12
                                  SINKING FUNDS

SECTION 12.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.

        The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1 for such Securities.

        The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms
of any Securities is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment,"
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of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein
referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment." If provided for by the terms
of any Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to
reduction as provided in Section 12.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Securities as provided for by the terms of such
Securities.

SECTION 12.2 SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.

The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any
previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a
series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant
to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted
optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each
case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect
to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of
such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such
Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been
previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and
credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified
in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the
sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.

SECTION 12.3 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.

        Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to
Section 12.2 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date,
the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.3 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 11.4. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 11.6 and 11.7.

                                   ARTICLE 13
                       DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

SECTION 13.1 COMPANY'S OPTION TO EFFECT DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.

        The Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Section 13.2
or Section 13.3 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the
case may be, designated pursuant to Section 3.1 as being defeasible pursuant to
such Section 13.2 or 13.3, in accordance with any applicable requirements
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set forth below in this Article. Any such election shall be evidenced by a Board
Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for
such Securities.

SECTION 13.2 DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE.

        Upon the Company's exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section
applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the
Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with
respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the
conditions set forth in Section 13.4 are satisfied (hereinafter called
"Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such
Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities
and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at
the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated
or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 13.4 and as more fully
set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any
premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company's
obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 10.2
and 10.3, and, if applicable, Article 14, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties
and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to
compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to
have this Section applied to any Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise
of its option (if any) to have Section 13.3 applied to such Securities.

SECTION 13.3 COVENANT DEFEASANCE.

        Upon the Company's exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section
applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:

               (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under
        Sections 10.6 through 10.9, inclusive, and any covenants provided
        pursuant to Section 3.1(19) or 9.1(2) or for the benefit of the Holders
        of such Securities and

               (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Section 5.1(4) (with
        respect to any of Sections 10.6 through 10.9, inclusive, and any such
        covenants provided pursuant to Section 3.1(19) or 9.1(2) shall be deemed
        not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to
        such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the
        conditions set forth in Section 13.4 are satisfied (hereinafter called
        "Covenant Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means
        that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply
        with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or
        limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so
        specified in the case of Section 5.1(4)), whether directly or indirectly
        by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by
        reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision
        herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and
        such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.



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SECTION 13.4 CONDITIONS TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.

        The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 13.2
or Section 13.3 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may
be:

               (1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
        deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the
        requirements contemplated by Section 6.9 and agrees to comply with the
        provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for
        the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
        security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of
        such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government
        Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and
        interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide,
        not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an
        amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the
        opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
        accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to
        the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the
        Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the
        principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities on the
        respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this
        Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, "U.S. Government
        Obligation" means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of
        the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and
        credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation
        of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
        instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is
        unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
        United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not
        callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any
        depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of
        the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government
        Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank
        for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with
        respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S.
        Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that
        (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
        deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary
        receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S.
        Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest
        evidenced by such depositary receipt

               (2) In the event of an election to have Section 13.2 apply to any
        Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
        shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that
        (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
        Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this
        instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax
        law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon
        such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not
        recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of
        the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to
        such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
        amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if
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               (3) In the event of an election to have Section 13.3 apply to any
        Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
        shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
        that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for
        Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant
        Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be
        subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and
        at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant
        Defeasance were not to occur.

               (4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
        Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other
        Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities
        exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.

               (5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
        would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any
        other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of
        such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections
        5.1(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date
        of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be
        deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).

               (6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the
        Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
        Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning
        of such Act).

               (7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a
        breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
        agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it
        is bound.

               (8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in
        the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company
        within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall
        be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.

               (9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
        Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
        precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have
        been complied with.

SECTION 13.5 DEPOSITED MONEY AND U. S GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE HELD IN
TRUST; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

      Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all money
and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with
the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and
Section 13.6, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to
collectively as the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 13.4 in respect of any
Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
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(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due
thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held
in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
by law. The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 13.4 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities. Anything in this Article
to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company
from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations
held by it as provided in Section 13.4 with respect to any Securities which, in
the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in
excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to
effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect
to such Securities.

SECTION 13.6 REINSTATEMENT.

        If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any
order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining
or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this
Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or
released pursuant to Section 13.2 or 13.3 shall be revived and reinstated as
though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such
Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply
all money held in trust pursuant to Section 13.5 with respect to such Securities
in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes
any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security
following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated
to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment
from the money so held in trust.

                                   ARTICLE 14
                            CONVERSION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 14.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.

        The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of
any series which are convertible into shares of Common Stock of the Company, and
the issuance of such shares of Common Stock upon the conversion of such
Securities, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for the
Securities of such series.

SECTION 14.2 EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.

