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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.7

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                           TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX INC.

                                       AND

                                     TRUSTEE

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                                    INDENTURE

                                   DATED AS OF

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                                 DEBT SECURITIES
                               (SUBORDINATED DEBT)

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                           Transocean Sedco Forex Inc.

           Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939
               and Indenture, dated as of _________________, ____

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Trust Indenture                                                  Section(s) of
  Act of 1939                                                       Indenture
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Section 310 (a)(1).............................................  609
            (a)(2).............................................  609
            (a)(3).............................................  Not Applicable
            (a)(4).............................................  Not Applicable
            (b)................................................  608, 610
Section 311 (a)................................................  613
            (b)................................................  613
            (c)................................................  Not Applicable
Section 312 (a)................................................  701, 702(a)
            (b)................................................  702(b)
            (c)................................................  702(c)
Section 313 (a)................................................  703(a)
            (b)................................................  703(b)
            (c)................................................  703(c)
            (d)................................................  703(d)
Section 314 (a)................................................  704, 1005
            (b)................................................  Not Applicable
            (c)(1).............................................  103
            (c)(2).............................................  103
            (c)(3).............................................  Not Applicable
            (d)................................................  Not Applicable
            (e)................................................  103
Section 315 (a)................................................  601(a)
            (b)................................................  602
            (c)................................................  601(b)
            (d)................................................  601(c)
            (d)(1).............................................  601(a)(1)
            (d)(2).............................................  601(c)(2)
            (d)(3).............................................  601(c)(3)
            (e)................................................  513
Section 316 (a)(1)(A)..........................................  502, 511
            (a)(1)(B)..........................................  512
            (a)(2).............................................  Not Applicable
            (a)(last sentence).................................  101
            (b)................................................  508
Section 317 (a)(1).............................................  503
            (a)(2).............................................  504
            (b)................................................  1003
Section 318 (a)................................................  108
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
      part of the Indenture.

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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RECITALS OF THE COMPANY...........................................................................................1

                                                        ARTICLE ONE

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

SECTION 101.  Definitions.........................................................................................1
         Act......................................................................................................2
         Additional Amounts.......................................................................................2
         Affiliate................................................................................................2
         Authenticating Agent.....................................................................................2
         Authorized Newspaper.....................................................................................2
         Board of Directors.......................................................................................2
         Board Resolution.........................................................................................2
         Book-Entry Security......................................................................................2
         Business Day.............................................................................................3
         Capitalized Lease Obligation.............................................................................3
         Commission...............................................................................................3
         Company..................................................................................................3
         Company Request and Company Order........................................................................3
         Conversion Event.........................................................................................3
         Corporate Trust Office...................................................................................3
         Defaulted Interest.......................................................................................3
         Depositary...............................................................................................3
         Designated Senior Indebtedness...........................................................................3
         Disqualified Share Capital...............................................................................4
         Dollar...................................................................................................4
         Event of Default.........................................................................................4
         Exchange Rate............................................................................................4
         Holder...................................................................................................4
         Indebtedness.............................................................................................4
         Indenture................................................................................................4
         interest.................................................................................................5
         Interest Payment Date....................................................................................5
         Interest Swap and Hedging Obligation.....................................................................5
         Judgment Currency........................................................................................5
         Junior security..........................................................................................5
         Maturity.................................................................................................5
         Officers' Certificate....................................................................................5
         Opinion of Counsel.......................................................................................5
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         Original Issue Discount Security.........................................................................5
         Outstanding .............................................................................................6
         Paying Agent.............................................................................................6
         Payment Default..........................................................................................6
         Payment Notice...........................................................................................7
         Person...................................................................................................7
         Place of Payment.........................................................................................7
         Qualified Share Capital..................................................................................7
         Redemption Date..........................................................................................7
         Redemption Price.........................................................................................7
         Registered Security......................................................................................7
         Regular Record Date......................................................................................7
         Required Currency........................................................................................7
         Responsible Officer......................................................................................7
         Securities...............................................................................................7
         Security Register........................................................................................7
         Senior Indebtedness......................................................................................7
         Share Capital............................................................................................8
         Special Record Date......................................................................................8
         Stated Maturity..........................................................................................8
         Subsidiary...............................................................................................8
         Trustee..................................................................................................8
         Trust Indenture Act......................................................................................8
         United States............................................................................................8
         United States Alien......................................................................................8
         U.S. Government Obligations..............................................................................8
         Vice President...........................................................................................8
         Yield to Maturity........................................................................................9
SECTION 102.  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act...................................................9
SECTION 103.  Compliance Certificates and Opinions................................................................9
SECTION 104.  Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.............................................................10
SECTION 105.  Acts of Holders; Record Dates......................................................................10
SECTION 106.  Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company..............................................................12
SECTION 107.  Notice to Holders; Waiver..........................................................................12
SECTION 108.  Conflict With Trust Indenture Act..................................................................12
SECTION 109.  Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...........................................................13
SECTION 110.  Successors and Assigns.............................................................................13
SECTION 111.  Separability Clause................................................................................13
SECTION 112.  Benefits of Indenture..............................................................................13
SECTION 113.  Governing Law......................................................................................13
SECTION 114.  Legal Holidays.....................................................................................13
SECTION 115.  Corporate Obligation...............................................................................14
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                                                    ARTICLE TWO

SECURITY FORMS...................................................................................................14

SECTION 201.  Forms Generally....................................................................................14
SECTION 202.  Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication....................................................14
SECTION 203.  Securities in Global Form..........................................................................15

SECTION 204.  Book-Entry Securities..............................................................................16

                                                   ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES...................................................................................................18

SECTION 301.  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series...............................................................18
SECTION 302.  Denominations......................................................................................20
SECTION 303.  Execution, Authentication Delivery and Dating......................................................21
SECTION 304.  Temporary Securities...............................................................................22
SECTION 305.  Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange................................................23
SECTION 306.  Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities...................................................24
SECTION 307.  Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.....................................................25
SECTION 308.  Persons Deemed Owners..............................................................................26
SECTION 309.  Cancellation.......................................................................................27
SECTION 310.  Computation of Interest............................................................................27
SECTION 311.  CUSIP Numbers......................................................................................27

                                                   ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE.......................................................................................27

SECTION 401.  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture............................................................27
SECTION 402.  Application of Trust Money.........................................................................29
SECTION 403.  Discharge of Liability on Securities of Any Series.................................................29
SECTION 404.  Reinstatement......................................................................................30

                                                   ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES.........................................................................................................30

SECTION 501.  Events of Default..................................................................................30
SECTION 502.  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.................................................32
SECTION 503.  Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee....................................33
SECTION 504.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim...................................................................34
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SECTION 505.  Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or Coupons.............................35
SECTION 506.  Application of Money Collected.....................................................................35
SECTION 507.  Limitation on Suits................................................................................36
SECTION 508.  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal Premium and Interest...........................37
SECTION 509.  Restoration of Rights and Remedies.................................................................37
SECTION 510.  Rights and Remedies Cumulative.....................................................................37
SECTION 511.  Delay or Omission Not Waiver.......................................................................37
SECTION 512.  Control by Holders.................................................................................37
SECTION 513.  Waiver of Past Defaults............................................................................38
SECTION 514.  Undertaking for Costs..............................................................................38
SECTION 515.  Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws...................................................................39

                                                    ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE......................................................................................................39

SECTION 601.  Certain Duties and Responsibilities................................................................39
SECTION 602.  Notice of Defaults.................................................................................40
SECTION 603.  Certain Rights of Trustee..........................................................................40
SECTION 604.  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.............................................42
SECTION 605.  May Hold Securities................................................................................42
SECTION 606.  Money Held in Trust................................................................................42
SECTION 607.  Compensation and Reimbursement.....................................................................42
SECTION 608.  Disqualification; Conflicting Interests............................................................43
SECTION 609.  Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility............................................................44
SECTION 610.  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor..................................................44
SECTION 611.  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.............................................................45
SECTION 612.  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business........................................46
SECTION 613.  Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company..................................................47
SECTION 614.  Appointment of Authenticating Agent................................................................47

                                                   ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY................................................................49

SECTION 701.  Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders..........................................49
SECTION 702.  Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.............................................49
SECTION 703.  Reports by Trustee.................................................................................50
SECTION 704.  Reports by Company.................................................................................50
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                                                   ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE.............................................................50

SECTION 801.  Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms...............................................50
SECTION 802.  Successor Person Substituted.......................................................................51

                                                   ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..........................................................................................51

SECTION 901.  Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.................................................51
SECTION 902.  Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders....................................................52
SECTION 903.  Execution of Supplemental Indentures...............................................................54
SECTION 904.  Effect of Supplemental Indentures..................................................................54
SECTION 905.  Conformity With Trust Indenture Act................................................................54
SECTION 906.  Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.................................................54

                                                    ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS........................................................................................................54

SECTION 1001.  Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest........................................................54
SECTION 1002.  Maintenance of Office or Agency...................................................................55
SECTION 1003.  Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.................................................55
SECTION 1004.  Existence.........................................................................................56
SECTION 1005.  Statement by Officers as to Default...............................................................56
SECTION 1006.  Waiver of Certain Covenants.......................................................................57
SECTION 1007.  Additional Amounts................................................................................57

                                                  ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.........................................................................................58

SECTION 1101.  Applicability of Article..........................................................................58
SECTION 1102.  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.............................................................58
SECTION 1103.  Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed.................................................58
SECTION 1104.  Notice of Redemption..............................................................................59
SECTION 1105.  Deposit of Redemption Price.......................................................................59
SECTION 1106.  Securities Payable on Redemption Date.............................................................60
SECTION 1107.  Securities Redeemed in Part.......................................................................60
SECTION 1108.  Purchase of Securities............................................................................60
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SINKING FUNDS....................................................................................................61

SECTION 1201.  Applicability of Article..........................................................................61
SECTION 1202.  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.............................................61
SECTION 1203.  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.........................................................61

                                                 ARTICLE THIRTEEN

SUBORDINATION....................................................................................................62

SECTION 1301.  Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness....................................................62
SECTION 1302.  No Payment on Securities in Certain Circumstances.................................................62
SECTION 1303.  Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior Indebtedness on
               Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization........................................................63
SECTION 1304.  Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness...........................................64
SECTION 1305.  Obligations of the Company Unconditional..........................................................64
SECTION 1306.  Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence of Notice...........................65
SECTION 1307.  Application by Trustee of Amounts Deposited with It...............................................65
SECTION 1308.  Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of the Company or
               Holders of Senior Indebtedness....................................................................66
SECTION 1309.  Trustee to Effectuate Subordination of Securities.................................................66
SECTION 1310.  Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness......................................................66
SECTION 1311.  Article Thirteen Not to Prevent Events of Default.................................................67
SECTION 1312.  No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to Holders of Senior Indebtedness....................................67
SECTION 1313.  Article Applicable to Paying Agent................................................................67

                                              ARTICLE FOURTEEN

MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES................................................................................67

SECTION 1401.  Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.........................................................67
SECTION 1402.  Call, Notice and Place of Meetings................................................................68
SECTION 1403.  Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings..............................................................68
SECTION 1404.  Quorum; Action....................................................................................68
SECTION 1405.  Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings...............................69
SECTION 1406.  Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings...................................................70
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                  INDENTURE, dated as of _______________, ____ between
TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX INC., a company organized under the laws of the Cayman
Islands (herein called the "Company"), having its principal executive offices at
4 Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas 77046, and ___________________________, a
[national banking association], as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee"), the
office of the Trustee at which at the date hereof its corporate trust business
is principally administered being __________________________________.

                             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
subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called
the "Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided.

                  This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated
thereunder that are required to be part of this Indenture and, to the extent
applicable, shall be governed by such provisions.

                  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, as follows:

                                   ARTICLE ONE

                        DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
                             OF GENERAL APPLICATION

SECTION 101. 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 accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have
         the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted
         accounting principles in the United States, 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

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         accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States at
         the date of such computation; and

                  (3) 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.

                  Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in
Section 102.

                  "Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 105.

                  "Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts that are
required by the express terms of a Security or by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, under circumstances specified therein or pursuant thereto, to be
paid by the Company with respect to certain taxes, assessments or other
governmental charges imposed on certain Holders and that are owing to such
Holders.

                  "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.

                  "Authenticating Agent" means any Person, which may include the
Company, authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee pursuant to
Section 614 to authenticate Securities of one or more series.

                  "Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, in the English
language or in an official language of the country of publication, customarily
published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays
or holidays, and of general circulation in the place in connection with which
the term is used or in the financial community of such place. Where successive
publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive
publications may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city
meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.

                  "Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of
the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.

                  "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.

                  "Book-Entry Security" has the meaning specified in Section
204.

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

                  "Capitalized Lease Obligation" means rental obligations under
a lease that are required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the amount of
Indebtedness represented by such obligations shall be the capitalized amount of
such obligations, as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles.

                  "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, 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 performing such duties at such time.

                  "Company" means the Person 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" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a
written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of
the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, its Controller, an Assistant Controller, its Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

                  "Conversion Event" has the meaning specified in Section 501.

                  "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the
Trustee in [  ] at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is that
indicated in the introductory paragraph of this Indenture.

                  "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.

                  "Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any
series issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person
designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 301 with respect to
the Securities of such series until a successor Depositary shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Depositary" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary
hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Depositary"
as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Depositary
with respect to the Securities of that series.

                  "Designated Senior Indebtedness," unless otherwise provided
with respect to the Securities of a series as contemplated by Section 301, means
any Senior Indebtedness that (i) in the instrument evidencing the same or the
assumption or guarantee thereof (or related documents to which the Company is a
party) is expressly designated as "Designated Senior Indebtedness" for purposes
of this Indenture and (ii) satisfies such other conditions as may be provided
with respect to the Securities of such series; provided that such instruments or
documents may place limitations

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and conditions on the right of such Senior Indebtedness to exercise the rights
of Designated Senior Indebtedness.

                  "Disqualified Share Capital" means, when used with respect to
the Securities of any series, (a) except as set forth in (b), with respect to
any Person, Share Capital of such Person that, by its terms or by the terms of
any security into which it is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable, is, or
upon the happening of an event or the passage of time would be, required to be
redeemed or repurchased (including at the option of the holder thereof) by such
Person or any Subsidiary of such Person, in whole or in part, on or prior to the
Stated Maturity of the Securities of such series, and (b) with respect to any
Subsidiary of such Person (including with respect to any Subsidiary of the
Company), any Share Capital other than any ordinary shares with no preference,
privileges, or redemption or repayment provisions.

                  "Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in
such coin or currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender
for the payment of public and private debts.

                  "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.

                  "Exchange Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 302.

                  "Holder", when used with respect to any Security, means the
Person in whose name the Security is registered in the Security Register.

                  "Indebtedness" of any Person, unless otherwise provided with
respect to the Securities of a series as contemplated by Section 301, means,
without duplication, the following (whether currently outstanding or hereafter
incurred or created): (i) all liabilities and obligations, contingent or
otherwise, of any such Person (a) in respect of borrowed money (whether or not
the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or only
to a portion thereof), (b) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar
instruments, (c) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase
price of any property or services, except such as would constitute trade
payables to trade creditors in the ordinary course of business that are not more
than 90 days past their original due date, (d) evidenced by bankers' acceptances
or similar instruments issued or accepted by banks, (e) for the payment of money
relating to a Capitalized Lease Obligation or (f) evidenced by a letter of
credit or a reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to any letter
of credit; (ii) all net obligations of such Person under Interest Swap and
Hedging Obligations; (iii) all liabilities of others of the kind described in
the preceding clause (i) or (ii) that such Person has guaranteed or that is
otherwise its legal liability and all obligations to purchase, redeem or acquire
any Share Capital; and (iv) any and all deferrals, renewals, extensions,
refinancings, refundings (whether direct or indirect) of, or amendments,
modifications or supplements to, any liability of the kind described in any of
the preceding clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), or this clause (iv), whether or not
between or among the same parties.

                  "Indenture" means 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

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Securities established as contemplated by Section 301 and the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument.

                  "interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue
Discount Security that 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.

                  "Interest Swap and Hedging Obligation" means any obligation of
any Person pursuant to any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate exchange agreement,
currency exchange agreement or any other agreement or arrangement designed to
protect against fluctuations in interest rates or currency values, including,
without limitation, any arrangement whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person
is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by
applying either a fixed or floating rate of interest on a stated notional amount
in exchange for periodic payments made by such Person calculated by applying a
fixed or floating rate of interest on the same notional amount.

                  "Judgment Currency" has the meaning specified in Section 506.

                  "Junior security" of a Person means, when used with respect to
the Securities of any series, any Qualified Share Capital of such Person or any
Indebtedness of such Person that is subordinated in right of payment to the
Securities of such series and has no scheduled installment of principal due, by
redemption, sinking fund payment or otherwise, on or prior to the Stated
Maturity of the Securities of such series.

                  "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.

                  "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer,
the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Controller or
Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee, which
certificate shall comply with Section 103 hereof.

                  "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may be counsel for or an employee of the Company, rendered, if applicable, in
accordance with Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, which opinion shall
comply with Section 103 hereof.

                  "Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that
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 502.

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

                  (i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
         delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

                  (ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
         necessary amount has been theretofore irrevocably 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; and

                  (iii) Securities that have been paid pursuant to Section 306
         or in exchange for or in lieu 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 any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, or whether a
quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of Securities, (a) the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the principal amount thereof that would
be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (b) the principal amount of a Security
denominated in a foreign currency shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent,
determined by the Company on the date of original issuance of such Security, of
the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security,
the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such
Security, of the amount determined as provided in (a) above), of such Security
and (c) 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 or waiver or upon any such
determination as to the presence of a quorum, 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, which may include the
Company, authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest on or Additional Amounts with respect to any one or more series of
Securities on behalf of the Company.

                  "Payment Default" has the meaning specified in Section
1302(a).

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                  "Payment Notice" has the meaning specified in Section 1302(b).

                  "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof or any other entity of any kind.

                  "Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities
of any series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities
of that series are payable as specified in accordance with Section 301 subject
to the provisions of Section 1002.

                  "Qualified Share Capital" means any Share Capital of the
Company that is not Disqualified Share Capital.

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

                  "Registered Security" means any Security in the form
established pursuant to Section 201 which is registered in the Security
Register.

                  "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 301, or, if not so specified, the last day of
the calendar month preceding such Interest Payment Date if such Interest Payment
Date is the fifteenth day of the calendar month or the fifteenth day of the
calendar month preceding such Interest Payment Date if such Interest Payment
Date is the first day of a calendar month, whether or not such day shall be a
Business Day.

                  "Required Currency" has the meaning specified in Section 506.

                  "Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee,
means the officer in the Institutional Trust Services department of the Trustee
having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

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

                  "Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 305.

                  "Senior Indebtedness" of the Company, unless otherwise
provided with respect to the Securities of a series as contemplated by Section
301, means (i) all Indebtedness of the Company, whether currently outstanding or
hereafter issued, unless, by the terms of the instrument creating or

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evidencing such Indebtedness, it is provided that such Indebtedness is not
superior in right of payment to the Securities or to other Indebtedness which is
pari passu with or subordinated to the Securities, and (ii) any modifications,
refunding, deferrals, renewals or extensions of any such Indebtedness or
securities, notes or other evidences of Indebtedness issued in exchange for such
Indebtedness; provided that in no event shall "Senior Indebtedness" include (a)
Indebtedness of the Company owed or owing to any Subsidiary of the Company or
any officer, director or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company, (b) Indebtedness to trade creditors or (c) any liability for taxes owed
or owing by the Company.

                  "Share Capital" means, with respect to any Person, any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase (other than convertible or exchangeable
Indebtedness), warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests (however designated) in shares issued by that Person.

                  "Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest on the Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 307.

                  "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 a corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more
other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means
stock that 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.

                  "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.

                  "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as
provided in Section 905.

                  "United States" means the United States of America (including
the States and the District of Columbia) and its "possessions", which include
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the
Northern Mariana Islands.

                  "United States Alien" means any Person who, for United States
federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual, a non-resident alien or foreign fiduciary of an estate or trust, or
a foreign partnership.

                  "U.S. Government Obligations" has the meaning specified in
Section 401.

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                  "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".

                  "Yield to Maturity", when used with respect to any Original
Issue Discount Security, means the yield to maturity, if any, set forth on the
face thereof.

SECTION 102. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.

                  Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust
Indenture Act, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of
this Indenture. The following Trust Indenture Act terms used in this Indenture
have the following meanings:

                  "Bankruptcy Act" means the Bankruptcy Act or Title 11 of the
United States Code.

                  "indenture securities" means the Securities.

                  "indenture security holder" means a Holder.

                  "indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.

                  "indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the
Trustee.

                  "obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company or any
other obligor on the Securities.

                  All terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the Trust
Indenture Act, defined by Trust Indenture Act reference to another statute or
defined by Commission rule under the Trust Indenture Act and not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.

SECTION 103. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

                  Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Indenture, 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
an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any
(including any covenants the compliance with which constitutes a condition
precedent, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have
been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any (including any covenants the
compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) have been complied
with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this
Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.

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

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                  (1) a statement that each Person 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 Person, such
         Person has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
         enable such Person 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
         Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

SECTION 104. 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 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 105. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

         (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given 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 an agent duly
appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action
shall become effective when such instrument or instruments or record thereof or
both are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to
the Company. Such instrument or instruments

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and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are
herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument
or instruments and so voting at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or the holding of any
Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if
made in the manner provided in this Section. The record of any meeting of
Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1406.

                  The Company may set in advance a record date for purposes of
determining the identity of Holders of Securities entitled to vote or consent to
any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted under this Indenture. If a
record date is fixed, those Persons who were Holders of Outstanding Securities
at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons,
shall be entitled with respect to such Securities to take such action by vote or
consent or to revoke any vote or consent previously given, whether or not such
Persons continue to be Holders after such record date. Promptly after any record
date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall
cause notice thereof to be given to the Trustee in writing in the manner
provided in Section 106 and to the relevant Holders as set forth in Section 107.

                  (b) 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 the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his 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.

                  (c) The principal amount and serial numbers of Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security
Register.

                  (d) 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. Any Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or other Act as to his
Security or portion of his Security; provided, however, that such revocation
shall be effective only if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before
the date the Act becomes effective.

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SECTION 106. 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,

                  (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 to or with and received by the Trustee at its
         Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, 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 Indenture or at any
         other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
         Company, Attention: Corporate Secretary.

SECTION 107. Notice to Holders; Waiver.

                  Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of
Securities of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless
otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at the address of such
Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date,
and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice.

                  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 to
Holders of Securities by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the
approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every
purpose hereunder. In any case in which notice to Holders of Securities is given
by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice
so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Security, shall affect the sufficiency
of such notice with respect to other Holders of Securities.

                  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.

SECTION 108. Conflict With Trust Indenture Act.

                  If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with
any provision of the Trust Indenture Act or another provision hereof which is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act, such provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. If any
provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the former provision shall be
deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded.

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SECTION 109. 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 110. Successors and Assigns.

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

SECTION 111. 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 112. 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, any Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent and Security
Registrar, and the Holders and holders of any Senior Indebtedness, any benefit
or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 113. Governing Law.

                  This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, but without
giving effect to applicable principles of conflicts of law to the extent the
application of the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

SECTION 114. Legal Holidays.

                  In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date
or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of
Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the
Securities) payment of principal and interest (and premium and Additional
Amounts, if any) 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, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue with
respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment
Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

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SECTION 115. Corporate Obligation.

                  No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, against any
incorporator, subscriber to the share capital, shareholder, officer, director or
employee of the Company or the Trustee or of any predecessor or successor of the
Company or the Trustee with respect to the Company's obligations on the
Securities or the obligations of the Company or the Trustee under this Indenture
or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith.

                                   ARTICLE TWO

                                 SECURITY FORMS

SECTION 201. Forms Generally.

                  The Securities of each series shall be in fully registered
form and in substantially such form or forms (including temporary or permanent
global 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 as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If temporary Securities of
any series are issued in global form as permitted by Section 304, the form
thereof shall be established as provided in the preceding sentence. A copy of
the Board Resolution establishing the form or forms of Securities of any series
(or any such temporary global Security) 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 303 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities (or any such temporary global
Security).

                  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 thereof.

SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.

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

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

                                      [                                     ],
                                       -------------------------------------
                                                      as Trustee

                                      By
                                        -------------------------------------
                                                Authorized Signatory".

SECTION 203. Securities in Global Form.

                  If Securities of a series are issuable in global form, as
contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (10) of Section 301
and the provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall represent such of the
Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may
provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby may from time to time be reduced to reflect
exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount,
or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented
thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given
by such Person or Persons as shall be specified in such Security or in a Company
Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or Section 304.
Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the
Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the
manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified in such
Security or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to
Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions
by the Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a
Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 103
and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

                  The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply
to any Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold by the
Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form
together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 103 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction
in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together with the
written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 303.

                  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 201 and 307, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any
Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons
specified therein.

                  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308 and except as
provided in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of
the Company or of the Trustee shall treat a Person as the Holder of such
principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a global Security as
shall be specified in a written statement, if any, of the Holder of such global
Security, which is produced to the Security Registrar by such Holder.

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                  Global Securities may be issued in either temporary or
permanent form. Permanent global Securities will be issued in definitive form.

SECTION 204. Book-Entry Securities.

                  Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture to the
contrary:

         (a) At the discretion of the Company, any Registered Security may be
issued from time to time, in whole or in part, in permanent global form
registered in the name of a Depositary, or its nominee. Each such Registered
Security in permanent global form is hereafter referred to as a "Book-Entry
Security." Subject to Section 303, upon such election, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and
deliver, one or more Book-Entry Securities that (i) are denominated in an amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series if elected in whole or such lesser amount if elected in part, (ii) are
registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, (iii) are delivered by
the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent to the Depositary or pursuant to the
Depositary's instructions and (iv) bear a legend in substantially the following
form (or such other form as the Depositary and the Company may agree upon):

                UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
                REPRESENTATIVE OF [THE DEPOSITARY], TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT
                FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
                CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF [NOMINEE OF THE
                DEPOSITARY] OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
                AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF [THE DEPOSITARY] (AND ANY PAYMENT
                IS MADE TO [NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY] OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY
                AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF [THE
                DEPOSITARY]), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
                OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE
                REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, [NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY], HAS AN
                INTEREST HEREIN.

         (b) Any Book-Entry Security shall be initially executed and delivered
as provided in Section 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Registered
Securities not issued in global form, a Book-Entry Security may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of such Depositary,
by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such
Depositary, or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary
or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

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         (c) If at any time the Depositary notifies the Company or the Trustee
that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for any Book-Entry
Securities, the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary, whereupon the
retiring Depositary shall surrender or cause the surrender of its Book-Entry
Security or Securities to the Trustee. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Company upon receipt of such notice. If a successor Depositary has not been so
appointed by the effective date of the resignation of the Depositary, the
Book-Entry Securities will be issued as Registered Securities not issued in
global form, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Book-Entry Security or Securities theretofore held by the Depositary.

                  The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion
determine that the Securities shall no longer be Book-Entry Securities
represented by a global certificate or certificates, and will so notify the
Depositary. Upon receipt of such notice, the Depositary shall promptly surrender
or cause the surrender of its Book-Entry Security or Securities to the Trustee.
Concurrently therewith, Registered Securities not issued in global form will be
issued in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the
Book-Entry Security or Securities theretofore held by the Depositary.

                  Upon any exchange of Book-Entry Securities for Registered
Securities not issued in global form as set forth in this Section 204(c), such
Book-Entry Securities shall be cancelled by the Trustee, and Securities issued
in exchange for such Book-Entry Securities pursuant to this Section shall be
registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary
for such Book-Entry Securities, pursuant to instructions from its direct or
indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee or
any Authenticating Agent shall deliver such Securities to the persons in whose
names such Securities are so registered.

         (d) The Company and the Trustee shall be entitled to treat the Person
in whose name any Book-Entry Security is registered as the Holder thereof for
all purposes of the Indenture and any applicable laws, notwithstanding any
notice to the contrary received by the Trustee or the Company; and the Trustee
and the Company shall have no responsibility for transmitting payments to,
communication with, notifying, or otherwise dealing with any beneficial owners
of any Book-Entry Security. Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any
responsibility or obligations, legal or otherwise, to the beneficial owners or
to any other party including the Depositary, except for the Holder of any
Book-Entry Security; provided however, notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, (i) for the purposes of determining whether the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, instruction or other action
hereunder as of any date, the Trustee shall treat any Person specified in a
written statement of the Depositary with respect to any Book-Entry Securities as
the Holder of the principal amount of such Securities set forth therein and (ii)
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the
Company or Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or
other authorization furnished by a Depositary with respect to any Book-Entry
Securities, or impair, as between a Depositary and holders of beneficial
interests in such Securities, the operation of customary practices governing the
exercise of the rights of the Depositary as Holder of such Securities.

         (e) So long as any Book-Entry Security is registered in the name of a
Depositary or its nominee, all payments of the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on such Book-Entry

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Security and redemption thereof and all notices and deliveries with respect to
such Book Entry Security shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner
provided in the arrangements of the Company with such Depositary.

                                  ARTICLE THREE

                                 THE SECURITIES

SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

                  The aggregate principal amount of Securities that 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 set forth 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 all other Securities);

                  (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
         Securities of the series that 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 304, 305, 306, 906 or
         1107);

                  (3) whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable
         initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of the
         series are to be issuable in permanent global form, and, if so, whether
         beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security may exchange
         such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
         authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any
         such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in
         Section 305, and the Depositary for any global Security or Securities
         of such series;

                  (4) the manner in which any interest payable on a temporary
         global Security on any Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than
         in the manner provided in Section 304;

                  (5) the date or dates on which the principal of (and premium,
         if any, on) the Securities of the series is payable or the method of
         determination thereof,

                  (6) the rate or rates, or the method of determination thereof,
         at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any,
         whether and under what circumstances Additional Amounts with respect to
         such Securities shall be payable, the date or dates from which such
         interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such
         interest shall be payable and, if other than as set forth in Section
         101, the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Securities
         on any Interest Payment Date;

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                  (7) the place or places where, subject to the provisions of
         Section 1002, the principal of (and premium, if any), any interest on
         and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of the series
         shall be payable;

                  (8) the period or periods within which, the price or prices
         (whether denominated in cash, securities or otherwise) at which and the
         terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be
         redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the
         Company is to have that option, and the manner in which the Company
         must exercise any such option, if different from those set forth
         herein;

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

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

                  (11) the currency or currencies (including composite
         currencies) if other than Dollars, or the form, including equity
         securities, other debt securities (including Securities), warrants or
         any other securities or property of the Company or any other Person, in
         which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), any interest
         on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of the
         series shall be payable;

                  (12) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
         or any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of the series
         are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof,
         in a currency or currencies (including composite currencies) other than
         that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the currency or
         currencies (including composite currencies) in which payment of the
         principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on, and any Additional
         Amounts with respect to, Securities of such series as to which such
         election is made shall be payable, and the periods within which and the
         terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made;

                  (13) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium,
         if any), any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the
         Securities of the series may be determined with reference to any
         commodities, currencies or indices, values, rates or prices or any
         other index or formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be
         determined;

                  (14) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the
         portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that shall
         be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
         pursuant to Section 502;

                  (15) any additional means of satisfaction and discharge of
         this Indenture with respect to Securities of the series pursuant to
         Section 401, any additional conditions to discharge pursuant to Section
         401 or 403 and the application, if any, of Section 403;

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                  (16) any deletions or modifications of or additions to the
         definitions set forth in Section 101, the Events of Default set forth
         in Section 501 or covenants of the Company set forth in Article Ten
         pertaining to the Securities of the series;

                  (17) if the Securities of the series are to be convertible
         into or exchangeable for equity securities, other debt securities
         (including Securities), warrants or any other securities or property of
         the Company or any other Person, at the option of the Company or the
         Holder or upon the occurrence of any condition or event, the terms and
         conditions for such conversion or exchange; and

                  (18) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
         inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).

                  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
303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers'
Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

                  At the option of the Company, interest on the Securities of
any series that bears interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of
any Holder as such address shall appear in the Security Register.

                  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 together with such Board Resolution 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.

                  The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to
Senior Indebtedness as provided in Article Thirteen.

SECTION 302. Denominations.

                  The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such
denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the
absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the
Securities of such series denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. Unless otherwise
provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of
Securities, any Securities of a series denominated in a currency other than
Dollars shall be issuable in denominations that are the equivalent, as
determined by the Company by reference to the noon buying rate in The City of
New York for cable transfers for such currency ("Exchange Rate"), as such rate
is reported or otherwise made available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
on the applicable issue date for such Securities, of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof.

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SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication Delivery and Dating.

                  The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by
its Chairman of the Board, its President, its Treasurer or one of its Vice
Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon or affixed thereto
attested by its Secretary or one of its 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 as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise.

                  If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been
established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or any other method
permitted by Sections 201 and 301, 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 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating,

                  (a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
         pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such
         form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this
         Indenture;

                  (b) if the terms of such Securities have been established by
         or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such
         terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
         Indenture; and

                  (c) 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 legal,
         valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance
         with their terms, except as such enforcement is subject to the effect
         of (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization or
         other laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights and (ii) general
         principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforcement is
         considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

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 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.

                  Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

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                  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 309
together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 103 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has
never been issued and sold by the Company, 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.

SECTION 304. 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 that 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, in registered form and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers of the Company executing such
Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

                  Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form
(which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of the following
paragraphs), 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 a like principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations.
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.

                  All Outstanding temporary Securities of any series shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive
Securities of the same series and of like tenor authenticated and delivered
hereunder.

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SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

                  The Company shall cause to be kept for each series of
Securities at one of the offices or agencies maintained pursuant to Section 1002
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 of such series. The Trustee is
hereby initially appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.

                  Except as set forth in Section 203 or as may be provided
pursuant to Section 301, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any
Security of any series at the office or agency 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 and of like tenor, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount.

                  At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be
exchanged for other Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any
authorized denominations and of a like 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 that the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be
exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If the beneficial owners of
interests in a permanent global Security are entitled to exchange such interest
for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another
authorized form and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301,
then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date
on which such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee definitive Securities of that series in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the principal amount of such permanent global Security, executed by the
Company. On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so
exchanged, such permanent global Security shall be surrendered from time to time
in accordance with instructions given to the Trustee and the Depositary (which
instructions shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 103 or be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) or such other depositary as shall be
specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the
Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or in part, for
definitive Securities of the same series without charge and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such permanent global
Security, a like aggregate principal amount of other definitive Securities of
the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of
such permanent global Security to be exchanged; provided, however, that no such
exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before any selection of Securities of that series is to be redeemed and ending
on the relevant Redemption Date. Promptly following any such exchange in part,
such permanent global Security marked to evidence the partial exchange shall be
returned by the Trustee to the Depositary or such other depositary referred to
above in accordance with the instructions of

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the Company referred to above. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange
for any portion of a permanent global Security after the close of business at
the office or agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date
and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant
Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of
Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not
be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the
case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be payable on such
Interest Payment Date or proposed for payment, as the case may be, only to the
Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global
Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

                  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 his 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 exchange pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.

                  The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at
the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of Securities of such series selected for redemption and ending at
the close of business on the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of
redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
any Security being redeemed in part.

SECTION 306. 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 Trustee (i) evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such
security or indemnity as may be required by the Trustee to save the Company, the
Trustee 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 upon its request 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. If, after the

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delivery of such replacement Security, a bona fide purchaser of the original
Security in lieu of which such replacement Security was issued presents for
payment or registration such original Security, the Trustee shall be entitled to
recover such replacement Security from the Person to whom it was delivered or
any Person taking therefrom, except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled
to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any
loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Company or the Trustee in
connection therewith.

                  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, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

                  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 fee 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 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

                  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. Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of any
series, payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check
mailed or delivered to the address of any Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register. The Trustee is hereby appointed
as the initial Paying Agent.

                  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

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         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 mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
         Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the
         Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
         Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the
         expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least
         once in an Authorized Newspaper, but such publication shall not be a
         condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date.
         Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted 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, 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.

SECTION 308. 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 premium,
if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) 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.

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SECTION 309. Cancellation.

                  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. All Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
Trustee. 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 all Securities so delivered
shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated
in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be treated by the Trustee in accordance
with its document retention policies.

SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.

                  Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301
for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a year of twelve 30- day months.

SECTION 311. CUSIP Numbers.

                  The Company in issuing the Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers
(if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in
notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice
may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected
by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

                                  ARTICLE FOUR

                           SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

                  This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of
further effect with respect to Securities of a series, and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to Securities of such
series, when

                  (1) either

                           (A) all Securities of such series theretofore
                  authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities that
                  have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been
                  replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, and (ii)
                  Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been
                  deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the
                  Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged
                  from

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                  such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered
                  to the Trustee for cancellation; or

                           (B) with respect to all Outstanding Securities of
                  such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
                  cancellation, the Company has deposited or caused to be
                  deposited with the Trustee as trust funds, under the terms of
                  an irrevocable trust agreement in form and substance
                  satisfactory to the Trustee, money or U.S. Government
                  Obligations maturing as to principal and interest in such
                  amounts and at such times as will (together with the income to
                  accrue thereon and without consideration of any reinvestment
                  thereof) be sufficient to pay and discharge (with such
                  delivery in trust to be for the stated purpose of paying and
                  discharging) the entire indebtedness on all Outstanding
                  Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the
                  Trustee for cancellation for principal (and premium and
                  Additional Amounts, if any) and interest to the Stated
                  Maturity or any Redemption Date contemplated by the
                  penultimate paragraph of this Section, as the case may be; or

                           (C) the Company has properly fulfilled such other
                  means of satisfaction and discharge as is specified, as
                  contemplated by Section 301, to be applicable to the
                  Securities of such series;

                  (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
         payable hereunder by the Company with respect to the Outstanding
         Securities of such series;

                  (3) the Company has complied with any other conditions
         specified pursuant to Section 301 to be applicable to the discharge of
         Securities of such series pursuant to this Section 401;

                  (4) 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 with respect to the Outstanding Securities
         of such series have been complied with;

                  (5) if the conditions set forth in Section 401(1)(A) have not
         been satisfied, and unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301
         for the Securities of such series, the Company has delivered to the
         Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of
         Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for
         United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit,
         satisfaction and discharge and will be subject to United States federal
         income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same
         time as would have been the case if such deposit, satisfaction and
         discharge had not occurred; and

                  (6) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the
         Securities of such issue shall have occurred and be continuing on the
         date of such deposit or, insofar as clauses (5) or (6) of Section 501
         are concerned, at any time in the period ending on the 91st day after
         the

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         date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not
         be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

                  For the purposes of this Indenture, "U.S. Government
Obligations" means direct non-callable obligations of, or non-callable
obligations the payment of principal of and interest on which is guaranteed by,
the United States of America, or to the payment of which obligations or
guarantees the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged,
or beneficial interests in a trust the corpus of which consists exclusively of
money or such obligations or a combination thereof.

                  If any Outstanding Securities of such series are to be
redeemed prior to their Stated Maturity, whether pursuant to any optional
redemption provisions or in accordance with any mandatory sinking fund
requirement, the trust agreement referred to in subclause (B) of clause (1) of
this Section shall provide therefor and the Company shall make such arrangements
as are satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the
Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company.

                  Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series pursuant to
this Section 401, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section
607, the obligations to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, except
for a discharge pursuant to subclause (A) of clause (1) of this Section, the
obligations of the Company under Sections 305, 306, 404, 610(e), 701, 1001 and
1002 and the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph
of Section 1003 shall survive.

SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.

                  Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 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 premium, if
any) and interest and Additional Amounts for the payment of which such money has
been deposited with the Trustee.

SECTION 403. Discharge of Liability on Securities of Any Series.

                  If this Section is specified, as contemplated by Section 301,
to be applicable to Securities of any series, the Company shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Outstanding
Securities of such series, the obligation of the Company under this Indenture
and the Securities of such series to pay the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on Securities of such series, shall cease, terminate and be
completely discharged and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction and discharge, when

                  (1) the Company has complied with the provisions of Section
         401 (other than any additional conditions specified pursuant to
         Sections 301 and 401(3) and except that the Opinion of Counsel referred
         to in Section 401(5) shall state that it is based on a ruling by the

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         Internal Revenue Service or other change since the date hereof under
         applicable Federal income tax law) with respect to all Outstanding
         Securities of such series,

                  (2) the Company has delivered to the Trustee a Company Request
         requesting such satisfaction and discharge,

                  (3) the Company has complied with any other conditions
         specified pursuant to Section 301 to be applicable to the discharge of
         Securities of such series pursuant to this Section 403, and

                  (4) 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 discharge of the
         indebtedness on the Outstanding Securities of such series have been
         complied with.

                  Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this
Section with respect to all the Outstanding Securities of any series, the terms
and conditions of such series, including the terms and conditions with respect
thereto set forth in this Indenture, shall no longer be binding upon, or
applicable to, the Company; provided that, the Company shall not be discharged
from any payment obligations in respect of Securities of such series that are
deemed not to be Outstanding under clause (iii) of the definition thereof if
such obligations continue to be valid obligations of the Company under
applicable law or pursuant to Section 305 or 306.

SECTION 404. Reinstatement

                  If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or
U.S. Government Obligations deposited with respect to Securities of any series
in accordance with Section 401 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of
any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company's obligations
under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series and the
Securities of such series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit
had occurred pursuant to Section 401 until such time as the Trustee or Paying
Agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in
accordance with Section 401; provided, however, that if the Company has made any
payment of principal of (or premium, if any), or interest on or any Additional
Amounts with respect to any Securities because of the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
such Securities to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government
Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

                                  ARTICLE FIVE

                                    REMEDIES

SECTION 501. 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 Event of Default and whether

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it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article Thirteen or be 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), unless it is either inapplicable to a
particular series or it is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to
the supplemental indenture or Board Resolution establishing such series of
Securities or in the form of Security for such series:

                  (1) default in the payment of any interest on or any
         Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of that series when
         such interest or Additional Amounts become 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 premium, if
         any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or

                  (3) default in the deposit of any mandatory sinking fund
         payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series and
         continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; 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 one or more 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 all Outstanding Securities 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

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         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 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
         inability to pay its debts generally as they 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.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 501,
if the principal of (and premium, if any) or any interest on, or Additional
Amounts with respect to, any Security is payable in a currency or currencies
(including a composite currency) other than Dollars and such currency (or
currencies) is (or are) not available to the Company for making payment thereof
due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the
control of the Company (a "Conversion Event"), the Company will be entitled to
satisfy its obligations to Holders of the Securities by making such payment in
Dollars in an amount equal to the Dollar equivalent of the amount payable in
such other currency, as determined by the Company by reference to the Exchange
Rate, as such Exchange Rate is certified for customs purposes by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York on the date of such payment, or, if such rate is not
then available, on the basis of the most recently available Exchange Rate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 501, any payment made
under such circumstances in Dollars where the required payment is in a currency
other than Dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under this Indenture.

                  Promptly after the occurrence of a Conversion Event with
respect to Securities of any series, the Company shall give written notice
thereof to the Trustee; and the Trustee, promptly after receipt of such notice,
shall give notice thereof in the manner provided in Section 107 to the Holders
of such series. Promptly after the making of any payment in Dollars as a result
of a Conversion Event with respect to Securities of any series, the Company
shall give notice in the manner provided in Section 107 to the Holders of such
series, setting forth the applicable Exchange Rate and describing the
calculation of such payments.

SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to any 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 (i) the series affected by such default (in the case
of an Event of Default described in clause (1), (2), (3) or (7) of Section 501)
or (ii) all series of Securities (subject to the immediately following sentence,
in the case of an Event of Default described in clause (4) of Section 501) may
declare the principal amount (or, if any such Securities are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in
the terms of that series) of all of the Securities of the series affected by
such default or all series, as the case may be, 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
described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501 shall occur, the principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of all series ipso

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facto shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or
other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

                  At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Securities of any series (or of all series, as the case may be) 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 (or
of all series, as the case may be), 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, and any Additional
                  Amounts with respect to, all Securities of that series (or of
                  all series, as the case may be),

                           (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
                  Securities of that series (or of all series, as the case may
                  be) which have become due otherwise than by such declaration
                  of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates
                  prescribed therefor in such Securities (in the case of
                  Original Issue Discount Securities, the Securities' Yield to
                  Maturity),

                           (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
                  lawful, interest upon overdue interest and any Additional
                  Amounts at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
                  Securities (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities,
                  the Securities' Yield to Maturity), 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 (or of all series, as the case may be), other than the
         non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series (or of all
         series, as the case may be) which have become due solely by such
         declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
         Section 512.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.

SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

                  The Company covenants that if

                  (1) default is made in the payment of any installment of
         interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of
         any series when such interest or

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         Additional Amounts shall have become 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 premium, if any) and interest and Additional
Amounts and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable, interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any
overdue interest and Additional Amounts, at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities (or in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities, the Securities' Yield to Maturity), 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 the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such
Securities, wherever situated.

                  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 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

                  In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency,
liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or
other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal (or lesser amount
in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) of the Securities shall then
be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and
irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company
for the payment of overdue principal (and premium, if any), interest or any
Additional Amounts) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise,

                  (i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
         principal (or lesser amount in the case of Original Issue Discount
         Securities) (and premium, if any) and interest and any Additional
         Amounts owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such
         other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
         have the claims of the

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         Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
         disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and
         of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

                  (ii) to collect and receive any monies 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 607.

                  Nothing herein contained 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 proceedings; provided,
however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official.

SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or
             Coupons.

                  All rights of action and claim under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without 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 506. Application of Money Collected.

                  Subject to Article Thirteen, 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 premium, if any), interest or any Additional
Amounts, 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 607;

                  SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
         principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional
         Amounts with respect to 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

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         Securities for principal (and premium, if any), interest and Additional
         Amounts, respectively; and

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

                  To the fullest extent allowed under applicable law, if for the
purpose of obtaining judgment against the Company in any court it is necessary
to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of any
series (the "Required Currency") into a currency in which a judgment will be
rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate
at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase
in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the
New York Business Day next preceding that on which final judgment is given.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be liable for any shortfall nor shall
it benefit from any windfall in payments to Holders of Securities under this
Section caused by a change in exchange rates between the time the amount of a
judgment against it is calculated as above and the time the Trustee converts the
Judgment Currency into the Required Currency to make payments under this Section
to Holders of Securities, but payment of such judgment shall discharge all
amounts owed by the Company on the claim or claims underlying such judgment.

SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.

                  Subject to Section 508, 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) an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such
         series shall have occurred and be continuing and such Holder has
         previously given written notice to the Trustee of such continuing Event
         of Default;

                  (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 compliance with such request;

                  (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

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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 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal Premium and
             Interest.

                  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 premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 307) interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to
such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security
(or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired
or affected without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

                  If the Trustee or any Holder of any Security has instituted
any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, then and in every
such case the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, 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 510. 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 306, 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 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

                  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 or by the Holders,
as the case may be.

SECTION 512. Control by Holders.

                  With respect to Securities of any series, the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such 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

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power conferred on the Trustee, relating to or arising under an Event of Default
described in clause (1), (2), (3) or (7) of Section 501, and with respect to all
Securities the Holders of a majority in principal amount of all Outstanding
Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Trustee, not relating to or arising under such an Event of
Default, provided that in each such case

                  (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
         law or with this Indenture, and

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

SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.

                  The Holders of 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, and the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of all Outstanding Securities may on behalf of the Holders of all Securities
waive any other past default hereunder and its consequences, except in each case
a default

                  (1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
         interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security,
         or

                  (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under
         Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
         Holder of each Outstanding Security 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 514. Undertaking for Costs.

                  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any
Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any
court may in its discretion require, 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 or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in
such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court
may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys'
fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits
and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by
any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest on, or

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any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security on or after the Stated
Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).

SECTION 515. Waiver of 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 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 SIX

                                   THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

                  (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with
         respect to the Securities of any series,

                           (1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and
                  only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
                  Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
                  read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

                           (2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
                  Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
                  statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
                  therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the
                  Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture;
                  but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by
                  any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished
                  to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
                  the same to determine whether or not they conform to the
                  requirements of this Indenture.

                  (b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
         with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall
         exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture,
         and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
         prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
         conduct of his own affairs.

                  (c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
         relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
         own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that

                      (1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the
         effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;

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                           (2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
                  judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless
                  it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
                  ascertaining the pertinent facts;

                           (3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
                  any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
                  accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in
                  principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
                  or of all series, determined as provided in Section 511,
                  relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
                  proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
                  exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
                  under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such
                  series; and

                           (4) 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 indemnity satisfactory to it
                  against such risk or liability is not assured to it.

                  (d) 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 602. Notice of Defaults.

                  Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder
with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give notice of
such default hereunder known to the Trustee to all Holders of Securities of such
series in the manner provided in Section 107, unless such default shall have
been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default
in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, or any
Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of such series or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long
as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of
directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that
the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities
of such series; and provided, further, that in the case of any default of the
character specified in Section 501(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, act or condition 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 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.

                  Subject to the provisions of Section 601:

                  (a) 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, coupon, other evidence of indebtedness or

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         other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
         signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

                  (b) 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 may be sufficiently
         evidenced by a Board Resolution;

                  (c) 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) may,
         in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
         Certificate;

                  (d) 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;

                  (e) 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 security or indemnity
         satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that
         might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

                  (f) 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, coupon, 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;

                  (g) 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, except for any Affiliates of the
         Trustee, 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;

                  (h) the Trustee is not required to take notice or deemed to
         have notice of any default or Event of Default hereunder, except Events
         of Default under subsections(1), (2) or (3) of Section 501, unless a
         Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or has
         received notice in writing of such default or Event of Default from the
         Issuer, the Borrower or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate
         principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, and in the absence of
         any such notice, the Trustee may conclusively assume that no such
         default or Event of Default exists;

                  (i) the Trustee is not required to give any bond or surety
         with respect to the performance of its duties or the exercise of its
         powers under this Indenture;

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                  (j) in the event the Trustee receives inconsistent or
         conflicting requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders
         of Securities, each representing less than a majority in aggregate
         principal amount of the Securities Outstanding, pursuant to the
         provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may
         determine what action, if any, shall be taken;

                  (k) the Trustee's immunities and protections from liability
         and its right to indemnification in connection with the performance of
         its duties under this Indenture shall extend to the Trustee's officers,
         directors, agents, attorneys and employees. Such immunities and
         protections and right to indemnification shall survive the Trustee's
         resignation or removal, the defeasance or discharge of this Indenture
         and final payment of the Securities;

                  (l) the permissive right of the Trustee to take the actions
         permitted by this Indenture shall not be construed as an obligation or
         duty to do so; and

                  (m) except for information provided by the Trustee concerning
         the Trustee, the Trustee shall have no responsibility for any
         information in any offering memorandum or other disclosure material
         distributed with respect to the Securities, and the Trustee shall have
         no responsibility for compliance with any state or federal securities
         laws in connection with the Securities.

SECTION 604. 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 the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use
or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.

                  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 608 and 613, 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.

SECTION 606. 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 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.

                  The Company agrees

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                  (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time 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
         compensation and the reasonable 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 and each of its directors,
         officers, employees, agents and/or representatives for, and to hold
         each of them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
         without negligence or bad faith on each of their 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
         themselves against any claim or liability in connection with the
         exercise or performance of any of the Trustee's powers or duties
         hereunder.

                  As security for the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the
Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such,
except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest, if any, on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, particular
Securities.