      In order to exercise a conversion privilege, the Holder of a Security of a
series with such a privilege shall surrender such Security to the Company at the
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purpose pursuant to Section 10.2, accompanied by a duly executed conversion
notice to the Company substantially in the form set forth in Section 2.6 stating
that the Holder elects to convert such Security or a specified portion thereof.
Such notice shall also state, if different from the name and address of such
Holder, the name or names (with address) in which the certificate or
certificates for shares of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such
conversion shall be issued. Securities surrendered for conversion shall (if so
required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by or accompanied by
instruments of transfer in forms satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee
duly executed by the registered Holder or its attorney duly authorized in
writing; and Securities so surrendered for conversion (in whole or in part)
during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the
opening of business on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (excluding
Securities or portions thereof called for redemption during the period beginning
at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of
business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment
Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such
Business Day) shall also be accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the
Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date
on the principal amount of such Security then being converted, and such interest
shall be payable to such registered Holder notwithstanding the conversion of
such Security, subject to the provisions of Section 3.7 relating to the payment
of Defaulted Interest by the Company. As promptly as practicable after the
receipt of such notice and of any payment required pursuant to a Board
Resolution and, subject to Section 3.3, set forth, or determined in the manner
provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto setting forth the terms of such series of Security, and the
surrender of such Security in accordance with such reasonable regulations as the
Company may prescribe, the Company shall issue and shall deliver, at the office
or agency at which such Security is surrendered, to such Holder or on its
written order, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of
Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of such Security (or specified portion
thereof), in accordance with the provisions of such Board Resolution, Officers'
Certificate or supplemental indenture, and cash as provided therein in respect
of any fractional share of such Common Stock otherwise issuable upon such
conversion. Such conversion shall be deemed to have been effected immediately
prior to the close of business on the date on which such notice and such
payment, if required, shall have been received in proper order for conversion by
the Company and such Security shall have been surrendered as aforesaid (unless
such Holder shall have so surrendered such Security and shall have instructed
the Company to effect the conversion on a particular date following such
surrender and such Holder shall be entitled to convert such Security on such
date, in which case such conversion shall be deemed to be effected immediately
prior to the close of business on such date) and at such time the rights of the
Holder of such Security as such Security Holder shall cease and the person or
persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of
Common Stock of the Company shall be issuable upon such conversion shall be
deemed to have become the Holder or Holders of record of the shares represented
thereby. Except as set forth above and subject to the final paragraph of Section
3.7, no payment or adjustment shall be made upon any conversion on account of
any interest accrued on the Securities (or any part thereof) surrendered for
conversion or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock of the Company
issued upon such conversion. In the case of any Security which is converted in
part only, upon such conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the
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Company, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of
authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted
portion of such Security.

SECTION 14.3 NO FRACTIONAL SHARES.

        No fractional share of Common Stock of the Company shall be issued upon
conversions of Securities of any series. If more than one Security shall be
surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full
shares which shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof
to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. If, except for the provisions of
this Section 14.3, any Holder of a Security or Securities would be entitled to a
fractional share of Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion of such
Security or Securities, or specified portions thereof, the Company shall pay to
such Holder an amount in cash equal to the current market value of such
fractional share computed, (i) if such Common Stock is listed or admitted to
unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange or market, on the
basis of the last reported sale price regular way on such exchange or market on
the last trading day prior to the date of conversion upon which such a sale
shall have been effected, or (ii) if such Common Stock is not at the time so
listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on a national securities
exchange or market, on the basis of the average of the bid and asked prices of
such Common Stock in the over-the-counter market, on the last trading day prior
to the date of conversion, as reported by the National Quotation Bureau,
Incorporated or similar organization if the National Quotation Bureau,
Incorporated is no longer reporting such information, or if not so available,
the fair market price as determined by the Board of Directors. For purposes of
this Section, "trading day" shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday other than any day on which the Common Stock is not traded on the
Nasdaq National Market, or if the Common Stock is not traded on the Nasdaq
National Market, on the principal exchange or market on which the Common Stock
is traded or quoted.

SECTION 14.4 ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE.

      The conversion price of Securities of any series that is convertible into
Common Stock of the Company shall be adjusted for any stock dividends, stock
splits, reclassifications, combinations or similar transactions in accordance
with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions setting forth
the terms of the Securities of such series. Whenever the conversion price is
adjusted, the Company shall compute the adjusted conversion price in accordance
with terms of the applicable Board Resolution or supplemental indenture and
shall prepare an Officers' Certificate setting forth the adjusted conversion
price and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is
based, and such certificate shall forthwith be filed at each office or agency
maintained for the purpose of conversion of Securities pursuant to Section 10.2
and, if different, with the Trustee. The Company shall forthwith cause a notice
setting forth the adjusted conversion price to be mailed, first class postage
prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at its address appearing on
the Security Register and to any conversion agent other than the Trustee. Unless
and until the Trustee shall receive notice of an adjustment of the Conversion
Price, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that the Conversion Price has not
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SECTION 14.5 NOTICE OF CERTAIN CORPORATE ACTIONS.