                  Any expenses and compensation for any services rendered by the
Trustee after the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or
(6) of Section 501 shall constitute expenses and compensation for services of
administration under all applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar laws.

                  The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination
of this Indenture.

SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.

                  (a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting
         interest, as defined in this Section, with respect to the Securities of
         any series, it shall, within 90 days after ascertaining that it has
         such conflicting interest, either eliminate such conflicting interest
         or resign with respect to the Securities of that series in the manner
         and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

                  (b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with
         the provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section with respect to the
         Securities of any series, the Trustee shall, within 10 days after the
         expiration of such 90-day period, transmit by mail to all Holders of
         Securities of that series, as their names and addresses appear in the
         Security Register, notice of such failure.

                  (c) For the purposes of this Section, the term "conflicting
         interest" shall have the meaning specified in Section 310(b) of the
         Trust Indenture Act and the Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of
         the Trust Indenture Act; provided that there shall be excluded from

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         the operation of Section 310(b)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act with
         respect to the Securities of any series any indenture or indentures
         under which other securities, or certificates of interest or
         participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding, if
         the requirements for such exclusion set forth in Section 310(b)(1) of
         the Trust Indenture Act are met. For purposes of the preceding
         sentence, the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of
         Section 310(b)(9) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be applicable.

SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

                  There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
a corporation, bank or banking association 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 exercise corporate trust powers, having
a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by Federal or State (or District of Columbia)
authority. If such corporation 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 corporation 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 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.

                  The Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirements of Sections 310(a)(1), 310(a)(2) and 310(a)(5) of the Trust
Indenture Act.

SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

                  (a) 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 611.

                  (b) 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 611 shall not have been delivered to the resigning
         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.

                  (c) 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.

                  (d) If at any time:

                           (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section
                  608(a) 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

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                           (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
                  Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request
                  therefor by the Company or by any such Holder of Securities,
                  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, (i) the
                  Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with
                  respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 513, 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.

                  (e) 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 such successor
         Trustee or Trustees shall comply with the applicable requirements of
         Section 611. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
         any series shall have been so appointed by the Company and accepted
         appointment in the manner required by Section 611, 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.

                  (f) 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 by mailing written notice of such event by first-class
         mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as
         their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. 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 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

                  (a) 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,

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         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.

                  (b) 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.

                  (c) 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 paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section,
         as the case may be.

                  (d) 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 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

                  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, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or

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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 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

                  The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act, excluding any creditor relationship described in Section 311(b)
of the Trust Indenture Act. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be
subject to Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent indicated
therein.

SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

                  The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents that
shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities
issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption or pursuant to Section 306, 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, bank or banking association organized and doing business under
the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 or
equivalent amount expressed in a foreign currency and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State (or District of Columbia) authority or authority
of such country. 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 corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall
continue to be an 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

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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 mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. 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 607.

                  If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the
Securities may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate
of authentication, an alternate 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.

                                                                               ,
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                           as Trustee

                                By                                             ,
                                  ---------------------------------------------
                                         as Authenticating Agent

                                By
                                  ----------------------------------------------
                                         Authorized Signatory".

                  Notwithstanding any provision of this Section 614 to the
contrary, if at any time any Authenticating Agent appointed hereunder with
respect to any series of Securities shall not also be acting as the Security
Registrar hereunder with respect to any series of Securities, then, in addition
to all other duties of an Authenticating Agent hereunder, such Authenticating
Agent shall also be obligated: (i) to furnish to the Security Registrar promptly
all information necessary to enable the Security Registrar to maintain at all
times an accurate and current Security Register; and (ii) prior to
authenticating any Security denominated in a foreign currency, to ascertain from
the Company the units of such foreign currency that are required to be
determined by the Company pursuant to Section 302.

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                                  ARTICLE SEVEN

                HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

                  With respect to each series of Securities, the Company will
furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

                  (a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular
         Record Date relating to that series (or, if there is no Regular Record
         Date relating to that series, on January 1 and July 1), a list, in such
         form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses
         of the Holders of that series as of such dates, and

                  (b) 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, such list to be dated as of a date
         not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
         provided, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, the
         Company shall not be required to furnish or cause to be furnished such
         a list to the Trustee. The Company shall otherwise comply with Section
         310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

                  (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
         reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of each
         series contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as
         provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders of each
         series received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar,
         if applicable. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
         provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. The
         Trustee shall otherwise comply with Section 310(a) of the Trust
         Indenture Act.

                  (b) Holders of Securities may communicate pursuant to Section
         312(b) the Trust Indenture Act with other Holders with respect to their
         rights under this Indenture or under the Securities.

                  (c) 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 the disclosure of any such information as to
         the names and addresses of the Holders in accordance with Section
         702(b), regardless of the source from which such information was
         derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason
         of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section
         702(b). The Company, the Trustee, the Security Registrar and any other
         Person shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the Trust
         Indenture Act.

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SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.

                  (a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year after the
         execution of this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to
         Holders a brief report dated as of such May 15 that complies with
         Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.

                  (b) The Trustee shall comply with Section 313(b) of the Trust
         Indenture Act.

                  (c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted by
         mail as required by Sections 313(c) and 313(d) of the Trust Indenture
         Act:

                           (1) to all Holders of Securities, as the names and
                  addresses of such Holders appear in the Security Register;

                           (2) to such Holders of Securities as have, within the
                  two years preceding such transmissions, filed their names and
                  addresses with the Trustee for that purpose; and

                           (3) except in the case of reports pursuant to
                  Subsection (b) of this Section, to each Holder of a Security
                  whose name and address is preserved at the time by the
                  Trustee, as provided in Section 702(a).

                  (d) A copy of each report pursuant to Subsection (a) or (b) of
         this Section 703 shall, at the time of its 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 704. Reports by Company.

                  The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 15 days after
the Company is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the
annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of
such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and shall otherwise comply with Section 314(a)
of the Trust Indenture Act.

                                  ARTICLE EIGHT

              CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

                  The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person, unless:

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                  (1) 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, partnership or
         trust 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 premium,
         if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to all
         the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture
         on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

                  (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
         Event of Default, and no event, act or condition 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 shall have 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,
         such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all
         conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
         have been complied with.

SECTION 802. Successor Person Substituted.

                  Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger by 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 801, 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 such lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

                                  ARTICLE NINE

                             SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 901. 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 and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
         the Company herein and in the Securities; or

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                  (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), to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or
         pledge any property to or with the Trustee or otherwise secure any
         series of the Securities or to surrender any right or power herein
         conferred upon the Company; or

                  (3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to
         all or any series of the Securities (and, if such Event of Default is
         applicable to less than all series of Securities, specifying the series
         to which such Event of Default is applicable); or

                  (4) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
         Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become
         effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series
         created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is
         adversely affected by such change in or elimination of such provision;
         or

                  (5) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
         as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or

                  (6) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to
         such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
         defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to
         Section 401; provided, however, that any such action shall not
         adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities of such
         series or any other series of Securities in any material respect; or

                  (7) 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 611(b); or

                  (8) 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 such other
         provisions as may be made shall not adversely affect the interests of
         the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.

SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

                  With the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series affected by such supplemental
indenture (acting as one class), 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

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under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture
shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby,

                  (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, any
         Additional Amounts with respect thereto or any premium payable upon the
         redemption thereof, or change any obligation of the Company to pay
         Additional Amounts (except as contemplated by Section 801(1) and
         permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of
         an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon
         a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
         Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or
         currency or currencies (including composite currencies) in which, any
         Security or any premium or any interest thereon or Additional Amounts
         with respect thereto 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 modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the
         subordination of any Security in a manner adverse to the Holder
         thereof, or

                  (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of Outstanding
         Securities, 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 512
         or Section 1007, except to increase any such percentage or to provide
         with respect to any particular series the right to condition the
         effectiveness of any supplemental indenture as to that series on the
         consent of the Holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate
         principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series (which
         provision may be made pursuant to Section 301 without the consent of
         any Holder) 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 1007, or the
         deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of
         Sections 611(b) and 901(7).

A supplemental indenture that 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.

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SECTION 903. 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 Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is 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, immunities or liabilities under this
Indenture or otherwise.

SECTION 904. 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 905. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act.

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

SECTION 906. 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 TEN

                                    COVENANTS

SECTION 1001. 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
premium, if any), interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the
Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and
this Indenture.

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SECTION 1002. 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 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 any change in the location, of such 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.

                  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 1003. 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 (and premium, if any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts
with respect to 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 premium, if any) or interest or any Additional Amounts 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, the Company will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of that series,
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium,
if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, 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) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
         of (and premium, if any), interest on or any Additional Amounts with
         respect to Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the
         Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons
         or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;

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                  (2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
         any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of
         any payment of principal (and premium, if any), interest on or any
         Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of that series; and

                  (3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
         upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
         all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

                  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
upon the same trusts as those upon which sums were held by the Company or such
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 (and
premium, if any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any
Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for three years after such
principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts have become
due and payable shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of
applicable escheat, or abandoned or unclaimed property law, 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 an Authorized Newspaper in The Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York and in such other Authorized Newspapers as the Trustee shall
deem appropriate, 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,
unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat, or
abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Company.

SECTION 1004. Existence.

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

SECTION 1005. 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 so long
as any Security is outstanding hereunder, an Officers' Certificate, complying
with Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, stating that a review of the
activities of the Company during such year and of performance under this
Indenture has been made under the supervision of the signers thereof and whether
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knowledge, based upon such review, the Company is in default in the performance,
observance or fulfillment of any of its covenants and other obligations under
this Indenture, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying each such
default known to them and the nature and status thereof. One of the officers
signing the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 1005 shall
be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

                  For purposes of this Section, such compliance shall be
determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided under this Indenture.

SECTION 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.

                  The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with
any covenant or condition set forth in Section 1005, or any covenant added for
the benefit of any series of Securities as contemplated by Section 301 (unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301) if before or after the time for
such compliance the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of all series affected by such omission (acting as one class) shall,
by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or
generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver
shall extend to or affect such covenant 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 covenant or
condition shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 1007. Additional Amounts.

                  If the Securities of a series expressly provide for the
payment of Additional Amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any
Security of such series Additional Amounts as expressly provided therein.
Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of
the principal of or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Security
of any series or the net proceeds received from the sale or exchange of any
Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the
payment of Additional Amounts provided for in this Section to the extent that,
in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect
thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express mention of the
payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not
be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where
such express mention is not made.

                  If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of
Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date
with respect to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series
will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of
principal and any premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of
payment of principal and any premium or interest if there has been any change
with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers'
Certificate, the Company shall furnish the Trustee and the Company's principal
Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers'
Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents
whether such payment of principal of and any premium or interest on the
Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series
who are United States Aliens without withholding for or on account of any tax,
assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of that
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withholding shall be required, then such Officers' Certificate shall specify by
country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such
Holders of Securities and the Company will pay to such Paying Agent the
Additional Amounts required by this Section. The Company covenants to indemnify
the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against any
loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith
on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by
any of them in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this
Section 1007.

                                 ARTICLE ELEVEN

                            REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 1101. 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 301 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.

SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

                  Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of a
series as contemplated by Section 301, the election of the Company to redeem any
Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption
at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series,
the Company shall, a reasonable period 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 and of the principal amount of Securities of
such series 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 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed.

                  If less than all the Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and that may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of
the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than
the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or of the
principal amount of global Securities of such series.

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

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                  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 1104. Notice of Redemption.

                  Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in
Section 107 to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed not less than 30 nor
more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date.

                  All notices of redemption shall state:

                  (1) the Redemption Date,

                  (2) the Redemption Price,

                  (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
         are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
         redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities 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 such Securities are to be
         surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price,

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

                  (7) the "CUSIP" number, if applicable.

         A notice of redemption as contemplated by Section 107 need not identify
particular Securities to be 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.

SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.

                  On or before 10:00 a.m., Houston, Texas time, on 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 1003) 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, and any Additional Amounts with respect to,
all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

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SECTION 1106. 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 (and any Additional Amounts) to the Redemption Date; provided,
however, that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to
the Redemption Date shall 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
307.

                  If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any)
shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security or, in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities,
the Securities' Yield to Maturity.

SECTION 1107. 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 his 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
Stated Maturity, 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.

SECTION 1108. Purchase of Securities.

                  Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, the
Company and any Affiliate of the Company may at any time purchase or otherwise
acquire Securities in the open market or by private agreement. Such acquisition
shall not operate as or be deemed for any purpose to be a redemption of the
indebtedness represented by such Securities. Any Securities purchased or
acquired by the Company may be delivered to the Trustee and, upon such delivery,
the indebtedness represented thereby shall be deemed to be satisfied. Section
309 shall apply to all Securities so delivered.

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                                 ARTICLE TWELVE

                                  SINKING FUNDS

SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.

                  The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any
sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.

                  The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided
for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an
"optional sinking fund payment". Unless otherwise provided by the terms of
Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be
subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment
shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for
by the terms of Securities of such series.

SECTION 1202. 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 the Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking payment shall be reduced
accordingly.

SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

                  Not less than 45 days prior (unless a shorter period shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee) to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, 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 delivery of or by crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 30 days before 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 1103 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 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

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                                ARTICLE THIRTEEN

                                  SUBORDINATION

SECTION 1301. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.

                  The Company and each Holder of a Security, by his acceptance
thereof, agree that (a) the payment of the principal of, premium (if any) and
interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to each and all the
Securities and (b) any other payment in respect of the Securities, including on
account of the acquisition or redemption of Securities by the Company, is
subordinated, to the extent and in the manner provided in this Article Thirteen,
to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company, whether
outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed, and that these subordination provisions are for the
benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness.

                  This Article Thirteen shall constitute a continuing offer to
all Persons who, in reliance upon such provisions, become holders of, or
continue to hold, Senior Indebtedness, and such provisions are made for the
benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and such holders are made
obligees hereunder and any one or more of them may enforce such provisions.

SECTION 1302. No Payment on Securities in Certain Circumstances.

                  (a) No payment shall be made by or on behalf of the Company on
account of the principal of, premium (if any) or interest on or any Additional
Amounts with respect to the Securities of any series or to acquire any of such
Securities (including any repurchases of such Securities pursuant to the
provisions hereof or thereof at the option of the Holder of such Securities) for
cash or property (other than Junior securities of the Company), or on account of
any redemption provisions of such Securities, in the event of default in payment
of any principal of, premium (if any) or interest on any Senior Indebtedness of
the Company when the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or at a
date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or otherwise (a "Payment Default"),
unless and until such Payment Default has been cured or waived or otherwise has
ceased to exist.

                  (b) No payment shall be made by or on behalf of the Company on
account of the principal of, premium (if any) or interest on or any Additional
Amounts with respect to the Securities of any series or to acquire any of such
Securities (including any repurchases of such Securities pursuant to the
provisions hereof or thereof at the option of the Holder of such Securities) for
cash or property (other than Junior securities of the Company), or on account of
any redemption provisions of such Securities, in the event of any event of
default (other than a Payment Default) with respect to any Designated Senior
Indebtedness permitting the holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness (or a
trustee or other representative on behalf of the holders thereof) to declare
such Designated Senior Indebtedness due and payable prior to the date on which
it would otherwise have become due and payable, upon written notice thereof to
the Company and the Trustee by any holders of Designated Senior Indebtedness (or
a trustee or other representative on behalf of the holders thereof) (the
"Payment Notice"), unless and until such event of default shall have been cured
or waived or otherwise has ceased to exist; provided, that such payments may not
be prevented pursuant to this Section 1302(b) for more than 179 days after an
applicable Payment Notice has been received by the Trustee unless the Designated
Senior Indebtedness in respect of which such event of default exists has been
declared due and payable in its entirety, in which case no such payment may be
made until such acceleration has been rescinded or annulled or such Designated
Senior Indebtedness has been paid in full. No event of default that existed or
was continuing on the date of any Payment Notice (whether or not such event of
default is on the same issue of Designated Senior Indebtedness)

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may be made the basis for the giving of a second Payment Notice, and only one
such Payment Notice may be given in any 365-day period.

                  (c) In furtherance of the provisions of Section 1301, in the
event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1302, any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company (other than Junior securities
of the Company) shall be received by the Trustee or the Holders of Securities of
any series at a time when such payment or distribution was prohibited by the
provisions of this Section 1302, then, unless such payment or distribution is no
longer prohibited by this Section 1302, such payment or distribution (subject to
the provisions of Section 1307) shall be received and held in trust by the
Trustee or such Holder or Paying Agent for the benefit of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company, and shall be paid or delivered by the Trustee or
such Holders or such Paying Agent, as the case may be, to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company remaining unpaid or unprovided for or their
representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness
of the Company may have been issued, ratably, according to the aggregate amounts
remaining unpaid on account of such Senior Indebtedness of the Company held or
represented by each, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness
in full after giving effect to all concurrent payments and distributions to or
for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.

SECTION 1303. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior
              Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization.

                  Upon any distribution of assets of the Company or upon any
dissolution, winding up, total or partial liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or similar proceeding or upon assignment for the benefit of
creditors:

                  (a) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company
         shall first be entitled to receive payments in full before the Holders
         of Securities of any series are entitled to receive any payment on
         account of the principal of, premium (if any) or interest on or any
         Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities (other than Junior
         securities of the Company);

                  (b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of
         any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (other
         than Junior securities of the Company), to which the Holders of
         Securities of any series or the Trustee on behalf of such Holders would
         be entitled, except for the provisions of this Article Thirteen, shall
         be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making such
         a payment or distribution directly to the holders of such Senior
         Indebtedness or their representative, ratably according to the
         respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held or represented by each,
         to the extent necessary to make payment in full of all such Senior
         Indebtedness remaining unpaid after giving effect to all concurrent
         payments and distributions to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness;
         and

                  (c) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any
         payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
         character, whether in cash, property or securities (other than Junior
         securities of the Company), shall be received by the Trustee or the
         Holders of Securities of any series or any Paying Agent (or, if the
         Company or any Affiliate of the

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         Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, money for any such payment
         or distribution shall be segregated or held in trust) on account of the
         principal of, premium (if any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts
         with respect to the Securities of such series before all Senior
         Indebtedness of the Company is paid in full, such payment or
         distribution (subject to the provisions of Section 1307) shall be
         received and held in trust by the Trustee or such Holder or Paying
         Agent for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, or
         their respective representatives, ratably according to the respective
         amounts of such Senior Indebtedness held or represented by each, to the
         extent necessary to make payment as provided herein of all such Senior
         Indebtedness remaining unpaid after giving effect to all concurrent
         payments and distributions and all provisions therefor to or for the
         holders of such Senior Indebtedness, but only to the extent that as to
         any holder of such Senior Indebtedness, as promptly as practical
         following notice from the Trustee to the holders of such Senior
         Indebtedness that such prohibited payment has been received by the
         Trustee, Holder(s) or Paying Agent (or has been segregated as provided
         above), such holder (or a representative therefor) notifies the Trustee
         of the amounts then due and owing on such Senior Indebtedness, if any,
         held by such holder and only the amounts specified in such notices to
         the Trustee shall be paid to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.

SECTION 1304. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.

                  Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of
the Company as provided herein, the Holders of the Securities shall be
subrogated (to the extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of this Article) to the
rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or
distributions of assets of the Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness
until all amounts owing on the Securities shall be paid in full. For the purpose
of such subrogation, no such payments or distributions to the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness by the Company, or by or on behalf of the Holders of the
Securities by virtue of this Article Thirteen, which otherwise would have been
made to such Holders shall, as between the Company and such Holders, be deemed
to be payment by the Company or on account of such Senior Indebtedness, it being
understood that the provisions of this Article Thirteen are and are intended
solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the
Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the
other hand.

                  If any payment or distribution to which the Holders of the
Securities would otherwise have been entitled but for the provisions of this
Article Thirteen shall have been applied, pursuant to the provisions of this
Article Thirteen, to the payment of amounts payable under Senior Indebtedness of
the Company, then such Holders shall be entitled to receive from the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness any payments or distributions received by such holders
of Senior Indebtedness in excess of the amount sufficient to pay all amounts
payable under or in respect of such Senior Indebtedness in full.

SECTION 1305. Obligations of the Company Unconditional.

                  Nothing contained in this Article Thirteen or elsewhere in
this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as between
the Company and the Holders of the Securities

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of any series, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to such Holders the principal of, premium (if any) and
interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of such
series as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of such
Holders and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or any
Holder from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon
default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article
Thirteen, of the holders of Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or
securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article Thirteen or elsewhere
in this Indenture or in the Securities, upon any distribution of assets of the
Company referred to in this Article Thirteen, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Sections 601 and 603, and the Holders of the Securities shall be
entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the liquidating
trustee or agent or other Person making any distribution to the Trustee or to
such Holders for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate
in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other
Indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount
or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or
to this Article Thirteen so long as such court has been apprised of the
provisions of, or the order, decree or certificate makes reference to, the
provisions of this Article Thirteen.

SECTION 1306. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence of
              Notice.

                  The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of
the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or any
Paying Agent shall have received, no later than two Business Days prior to such
payment, written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more holders of
Senior Indebtedness or from any representative therefor and, prior to the
receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Sections 601 and 603, shall be entitled in all respects conclusively to assume
that no such fact exists.

SECTION 1307. Application by Trustee of Amounts Deposited with It.

                  Amounts deposited in trust with the Trustee pursuant to and in
accordance with Article Four shall be for the sole benefit of Holders of the
Securities of series for the benefit of which such amounts were deposited, and,
to the extent allocated for the payment of Securities of such series, shall not
be subject to the subordination provisions of this Article Thirteen. Otherwise,
any deposit of assets with the Trustee or the Paying Agent (whether or not in
trust) for the payment of principal of, premium (if any) or interest on or any
Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities shall be subject to the
provisions of Sections 1301, 1302, 1303 and 1304; provided that if prior to two
Business Days preceding the date on which by the terms of this Indenture any
such assets may become distributable for any purpose (including without
limitation, the payment of either principal of, premium (if any) or interest on
or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security), the Trustee or such
Paying Agent shall not have received with respect to such assets the written
notice provided for in Section 1306, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall
have full power and authority to receive such assets and to apply the same to
the purpose for which they were

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received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be
received by it on or after such date; and provided further that nothing
contained in this Article Thirteen shall prevent the Company from making, or the
Trustee from receiving or applying, any payment in connection with the
redemption of Securities if the first publication of notice of such redemption
(whether by mail or otherwise in accordance with this Indenture) has been made,
and the Trustee has received such payment from the Company, prior to the
occurrence of any of the contingencies specified in Section 1302 or 1303.

SECTION 1308. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of the
              Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness.

                  No right of any present or future holders of any Senior
Indebtedness to enforce subordination provisions contained in this Article
Thirteen shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or
failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in
good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the
terms of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such
holder may have or be otherwise charged with. The holders of Senior Indebtedness
may extend, renew, modify or amend the terms of the Senior Indebtedness or any
security therefor and release, sell or exchange such security and otherwise deal
freely with the Company, all without affecting the liabilities and obligations
of the parties to this Indenture or the Holders of the Securities.

SECTION 1309. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination of Securities.

                  Each Holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes
and expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provisions contained in
this Article Thirteen and to protect the rights of the Holders of the Securities
pursuant to this Indenture, and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for
such purpose, including, in the event of any dissolution, winding up,
liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency
or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors
of the Company), the filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of his Securities
in the form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to be approved. If
the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the form required
in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file
such claim or claims, then the holders of the Senior Indebtedness or their
representative is hereby authorized to have the right to file and is hereby
authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the Holders of said
Securities. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee or
the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative to authorize or
consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of Securities any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee or the holders
of Senior Indebtedness or their representative to vote in respect of the claim
of any Holder of the Securities in any such proceeding.

SECTION 1310. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness.

                  The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to
all of the rights set forth in this Article Thirteen in respect of any Senior
Indebtedness at any time held by it to the same extent

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as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall
be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.

SECTION 1311. Article Thirteen Not to Prevent Events of Default.

                  The failure to make a payment on account of principal of or
premium (if any) or interest on the Securities by reason of any provision of
this Article Thirteen shall not be construed as preventing the occurrence of a
Default or an Event of Default under Section 501 or in any way prevent the
Holders of the Securities from exercising any right hereunder other than the
right to receive payment on the Securities.

SECTION 1312. No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to Holders of Senior Indebtedness.

                  The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be liable to any such holders
(other than for its willful misconduct or negligence) if it shall in good faith
mistakenly pay over or distribute to the Holders of the Securities or the
Company or any other Person, cash, property or securities to which any holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article Thirteen or
otherwise. Nothing in this Section 1312 shall affect the obligation of any other
such Person to hold such payment for the benefit of, and to pay such payment
over to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative.

SECTION 1313. Article Applicable to Paying Agent.

                  In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee
shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term
"Trustee" as used in this Article Thirteen shall in such case (unless the
context shall otherwise require) be construed as extending to and including such
Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if
such Paying Agent were named in this Article in addition to or in place of the
Trustee; provided, however, that this Section 1313 shall not apply to the
Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as Paying
Agent.

                                ARTICLE FOURTEEN

                        MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

SECTION 1401. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.

                  A meeting of Holders of Securities of any or all series may be
called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give
or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders
of Securities of such series.

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SECTION 1402. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.

                  (a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1401, to be held
at such time and at such place in Houston, Texas, in New York, New York or in
any other location, as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series, setting forth the time and the place of
such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such
meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 107, not less than 20
nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

                  (b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board
Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, shall have requested the Trustee for any
such series to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for
any purpose specified in Section 1401, by written request setting forth in
reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting
within 30 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to
cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders
of Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be,
may determine the time and the place in Houston, Texas, in New York, New York,
in London, England, for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes
by giving notice thereof as provided in Subsection (a) of this Section.

SECTION 1403. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.

                  To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities
of any series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding
Securities of such series, or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing
as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such
series by such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be
present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall
be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any
representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the
Company and its counsel.

SECTION 1404. Quorum; Action.

                  The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a
meeting of Holders of Securities of such series. In the absence of a quorum
within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall,
if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be
dissolved. In any other case, the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not
less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned
meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not
less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Subject to Section 1405(d), notice of the
reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section
1402(a), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days
prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of
the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly that Persons
entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series shall constitute a quorum.

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                  Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which
a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series; provided, however, that, except as limited by the
proviso to Section 902, any resolution with respect to any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver which this Indenture
expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified
percentage that is less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned
meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series.

                  Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the
Holders of Securities of such series, whether or not present or represented at
the meeting.

SECTION 1405. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
              Meetings.

                  (a) The holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner
         specified in Section 105 and the appointment of any proxy shall be
         proved in the manner specified in Section 105. Such regulations may
         provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their
         face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in
         Section 105 or other proof.

                  (b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
         temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been
         called by the Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in
         Section 1402(b), in which case the Company or the Holders of Securities
         of the series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall appoint a
         temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of
         the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a
         majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
         such series represented at the meeting.

                  (c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series
         and each proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal
         amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented
         by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any
         meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and
         ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The
         chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder
         of a Security of such series or as a proxy.

                  (d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly
         called pursuant to Section 1402 at which a quorum is present may be
         adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in
         aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
         represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned
         without further notice.

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SECTION 1406. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.

                  The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall
be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of
their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of
the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in
duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to such record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any
vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that such notice was given as provided in Section 1402 and, if
applicable, Section 1404. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.

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                  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.

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

                                            TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX INC.

                                            By
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                                              Title:

                                                                       , Trustee
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                                                                     Exhibit 4.1

                                   INDENTURE

                          Dated as of March 13, 2001

                                     Among

                    HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, as Issuer,

                      each of the Guarantors named herein

                                      and

                       The Bank of New York, as Trustee

                              __________________

                  10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009

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                                  ARTICLE ONE

                  DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.01.  Definitions............................................       1
SECTION 1.02.  Incorporation by Reference of TIA......................      36
SECTION 1.03.  Rules of Construction..................................      36

                                ARTICLE TWO

                                 THE NOTES

SECTION 2.01.  Form and Dating........................................      37
SECTION 2.02.  Execution and Authentication;
                  Aggregate Principal Amount..........................      39
SECTION 2.03.  Registrar and Paying Agent.............................      40
SECTION 2.04.  Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust...................      41
SECTION 2.05.  Holder Lists...........................................      41
SECTION 2.06.  Transfer and Exchange..................................      42
SECTION 2.07.  Replacement Notes......................................      42
SECTION 2.08.  Outstanding Notes......................................      43
SECTION 2.09.  Treasury Notes.........................................      44
SECTION 2.10.  [intentionally omitted]................................      44
SECTION 2.11.  Cancellation...........................................      44
SECTION 2.12.  Defaulted Interest.....................................      45
SECTION 2.13.  CUSIP Numbers..........................................      45
SECTION 2.14.  Deposit of Moneys......................................      46
SECTION 2.15.  Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities............      46
SECTION 2.16.  Transfer and Exchange of Securities....................      48
SECTION 2.17.  Special Transfer Provisions............................      56
SECTION 2.18.  Issuance of Additional Notes...........................      56
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                               ARTICLE THREE

                                REDEMPTION

SECTION 3.01.  Notices to Trustee........................................    58
SECTION 3.02.  Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed.........................    58
SECTION 3.03.  Notice of Redemption......................................    58
SECTION 3.04.  Effect of Notice of Redemption............................    59
SECTION 3.05.  Deposit of Redemption Price...............................    60
SECTION 3.06.  Notes Redeemed in Part....................................    60

                               ARTICLE FOUR

                                 COVENANTS

SECTION 4.01.  Payment of Notes..........................................    60
SECTION 4.02.  Maintenance of Office or Agency...........................    61
SECTION 4.03.  Limitation on Restricted Payments.........................    61
SECTION 4.04.  Corporate Existence.......................................    63
SECTION 4.05.  Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.........................    64
SECTION 4.06.  Maintenance of Properties and Insurance...................    64
SECTION 4.07.  Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default.................    65
SECTION 4.08.  Compliance with Laws......................................    65
SECTION 4.09.  Reports to Holders........................................    66
SECTION 4.10.  Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws...................    67
SECTION 4.11.  Limitations on Transactions with Affiliates...............    67
SECTION 4.12.  Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.......    68
SECTION 4.13.  Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions
                  Affecting Subsidiaries.................................    69
SECTION 4.14.  Change of Control.........................................    70
SECTION 4.15.  Limitation on Asset Sales.................................    73
SECTION 4.16.  Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior Subordinated Debt.....    77
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SECTION 4.17.  Limitation on Preferred Stock of
                  Restricted Subsidiaries................................    78
SECTION 4.18.  Limitation on Liens.......................................    78
SECTION 4.19.  Limitation of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries.......    78
SECTION 4.20.  Conduct of Business.......................................    79
SECTION 4.21.  Capital Stock of Certain Subsidiaries.....................    80

                               ARTICLE FIVE

                           SUCCESSOR CORPORATION

SECTION 5.01.  Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets..................    81
SECTION 5.02.  Successor Corporation Substituted.........................    83

                                ARTICLE SIX

                           DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

SECTION 6.01.  Events of Default.........................................    83
SECTION 6.02.  Acceleration..............................................    85
SECTION 6.03.  Other Remedies............................................    86
SECTION 6.04.  Waiver of Past Defaults...................................    87
SECTION 6.05.  Control by Majority.......................................    87
SECTION 6.06.  Limitation on Suits.......................................    87
SECTION 6.07.  Rights of Holders To Receive Payment......................    88
SECTION 6.08.  Collection Suit by Trustee................................    88
SECTION 6.09.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim..........................    88
SECTION 6.10.  Priorities................................................    89
SECTION 6.11.  Undertaking for Costs.....................................    90

                               ARTICLE SEVEN

                                  TRUSTEE

SECTION 7.01.  Duties of Trustee.........................................    90
SECTION 7.02.  Rights of Trustee.........................................    91
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SECTION 7.03.  Individual Rights of Trustee..............................    93
SECTION 7.04.  Trustee's Disclaimer......................................    93
SECTION 7.05.  Notice of Default.........................................    94
SECTION 7.06.  Reports by Trustee to Holders.............................    94
SECTION 7.07.  Compensation and Indemnity................................    95
SECTION 7.08.  Replacement of Trustee....................................    96
SECTION 7.09.  Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc..........................    97
SECTION 7.10.  Eligibility; Disqualification.............................    97
SECTION 7.11.  Preferential Collection of Claims
                  Against the Company....................................    98

                               ARTICLE EIGHT

                    DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE

SECTION 8.01.  Termination of the Company's Obligations..................    98
SECTION 8.02.  Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee....................   101
SECTION 8.03.  Application of Trust Money................................   102
SECTION 8.04.  Repayment to the Company..................................   102
SECTION 8.05.  Reinstatement.............................................   102

                               ARTICLE NINE

                    AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS

SECTION 9.01.  Without Consent of Holders................................   103
SECTION 9.02.  With Consent of Holders...................................   103
SECTION 9.03.  Compliance with TIA.......................................   105
SECTION 9.04.  Revocation and Effect of Consents.........................   105
SECTION 9.05.  Notation on or Exchange of Notes..........................   106
SECTION 9.06.  Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc...........................   106

                                ARTICLE TEN

                          SUBORDINATION OF NOTES

SECTION 10.01. Notes Subordinated to Senior Debt.........................   107
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SECTION 10.02. Suspension of Payment When Senior Debt Is in Default........  107
SECTION 10.03. Notes Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior Debt
                  on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of
                  Company..................................................  109
SECTION 10.04. Holders To Be Subrogated to Rights of
                  Holders of Senior Debt...................................  111
SECTION 10.05. Obligations of the Company Unconditional....................  112
SECTION 10.06. Trustee Entitled To Assume Payments
                  Not Prohibited in Absence of Notice......................  113
SECTION 10.07. Application by Trustee of Assets
                  Deposited with It........................................  113
SECTION 10.08. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.......................  114
SECTION 10.09. Holders Authorize Trustee To Effectuate Subordination
                  of Notes.................................................  115
SECTION 10.10. Right of Trustee To Hold Senior Debt........................  115
SECTION 10.11. No Suspension of Remedies...................................  115
SECTION 10.12. No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to
                  Holders of Senior Debt...................................  116

                              ARTICLE ELEVEN

                            GUARANTEE OF NOTES

SECTION 11.01. Unconditional Guarantee.....................................  116
SECTION 11.02. Limitations on Guarantees...................................  118
SECTION 11.03. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.........................  118
SECTION 11.04. Release of a Guarantor......................................  119
SECTION 11.05. Waiver of Subrogation.......................................  120
SECTION 11.06. Immediate Payment...........................................  121
SECTION 11.07. No Set-Off..................................................  121
SECTION 11.08. Obligations Absolute........................................  121
SECTION 11.09. Obligations Continuing......................................  121
SECTION 11.10. Obligations Not Reduced.....................................  122
SECTION 11.11. Obligations Reinstated......................................  122
SECTION 11.12. Obligations Not Affected....................................  122
SECTION 11.13. Waiver......................................................  124
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SECTION 11.14. No Obligation To Take Action Against
                  the Company..............................................  124
SECTION 11.15. Dealing with the Company and Others.........................  124
SECTION 11.16. Default and Enforcement.....................................  125
SECTION 11.17. Amendment, Etc..............................................  125
SECTION 11.18. Acknowledgment..............................................  125
SECTION 11.19. Costs and Expenses..........................................  125
SECTION 11.20. No Merger or Waiver; Cumulative Remedies....................  125
SECTION 11.21. Survival of Obligations.....................................  126
SECTION 11.22. Guarantee in Addition to Other Obligations..................  126
SECTION 11.23. Severability................................................  126
SECTION 11.24. Successors and Assigns......................................  126

                              ARTICLE TWELVE

                        SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTEE

SECTION 12.01. Guarantee Obligations Subordinated to Guarantor
                  Senior Debt.............................................   127
SECTION 12.02. Suspension of Guarantee Obligations When Guarantor
                  Senior Debt Is in Default...............................   127
SECTION 12.03. Guarantee Obligations Subordinated to Prior Payment of
                   All Guarantor Senior Debt on Dissolution, Liquidation
                   or Reorganization of Such Subsidiary Guarantor.........   129
SECTION 12.04. Holders of Guarantee Obligations To Be Subrogated to
                  Rights of Holders of Guarantor Senior Debt..............   131
SECTION 12.05. Obligations of the Guarantors
                  Unconditional...........................................   132
SECTION 12.06. Trustee Entitled To Assume Payments
                  Not Prohibited in Absence of Notice.....................   133
SECTION 12.07. Application by Trustee of Assets
                  Deposited with It.......................................   134
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SECTION 12.08. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions......................   134
SECTION 12.09. Holders Authorize Trustee To Effectuate Subordination
                   of Guarantee Obligations...............................   135
SECTION 12.10. Right of Trustee To Hold Guarantor
                  Senior Indebtedness.....................................   136
SECTION 12.11. No Suspension of Remedies..................................   136
SECTION 12.12. No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to
                  Holders of Guarantor Senior Debt........................   136

                             ARTICLE THIRTEEN

                               MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 13.01. TIA Controls...............................................   137
SECTION 13.02. Notices....................................................   137
SECTION 13.03. Communications by Holders with Other
                  Holders.................................................   138
SECTION 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as to
                  Conditions Precedent....................................   138
SECTION 13.05. Statements Required in Certificate or
                  Opinion.................................................   139
SECTION 13.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar..................   139
SECTION 13.07. Legal Holidays.............................................   139
SECTION 13.08. Governing Law..............................................   140
SECTION 13.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other
                  Agreements..............................................   140
SECTION 13.10. No Recourse Against Others.................................   140
SECTION 13.11. Successors.................................................   140
SECTION 13.12. Duplicate Originals........................................   140
SECTION 13.13. Severability...............................................   141
SECTION 13.14. Independence of Covenants..................................   141

SIGNATURES................................................................   S-1
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Exhibit A-1 -  Form of Restricted Dollar Note
Exhibit A-2 -  Form of Restricted Euro Note

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Exhibit A-3 -  Form of Dollar Note
Exhibit A-4 -  Form of Euro Note
Exhibit B   -  Form of Legend for Global Notes
Exhibit C   -  Form of Transfer Certificates
Exhibit D   -  Form of IAI Transfer Certificate
Exhibit E   -  Form of Guarantee
Exhibit F   -  Form of Incumbency Certificate
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Note:  This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part
       of this Indenture.

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          INDENTURE, dated as of March 13, 2001, among HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Company"), each of the
Guarantors named herein, as guarantors, and The Bank of New York, a New York
banking corporation, as trustee (the "Trustee").

          The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of (i) euro
denominated Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 in the form of EU200,000,000
aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes (as defined below), and (ii) such
Additional Notes (as defined below) to be denominated in euros (together with
the Initial Notes, the "Euro Notes") or U.S. dollars (the "Dollar Notes") in
aggregate principal amount not to exceed EU500,000,000, in the case of Euro
Notes, or, without duplication, $500,000,000, in the case of Dollar Notes (such
amounts as determined in accordance with Section 2.18), that the Company may
from time to time choose to issue pursuant to this Indenture, and, to provide
therefor.  The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture.

          Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other
parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company's
Notes:

                                  ARTICLE ONE

                  DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.01.  Definitions.
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          "Acceleration Notice" has the meaning provided in Section 6.02.

          "Acquired Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of a Person or any of its
Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company or at the time it merges or consolidates with the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries or assumed in connection with the acquisition of
assets from such Person and in each case not incurred
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by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such
Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or such acquisition,
merger or consolidation, except for Indebtedness of a Person or any of its
Subsidiaries that is repaid at the time such Person becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or at the time it merges or consolidates with the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

          "Additional Notes" means not less than EU50 million (or $50 million,
in the case of Dollar Notes) per issuance in aggregate principal amount of notes
(other than the Initial Notes and other than Exchange Notes issued pursuant to
an exchange offer for such Additional Notes under this Indenture or issuances
under Section 2.07 or 2.16) not to exceed EU700 million, in the case of Euro
Notes (or $700 million, without duplication, in the case of Dollar Notes) issued
under this Indenture from time to time in accordance with Sections 2.01, 2.02,
2.18 and 4.12 hereof.

          "Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
Person who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls,
or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person. The
term "control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative of the
foregoing; provided, however, that none of the Initial Purchasers or their
respective Affiliates shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Company.

          "Affiliate Transaction" has the meaning provided in Section 4.11.

          "Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Co-Registrar.

          "Agent Member" means, with respect to any Depository, any member of,
or participant in, such Depository.
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                                      -3-

          "Applicable Procedures" has the meaning provided in Section
2.16(a)(ii).

          "Asset Acquisition" means (a) an Investment by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any other Person pursuant to which such
Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or of any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company, or shall be merged with or into the Company or of any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or (b) the acquisition by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of the assets of any Person (other than
a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) which constitute all or substantially
all of the assets of such Person or comprises any division or line of business
of such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person other than in
the ordinary course of business.

          "Asset Sale" means any direct or indirect sale, issuance, conveyance,
transfer, lease (other than operating leases entered into in the ordinary course
of business), assignment or other transfer for value by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) to
any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of
(a) any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or (b) any
other property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company other than in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that
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Asset Sales shall not include (i) a transaction or series of related
transactions for which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries receive
aggregate consideration of less than $5 million, (ii) sales of accounts
receivable and related assets (including contract rights) of the type specified
in the definition of "Qualified Securitization Transaction" to a Securitization
Entity for the fair market value thereof, (iii) sales or grants of licenses to
use the Company's or any Restricted Subsidiary's patents, trade secrets, know-
how and other intellectual property of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to the extent that such license does not prohibit the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from using the technology licensed or require
the Company or
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                                      -4-

any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to pay any fees for any such use, (iv) the
sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer (A) of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company as permitted under Section 5.01,
(B) of any Capital Stock or other ownership interest in or assets or property of
an Unrestricted Subsidiary or a Person which is not a Subsidiary, (C) pursuant
to any foreclosure of assets or other remedy provided by applicable law to a
creditor of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company with a Lien on such
assets, which Lien is permitted under the Indenture; provided that such
foreclosure or other remedy is conducted in a commercially reasonable manner or
in accordance with any bankruptcy law, (D) involving only Cash Equivalents,
Foreign Cash Equivalents or inventory in the ordinary course of business or
obsolete equipment in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practices of the Company or (E) including only the lease or sublease of any real
or personal property in the ordinary course of business, (v) the consummation of
any transaction in accordance with the terms of Section 4.03, (vi) Permitted
Investments and (vii) any merger or other consolidation permitted by Article V.

          "Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, United States Code or any similar
federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

          "Board of Managers" means, as to any Person, the Board of Managers,
the board of managers or other similar body of such Person or any duly
authorized committee thereof.

          "Board Resolution"

means, with respect to any Person, a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Managers of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the
date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

          "Business Day" means a day that is not a Legal Holiday.
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                                      -5-

          "Capital Stock" means (i) with respect to any Person that is a
corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including
each class of Common Stock and Preferred Stock of such Person and (ii) with
respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all partnership,
membership or other equity interests of such Person.

          "Capitalized Lease Obligation" means, as to any Person, the
obligations of such Person under a lease that are required to be classified and
accounted for as capital lease obligations under GAAP and, for purposes of this
definition, the amount of such obligations at any date shall be the capitalized
amount of such obligations at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.

          "Cash Equivalents" means (i) a marketable obligation, maturing within
two years after issuance thereof, issued or guaranteed by the United States of
America or an instrumentality or agency thereof, (ii) a certificate of deposit
or banker's acceptance, maturing within one year after issuance thereof, issued
by any lender under the Credit Facilities, or a national or state bank or trust
company or a European, Canadian or Japanese bank, in each case having capital,
surplus and undivided profits of at least $100,000,000 and whose long-term
unsecured debt has a rating of "A" or better by S&P or A2 or better by Moody's
or the equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency
(provided that the aggregate face amount of all Investments in certificates of
deposit or bankers' acceptances issued by the principal offices of or branches
of such European or Japanese banks located outside the United States shall not
at any time exceed 33 1/3% of all Investments described in this definition),
(iii) open market commercial paper, maturing within 270 days after issuance
thereof, which has a rating of A1 or better by S&P or P1 or better by Moody's or
the equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency, (iv)
repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements with a term not in
excess of one year with any financial institution which has been elected primary
government securities dealers by the Federal Reserve Board or whose secu-
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                                      -6-

rities are rated AA- or better by S&P or Aa3 or better by Moody's or the
equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency relating to
marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United
States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof and backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States of America, (v) "Money Market"
preferred stock maturing within six months after issuance thereof or municipal
bonds issued by a corporation organized under the laws of any state of the
United States, which has a rating of "A" or better by S&P or Moody's or the
equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency, (vi) tax
exempt floating rate option tender bonds backed by letters of credit issued by a
national or state bank whose long-term unsecured debt has a rating of AA or
better by S&P or Aa2 or better by Moody's or the equivalent rating by any other
nationally recognized rating agency, and (vii) shares of any money market mutual
fund rated at least AAA or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least Aaa or the
equivalent thereof by Moody's or any other mutual fund holding assets consisting
(except for de minimis amounts) of the type specified in clauses (i) through
(vi) above.

          "Change of Control" means (i) prior to the initial public equity
offering of the Company, the failure by Mr. Jon M. Huntsman, his spouse, direct
descendants or an entity controlled by any of the foregoing and/or by a trust of
the type described hereafter, and/or by a trust for the benefit of any of the
foregoing (the "Huntsman Group"), collectively, to have the power, directly or
indirectly, to vote or direct the voting of securities having at least a
majority of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors (or the
equivalent) of the Company or (ii) after the initial public equity offering, the
occurrence of the following: (x) any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than one or more members
of the Huntsman Group, is or becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules
13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a Person shall be deemed to
have "beneficial ownership" of all securities that such Person has the right to
acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage
of time), di-
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                                      -7-

rectly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the then outstanding voting capital
stock of the Company other than in a transaction having the approval of the
Board of Managers of the Company at least a majority of which members are
Continuing Directors; or (y) Continuing Directors shall cease to constitute at
least a majority of the Board of Managers of the Company.

          "Change of Control Date" has the meaning provided in Section 4.14.

          "Change of Control Offer" has the meaning provided in Section 4.14.

          "Change of Control Payment Date" has the meaning provided in Section
4.14.

          "Class A Shares" means the Class A Shares of TG which have voting
rights but no rights to dividends and a nominal liquidation preference.

          "Class B Shares" means the Class B Shares of Holdings U.K., which have
voting rights, a right to nominal dividends and a nominal liquidation
preference.

          "Clearstream" means Clearstream Banking, Luxembourg, societe anonyme,
formerly Cedelbank.

          "Commission" or "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

          "Commodity Agreements" means any commodity futures contract, commodity
option or other similar agreement or arrangement entered into by the Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries designed to protect the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries against fluctuations in the price of commodities
actually at that time used in the ordinary course of business of the Company or
its Restricted Subsidiaries.

          "Common Depositary" means The Bank of New York, London Branch, as
common depositary for Euroclear and depositary for the Euro Denominated
Securities, together with its successors in such capacity.
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          "Common Stock" of any Person means any and all shares, interests or
other participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and whether
voting or non-voting) of such Person's common stock, whether outstanding on the
Issue Date or issued after the Issue Date, and includes, without limitation, all
series and classes of such common stock.

          "Company" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it pursuant to this Indenture and thereafter means such
successor and also includes for the purposes of any provision contained herein
and required by the TIA any other obligor on the Notes.

          "Consolidated EBITDA" means, with respect to any Person, for any
period, the sum (without duplication) of (i) Consolidated Net Income and (ii) to
the extent Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby, (A) all income
taxes of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries paid or accrued in
accordance with GAAP for such period (other than income taxes attributable to
extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring gains or losses or taxes attributable to
sales or dispositions outside the ordinary course of business) and Permitted Tax
Distributions paid during such period, (B) Consolidated Interest Expense and (C)
Consolidated Non-cash Charges less any non-cash items increasing Consolidated
Net Income for such period, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such
Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

          "Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" means, with respect to any
Person, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person during the four full
fiscal quarters for which financial statements are available under Section 4.09
(the "Four Quarter Period") ending on or prior to the date of the transaction
giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio (the "Transaction Date") to Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person for
the Four Quarter Period.  In addition to and without limitation of the
foregoing, for purposes of this definition, "Consolidated EBITDA" and
"Consolidated Fixed Charges" shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro
forma basis for the period of such calculation to (i) the incurrence or
repayment of any Indebted  ness of such
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Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and the application of the
proceeds thereof) giving rise to the need to make such calculation and any
incurrence or repayment of other Indebtedness (and the application of the
proceeds thereof), other than the incurrence or repayment of Indebted ness in
the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes pursuant to working
capital facilities, occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time
subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and prior to the
Transaction Date, as if such incurrence or repayment, as the case may be (and
the application of the proceeds thereof), occurred on the first day of the Four
Quarter Period and (ii) any Asset Sales or Asset Acquisitions (including,
without limitation, any Asset Acquisition giving rise to the need to make such
calculation as a result of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries
(including any Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the
Asset Acquisition)incurring, assuming or otherwise being liable for Acquired
Indebtedness and also including any Consolidated EBITDA (provided that such
Consolidated EBITDA shall be included only to the extent includible pursuant to
the definition of "Consolidated Net Income") attributable to the assets which
are the subject of the Asset Acquisition or Asset Sale during the Four Quarter
Period) occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to
the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date,
as if such Asset Sale or Asset Acquisition (including the incurrence, assumption
or liability for any such Acquired Indebtedness) occurred on the first day of
the Four Quarter Period. If such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
directly or indirectly guarantees Indebtedness of a Person other than the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, the preceding sentence shall give effect to
the incurrence of such guaranteed Indebtedness as if such Person or any
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person had directly incurred or otherwise assumed
such guaranteed Indebtedness. Further more, in calculating "Consolidated Fixed
Charges" for purposes of determining the denominator (but not the numerator) of
this "Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio," (1) interest on outstanding
Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis as of the Transaction Date and
which will continue to be so deter mined thereafter shall be deemed to have
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accrued at a fixed rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on such
Indebtedness in effect on the Transaction Date; (2) if interest on any
Indebtedness actually incurred on the Transaction Date may optionally be
determined at an interest rate based upon a fac tor of a prime or similar rate,
a eurocurrency interbank of fered rate, or other rates, then the interest rate
in effect on the Transaction Date will be deemed to have been in effect during
the Four Quarter Period; and (3) notwithstanding clause (1) above, interest on
Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is
covered by agreements relating to Interest Swap Obligations, shall be deemed to
accrue at the rate per annum resulting after giving effect to the operation of
such agreements.

          "Consolidated Fixed Charges" means, with respect to any Person for any
period, the sum, without duplication, of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, plus
(ii) the product of (x) the amount of all dividend payments on any series of
Preferred Stock of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than
dividends paid in Qualified Capital Stock and other than dividends paid to such
Person or to a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person) paid, accrued or scheduled
to be paid or accrued during such period times (y) a fraction, the numerator of
which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current
effective consolidated federal, state and local tax rate of such Person,
expressed as a decimal.