        In case:

               (1) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other
        distribution) on its Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of
        its retained earnings (other than a dividend for which approval of any
        shareholders of the Company is required) that would require an
        adjustment pursuant to Section 14.4; or

               (2) the Company shall authorize the granting to all or
        substantially all of the holders of its Common Stock of rights, options
        or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of
        any class or of any other rights (other than any such grant for which
        approval of any shareholders of the Company is required); or

               (3) of any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company
        (other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of
        Common Stock, or of any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which
        the Company is a party and for which approval of any shareholders of the
        Company is required), or of the sale of all or substantially all of the
        assets of the Company; or

               (4) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or
        winding up of the Company;

then the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee, and shall cause to be
mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear in the
Security Register, at least 20 days (or 10 days in any case specified in Clause
(1) or (2) above) prior to the applicable record date hereinafter specified, a
notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of
such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants, or, if a record is not
to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be
entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants are to be
determined, or (ii) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation,
merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected
to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of
Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common
Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up. If at any time the Trustee shall not be the
conversion agent, a copy of such notice shall also forthwith be filed by the
Company with the Trustee.

SECTION 14.6 RESERVATION OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK.

        The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from
preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the
purpose of effecting the conversion of Securities, the full number of shares of
Common Stock of the Company then issuable upon the conversion of all outstanding
Securities of any series that has conversion rights.

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        Except as provided in the next sentence, the Company will pay any and
all taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of
its Common Stock on conversion of Securities pursuant hereto. The Company shall
not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of its Common Stock in a
name other than that of the Holder of the Security or Securities to be
converted, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the
person requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax,
or has established, to the satisfaction of the Company, that such tax has been
paid.

SECTION 14.8 NONASSESSABILITY.

        The Company covenants that all shares of its Common Stock which may be
issued upon conversion of Securities will upon issue in accordance with the
terms hereof be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable.

SECTION 14.9 PROVISION IN CASE OF CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE OF ASSETS.

      In case of any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any
other Person, any merger of another Person with or into the Company (other than
a merger which does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or
cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company) or any
conveyance, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the assets of
the Company, the Person formed by such consolidation or resulting from such
merger or which acquires such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and
deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of
each Security of a series then Outstanding that is convertible into Common
Stock of the Company shall have the right thereafter (which right shall be the
exclusive conversion right thereafter available to said Holder), during the
period such Security shall be convertible, to convert such Security only into
the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock of the Company into which such Security might
have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
sale, transfer or lease, assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Company (i)
is not a Person with which the Company consolidated or merged with or into or
which merged into or with the Company or to which such conveyance, sale,
transfer or lease was made, as the case may be (a "Constituent Person"), or an
Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise his rights of
election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash and other
property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer
or lease (provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other
property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer,
or lease is not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Company held
immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or
lease by others than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect
of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised ("Non-electing
Share"), then for the purpose of this Section 14.9 the kind and amount of
securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger,
conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by the holders of each Non-electing Share
shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality
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indenture shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the
effective date of such supplemental indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as
may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article or in
accordance with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions
setting forth the terms of such adjustments. The above provisions of this
Section 14.9 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers,
conveyances, sales, transfers or leases. Notice of the execution of such a
supplemental indenture shall be given by the Company to the Holder of each
Security of a series that is convertible into Common Stock of the Company as
provided in Section 1.6 promptly upon such execution. Neither the Trustee nor
any conversion agent, if any, shall be under any responsibility to determine the
correctness of any provisions contained in any such supplemental indenture
relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or other securities or
property or cash receivable by Holders of Securities of a series convertible
into Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion of their Securities after
any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale or lease or to any
such adjustment, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any
such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
with respect thereto, which the Company shall cause to be furnished to the
Trustee upon request.

SECTION 14.10 DUTIES OF TRUSTEE REGARDING CONVERSION.

      Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall at any time be under
any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities of any series that is
convertible into Common Stock of the Company to determine whether any facts
exist which may require any adjustment of the conversion price, or with respect
to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the
method employed, whether herein or in any supplemental indenture, any
resolutions of the Board of Directors or written instrument executed by one or
more officers of the Company provided to be employed in making the same. Neither
the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be accountable with respect to the
validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock of the
Company, or of any securities or property, which may at any time be issued or
delivered upon the conversion of any Securities and neither the Trustee nor any
conversion agent makes any representation with respect thereto. Subject to the
provisions of Section 6.1, neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be
responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any
shares of its Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property
upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of conversion or to comply
with any of the covenants of the Company contained in this Article 14 or in the
applicable supplemental indenture, resolutions of the Board of Directors or
written instrument executed by one or more duly authorized officers of the
Company.

SECTION 14.11 REPAYMENT OF CERTAIN FUNDS UPON CONVERSION.

        Any funds which at any time shall have been deposited by the Company or
on its behalf with the Trustee or any other paying agent for the purpose of
paying the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on any of
the Securities (including, but not limited to, funds deposited for the sinking
fund referred to in Article 12 hereof and funds deposited pursuant to Article 13
hereof) and which shall not be required for such purposes because of the
conversion of such Securities as


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provided in this Article 14 shall after such conversion be repaid to the Company
by the Trustee upon the Company's written request.

        This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.



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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

                                     SANMINA CORPORATION


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                                     ATTEST:

                                     WELLS FARGO BANK,
                                     NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                     as Trustee


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