          "Consolidated Interest Expense" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the sum of, without duplication: (i) the aggregate of the interest
expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including without
limitation, (a) any amortization of debt discount and amortization or write-off
of deferred financing costs, (b) the net costs under Interest Swap Obligations,
(c) all capitalized interest and (d) the interest portion of any deferred
payment obligation; and (ii) the interest component of Capitalized Lease
Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by such Person
and its Restricted Subsidiaries during
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                                     -11-

such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

          "Consolidated Net Income" means, with respect to any Person, for any
period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance
with GAAP plus (y) cash dividends or distributions paid to such Person by any
other Person (the "Payor") other than a Restricted Subsidiary of the referent
Person, to the extent not otherwise included in Consolidated Net Income, which
have been derived from operating cash flow of the Payor; provided that there
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shall be excluded therefrom (a) after-tax gains from Asset Sales or abandonments
or reserves relating thereto, (b) after-tax items classified as extraordinary or
nonrecurring gains, (c) the net income of any Person acquired in a "pooling of
interests" transaction accrued prior to the date it becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary of the referent Person or is merged or consolidated with the referent
Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person, (d) the net income
(but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person to the extent
that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted
Subsidiary of that income is restricted; provided, however, that the net income
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of Foreign Subsidiaries shall not be excluded in any calculation of Consolidated
Net Income of the Company as a result of application of this clause (d) if the
restriction on dividends or similar distribution results from consensual
restrictions, (e) the net income or loss of any Person, other than a Restricted
Subsidiary of the referent Person, except to the extent of cash dividends or
distributions paid to the referent Person or to a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the referent Person by such Person, (f) any restoration to income
of any contingency reserve, except to the extent that provision for such reserve
was made out of Consolidated Net Income accrued at any time following June 30,
1999, (g) income or loss attributable to discontinued operations (including,
without limitation, operations disposed of during such period whether or not
such operations were classified as discontinued), (h) in the case of a successor
to the referent Person by consolidation or merger or as a transferee of the
referent Person's assets, any earn-
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                                     -12-

ings of the successor corporation prior to such consolidation, merger or
transfer of assets, (i) all gains or losses from the cumulative effect of any
change in accounting principles and (j) the net amount of all Permitted Tax
Distributions made during such period.

          "Consolidated Net Worth" of any Person means the consolidated
stockholders' equity (or equivalent) of such Per son, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, less (without duplication) amounts
attributable to Disqualified Capital Stock of such Person.

          "Consolidated Non-cash Charges" means, with respect to any Person, for
any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges
of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income
of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (excluding any such charges
constituting an extraordinary item or loss or any such charge which requires an
accrual of or a reserve for cash charges for any future period).

          "Continuing Managers" means, as of any date, the collective reference
to (i) all members of the Board of Managers of the Company who have held office
continuously since a date no later than the later of (x) twelve months prior to
the Company's initial public equity offering and (y) the Issue Date, and (ii)
all members of the Board of Managers of the Company who assumed office after
such date and whose appointment or nomination for election by the Company's
shareholders was approved by a vote of at least 50% of the Continuing Managers
in office immediately prior to such appointment or nomination or by the Huntsman
Group.

          "Contribution Agreement" means the Contribution Agreement dated as of
April 15, 1999 (as amended and in effect on the Issue Date) between ICI,
Huntsman Specialty and Huntsman International Holdings LLC, as amended or
restated from time to time.
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          "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at
which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which
office at the date hereof is located at the 48th Floor, One Canada Square,
London E14 5 AL, United Kingdom, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or
such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to
the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Trustee (or such other address as a successor Trustee may designate
from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

          "Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01.

          "Credit Facilities" means the senior secured Credit Agreement, dated
as of April 15, 1999 among the Company and the financial institutions party
thereto, together with the related documents thereto (including, without
limitation, any guarantee agreements and security documents). In each case as
such agreements may be amended (including any amendment and restatement
thereof), supplemented, extended or otherwise modified from time to time, and
any one or more debt facility, indenture or other agreement refinancing,
replacing (whether or not contemporaneously) or otherwise restructuring
(including increasing the amount of available borrowings thereunder (provided
that such increase in borrowings is permitted under Section 4.12) or making
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company a borrower, additional borrower or
guarantor thereunder) all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such
agreement or any successor or replacement agreement and whether including any
additional obligors or with the same or any other agent, lender or group of
lenders or with other financial institutions or lenders.

          "Currency Agreement" means any foreign exchange contract, currency
swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company against fluctuations in
currency values.
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          "Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

          "Default" means an event or condition the occurrence of which is, or
with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of
Default.

          "Depositary" means DTC or the Common Depositary, as the case may be.

          "Designated Senior Debt" means (i) Senior Debt under or in respect of
the Credit Facilities and (ii) any other Indebtedness constituting Senior Debt
which, at the time of determination, has an aggregate principal amount of at
least $100,000,000 and is specifically designated in the instrument evidencing
such Senior Debt as "Designated Senior Debt" by the Company.

          "Discharged" means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness represented by, and obligations under, the
Notes and to have satisfied all the obligations under this Indenture relating to
the Notes (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same upon compliance by the Company with the
provisions of Article Eight), except (i) the rights of the Holders of Notes to
receive, from the trust fund described in Article Eight, payment of the
principal of and the interest on such Notes when such payments are due, (ii) the
Company's obligations with respect to the Notes under Sections 2.03 through
2.07, 7.07 and 7.08 and (iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder.

          "Disqualified Capital Stock" means that portion of any Capital Stock
which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is
convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any
event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund
obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the sole option of the holder
thereof on or prior to the final maturity date of the Notes.
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          "Dollar Paying Agent" means an office or agency of the Company where
Dollar Notes may be presented for payment.

          "Dollar Registrar" means an office or agency of the Company in the
borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, where Dollar Notes may be presented
for registration of transfer or exchange.

          "Domestic Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary other than a Foreign
Subsidiary.

          "DTC" means the Depository Trust Company, its nominees and successors.

          "Equity Offering" has the meaning provided in paragraph 5 of the
Notes.

          "euro" or "EU" means the currency introduced at the start of the third
stage of economic and monetary union pursuant to the Treaty of Rome establishing
the European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union, signed at
Maastricht on February 7, 1992.

          "Euroclear" means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
office, as operator of the Euroclear System.

          "Euro Obligations" means non-callable government obligations of any
member nation of the European Union whose official currency is the Euro, rated
AAA or better by S&P and Aaa or better by Moodys.

          "Euro Paying Agent" means an office or agency of the Company where
Euro Notes may be presented for payment.

          "Euro Registrar" means an office or agency of the Company where Euro
Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange.

          "Event of Default" has the meaning provided in Section 6.01.
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          "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
or any successor statute or statutes thereto.

          "Exchange Notes" means, with respect to the Initial Notes, notes
issued in exchange for the Initial Notes pursuant to the terms of the
Registration Rights Agreement or, with respect to any Additional Notes, notes
issued in exchange for such Additional Notes pursuant to the terms of a
registration rights agreement among the Company, the Guarantors and the initial
purchasers of such issuance of Additional Notes.

          "Existing Notes" means the $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount and
EU200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2009.

          "fair market value" means, with respect to any asset or property, the
price which could be negotiated in an arm's-length, free market transaction, for
cash, between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is
under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction.  Fair market
value shall be determined by the Board of Managers of the Company acting
reasonably and in good faith and shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution of the
Board of Managers of the Company delivered to the Trustee.

          "Foreign Cash Equivalents" means (i) debt securities with a maturity
of 365 days or less issued by any member nation of the European Union,
Switzerland or any other country whose debt securities are rated by S&P and
Moody's A-1 or P-1, or the equivalent thereof (if a short-term debt rating is
provided by either) or at least AA or AA2, or the equivalent thereof (if a long-
term unsecured debt rating is provided by either) (each such jurisdiction, an
"Approved Jurisdiction") or any agency or instrumentality of an Approved
Jurisdiction, provided that the full faith and credit of the Approved
Jurisdiction is pledged in support of such debt securities or such debt
securities constitute a general obligation of the Approved Jurisdiction and (ii)
debt securities in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25 million with
a maturity of 365 days or less is sued by any nation in which the Company or its
Restricted Subsidiaries have cash which is the subject of restrictions on export
or
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any agency or instrumentality of such nation, pro vided that the full faith and
credit of such nation is pledged in support of such debt securities or such debt
securities constitute a general obligation of such nation.

          "Foreign Subsidiary" means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company
(other than a Guarantor) organized under the laws of, and conducting a
substantial portion of its business in, any jurisdiction other than the United
States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

          "Funds" means the aggregate amount of U.S. Legal Tender and/or U.S.
Government Obligations (in the case of Dollar Notes) and euros and/or Euro
Obligations (in the case of the Euro Notes) deposited with the Trustee pursuant
to Article Eight.

          "GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession of the United States, which are in effect as of the Issue Date.

          "Global Security" means a Regulation S Global Security (or
Unrestricted Global Security) or a Restricted Global Security.

          "Guarantee" means the guarantee of a Guarantor of the obligations of
the Company under the Indenture and the Notes.

          "Guarantor" means (i) each of TG, HI Financial and Tioxide Americas,
Inc., Eurofuels LLC, Eurostar Industries LLC, Huntsman EA Holdings LLC, Huntsman
Ethyleneamines Ltd., Huntsman International Fuels, L.P., Huntsman Propylene
Oxide Holdings LLC, Huntsman Propylene Oxide Ltd, and Huntsman Texas Holdings
LLC and (ii) each of the Company's Restricted Subsidiaries that in the future
executes a supplemental indenture in which such Restricted Subsidiary agrees to
be bound by the
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terms of this Indenture as a Guarantor; provided that any Person constituting a
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Guarantor as described above shall cease to constitute a Guarantor when its
respective Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

          "Guarantor Senior Debt" means with respect to any Guarantor, (i) the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest (including any interest accruing
subsequent to the filing of a petition of bankruptcy at the rate provided for in
the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an
allowed claim under applicable law) on any Indebtedness of a Guarantor, whether
outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter created, incurred or assumed,
unless, in the case of any particular Indebtedness, the instrument creating or
evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding expressly
provides that such Indebtedness shall not be senior in right of payment to the
Guarantee of such Guarantor. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
"Guarantor Senior Debt" shall also include the principal of, premium, if any,
interest (including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition
of bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect
thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable law)
on, and all other amounts owing in respect of, (w) all monetary obligations of
every nature of a Guarantor in respect of the Credit Facilities, including,
without limitation, obligations to pay principal and interest, reimbursement
obligations under letters of credit, fees, expenses and indemnities, (x) all
monetary obligations of every nature of a Guarantor evidenced by a promissory
note and which is, directly or indirectly, pledged as security for the
obligations of the Company under the Credit Facilities, (y) all Interest Swap
Obligations and (z) all obligations under Currency Agreements, in each case
whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter incurred. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, "Guarantor Senior Debt" shall not include (i) any Indebtedness of
such Guarantor to a Restricted Subsidiary of such Guarantor or any Affiliate of
such Guarantor or any of such Affiliate's Subsidiaries other than as described
in clause (x), (ii) Indebtedness to, or guaranteed on behalf of, any
shareholder, director, officer or employee of such Guarantor or any Restricted
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Subsidiary of such Guarantor (including, without limitation, amounts owed for
compensation), (iii) Indebtedness to trade creditors and other amounts incurred
in connection with obtaining goods, materials or services, (iv) Indebtedness
represented by Disqualified Capital Stock, (v) any liability for federal, state,
local or other taxes owed or owing by such Guarantor, (vi) Indebtedness incurred
in violation of Section 4.12, (vii) Indebtedness which, when incurred and
without respect to any election under Section 1111(b) of Title 11, United States
Code, is without recourse to the Company and (viii) any Indebtedness which is,
by its express terms, subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness
of such Guarantor.

          "HI Financial" means Huntsman International Financial LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, or any Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company which complies with all covenants applicable to HI Financial under this
Indenture.

          "Holder" or "Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Registrar's books.

          "Holdings" means Huntsman International Holdings LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company.

          "Holdings U.K." means Huntsman International Holdings (UK), a private
unlimited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales , or any
direct Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company which complies with all
covenants applicable to Holdings U.K. under this Indenture.

          "Holdings Zero Coupon Notes" means, collectively, the Senior Discount
Notes due 2009 and the Subordinated Discount Notes due 2009 issued by Holdings,
and any notes into which any such Holdings Zero Coupon Notes may be exchanged or
replaced pursuant to the terms of the indenture pursuant to which such Holding
Zero Coupon Notes are issued.

          "Huntsman Affiliate" means Huntsman Corporation or any of its
Affiliates (other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries).
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          "Huntsman Corporation" means Huntsman Corporation, a Utah corporation.

          "Huntsman Specialty" means Huntsman Specialty Chemicals Corporation, a
Utah corporation.

          "ICI" means Imperial Chemical Industries PLC and its subsidiaries.

          "ICI Affiliate" means ICI or any Affiliate of ICI.

          "Incumbency Certificate" means a certificate in the form as set forth
hereto as Exhibit F.

          "Indebtedness" means with respect to any Person, without duplication,
(i) all Obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) all Obligations of
such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments,
(iii) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person, (iv) all Obligations of
such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all
conditional sale obligations and all Obligations under any title retention
agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities
arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue by 90 days or
more or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly
instituted and diligently conducted), (v) all Obligations for the reimbursement
of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar credit
transaction, (vi) guarantees and other contingent obligations in respect of
Indebtedness referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above and clause (viii)
below, (vii) all Obligations of any other Person of the type referred to in
clauses (i) through (vi) which are secured by any lien on any property or asset
of such Person, the amount of such Obligation being deemed to be the lesser of
the fair market value of such property or asset or the amount of the Obligation
so secured, (viii) all Obligations under Currency Agreements, Commodity
Agreements and Interest Swap Agreements of such Person and (ix) all Disqualified
Capital Stock issued by such Person with the amount of Indebtedness represented
by such Disqualified Capital Stock being equal to the greater of its voluntary
or involun-
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tary liquidation preference and its maximum fixed repurchase price, but
excluding accrued dividends, if any. For purposes hereof, the "maximum fixed
repurchase price" of any Disqualified Capital Stock which does not have a fixed
repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such
Disqualified Capital Stock as if such Disqualified Capital Stock were purchased
on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant to
this Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the fair market
value of such Disqualified Capital Stock, such fair market value shall be
determined reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Managers of the issuer
of such Disqualified Capital Stock; provided, however, that notwithstanding the
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foregoing, "Indebtedness" shall not include (i) advances paid by customers in
the ordinary course of business for services or products to be provided or
delivered in the future, (ii) deferred taxes or (iii) unsecured indebtedness of
the Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred to finance insurance
premiums in a principal amount not in excess of the insurance premiums to be
paid by the Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries for a three year period
beginning on the date of any incurrence of such indebtedness.

          "Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time
to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

          "Independent Financial Advisor" means a firm (i) which does not, and
whose directors, officers and employees or Affiliates do not, have a direct or
indirect financial interest in the Company and (ii) which, in the judgment of
the Board of Managers of the Company, is otherwise independent and qualified to
perform the task for which it is to be engaged.

          "Initial Notes" means the EU200,000,000 in aggregate principal amount
of 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 of the Company issued on the Issue
Date.

          "Initial Purchasers" means Deutsche Bank AG London, Salomon Brothers
International Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd. and ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
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          "Institutional Accredited Investor" means an accredited investor
within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3), OR (7) under the Securities Act.

          "Interest Payment Date" means the stated maturity of an installment of
interest on the Notes.

          "Interest Swap Obligations" means the obligations of any Person
pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person, whereby, directly or
indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic
payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest
on a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such other
Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same
notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate swaps,
caps, floors, collars and similar agreements.

          "Investment" means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect
loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee)
or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property
to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of
others), or any purchase or acquisition by such Person of any Capital Stock,
bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness issued
by, any Person. "Investment" shall exclude extensions of trade credit by the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on commercially reasonable terms in
accordance with normal trade practices of the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be. For the purposes of Section 4.03, (i)
"Investment" shall include and be valued at the fair market value of the net
assets of any Restricted Subsidiary at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary
is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary and shall exclude the fair market value
of the net assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time that such
Unrestricted Subsidiary is designated a Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) the
amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the
cost of all additional Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or
write-ups, write-downs or write-offs
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with respect to such Investment, reduced by the payment of dividends or
distributions in connection with such Investment or any other amounts received
in respect of such Investment; provided that no such payment of dividends or
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distributions or receipt of any such other amounts shall reduce the amount of
any Investment if such payment of dividends or distributions or receipt of any
such amounts would be included in Consolidated Net Income. If the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company sells or otherwise disposes of any Common
Stock of any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the Company such that,
after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, the Company no longer owns,
directly or indirectly, greater than 50% of the outstanding Common Stock of such
Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment on
the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the fair market value of the
Common Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary not sold or disposed of.

          "Issue Date" means the date of original issuance of the Initial Notes.

          "Legal Holiday" has the meaning provided in Section 13.07.

          "Lien" means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, security
interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and any
agreement to give any security interest), but not including any interest in ac
counts receivable and related assets conveyed by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection with any Qualified Securitization Transaction.

          "LPC" means Louisiana Pigment Company.

          "Legal Defeasance" has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.01.

          "Maturity Date" means July 1, 2009.
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          "Net Cash Proceeds" means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the
proceeds in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents
including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations when received in
the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents (other than the
portion of any such deferred payment constituting interest) received by the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale net of (a)
all out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such Asset Sale (including,
without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees and sales
commissions), (b) taxes paid or payable after taking into account any
reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, (c) repayment of Indebtedness that
is required to be repaid in connection with such Asset Sale (d) the decrease in
proceeds from Qualified Securitization Transactions which results from such
Asset Sale and (e) appropriate amounts to be provided by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, as a reserve, in accordance with
GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and retained by
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, after such Asset
Sale, including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit
liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters and liabilities under
any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Sale.

          "Net Proceeds Offer" has the meaning provided in Section 4.15.

          "Net Proceeds Offer Amount" has the meaning provided in Section 4.15.

          "Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date" has the meaning provided in Section
4.15.

          "Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date" has the meaning provided in Section
4.15.

          "Non-U.S. Person" has the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation
S.
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          "Notes" means, collectively, the Initial Notes, any Additional Notes
and the Exchange Notes, treated as a single class of securities under this
Indenture, except as set forth herein.

          "Obligations" means all obligations for principal, premium, interest,
penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities
payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

          "Officer" means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the
Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Financial Director, or the Secretary of
such Person, or any other officer designated by the Board of Managers serving in
a similar capacity.

          "Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed by two Officers or by an Officer and either an Assistant
Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary of such Person and otherwise complying with
the requirements of Sections 13.04 and 13.05, as they relate to the making of an
Officers' Certificate, and delivered to the Trustee.

          "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel who is
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee complying with the requirements of Sections
13.04 and 13.05, as they relate to the giving of an Opinion of Counsel, and
delivered to the Trustee.

          "Organizational Documents" means, with respect to any Person, such
Person's memorandum, articles or certificate of incorporation, bylaws,
partnership agreement, joint venture agreement, limited liability company
agreement or other similar governing documents and any document setting forth
the designation, amount and/or relative rights, limitations and preferences of
any class or series of such Person's Capital Stock.

          "Participants" means (i) with respect to the Dollar Notes,
institutions that have accounts with DTC or its nominee
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and (ii) with respect to the Euro Notes, institutions that have accounts with
Euroclear or their respective nominees.

          "Paying Agent" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03, except that,
during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default and for the purposes of
Articles Three and Eight and Sections 4.14 and 4.15, the Paying Agent shall not
be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.

          "Permitted Indebtedness" means, without duplication, each of the
following:

          (i)    Indebtedness under (A) the Existing Notes; (B) the Initial
     Notes, (C) any Additional Notes issued in accordance with Sections 2.01,
     2.02 and 2.18; provided that, solely for purposes of determining compliance
     with Section 4.12 in connection with the issuance of any Additional Notes,
     this clause (i) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness shall expressly
     exclude the Additional Notes for which such determination is then being
     made; (D) the Exchange Notes issued in exchange for any Notes, (E) this
     Indenture and (F) the Guarantees;

          (ii)   Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Credit Facilities in an
     aggregate principal amount not exceeding $2.4 billion at any one time
     outstanding, less the amount of any payments made by the Company under the
     Credit Facilities with the Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale (which are
     accompanied by a corresponding permanent commitment reduction) pursuant to
     clause (iii)(A) of the first sentence of Section 4.15;

          (iii)  other Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
     Subsidiaries outstanding on June 30, 1999 (including the Existing Notes)
     reduced by the amount of any prepayments with Net Cash Proceeds of any
     Asset Sale (which are accompanied by a corresponding permanent commitment
     reduction) pursuant to Section 4.15;

          (iv)   Interest Swap Obligations of the Company relating to
     Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Re-
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     stricted Subsidiaries (or Indebtedness which the Company or any its
     Restricted Subsidiaries reasonably intends to incur within six months) and
     Interest Swap Obligations of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company
     relating to Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary (or Indebtedness
     which such Restricted Subsidiary reasonably intends to incur within six
     months); provided, however, that such Interest Swap Obligations are entered
              --------  -------
     into to protect the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries from
     fluctuation in interest rates on Indebtedness permitted under the Indenture
     to the extent the notional principal amount of such Interest Swap
     Obligation, when Incurred, does not exceed the principal amount of the
     Indebtedness to which such Interest Swap Obligation relates;

          (v)    Indebtedness under Commodity Agreements and Currency
     Agreements; provided that in the case of Currency Agreements which relate
                 --------
     to Indebtedness, such Currency Agreements do not increase the Indebtedness
     of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding other than as a
     result of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or by reason of
     fees, indemnities and compensation payable thereunder;

          (vi)   Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the
     Company or to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company for so long as such
     Indebtedness is held by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
     Company, in each case subject to no Lien held by a Person other than the
     Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (other than the pledge of
     intercompany notes under the Credit Facilities); provided that if as of any
                                                      --------
     date any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
     Company owns or holds any such Indebtedness or holds a Lien in respect of
     such Indebtedness (other than the pledge of intercompany notes under the
     Credit Facilities), such date shall be deemed the incurrence of
     Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness by the issuer of such
     Indebtedness;
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          (vii)  Indebtedness of the Company to a Restricted Subsidiary for
     so long as such Indebtedness is held by a Restricted Subsidiary, in each
     case subject to no Lien (other than Liens securing intercompany notes
     pledged under the Credit Facilities); provided that (a) any Indebtedness
     of the Company to any Restricted Subsidiary (other than pursuant to notes
     pledged under the Credit Facilities) is unsecured and subordinated,
     pursuant to a written agreement, to the Company's obligations under this
     Indenture and the Notes and (b) if as of any date any Person other than a
     Restricted Subsidiary of the Company owns or holds any such Indebtedness or
     any Person holds a Lien in respect of such Indebtedness (other than pledges
     securing the Credit Facilities), such date shall be deemed the incurrence
     of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness by the Company;

          (viii) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other
     financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently
     (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient
     funds in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such
                                               --------  -------
     Indebtedness is extinguished within two business days of incurrence;

          (ix)   Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted
     Subsidiaries represented by letters of credit for the account of the
     Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in order to
     provide security for workers' compensation claims, payment obligations in
     connection with self-insurance or similar requirements in the ordinary
     course of business;

          (x)    Refinancing Indebtedness;

          (xi)   Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or a
     Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or
     similar obligations, in each case, incurred in connection with the
     disposition of any business, assets or Subsidiary, other than guarantees of
     Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring all or any
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     portion of such business, assets or Subsidiary for the purpose of financing
     such acquisition; provided that the maximum aggregate liability in respect
                       --------
     of all such Indebtedness shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds
     actually received by the Company and the Subsidiary in connection with such
     disposition;

          (xii)  Obligations in respect of performance bonds and completion,
     guarantee, surety and similar bonds provided by the Company or any
     Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

          (xiii) guarantees by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of
     Indebtedness incurred by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary so long as
     the incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or any such Restricted
     Subsidiary is otherwise permitted by the terms of the Indenture;

          (xiv)  Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
     incurred in the ordinary course of business not to exceed $35 million at
     any time outstanding (A) representing Capitalized Lease Obligations or (B)
     constituting purchase money Indebtedness incurred to finance property or
     assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company acquired
     in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such purchase
                                         --------  -------
     money Indebtedness shall not exceed the cost of such property or assets and
     shall not be secured by any property or assets of the Company or any
     Restricted Subsidiary of the Company other than the property and assets so
     acquired;

          (xv)   Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries to the extent that the
     aggregate outstanding amount of Indebtedness incurred by such Foreign
     Subsidiaries under this clause (xv) does not exceed the greater of (x) $50
     million and (y) at any one time an amount equal to the sum of (A) 80% of
     the consolidated book value of the accounts receivable of all Foreign
     Subsidiaries and (B) 60% of the consolidated book value of the inventory of
     all Foreign Subsidiaries;
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          (xvi)     Indebtedness of the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries
     pursuant to overdraft lines or similar extensions of credit in an aggregate
     amount not to exceed $20 million at any one time outstanding and
     Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries pursuant to overdraft lines or similar
     extensions of credit in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $60
     million at any one time outstanding;

          (xvii)    the incurrence by a Securitization Entity of Indebtedness in
     a Qualified Securitization Transaction that is not recourse to the Company
     or any Subsidiary of the Company (except for Standard Securitization
     Undertakings);

          (xviii)   so long as an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default
     exists; Indebtedness of the Company to BASF or its Affiliates in an
     aggregate outstanding amount not in excess of $50 million for the purposes
     of financing up to 50% of the cost of installation, construction or
     improvement of property relating to the manufacture of PO/MTBE;

          (xix)     Indebtedness of the Company to a Huntsman Affiliate or an
     ICI Affiliate constituting Subordinated Indebtedness;

          (xx)      Indebtedness consisting of take-or-pay obligations contained
     in supply agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business;

          (xxi)     Indebtedness of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries
     incurred in connection with the purchase of accounts receivable and related
     assets by the Company from any such Subsidiary which assets are
     subsequently conveyed by the Company to a Securitization Entity in a
     Qualified Securitization Transaction; and

          (xxii)    additional Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
     Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25 million at
     any one time outstanding.
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          "Permitted Investments" means (i) Investments by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any Person that is or will become
immediately after such Investment a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or that
will merge or consolidate into the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company; provided that this clause (i) shall not permit any investment by the
         --------
Company or a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary in a Foreign Subsidiary consisting
of a capital contribution by means of a transfer of property other than cash,
Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents other than transfers of property
of nominal value in the ordinary course of business; (ii) Investments in the
Company by any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that any
                                                     --------
Indebtedness evidencing such Investment is unsecured and subordinated (other
than pursuant to intercompany notes pledged under the Credit Facilities),
pursuant to a written agreement, to the Company's obligations under the Notes
and this Indenture; (iii) investments in cash and Cash Equivalents; (iv) loans
and advances to employees and officers of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business for travel, relocation and
related expenses; (v) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries or joint ventures
not to exceed $75 million, plus (A) the aggregate net after-tax amount returned
in cash on or with respect to any Investments made in Unrestricted Subsidiaries
and joint ventures whether through interest payments, principal payments,
dividends or other distributions or payments, (B) the net after-tax cash
proceeds received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from the
disposition of all or any portion of such Investments (other than to a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company), (C) upon redesignation of an Unrestricted
Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the fair market value of such Subsidiary
and (D) the net cash proceeds received by the Company from the issuance of
Specified Venture Capital Stock; (vi) Investments in securities received
pursuant to any plan of reorganzition or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy
or insolvency of any debtors of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(vii) Investments made by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result
of consideration received in connection with an Asset Sale made in compliance
with Section 4.15; (viii) Investments existing on the Issue Date; (ix)
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any Investment by the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company in a
Securitization Entity or any Investment by a Securitization Entity in any other
Person in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction; provided that
any Investment in a Securitization Entity is in the form of a Purchase Money
Note or an equity interest; (x) Investments by the Company in Rubicon and LPC
(each a "Joint Venture"), so long as: (A) such Joint Venture does not have any
Indebtedness for borrowed money at any time on or after the date of such
Investment (other that Indebtedness owing to the equity holders of such Joint
Venture), (B) the documentation govering such Joint Venture does not contain a
restriction on distributions to the Company, and (C) such Joint Venture is
engaged only in the business of manufacturing product used or marketed by the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and/or the joint venture partner, and
business reasonably related thereto; (xi) Investments by Foreign Subsidiaries in
Foreign Cash Equivalents; (xii) loans to Holding for the purposes described in
clause (7) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03 which, when aggregated with
the payment made under such clause, will not exceed $3 million in any fiscal
year; (xiii) any Indebtendess of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries incurred
in connection with the purchase of accounts receivable and related as sets by
the Company from any such Subsidiary which assets are subsequently conveyed by
the Company to a Securitization Entity in a Qualified Securitization
Transaction; and (xiv) additional Investments in an aggregate amount not
exceeding $25 million at any one time outstanding.

          "Permitted Junior Securities" means: (1) Capital Stock in the Company
or any Guarantor; or (2) debt securities of the Company or any Guarantor that
(A) are subordinated to all Senior Debt and any debt securities issued in
exchange for Senior Debt to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater
extent than, the Notes and the Guarantees are subordinated to Senior Debt
pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and (B) have a Weighted Average Life to
Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the
Notes.

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          "Permitted Tax Distribution" for any fiscal year means any payments in
compliance with clause (6) of the second paragaph under Section 4.03.

          "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,
unincorporated organization, trust or joint venture, or a governmental agency or
political subdivision thereof.

          "Physical Notes" shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01.

          "Preferred Stock" of any Person means any Capital Stock of such Person
that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of such Person with
respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation.

          "principal" of any Indebtedness (including the Notes) means the
principal amount of such Indebtedness plus the premium, if any, on such
Indebtedness.

          "Private Placement Legend" means the legend initially set forth on the
Notes in the form set forth on Exhibit A-1.
                               -----------

          "pro forma" means, unless otherwise provided herein, with respect to
any calculation made or required to be made pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture, a calculation in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X
promulgated under the Securities Act.

          "Purchase Money Note" means a promissory note evidencing a line of
credit, or evidencing other Indebtedness owed to the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction, which note
shall be repaid from cash available to the maker of such note, other than
amounts required to be established as reserves, amounts paid to investors in
respect of interest, principal and other amounts owing to such investors and
amounts paid in connection with the purchase of newly generated accounts
receivable.

          "Qualified Capital Stock" means any Capital Stock that is not
Disqualified Capital Stock.

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          "Qualified Institutional Buyer" or "QIB" has the meaning specified in
Rule 144A.

          "Qualified Securitization Transaction" means any transaction or series
of transactions that may be entered into by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may sell,
convey or other wise transfer pursuant to customary terms to (a) a
Securitization Entity (in the case of a transfer by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries) and (b) any other Person (in the case of transfer by a
Securitization Entity), or may grant a security interest in any accounts
receivable (whether now existing or arising or acquired in the future) of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto including,
without limitation, all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all
contracts and contract rights and all guarantees or other obligations in respect
of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and other
assets (including contract rights) which are customarily transferred or in
respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with
asset securitization transactions involving accounts receivable.

          "Record Date" has the meaning provided in Section 2.05.

          "Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Notes, the Maturity Date
of such Note or the earlier date on which such Note is to be redeemed by the
Company pursuant to para  graph 5 of the Notes.

          "Redemption Price" has the meaning provided in Section 3.03.

          "Refinance" means, in respect of any security or Indebtedness, to
refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or
to issue a security or Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for, such
security or Indebtedness in whole or in part. "Refinanced" and "Refinancing"
shall have correlative meanings.

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          "Refinancing Indebtedness" means any Refinancing by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of Indebtedness incurred in accordance with
Section 4.12 or In debtedness described in clause (iii) of the definition of
"Permitted Indebtedness", in each case that does not (1) result in an increase
in the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of such Person as of the date
of such proposed Refinancing (plus the amount of any premium required to be paid
under the terms of the instrument governing such Indebtedness and plus the
amount of reasonable expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such
Refinancing) or (2) create Indebtedness with (A) a Weighted Average Life to
Maturity that is less than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the
Indebtedness being Refinanced or (B) a final maturity earlier than the final
maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced; provided that (x) if such
                                               --------
Indebtedness being Refinanced is Indebtedness of the Company, then such
Refinancing Indebtedness shall be Indebtedness solely of the Company and (y) if
such Indebtedness being Refinanced is subordinate or junior to the Notes, then
such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be subordinate to the Notes at least to the
same extent and in the same manner as the Indebtedness being Refinanced.

          "Registrar" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03.

          "Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights
Agreement dated as of the date of this Indenture among the Company, the
Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers.

          "Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act.

          "Regulation S Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section
2.01.

          "Replacement Assets" has the meaning provided in Section 4.15.

          "Representative" means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent
or representative in respect of any Designated Senior Debt; provided that if,
                                                            --------
and for so long as, any Desig-

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nated Senior Debt lacks such a representative, then the Representative for such
Designated Senior Debt shall at all times constitute the holders of a majority
in outstanding principal amount of such Designated Senior Debt in respect of any
Designated Senior Debt.

          "Responsible Officer" means, when used with respect to the Trustee,
any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any
vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant
treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily
performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time
shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is
referred because of such person's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the
administration of this Indenture.

          "Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security" means a Restricted
Global Security representing Dollar Notes.

          "Restricted Euro Denominated Global Securities" means a Restricted
Global Security representing Euro Notes.

          "Restricted Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section
2.01.

          "Restricted Security" means a Note that constitutes a "restricted
security" within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act;
provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to request and
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conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any Note
constitutes a Restricted Security.

          "Restricted Subsidiary" of any Person means any Subsidiary of such
Person which at the time of determination is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

          "Rubicon" means Rubicon, Inc., a joint venture between ICI Americas
Inc. and Uniroyal Inc.

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          "Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any direct or indirect
arrangement with any Person or to which any such Per son is a party, providing
for the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property,
whether owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary on June 30, 1999 or
later acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds
have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property.

          "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

          "Securitization Entity" means a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company
(or another Person in which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company makes
an Investment and to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
transfers accounts receivable or equipment and related assets) which engages in
no activities other than in connection with the financing of accounts receivable
or equipment and which is designated by the Board of Managers of the Company (as
provided below) as a Securitization Entity (a) no portion of the Indebtedness or
any other Obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by
the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the Securitization
Entity)(excluding guarantees of Obligations (other than the principal of, and
interest on, Indebtedness)) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings,
(ii) is recourse to or obligates the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in
any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or (iii)
subjects any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
(other than the Securitization Entity), directly or indirectly, contingently or
otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard
Securitization Undertakings and other than any interest in the accounts
receivable or equipment and related assets being financed (whether in the form
of any equity interest in such assets or subordinated indebtedness payable
primarily from such financed assets) retained or acquired by the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company, (b) with which neither the Com-

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pany nor any Subsidiary of the Company has any material contract, agreement,
arrangement or understanding other than on terms no less favorable to the
Company or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from
Persons that are not Affiliates of the Company, other than fees payable in the
ordinary course of business in connection with servicing receivables of such
entity, and (c) to which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company
has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity's financial condition or
cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any such
designation by the Board of Managers of the Company shall be evidenced to the
Trustee by filing with the Trustee a certified copy of the resolution of the
Board of Managers of the Company giving effect to such designation and an
officers' certificate certifying that such designation complied with the
foregoing conditions.

          "Senior Debt" means the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
(including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition of
bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto,
whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable law) on any
Indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter
created, incurred or assumed, unless, in the case of any particular
Indebtedness, the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding expressly provides that such Indebtedness shall
not be senior in right of payment to the Notes. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, "Senior Debt" shall also include the principal of, premium, if
any, interest (including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a
petition of bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with
respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under
applicable law) on, and all other amounts owing in respect of, (x) all monetary
obligations of every nature of the Company under the Credit Facilities,
including, without limitation, obligations to pay principal and interest,
reimbursement obligations under letters of credit, fees, expenses and
indemnities, (y) all Interest Swap Obligations and (z) all Obligations under
Currency Agreements and Commodity Agreements, in each case

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whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter incurred. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, "Senior Debt" shall not include (i) any Indebtedness of the
Company to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or any Affiliate of the
Company or any of such Affiliate's Subsidiaries, (ii) Indebtedness to, or
guaranteed on behalf of, any shareholder, director, officer or employee of the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including, without limitation, amounts
owed for compensation), (iii) Indebtedness to trade creditors and other amounts
incurred in connection with obtaining goods, materials or services, (iv)
Indebtedness represented by Disqualified Capital Stock, (v) any liability for
federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by the Company, (vi)
Indebtedness incurred in violation of the provisions set forth under Section
4.12, (vii) Indebtedness which, when incurred and without respect to any
election under Section 1111(b) of Title 11, United States Code, is without
recourse to the Company and (viii) any Indebtedness which is, by its express
terms, subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the
Company.

          "Significant Subsidiary" means any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company which, at the date of determination, is a "Significant Subsidiary" as
such term is defined in Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.

          "Specified Venture Capital Stock" means Qualified Capital Stock of the
Company or Holdings issued to a Person who is not an Affiliate of the Company
and the proceeds from the issuance of which are applied within 180 days after
the issuance thereof to an Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary or joint
venture.

          "Standard Securitization Undertakings" means representations,
warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company which are reasonably customary in an accounts
receivable securitization transaction.

          "Subordinated Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company or any
Guarantor which is expressly subordinated in

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right of payment to the Notes or the Guarantee of such Guarantor, as the case
may be.

          "Subsidiary," with respect to any Person, means (i) any corporation of
which the outstanding Capital Stock having at least a majority of the votes
entitled to be cast in the election of directors under ordinary circumstances
shall at the time be owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or (ii) any
other Person of which at least a majority of the voting interest under ordinary
circumstances is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person.

          "Tax Sharing Agreement" means the provisions contained in the Limited
Liability Company Agreements of the Company and Holdings as in existence on the
Issue Date relating to distributions to be made to the members thereof with
respect to such members' income tax liabilities.

          "TG" means Tioxide Group, or any direct Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company which complies with all covenants applicable to TG
under this Indenture.

          "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S)(S) 77aaa-
77bbbb), as amended, as in effect on the date hereof, except as otherwise
provided in Section 9.03.

          "Trustee" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and
thereafter means such successor.

          "UK Holdco Note" means that certain unsecured promissory note issued
by Holdings U.K. in favor of HI Financial.

          "Unrestricted Global Security" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.01.

          "Unrestricted Notes" means one or more Notes that do not and are not
required to bear the Private Placement Legend in the form set forth in Exhibit
                                                                       -------
A-3 and A-4, including, without limitation, the Exchange Notes.
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          "Unrestricted Subsidiary" of any Person means (i) any Subsidiary of
such Person that at the time of determination shall be or continue to be
designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary in the manner provided below, and (ii) any
Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Board of Managers may designate
any Subsidiary (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary) to be
an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary owns any Capital Stock of, or
owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Company or any other Subsidiary
of the Company that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated;
provided that (x) the Company certifies to the Trustee that such designation
complies with Section 4.03 and (y) each Subsidiary to be so designated and each
of its Subsidiaries has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter,
create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or
indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender
has recourse to any of the assets of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries. The Board of Managers may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to
be a Restricted Subsidiary only if (x) immediately after giving effect to such
designation, the Company is able to incur at least $1.00 of additional
Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.12
and (y) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such
designation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. Any such designation by the Board of Managers shall be evidenced to
the Trustee by promptly filing with the Trustee a copy of the Board Resolution
giving effect to such designation and an officers' certificate certifying that
such designation complied with the foregoing provisions.

          "U.S. Government Obligations" means direct obligations (or
certificates representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of the
United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality thereof) for
the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America
is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the issuer's option.

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                  "U.S. Legal Tender" means such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts.

                  "Weighted Average Life to Maturity" means, when applied to any
Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (a) the then
outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness into (b) the sum of
the total of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then
remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment
of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii)
the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) which will elapse
between such date and the making of such payment.

                  "Wholly Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means any Subsidiary
of such Person of which all the outstanding voting securities (other than in the
case of a Foreign Subsidiary, directors' qualifying shares or an immaterial
amount of shares owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law) are owned by
such Person or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such Person; provided, however,
                                                           --------  -------
that each of TG and Holdings U.K. shall be deemed to Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.

SECTION 1.02.  Incorporation by Reference of TIA.
               ---------------------------------

                  Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, that
portion of such provision that is required to be incorporated for this Indenture
to be qualified under the TIA is incorporated by reference in, and made a part
of, this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the
following meanings:

                  "Commission" means the SEC.

                  "indenture securities" means the Notes.
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                  "indenture security holder" means a Holder or a Noteholder.

                  "indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.

                  "indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the
Trustee.

                  "obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company or
any other obligor on the Notes.

                  All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by
the TIA, defined by the TIA by reference to another statute or defined by SEC
rule and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them
therein.

SECTION 1.03.  Rules of Construction.
               ---------------------

                  Unless the context otherwise requires:

                  (1)  a term has the meaning assigned to it;

                  (2)  an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
         assigned to it in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date;

                  (3)  "or" is not exclusive;

                  (4)  words in the singular include the plural, and words in
         the plural include the singular; and

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

                                  ARTICLE TWO

                                   THE NOTES

SECTION 2.01.  Form and Dating.
               ---------------

                  The Notes and the Trustee's certificate of authentication
relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 (in the case
                                                       -----------
of Dollar Notes) and A-2 (in the case of Euro Notes). The Exchange Notes and the
Trustee's certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be substantially
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in the form of Exhibit A-3 (in the case of Dollar Notes) and A-4 (in the case of
               -----------
Euro Notes). The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by
law, stock exchange rule or usage. The Company shall approve the form of the
Notes and any notation, legend or endorsement thereon. Each Note shall be dated
the date of issuance and shall show the date of its authentication. Each Note
shall have an executed Guarantee from each of the Guarantors endorsed thereon
substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto.
                             ---------

                  The terms and provisions contained in the Notes annexed hereto
as Exhibit A, shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this
   ---------
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantors and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to
such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.

                  Restricted Global Securities. (i) The Notes shall be issued in
                  ----------------------------
the form of one or more global Securities (the "Restricted Global Security") in
definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons, with the legend
provided for in Exhibit B hereto, except as otherwise permitted herein.

                  (ii)  Each Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security shall
be registered in the name of DTC or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee,
at its Corporate Trust Office, as custodian for DTC, duly executed by the
Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The aggregate
principal amount of a Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security may from
time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the
Trustee, as custodian for DTC, in connection with a corresponding decrease or
increase in the aggregate principal amount of a Regulation S Dollar Denominated
Global Security or an Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security, as
hereinafter provided.

                  (iii) Each Restricted Euro Denominated Global Security shall
be registered in the name of the Common Depositary or its nominee and deposited
with the Common Depositary, on behalf of Euroclear, duly executed by the Company
and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided for credit to the
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account of Euroclear. The aggregate principal amount of a Restricted Euro
Denominated Global Security may from time to time be increased or decreased by
adjustments made on the records of the Common Depositary, in connection with a
corresponding decrease or increase in the aggregate principal amount of an
Unrestricted Euro Denominated Global Security, as hereinafter provided.

                  Regulation S Global Securities. (i) Dollar Notes offered and
                  ------------------------------
sold in reliance on Regulation S shall be initially issued in the form of one or
more Global Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest
coupons, with such applicable legends as are provided for in Exhibit A hereto,
except as otherwise permitted herein. Until such time as the Restricted Period
(as defined below) shall have terminated, such Global Securities shall be
referred to herein as the "Regulation S Global Security." After such time as the
Restricted Period shall have terminated, such Regulation S Global Securities
shall be referred to herein, as the "Unrestricted Global Securities."

                  (ii) Each Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security and
Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security shall be registered in the name
of DTC or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee, at its Corporate Trust
Office, as custodian for DTC, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by
the Trustee as hereinafter provided, for credit to the respective accounts at
DTC of the depositaries for Euroclear or Clearstream. The aggregate principal
amount of each Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security (or Unrestricted
Dollar Denominated Global Security) may from time to time be increased or
decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for
DTC, in connection with a corresponding decrease or increase in the aggregate
principal amount of a Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security, as
hereinafter provided.

                  Notes issued in exchange for interests in a Global Note
pursuant to Section 2.16 may be issued in the form of permanent certificated
Notes in registered form in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1,
                                                                -----------
A-2, A-3 or A-4 (the "Physical Notes").
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SECTION 2.02.  Execution and Authentication; Aggregate Principal Amount.
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                  An Officer who shall have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate actions shall execute the Notes for the Company, and one
officer shall sign the Guarantees for the Guarantors by manual or facsimile
signature.

                  If an Officer whose signature is on a Note or a Guarantee, as
the case may be, was an Officer at the time of such execution but no longer
holds that office or position at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note,
the Note shall nevertheless be valid.

                  A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note. The
signature of such representative of the Trustee shall be conclusive evidence
that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

                  On the Issue Date, upon Company order the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver EU200 million of 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due
2009 in the form of Initial Notes. In addition, at any time, from time to time,
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Unrestricted Notes upon a written
notice of each of the Company, for original issuance in the aggregate principal
amount specified in such order for original issue in the aggregate principal
amount, provided that Unrestricted Notes shall be issuable only upon the valid
        --------
surrender for cancellation of Global Securities or other Notes of a like
aggregate principal amount. Additional Notes shall be issued in accordance with
Sections 2.01 and 2.18. Any such order shall specify the amount of the Notes to
be authenticated and the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be
authenticated, whether the Notes are Unrestricted Notes and whether (subject to
Section 2.01) the Notes are to be issued as Physical Notes or Global Notes and
such other information as the Trustee may reasonably request, and, in the case
of an issuance of Additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.18 after the Issue
Date, shall certify that such issuance will not be prohibited by Section 4.12.
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                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as provided in Section
9.02, all Notes issued under this Indenture shall vote and consent together on
all matters (as to which any of such Notes may vote or consent) as one class and
no series of Notes will have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on
any matter. For purposes of voting, the aggregate principal amount of
outstanding Dollar Notes will be calculated by the Company at a rate of EU1.00
per US$0.932535.

                  The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably
acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. Unless otherwise provided in
the appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company and Affiliates of the Company.

                  The Notes shall be issuable in fully registered form only,
without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 or EU1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof.

SECTION 2.03.  Registrar and Paying Agent.
               --------------------------

                  The Company shall maintain an office or agency (which shall be
located in London, where (a) Notes may be presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or for exchange ("Registrar"), (b) Notes may be
presented or surrendered for payment ("Paying Agent") and (c) notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be
served. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer
and exchange. The Company, upon notice to the Trustee, may have one or more
co-Registrars and one or more additional paying agents reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee. The term "Paying Agent" includes any additional paying agent. The
Company may change the Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder.
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          The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any
Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall incorporate the
provisions of the TIA and implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate
to such Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee, in advance, of the name and
address of any such Agent. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or
Paying Agent, or fails to give the foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as
such.

          The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar and Paying
Agent until such time as the Trustee has resigned or a successor has been
appointed. Any of the Registrar, the Paying Agent or any other agent may resign
upon 30 days' notice to the Company.

SECTION 2.04.       Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust.
                   ------------------------------------

          The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
agree in writing that each Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of
the Holders or the Trustee all assets held by the Paying Agent for the payment
of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes (whether such assets
have been distributed to it by the Company or any other obligor on the Notes),
and shall notify the Trustee of any default by the Company (or any other obligor
on the Notes) in making any such payment. The Company at any time may require a
Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and account for
any assets disbursed and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of
any payment Default, upon written request to a Paying Agent,
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require such Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and
to account for any assets distributed. Upon distribution to the Trustee of all
assets that shall have been delivered by the Company to the Paying Agent and the
completion of any accounting required to be made hereunder, the Paying Agent
shall have no further liability for such assets.

SECTION 2.05.      Holder Lists.
                   ------------

          The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
the Holders and shall otherwise comply with TIA ss. 312(a). If the Trustee is
not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee five (5) Business
Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee
may request in writing a list as of the applicable Record Date and in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders,
which list may be conclusively relied upon by the Trustee.

SECTION 2.06.      Transfer and Exchange.
                   ---------------------

          Subject to Sections 2.15 and 2.16, when Notes are presented to the
Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register the transfer of such
Notes or to exchange such Notes for an equal principal amount of Notes of other
authorized denominations, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the
transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such
transaction are met; provided, however, that the Notes presented or surrendered
                     --------  -------
for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar or
co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Notes at the
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Registrar's or co-Registrar's written request. No service charge shall be made
for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental
charge payable in connection therewith. The Registrar or co-Registrar shall not
be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note (i) during a
period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing of a
notice of redemption pursuant to Section 3.03 and paragraph 5 of the Notes and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing and (ii) selected for
redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article Three, except the unredeemed
portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

          Any Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall, by
acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that transfers of beneficial
interests in such Global Notes may be effected only through a book entry system
maintained by the Holder of such Global Note (or its agent), and that ownership
of a beneficial interest in the Note shall be required to be reflected in a book
entry system.

SECTION 2.07.      Replacement Notes.
                   -----------------

          If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder of
a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the
Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note and
each of the Guarantors shall execute a Guarantee thereon if the Trustee's
requirements are met. If required by the Trustee or the Company, such Holder
must provide an indemnity bond or other indemnity, sufficient in the reasonable
judgment of the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, to protect the Company,
the Guarantors, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them may
suffer if a Note is replaced. The Company and the Trustee may charge such Holder
for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in replacing a Note, including
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel. Every replacement Note shall constitute
an additional obligation of the Company and every replacement Guarantee shall
constitute an additional obligation of the Guarantors.
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SECTION 2.08.      Outstanding Notes.
                   -----------------

          Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes that have been
authenticated by the Trustee except those cancelled by it, those delivered to it
for cancellation and those described in this Section as not outstanding. Subject
to Section 2.09, a Note does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or
any of its Affiliates holds the Note.

          If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 (other than a mutilated
Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the
Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Note is held by a
bona fide purchaser. A mutilated Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of
such Note and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.07.

          If on a Redemption Date or the Maturity Date the Paying Agent holds
U.S. Legal Tender, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof (in the
case of Dollar Notes) or euros, Euro Obligations, or a combination thereof (in
the case of Euro Notes) sufficient to pay all of the principal, premium, if any,
and interest due on the Notes payable on that date and is not prohibited from
paying such money to the Holders thereof pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture, then on and after that date such Notes cease to be outstanding and
interest on them ceases to accrue.

          If on any date which is no earlier than 60 days prior to a Redemption
Date, the Company has irrevocably deposited in trust with the Trustee U.S. Legal
Tender, U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof (in the case of
Dollar Notes) or euros, Euro Obligations or a combination thereof (in the case
of Euro Notes) in an amount sufficient to pay all of the principal, premium, if
any, and interest due on the Notes payable on such Redemption Date, together
with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Trustee to apply
such funds to the payment thereof on such Redemption Date pursuant to the terms
of this Indenture, then and after the date of such deposit such Notes
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shall be deemed to be not outstanding for purposes of determining whether the
Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in
any direction, waiver, consent or notice which requires the consent of at least
a majority in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding.

SECTION 2.09.      Treasury Notes.
                   --------------

          In determining whether the Holders of the required aggregate principal
amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver, consent or notice,
Notes owned by the Company or an Affiliate shall be considered as though they
are not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent,
only Notes which the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so considered.
The Company shall notify the Trustee, in writing, when it or any of its
Affiliates repurchases or otherwise acquires Notes, of the aggregate principal
amount of such Notes so repurchased or otherwise acquired.

SECTION 2.10.     [intentionally omitted]
                   ---------------------

SECTION 2.11.      Cancellation.
                   ------------

          The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee
any Notes surrendered to them for transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee, or
at the direction of the Trustee, the Registrar or the Paying Agent, and no one
else, shall cancel and, at the written direction of the Company, shall dispose
all cancelled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures. Subject to
Section 2.07, the Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that the
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Company has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. If the Company
shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a
redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless
and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to
this Section 2.11.

SECTION 2.12.      Defaulted Interest.
                   ------------------

          The Company will pay interest on overdue principal from time to time
on demand at the rate of interest then borne by the Dollar Notes or Euro Notes,
as applicable. The Company shall, to the extent lawful, pay interest on overdue
installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from
time to time on demand at the rate of interest then borne by the Dollar Notes or
Euro Notes, as applicable. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months, and, in the case of a
partial month, the actual number of days elapsed.

          If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it
shall pay the defaulted interest, plus (to the extent lawful) any interest
payable on the defaulted interest to the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent
special record date, which date shall be the fifteenth day next preceding the
date fixed by the Company for the payment of defaulted interest or the next
succeeding Business Day if such date is not a Business Day. At least 15 days
before the subsequent special record date, the Company shall mail to each
Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, a notice that states the subsequent special
record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest, and interest
payable on such defaulted interest, if any, to be paid.
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          Notwithstanding the foregoing, any interest which is paid prior to the
expiration of the 30-day period set forth in Section 6.01(a) shall be paid to
Holders as of the regular record date for the Interest Payment Date for which
interest has not been paid.

SECTION 2.13.      CUSIP Numbers.
                   -------------

          The Company in issuing the Notes may use one or more "CUSIP" and/or
"ISIN" numbers, and if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP and/or "ISIN" numbers
in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders; provided,
                                                                  --------
however, that no representation is hereby deemed to be made by the Trustee as to
-------
the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP numbers printed in the notice or on the
Notes, and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any
change in the CUSIP or "ISIN" number.

SECTION 2.14.      Deposit of Moneys.
                   -----------------

          Prior to 11:00 a.m. London time on each Interest Payment Date,
Maturity Date, Redemption Date, Change of Control Payment Date, and Net Proceeds
Offer Payment Date, the Company shall have deposited with the Paying Agent in
immediately available funds money sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due
on such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Redemption Date, Change of Control
Payment Date, and Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, as the case may be, in a
timely manner which permits the Paying Agent to remit payment to the Holders on
such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Redemption Date, Change of Control
Payment Date, and Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, as the case may be.

SECTION 2.15.      Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities.
                   -------------------------------------------

          Except as indicated below in this Section 2.15, the Notes shall be
represented only by Global Securities. The Global Securities shall be deposited
with a Depositary for such Notes (and shall be registered in the name of such
Depositary or its nominee). The Depositary for the Dollar Notes shall be DTC
unless the Company appoints a successor Depositary by delivery of a Company
Order to the Trustee specifying such successor Depositary. The Depositary
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for the Euro Notes shall be The Bank of New York, London Branch unless, with the
approval of Euroclear, the Company appoints a successor Depositary (which shall
be a Common Depositary of Euroclear) by delivery of a Company Order to the
Trustee specifying such successor Depositary.

          All payments on a Dollar Denominated Global Security will be made to
DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered owner and Holder of
such Dollar Denominated Global Security. All payments on a Euro Denominated
Global Security will be made to the order of the Common Depositary or its
nominee, as the case may be, as the registered holder of such Euro Denominated
Global Security. In each case, the Company will be fully discharged by payment
to or to the order of such Depositary from any responsibility or liability in
respect of each amount so paid. Upon receipt of any such payment in respect of a
Dollar Denominated Global Security, DTC will credit Participants' accounts with
payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in
the principal amount of such Dollar Denominated Global Security as shown on the
records of DTC. The Common Depositary will instruct the Euro Paying Agent to
make payments in respect of the Euro Notes to Euroclear in amounts proportionate
to their respective beneficial interests in the principal amount of each Euro
Denominated Global Security, and Euroclear will credit Participants' accounts
with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests
in the principal amount of such Global Security as shown on the records of
Euroclear.

          Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Physical
Notes, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the
relevant Depositary or nominee thereof to another nominee of the Depositary or
to a successor of Depositary or a nominee of such successor.

          Owners of beneficial interests in Global Securities shall be entitled
or required, as the case may be, but only under the circumstances described in
this Section 2.15, to receive physical delivery of Physical Notes.

          Interests in a Global Security shall be exchangeable or transferable,
as the case may be, for Physical Notes if (i) in the case of a Dollar
Denominated Global Security, DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
unable to continue as Depositary for such Dollar Denominated Global Security, or
DTC ceases to be a "Clearing Agency" registered under the United States
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and a successor depositary is not
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appointed by the Company within 120 days, (ii) in the case of a Euro Denominated
Global Security, Euroclear and Clearstream notify the Company that they are
unwilling or unable to continue as clearing agencies for such Euro Denominated
Global Security, (iii) in the case of a Euro Denominated Global Security, the
Common Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to
continue as Depositary for such Euro Denominated Global Security, and a
successor Common Depositary is not appointed by the Company within one hundred
twenty (120) days or (iv) in the case of any Global Security, an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing with respect thereto and the owner of a
beneficial interest therein requests such exchange or transfer. Upon the
occurrence of any of the events described in the preceding sentence, the Company
shall cause the appropriate Physical Notes to be delivered to the owners of
beneficial interests in the Global Securities or the Participants in DTC or
Euroclear through which such owners hold their beneficial interest. Physical
Notes shall be exchangeable or transferable for interests in other Physical
Notes as described herein.

SECTION 2.16.      Transfer and Exchange of Securities.
                   -----------------------------------

          (a)  Transfer and Exchange of Dollar Denominated Global Securities.
               -------------------------------------------------------------
Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture or the Notes, transfers of a
Dollar Denominated Global Security, in whole or in part, transfers and exchanges
of interests therein of the kinds described in clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv)
below and exchange of interests in Dollar Denominated Global Securities or of
other Dollar Denominated Securities as described in clause (v) below, shall be
made only in accordance with this Section 2.16(a). Transfers and exchanges
subject to this Section 2.16 shall also be subject to the other provisions of
the Indenture that are not inconsistent with this Section 2.16.

          (i)  General. A Dollar Denominated Global Security may not be
               -------
     transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person other than DTC or a nominee
     thereof or a successor to DTC or its nominee, and no such transfer to any
     such other Person may be registered; provided that this
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     clause (i) shall not prohibit any transfer of a Dollar Denominated Security
     that is issued in exchange for a Dollar Denominated Global Security but is
     not itself a Dollar Denominated Global Security. No transfer of a Dollar
     Note of any series to any Person shall be effective under this Indenture or
     the Dollar Notes of such series unless and until such Dollar Note has been
     registered in the name of such Person. Nothing in this Section 2.16(a)(i)
     shall prohibit or render ineffective any transfer of a beneficial interest
     in a Dollar Denominated Global Security effected in accordance with the
     other provisions of this Section 2.16(a).

          (ii) Restricted Global Security to Regulation S Global Security. If
               ----------------------------------------------------------
     the Holder of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Dollar Denominated
     Global Security of any series wishes at any time to transfer such interest
     to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial
     interest in a Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security of such
     series, such transfer may be effected, subject to the rules and procedures
     of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable
     (the "Applicable Procedures"), only in accordance with the provisions of
     this Section 2.16(a)(ii). Upon receipt by the Dollar Registrar of (A)
     written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures
     from an Agent Member directing the Dollar Registrar, to credit or cause to
     be credited to a specified Agent Member's account a beneficial interest in
     a Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security in a principal amount
     equal to that of the beneficial interest in a Restricted Dollar Denominated
     Global Security to be so transferred; (B) a written order given in
     accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding
     the account of the Agent Member (and/or the Euroclear or Clearstream
     account, as the case may be) to be credited with, and the account of the
     Agent Member to be debited for, such beneficial interest and (C) a
     certificate in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit C-1 given by the
     Holder of such beneficial interest, the principal amount of a Restricted
     Dollar Denominated Global Security shall be reduced, and the principal
     amount of a Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security shall be
     increased, by the principal amount of the beneficial interest in a
     Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security to be so transferred, in each
     case by means of an appropriate adjustment on the records
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                                     -55-

         of the Dollar Registrar, and the Dollar Registrar shall instruct DTC or
         its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its
         records and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the
         Person specified in such instructions (which shall be the Agent Member
         for Euroclear or Clearstream or both, as the case may be) a beneficial
         interest in a Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security having a
         principal amount equal to the amount so transferred.

                  (iii) Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security to
                        ------------------------------------------------
         Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security. If the Holder of a
         -----------------------------------------------
         beneficial interest in a Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security
         of any series wishes at any time to transfer such interest to a Person
         who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial
         interest in an Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security of such
         series, such transfer may be effected, subject to the Applicable
         Procedures, only in accordance with this Section 2.16(a)(iii). Upon
         receipt by the Dollar Registrar, of (A) written instructions given in
         accordance with the Applicable Procedures from an Agent Member
         directing the Dollar Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to a
         specified Agent Member's account a beneficial interest in an
         Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security in a principal amount
         equal to that of the beneficial interest in a Restricted Dollar
         Denominated Global Security to be so transferred, (B) a written order
         given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing
         information regarding the account of the Agent Member (and, if
         applicable, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be)
         to be credited with, and the account of the Agent Member to be debited
         for, such beneficial interest and (C) a certificate in substantially
         the form set forth in Exhibit C-2 given by the Holder of such
         beneficial interest, the principal amount of the Restricted Dollar
         Denominated Global Security shall be reduced, and the principal amount
         of an Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security shall be
         increased, by the principal amount of the beneficial interest in a
         Restricted Global Dollar Denominated Security to be so transferred, in
         each case by means of an appropriate adjustment on the records of the
         Dollar Registrar and the Dollar Registrar shall instruct DTC or its
         authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its
         records and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the
         Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in an
         Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security having a principal
         amount equal to the amount so transferred.
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                   (iv) Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security or
                        --------------------------------------------------
         Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security to Restricted Dollar
         --------------------------------------------------------------------
         Denominated Global Security. If the Holder of a beneficial interest in
         ---------------------------
         a Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security of any series or an
         Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security of any series wishes at
         any time to transfer such interest to a Person who wishes to take
         delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Restricted
         Dollar Denominated Global Security of such series, such transfer may be
         effected, subject to the Applicable Procedures, only in accordance with
         this Section 2.16(a)(iv). Upon receipt by the Dollar Registrar of (A)
         written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures
         from an Agent Member directing the Dollar Registrar to credit or cause
         to be credited to a specified Agent Member's account a beneficial
         interest in a Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security in a
         principal amount equal to that of the beneficial interest in a
         Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global Security or an Unrestricted
         Dollar Denominated Global Security to be so transferred, (B) a written
         order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing
         information regarding the account of the Agent Member to be credited
         with, and the account of the Agent Member (and, if applicable, the
         Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be debited
         for, such beneficial interest and (C) with respect to a transfer of a
         beneficial interest in a Regulation S Dollar Denominated Global
         Security (but not an Unrestricted Dollar Denominated Global Security)
         to a Person whom the transferor reasonably believes is a "qualified
         institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the
         Securities Act, a certificate in substantially the form set forth in
         Exhibit C-3 given by the Holder of such beneficial interest, the
         principal amount of a Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security
         shall be increased, and the principal amount of a Regulation S Dollar
         Denominated Global Security or an Unrestricted Dollar Denominated
         Global Security shall be reduced, by the principal amount of the
         beneficial interest in a Restricted Dollar Denominated Global Security
         to be so transferred, in each case by means of an appropriate
         adjustment on the records of the Dollar Registrar and the Dollar
         Registrar shall instruct DTC or its authorized representative to make a
         corresponding adjustment to its records and to credit or cause to be
         credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a
         beneficial interest in the Restricted Dollar Denominated Global
         Security having a principal amount equal to the amount so transferred.
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                    (v) Exchanges of Dollar Denominated Global Security for
                        ---------------------------------------------------
         Dollar Denominated Non-Global Security. In the event that a Dollar
         --------------------------------------
         Denominated Global Security or any portion thereof is exchanged for
         Dollar Denominated Securities other than Dollar Denominated Global
         Securities, such other Dollar Denominated Securities may in turn be
         exchanged (on transfer or otherwise) for Notes that are not Dollar
         Denominated Global Securities or for beneficial interests in a Dollar
         Denominated Global Security (if any is then Outstanding) only in
         accordance with such procedures, which shall be substantially
         consistent with the provisions of clauses (i) through (iv) above and
         (vi) below (including the certification requirements intended to insure
         that transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in a Dollar
         Denominated Global Security comply with Rule 144A, Rule 144 or
         Regulation S, as the case may be) and any Applicable Procedures, as may
         be from time to time adopted by the Company and the Trustee.

                   (vi) Beneficial Interest in Regulation S Dollar Denominated
                        ------------------------------------------------------
         Global Security to be Held Through Euroclear or Clearstream. Until the
         -----------------------------------------------------------
         termination of the Restricted Period with respect thereto, interests in
         a Regulation S Global Security may be held only through Agent Members
         acting for and on behalf of Euroclear and Clearstream, provided that
         this clause (vi) shall not prohibit any transfer in accordance with
         Section 2.16(a)(iv) hereof.

                    (b) Transfer and Exchange of Euro Denominated Global
                        ------------------------------------------------
     Securities. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture or the Euro
     ----------
     Notes,transfers of a Euro Denominated Global Security, in whole or in part,
     shall be made only in accordance with this Section 2.16(b). Transfers and
     exchanges subject to this Section 2.16 shall also be subject to the other
     provisions of the Indenture that are not inconsistent with this Section
     2.16.
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                    (i) General. A Euro Denominated Global Security may not be
                        -------
         transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person other than the Common
         Depositary or a nominee thereof or a successor Common Depositary or its
         nominee, and no such transfer to any such other Person may be
         registered; provided that this clause (i) shall not prohibit any
         transfer of a Euro Denominated Security that is issued in exchange for
         a Euro Denominated Global Security but is not itself a Euro Denominated
         Global Security. No transfer of a Euro Denominated Security to any
         Person shall be effective under this Indenture or the Euro Denominated
         Securities unless and until such Euro Denominated Security has been
         registered in the name of such Person. Nothing in this Section
         2.16(b)(i) shall prohibit or render ineffective any transfer of a
         beneficial interest in a Euro Denominated Global Security effected in
         accordance with the other provisions of this Section 2.16(b).

                   (ii) Restricted Euro Denominated Global Security to
                        ----------------------------------------------
         Unrestricted Euro Denominated Global Security. If the Holder of a
         ---------------------------------------------
         beneficial interest in a Restricted Euro Denominated Global Security
         wishes at any time to transfer such interest to a Person who wishes to
         take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an
         Unrestricted Euro Denominated Global Security, such transfer may be
         effected, subject to the Applicable Procedures, only in accordance with
         this Section 2.16(b)(ii). Upon receipt by the Euro Registrar of (A)
         written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures
         from Euroclear or Clearstream directing the Euro Registrar to credit or
         cause to be credited to Euroclear's account a beneficial interest in an
         Unrestricted Euro Denominated Global Security in a principal amount
         equal to that of the beneficial interest in a Restricted Euro
         Denominated Global Security to be so transferred, (B) a written order
         given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing
         information regarding the account of Euroclear to be credited with, and
         the account of Euroclear to be debited for, such beneficial interest
         and (C) a certificate in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit
         C-2 given by the Holder of such beneficial interest, the principal
         amount of the Restricted Euro Denominated Global Security shall be
         reduced, and the principal amount of an Unrestricted Euro Denominated
         Global Security shall be increased, by the principal amount of the
         beneficial interest in a Restricted Euro Denominated Global Security to
         be so transferred, in each case by means of an appropriate adjustment
         on the records of the Euro Registrar and the Euro Registrar shall
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         instruct the Common Depositary or its authorized representative to make
         a corresponding adjustment to its records and to credit or cause to be
         credited to the account of Euroclear a beneficial interest in a
         Unrestricted Euro Denominated Global Security having a principal amount
         equal to the amount so transferred.

                  (iii) Exchanges of Euro Denominated Global Security for Euro
                        ------------------------------------------------------
         Denominated Non-Global Security. In the event that a Euro Denominated
         -------------------------------
         Global Security or any portion thereof is exchanged for Notes other
         than Euro Denominated Global Securities, such other Notes may in turn
         be exchanged (on transfer or otherwise) for Notes that are not Euro
         Denominated Global Securities or for beneficial interests in a Euro
         Denominated Global Security (if any is then Outstanding) only in
         accordance with such procedures, which shall be substantially
         consistent with the provisions of clauses (i) through (ii) above and
         (iv) below (including the certification requirements intended to insure
         that transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in a Euro
         Denominated Global Security comply with Rule 144A, Rule 144 or
         Regulation S, as the case may be) and any Applicable Procedures, as may
         be from time to time adopted by the Company and the Trustee.

                   (iv) Interest in Euro Denominated Global Security to be Held
                        -------------------------------------------------------
         Through Euroclear or Clearstream. Interests in a Euro Denominated
         --------------------------------
         Global Security may be held only through Agent Members acting for and
         on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream.

                    (c) Global Securities.  The provisions of clauses (i), (ii),
                        -----------------
     (iii), and (iv) below shall apply only to Global Securities;

                    (i) General. Each Global Security authenticated under the
                        -------
         Indenture shall be registered in the name of the appropriate Depositary
         or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee
         thereof or custodian therefor.
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                   (ii) Transfer to Persons other than Depositary.
                        -----------------------------------------
         Notwithstanding any other provision in the Indenture or the Securities,
         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 appropriate
         Depositary or a nominee thereof unless (A) in the case of a Dollar
         Denominated Global Security, DTC notifies the Company that it is
         unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security,
         or DTC ceases to be a "Clearing Agency" registered under the United
         States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and a successor to DTC is not
         appointed by the Company within ninety (90) days, (B) in the case of a
         Euro Denominated Global Security, Euroclear and Clearstream notify the
         Company that they are unwilling or unable to continue as clearing
         agencies for such Euro Denominated Global Security, and successor
         clearing agencies are not appointed by the Company within one hundred
         twenty (120) days, (C) in the case of a Euro Denominated Global
         Security, the Common Depositary notifies the Company that it is
         unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Euro Denominated
         Global Security, and a successor Common Depositary is not appointed by
         the Company within one hundred twenty (120) days or (D) in the case of
         any Global Security, an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
         with respect thereto and the owner of a beneficial interest therein
         requests such exchange or transfer. Any Global Security exchanged
         pursuant to clause (A), (B) or (C) above shall be so exchanged in whole
         and not in part and any Global Security exchanged pursuant to clause
         (D) above may be exchanged in whole or from time to time in part as
         directed by DTC. Any Security issued in exchange for a Global Security
         or any portion thereof shall be a Global Security, provided that any
         such Security so issued that is registered in the name of a Person
         other than the appropriate Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be
         a Global Security.

                  (iii) Global Security to Physical Note. Notes in exchange for
                        --------------------------------
         a Global Security or any portion thereof pursuant to clause (ii) above
         shall be issued in definitive, fully registered form without interest
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         coupons, shall have an aggregate principal amount equal to that of such
         Global Security or portion thereof to be so exchanged, shall be
         registered in such names and be in such authorized denominations as the
         appropriate Depositary shall designate and shall bear any legends
         required hereunder. Any Global Security to be exchanged in whole shall
         be surrendered by the appropriate Depositary to the appropriate
         Registrar. With regard to any Global Security to be exchanged in part,
         either such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or, in
         the case of a Dollar Denominated Global Security, if the Trustee is
         acting as custodian for DTC or its nominee with respect to such Global
         Security or, in the case of a Euro Denominated Global Security, if the
         Common Depositary is acting as Depositary for Euroclear and
         Clearstream, the principal amount thereof shall be reduced, by an
         amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged, by means of an
         appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Trustee, as
         Authenticating Agent, or of the Common Depositary. Upon any such
         surrender or adjustment, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver the
         Security issuable on such exchange to or upon the order of the
         appropriate Depositary or an authorized representative thereof.

                   (iv) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events
         specified in clause (ii) above, the Company will promptly make
         available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Physical Notes in
         definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons.

                    (v) No Rights of Agent Members in Global Security. No Agent
                        ---------------------------------------------
         Member of any Depositary nor any other Persons on whose behalf Agent
         Members may act (including Euroclear and Clearstream and account
         Holders and Participants therein) shall have any rights under the
         Indenture with respect to any Global Security, or under any Global
         Security, and each Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, may
         be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or
         the Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Security
         for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
         herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the
         Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification,
         proxy or other authorization furnished by the applicable Depositary or
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         such nominee, as the case may be, or impair, as between DTC, Euroclear
         and Clearstream, their respective Agent Members and any other person on
         whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the operation of customary
         practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a
         Holder of any Note.

     SECTION 2.17.  Special Transfer Provisions.
                    ---------------------------

                    (a) Transfers to Institutional Accredited Investors. If
                        -----------------------------------------------
     Securities are being transferred to an Institutional Accredited Investor,
     the Securities shall be accompanied by delivery of a transferee certificate
     for Institutional Accredited Investors substantially in the form of Exhibit
     D hereto and an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company
     to the effect that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act.

                    (b) Other Transfers. If a Holder proposes to transfer an
                        ---------------
     Initial Security pursuant to any exemption from the registration
     requirements of the Securities Act other than as provided for above, the
     Registrar shall only register such transfer or exchange if such transferor
     delivers to the Registrar and the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
     satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar that such transfer is in
     compliance with the Securities Act and the terms of this Indenture;
     provided that the Company may, based upon the opinion of its counsel,
     instruct the Registrar by a Company Order not to register such transfer in
     any case where the proposed transferee is not a QIB, an Institutional
     Accredited Investor or a non-U.S. Person.

                  (c) General. By its acceptance of any Security bearing
                      -------
     Legends, each Holder of such a Security acknowledges the restrictions on
     transfer of such Security set forth in this Indenture and in the Legends
     and agrees that it will transfer such Security only as provided in this
     Indenture.

                  The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and
     other written communications received pursuant to Section 2.15, 2.16 or
     this Section 2.17 for a period of two years, after which time such letters,
     notices and other written communications shall at the written request of
     the Company be
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delivered to the Company. The Company shall have the right to inspect and make
copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any
reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable prior written notice to the
Registrar.

SECTION 2.18.    Issuance of Additional Notes.
                 ----------------------------

          The Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes, under this
Indenture which shall have substantially identical terms as the Initial Notes,
other than with respect to the date of issuance, issue price, currency
denomination (in the case of Dollar Notes), amount of interest payable on the
first payment date applicable thereto or upon a registration default as provided
under a registration rights agreement related thereto and, terms of optional
redemption, if any (and, if such Additional Notes shall be issued in the form of
Exchange Notes, other than with respect to transfer restrictions); provided that
                                                                   --------
such issuance is not prohibited by Section 4.12; provided, further, that the
aggregate principal value of Notes issued under this Indenture shall not exceed
the greater of EU700 million or $700 million except as provided in Sections 2.07
and 2.08, such aggregate principal amount to be calculated by the Company at a
rate of EU1.00 per US$0.932535 and provided, further, that no Additional Notes
                                   --------  -------
may be authenticated and delivered in an aggregate principal amount of less than
EU50 million, in the case of Euro Notes (or $50 million, without duplication, in
the case of Dollar Notes) per issuance. The Initial Notes, any Additional Notes
and all Exchange Notes issued in exchange therefor shall be treated as a single
class for all purposes under this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.02.

          With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in a
resolution of its Board of Managers (or a duly appointed committee thereof) and
in an Officers' Certificate, a copy of each of which shall be delivered to the
Trustee, the following information:

               (1)  the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to
          be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture;
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               (2)  the issue price and the issue date of such Additional Notes
          and the amount of interest payable on the first payment date
          applicable thereto; and

               (3)  whether such Additional Notes shall be transfer restricted
          securities and issued in the form of Initial Notes or shall be
          registered securities issued in the form of Exchange Notes, each as
          set forth in the Exhibits hereto.

                                 ARTICLE THREE

                                  REDEMPTION

SECTION 3.01.    Notices to Trustee.
                 ------------------

          If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to paragraph 5 of the
Notes, it shall notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of the
Redemption Date and the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed.
Such notice must be given at least 35 days prior to the Redemption Date (unless
a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), but shall not be given
more than 60 days before the Redemption Date. Any such notice may be cancelled
at any time prior to notice of such redemption being mailed to any Holder and
shall thereby be void and of no effect.

SECTION 3.02     Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed.
                 ---------------------------------

          If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time,
selection of such Notes for redemption will be made by the Trustee in compliance
with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on
which such Notes are listed or, if such Notes are not listed on a national
securities exchange, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate; provided, however, that no Notes of a
                                         --------  -------
principal amount of $1,000 or EU1,000, as the case may be, or less shall be
redeemed in part. On and after the Redemption Date, interest shall cease to
accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption; provided,
                                                               --------
further, however, that if a partial redemption is made with the proceeds of an
-------  -------
Equity Offering, selection of the Notes or portions thereof for redemption shall
be made by the Trustee only on a pro rata basis or on as nearly a pro rata basis
as is practicable (subject to DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream procedures), unless
such method is otherwise prohibited.
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SECTION 3.03.    Notice of Redemption.
                 --------------------

          At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date,
the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed a notice of redemption by first-
class mail to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered
address, with a copy to the Trustee. At the Company's request, the Trustee shall
give the notice of redemption in the Company's name and at the Company's
expense. Each notice for redemption shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and
shall state:

          (1)  the Redemption Date;

          (2)  the redemption price and the amount of accrued interest, if any,
     to be paid (the "Redemption Price");

          (3)  the paragraph and subparagraph of the Notes pursuant to which the
     Notes are being redeemed;

          (4)  the name and address of the Paying Agent;

          (5)  that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the
     Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;

          (6)  that, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption
     payment, interest, if any, on Notes called for redemption shall cease to
     accrue on and after the Redemption Date, and the only remaining right of
     the Holders of such Notes is to receive payment of the Redemption Price
     upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed;

          (7)  that, if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the
     principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the Redemption
     Date, and upon cancellation of such Note, a new Note or Notes in the
     aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be
     issued in the name of the Holder;
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          (8)  that, if less than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the
     identification of the particular Notes (or portion thereof) to be redeemed,
     as well as the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and the
     aggregate principal amount of Notes to be outstanding after such partial
     redemption; and

          (9)  whether the redemption is conditioned on any events and what such
     conditions are.

          The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such rule, laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
purchase of Notes.

SECTION 3.04.    Effect of Notice of Redemption.
                 ------------------------------

          Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.03,
Notes called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at
the Redemption Price. Upon surrender to the Trustee or Paying Agent, such Notes
called for redemption shall be paid at the Redemption Price, but installments of
interest, the maturity of which is on or prior to the Redemption Date, shall be
payable to Holders of record at the close of business on the relevant record
dates referred to in the Notes. Interest shall accrue on or after the Redemption
Date and shall be payable only if the Company defaults in payment of the
Redemption Price.

SECTION 3.05.    Deposit of Redemption Price.
                 ---------------------------

           On or before the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender (in the case of Dollar Notes) and/or euros (in
the case of Euro Notes) sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all Notes to
be redeemed on that date. The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company
any U.S. Legal Tender (in the case of Dollar Notes) and/or euros (in the
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case of Euro Notes) so deposited that is not required for that purpose, except
with respect to monies owed as obligations to the Trustee pursuant to Article
Seven.

          Unless the Company fails to comply with the preceding paragraph and
defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price, interest on the Notes to be
redeemed will cease to accrue on and after the applicable Redemption Date,
whether or not such Notes are presented for payment.

SECTION 3.06.    Notes Redeemed in Part.
                 ----------------------

          Upon surrender of a Note that is to be redeemed in part, the Trustee
shall authenticate for the Holder a new Note or Notes equal in principal amount
to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.

                                 ARTICLE FOUR

                                   COVENANTS

SECTION 4.01.    Payment of Notes.
                 ----------------

          The Company shall pay the interest on the Notes on the dates and in
the manner provided in the Notes. An installment of principal of or interest on
the Notes shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or
Paying Agent holds on that date U.S. Legal Tender (in the case of Dollar Notes)
and/or euros (in the case of Euro Notes) designated for and sufficient to pay
the installment. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-
day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

          Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture,
the Company may, to the extent it is required to do so by law, deduct or
withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America
from principal, premium or interest payments hereunder.
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SECTION 4.02.  Maintenance of Office or Agency.
               -------------------------------

          The Company shall maintain the office or agency required under Section
2.03. The Company shall give prior notice to the Trustee of the location, and
any change in the location, of such 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 address of the Trustee set
forth in Section 12.02.

SECTION 4.03.  Limitation on Restricted Payments.
               ---------------------------------

          The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, (a) declare or pay any
dividend or make any distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable
solely in Qualified Capital Stock of the Company) on or in respect of shares of
the Company's Capital Stock to holders of such Capital Stock, (b) purchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company
or any warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any class of
such Capital Stock, (c) make any principal payment on, purchase, defease,
redeem, prepay, decrease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to any
scheduled final maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment,
any Indebtedness of the Company that is subordinate or junior in right of
payment to the Notes or (d) make any Investment (other than Permitted
Investments) (each of the foregoing actions set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c)
and (d) being referred to as a "Restricted Payment"), if at the time of such
Restricted Payment or immediately after giving effect thereto, (i) a Default or
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the Company is
not able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than
Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.12, or (iii) the aggregate
amount of Restricted Payments (including such proposed Restricted Payment) made
subsequent to June 30, 1999 (the amount expended for such purposes, if other
than in cash, being the fair market value of such property as determined
reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Managers of the Company) shall
exceed the sum of: (x) 50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income (or if
cumu-
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lative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss) of
the Company earned from June 30, 1999 through the last day of the last full
fiscal quarter immediately preceding the date the Restricted Payment occurs (the
"Reference Date") (treating such period as a single accounting period); plus (y)
100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company from any Person
(other than a Subsidiary of the Company) from the issuance and sale subsequent
to June 30, 1999 and on or prior to the Reference Date of Qualified Capital
Stock of the Company (other than Specified Venture Capital Stock); plus (z)
without duplication of any amounts included in clause (iii)(y) above, 100% of
the aggregate net cash proceeds of any equity contribution received by the
Company from a holder of the Company's Capital Stock.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions set forth in the immediately
preceding paragraph shall not prohibit: (1) the payment of any dividend within
60 days after the date of declaration of such dividend if the dividend would
have been permitted on the date of declaration; (2) the acquisition of any
shares of Capital Stock of the Company, either (i) solely in exchange for shares
of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (ii) if no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, through the application of net
proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale or incurrence for cash (other than
to a Subsidiary of the Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the
Company; (3) the acquisition of any Indebtedness of the Company that is
subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Notes either (i) solely in
exchange for shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company, or (ii) if no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, through the
application of net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale or incurrence for
cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of (A) shares of Qualified
Capital Stock of the Company or (B) Refinancing Indebtedness; (4) so long as no
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Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, repurchases
by the Company of, or dividends to Holdings to permit repurchases by Holdings
of, Common Stock of the Company or Holdings from employees of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or their authorized representatives upon the death,
disability or termination of employment of such employees, in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $4 million in any calendar year; (5) the redemption or
repurchase of any Common Stock of the Company held by a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company which obtained such Common Stock directly from the Company; (6)
distributions to the members of the Company in accordance with the Tax Sharing
Agreement; (7) payments to Holdings for legal, audit and other expenses directly
relating to the administration of Holdings (including fees and expenses relating
to the Holdings Zero Coupon Notes) which when aggregated with loans made to
Holdings in accordance with clause (xvii) under the definition of "Permitted
Investments" will not exceed $3.0 million in any fiscal year; (8) the payment of
consideration by a third party to equity holders of the Company; (9) additional
Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10 million since June
30, 1999; (10) payments of dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock issued in
accordance with Section 4.12 and (11) distributions or investments to effect the
transactions contemplated by the Contribution Agreement and the financing
thereof. In determining the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made
subsequent to June 30, 1999 in accordance with clause (iii) of the immediately
preceding paragraph, cash amounts expended pursuant to clauses (1), (2) and (4)
shall be included in such calculation.

          Not later than the date of making any Restricted Payment pursuant to
clause (iii) of the second preceding paragraph or clause (9) of the immediately
preceding paragraph, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an officers'
certificate stating that such Restricted Payment complies with this Indenture
and setting forth in reasonable detail the basis upon which the required
calculations were computed, which calculations may be based upon the Company's
quarterly financial statements last provided to the Trustee pursuant to Section
4.09.
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SECTION 4.04.  Corporate Existence.
               -------------------

          Except as otherwise permitted by Article Five, the Company shall do or
cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve and keep in full
force and effect its corporate or other existence and the corporate or other
existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with the
respective organizational documents of each such Restricted Subsidiary and the
material rights (charter and statutory) and franchises of the Company and each
such Restricted Subsidiary; except for such noncompliances as are not in the
aggregate reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial
condition or results of operations of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

SECTION 4.05.  Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
               ---------------------------------

          The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and
governmental charges (including withholding taxes and any penalties, interest
and additions to taxes) levied or imposed upon it or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries or properties of it or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii)
all material lawful claims for labor, materials, supplies and services that, if
unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon the property of it or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries; except for such noncompliances as are not in the
aggregate reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial
condition or results of operations of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries as a whole; provided, however, that there shall not be required to
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be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment or charge, the amount,
applicability or validity of which is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and for which adequate provision has been made or where
the failure to effect such payment or discharge is not adverse in any material
respect to the Holders.
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SECTION 4.06.  Maintenance of Properties and Insurance.
               ---------------------------------------

          (a)  The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, make all reasonable efforts to maintain its material properties
in normal condition (subject to ordinary wear and tear) and make all reasonably
necessary repairs, renewals or replacements thereto as in the judgment of the
Company may be reasonably necessary to the conduct of the business of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries; except for such noncompliances as are
not in the aggregate reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the
financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

          (b)  The Company shall provide or cause to be provided, for itself and
each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, insurance (including appropriate self-
insurance) against loss or damage of the kinds that, in the reasonable, good
faith opinion of the Company, are reasonably adequate and appropriate for the
conduct of the business of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries.

SECTION 4.07.  Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default.
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          (a)  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after
the end of each of the Company's fiscal years, an Officers' Certificate stating
that a review of its activities and the activities of its Restricted
Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the
supervision of the signing officers with a view to determining whether it has
kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture and
further stating, as to each such officer signing such certificate, that to the
best of his knowledge at the date of such certificate there is no Default or
Event of Default that has occurred and is continuing or, if such signers do know
of such Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall describe the Default
or Event of Default and its status with particularity. The Officers' Certificate
shall also notify the Trustee should the Company elect to change the manner in
which it fixes its fiscal year end.
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          (b)  The annual financial statements delivered to the Trustee pursuant
to Section 4.09 shall be accompanied by a written report of the Company's
independent accountants that in conducting their audit of the financial
statements which are a part of such annual report or such annual financial
statements nothing has come to their attention that would lead them to believe
that the Company has violated any provisions of Article Four, Five or Six
insofar as they relate to accounting matters or, if any such violation has
occurred, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof, it being
understood that such accountants shall not be liable directly or indirectly to
any Person for any failure to obtain knowledge of any such violation.

          (c)  So long as any of the Notes are outstanding (i) if any Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (ii) if any Holder seeks to
exercise any remedy hereunder with respect to a claimed Default under this
Indenture or the Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee as soon as
practicable by registered or certified mail or by telegram, telex or facsimile
transmission followed by hard copy by registered or certified mail an Officers'
Certificate specifying such event, notice or other action.

SECTION 4.08.  Compliance with Laws.
               --------------------

          The Company shall comply, and shall cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to comply, with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders
and restrictions of the United States of America, all states and municipalities
thereof, and of any governmental department, commission, board, regulatory
authority, bureau, agency and instrumentality of the foregoing, in respect of
the conduct of their respective businesses and the ownership of their respective
properties, except for such noncompliances as are not in the aggregate
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition
or results of operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as
a whole.
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SECTION 4.09.  Reports to Holders.
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          Whether or not required by the Commission, so long as any Notes are
outstanding, after the date the Exchange Offer is required to be consummated,
the Company will furnish to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, within the
time periods specified in the Commission's rules and regulations:

          (1)  all quarterly and annual financial information that would be
     required to be contained in a filing with the Commission on Forms 10-Q and
     10-K if the Company were required to file such Forms, including a
     "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
     Operations" and, with respect to the annual information only, a report on
     the annual financial statements by the Company's certified independent
     accountants; and

          (2)  all current reports that would be required to be filed with the
     Commission on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports.

          If the Company has designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted
Subsidiaries, then the quarterly and annual financial information required by
the preceding paragraph shall include a reasonably detailed presentation, either
on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes or schedules thereto
and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations, of the financial condition and results of operations of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition
and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Company.
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          In addition, whether or not required by the Commission, the Company
will file a copy of all the information and reports referred to in clauses (1)
and (2) above with the Commission for public availability within the time
periods specified in the Commission's rules and regulations (unless the
Commission will not accept such a filing) and make such information available to
securities analysts and prospective investors upon request.

SECTION 4.10.  Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
               ---------------------------------------

          The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or
other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any
portion of the principal of, premium or interest on the Notes as contemplated
herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may
affect the obligations or the performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) the Company 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.

SECTION 4.11.  Limitations on Transactions with Affiliates.
               -----------------------

          (a)  The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any
transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation,
the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any
service) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates (each an "Affiliate
Transaction"), other than (x) Affiliate Transactions permitted under paragraph
(b) below and (y) Affiliate Transactions on terms that are no less favorable
than those that might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable transaction
at such time on an arm's-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary. All Affiliate
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Transactions (and each series of related Affiliate Transactions which are
similar or part of a common plan) that involves an aggregate fair market value
of more than $5.0 million shall be approved by the Board of Managers of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, such approval to be
evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that such Board of Managers has
determined that such transaction complies with the foregoing provisions. If the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company enters into an Affiliate
Transaction (or a series of related Affiliate Transactions related to a common
plan) that involves an aggregate fair market value of more than $10.0 million,
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall, prior to
the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such
transaction or series of related transactions to the Company or the relevant
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view, from
an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Trustee.

          (b)  The restrictions set forth in clause (a) shall not apply to (i)
reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of,
officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company as determined in good faith by the Company's Board of
Managers or senior management; (ii) transactions exclusively between or among
the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or exclusively between or
among such Restricted Subsidiaries, provided such transactions are not otherwise
prohibited by this Indenture; (iii) any agreement as in effect as of the Issue
Date or contemplated by the Contribution Agreement or any amendment thereto or
any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment
thereto) or in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment
or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any
material respect than the original agreement;
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(iv) Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments made in compliance with this
Indenture; (v) transactions between or among any of the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries and any Securitization Entity in connection with a Qualified
Securitization Transaction, in each case provided that such transactions are not
otherwise prohibited by this Indenture; and (vi) transactions with distributors
or other purchases or sales of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary
course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture
which when taken together are fair to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries
as applicable, in the reasonable determination of the Board of Managers of the
Company or the senior management thereof, or are on terms at least as favorable
as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party.

SECTION 4.12.  Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.
               ---------------------------------------------------

          The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume,
guarantee, acquire, become liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to,
or otherwise become responsible for payment of (collectively, "incur") any
Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness); provided, however, if no
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Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of
or as a consequence of the incurrence of any such Indebtedness, the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries which are Guarantors may incur Indebtedness
(including, without limitation, Acquired Indebtedness) and Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Company which are not Guarantors may incur Acquired
Indebtedness, in each case if on the date of the incurrence of such
Indebtedness, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof, the Consolidated
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company is greater than 2.0 to 1.0.
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SECTION 4.13.      Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions
                   Affecting Subsidiaries.
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          The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or
permit to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the
ability of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to (a) pay dividends or make
any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock; (b) make loans or
advances or to pay any Indebtedness or other obligation owed to the Company or
any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or (c) transfer any of its
property or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by
reason of: (1) applicable law; (2) this Indenture; (3) customary non-assignment
provisions of any contract or any lease governing a leasehold interest of any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; (4) any agreements existing at the time of
acquisition of any Person or the properties or assets of the Person so acquired
(including agreements governing Acquired Indebtedness), which encumbrance or
restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any
Person, other than the Person or the properties or assets of the Person so
acquired; (5) agreements existing on the Issue Date to the extent and in the
manner such agreements are in effect on the Issue Date; (6) restrictions imposed
by any agreement to sell assets or Capital Stock permitted under this Indenture
to any Person pending the closing of such sale; (7) any agreement or instrument
governing Capital Stock of any Person that is acquired; (8) Indebtedness or
other contractual requirements of a Securitization Entity in connection with a
Qualified Securitization Transaction; provided that such restrictions apply only
to such Securitization Entity; (9) Liens incurred in accordance with the
covenant described under Section 4.18; (10) restrictions on cash or other
deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the
ordinary course of business; (11) the Credit Facilities; (12) any restriction
under an agreement governing Indebtedness of a Foreign Subsidiary permitted
under Section 4.12; (13) customary restrictions in Capitalized Lease
Obligations, security agreements or mortgages securing Indebtedness of the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent such restrictions restrict the
transfer of the property subject to such Capitalized Lease Obligations, security
agreements or mortgages; (14) customary provisions in joint venture agreements
and other similar agreements (in each case relating solely to the respective
joint venture or similar entity or the equity interests therein) entered into in
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the ordinary course of business; (15) contracts entered into in the ordinary
course of business, not relating to Indebtedness, and that do not, individually
or in the aggregate, detract from the value of property or assets of the Company
or any Restricted Subsidiary in any manner material to the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary; and (16) an agreement governing Indebtedness incurred to
Refinance the Indebtedness issued, assumed or incurred pursuant to an agreement
referred to in clause (2), (4), (5), (8), (11), (12) or (13) above; provided,
                                                                    --------
however, that the provisions relating to such encumbrance or restriction
-------
contained in any such Indebtedness are no less favorable to the Company in any
material respect as determined by the Board of Managers of the Company in their
reasonable and good faith judgment than the provisions relating to such
encumbrance or restriction contained in agreements referred to in such clause
(2), (4), (5), (8), (11), (12) or (13).

SECTION 4.14.      Change of Control.
                   -----------------

          (a)  Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder will have
the right to require that the Company purchase all or a portion (equal to $1,000
or EU1,000, as the case may be, or an integral multiple thereof) of such
Holder's Notes in cash pursuant to the offer described below (the "Change of
Control Offer"), at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount
thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase.

          (b)  Prior to the mailing of the notice referred to below, but in any
event within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company covenants to
(i) repay in full and terminate all commitments under Indebtedness under the
Credit Facilities and all other Senior Debt the terms of which require repayment
upon a Change of Control or offer to repay in full and terminate all commitments
under all Indebtedness under the Credit Facilities and all other such Senior
Debt and to repay the Indebtedness owed to each lender which has accepted such
offer or (ii) obtain the requisite consents under the Credit Facilities and all
other Senior Debt to permit the repurchase of the Notes as provided below. The
Company shall first comply with the covenant in the immediately preceding
sentence before it shall be required to repurchase Notes pursuant to the
provisions described below. The Company's failure to comply with the covenant
described in the immediately preceding sentence shall be governed by clause (3),
and not clause (2), of Section 6.01.
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          (c)  Within 30 days following the date on which a Change of Control
occurs (the "Change of Control Date"), the Company shall send, by first class
mail, postage prepaid, a notice to each Holder of Notes at their last registered
address and the Trustee, which notice shall govern the terms of the Change of
Control Offer. The notice to the Holders shall contain all instructions and
materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the
Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall state:

          (1)  that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to
     Section 4.14 of the Indenture and that all Notes validly tendered and not
     withdrawn will be accepted for payment;

          (2)  the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest, if
     any) and the purchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor
     later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may
     be required by law) (the "Change of Control Payment Date");

          (3)  that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;

          (4)  that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor, any
     Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall
     cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Payment Date;

          (5)  that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a
     Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the
     form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the
     Note completed, to the Paying Agent and Registrar for the Notes at the
     address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third
     Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date;

          (6)  that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
     Paying Agent receives, not later than the second Business Day prior to the
     Change of Control Payment Date, a telegram, telex,
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     facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the
     principal amount of the Notes the Holder delivered for purchase and a
     statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note
     purchased;

          (7)  that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be
     issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of
     the Notes surrendered; provided, however, that each Note purchased and each
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     new Note issued shall be in a principal amount of $1,000, EU1,000 or
     integral multiples thereof; and

          (8)  the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of
     Control.

          (d)  On or before the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company
shall (i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof (in integral multiples of
$1,000 and EU1,000) validly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer,
(ii) deposit with the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 2.14 U.S. Legal
Tender and/or euros sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, of all Notes to be purchased and (iii) deliver to the Trustee
Notes so accepted together with an Officers' Certificate stating the Notes or
portions thereof being purchased by the Company. Upon receipt by the Paying
Agent of the monies specified in clause (ii) above and a copy of the Officers'
Certificate specified in clause (iii) above, the Paying Agent shall promptly
mail to the Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the
purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, out of the funds
deposited with the Paying Agent in accordance with the preceding sentence. The
Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail or cause to be transferred by book-
entry to such Holders new Notes equal in principal amount to any unpurchased
portion of the Notes surrendered, provided that each such new Note will be in
the same currency as the surrendered Note and in a principal amount of $1,000 or
EU1,000, as the case may be, or an integral multiple thereof. Upon the payment
of the purchase price for the Notes accepted for purchase, the Trustee shall
return the Notes purchased to the Company for cancellation. Any monies remaining
after the purchase of Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer shall be
returned within three Business Days by the Trustee to the Company except with
respect to monies owed as obligations to the Trustee pursuant to Article Seven.
For purposes of this Section 4.14, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.
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          (e)  The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under
the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such rule, laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
purchase of the Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer. To the extent the
provisions of any securities laws and regulations conflict with the provisions
of this Indenture relating to a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall
comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be
deemed to have breached its obligations relating to such Change of Control Offer
by virtue thereof.

SECTION 4.15.      Limitation on Asset Sales.
                   -------------------------

          (a)  The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless (i) the Company or the
applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at
the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the fair market value of the
assets sold or otherwise disposed of (as determined in good faith by the
Company's Board of Managers); (ii) at least 75% of the consideration received by
the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from such Asset
Sale shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents
(provided that the amount of any liabilities (as shown on the Company's or such
Restricted Subsidiary's most recent balance sheet) of the Company or any such
Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms
subordinated to the Notes) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets
shall be deemed to be cash for purposes of this provision) and is received at
the time of such disposition; and (iii) upon the consummation of an Asset Sale,
the Company shall apply, or cause such Restricted Subsidiary to apply, the Net
Cash Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale within 365 days of receipt thereof
either (A) to prepay any Senior Debt, Guarantor Senior Debt or Indebtedness of a
Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor and, in the case of any such
Indebtedness under any revolving credit facility, effect a permanent reduction
in the availability under such revolving credit facility, (B) to either (x) make
an investment in or expenditures for properties and assets (including Capital
Stock of any entity) that replace the properties and assets that were the
subject of such Asset Sale or in properties and assets (including Capital Stock
of any entity) that will be used in the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as existing on the Issue Date or in businesses reasonably related
thereto ("Replacement Assets") or (y) the acquisition of all of the capital
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stock or assets of any Person or division conducting a business reasonably
related to that of the Company or its Subsidiaries; provided that Net Cash
                                                    --------
Proceeds in excess of $30 million in the aggregate since June 30, 1999 from
Asset Sales involving assets of the Company or a Guarantor (other than the
Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary) shall only be reinvested in (x) assets
which will be owned by the Company or a Guarantor and not constituting an
Investment or (y) the capital stock of a Person that becomes a Guarantor or (C)
a combination of prepayment, repurchase and investment permitted by the
foregoing clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B) and (iii)(C). On the 366th day after an
Asset Sale or such earlier date, if any, as the Board of Managers of the Company
or of such Restricted Subsidiary determines not to apply the Net Cash Proceeds
relating to such Asset Sale as set forth in clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B) and
(iii)(C) of the next preceding sentence (each, a "Net Proceeds Offer Trigger
Date"), such aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds which have not been applied
on or before such Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date as permitted in clauses
(iii)(A), (iii)(B) and (iii)(C) of the next preceding sentence (each a "Net
Proceeds Offer Amount") shall be applied by the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary to make an offer to purchase (the "Net Proceeds Offer") on a date
(the "Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date") not less than 30 nor more than 45 days
following the applicable Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date, from all Holders and
all holders of Indebtedness that is pari passu with the Notes containing
provisions requiring offers to purchase with the proceeds of sales of assets, on
a pro rata basis, that amount of Notes equal to the Net Proceeds Offer Amount at
a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be purchased, plus
accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of purchase; provided,
                                                                      --------
however, that if at any time any non-cash consideration received by the Company
-------
or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, in connection
with any Asset Sale is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash
(other than interest received with respect to any such non-cash consideration),
then such conversion or disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale
hereunder and the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with
this Section 4.15. The Company shall not be required to make a Net Proceeds
Offer until there is an aggregate unutilized Net Proceeds Offer Amount equal to
or in excess of $30 million resulting from one or more Asset Sales, at which
time, the unutilized Net Proceeds Offer Amount, shall be applied as required
pursuant to this paragraph, provided, however, that the first $30 million of Net
                            --------  -------
Proceeds Offer Amount need not be applied as required pursuant to this
paragraph.
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          In the event of the transfer of substantially all (but not all) of the
property and assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as an
entirety to a Person in a transaction permitted under Section 5.01 and as a
result thereof the Company is no longer an obligor on the Notes, the successor
corporation shall be deemed to have sold the properties and assets of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries not so transferred for purposes of this
Section 4.15, and shall comply with the provisions of this covenant with respect
to such deemed sale as if it were an Asset Sale. In addition, the fair market
value of such properties and assets of the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries deemed to be sold shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds for
purposes of this Section 4.15.

          (b)  Notwithstanding the two immediately preceding paragraphs, the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will be permitted to consummate an Asset
Sale without complying with such paragraphs to the extent (i) at least 80% of
the consideration for such Asset Sale constitutes Replacement Assets and (ii)
such Asset Sale is for fair market value; provided, however, that any
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consideration not constituting Replacement Assets received by the Company or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any Asset Sale permitted to be
consummated under this paragraph shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds subject to
the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs.

          (c)  Subject to the deferral right set forth in the final proviso of
Section 4.15(a), each notice of a Net Proceeds Offer pursuant to this Section
4.15 shall be mailed, by first-class mail, by the Company to Holders of Notes at
their last registered address not more than 30 days following the Net Proceeds
Offer Trigger Date, with a copy to the Trustee. The notice shall contain all
instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes
pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer and shall state the following terms:
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          (1)  that the Net Proceeds Offer is being made pursuant to Section
     4.15 of the Indenture, that all Notes tendered will be accepted for
     payment; provided, however, that if the aggregate principal amount of Notes
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     tendered in a Net Proceeds Offer plus accrued interest at the expiration of
     such offer exceeds the aggregate amount of the Net Proceeds Offer, the
     Company shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with
     such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only
     Notes in denominations of $1,000 or EU1,000, as applicable, or multiples
     thereof shall be purchased) and that the Net Proceeds Offer shall remain
     open for a period of 20 Business Days or such longer periods as may be
     required by law;

          (2)  the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest) and
     the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date (which shall be not less than 30 nor
     more than 45 days following the applicable Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date
     and which shall be at least five Business Days after the Trustee receives
     notice thereof from the Company);

          (3)  that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;

          (4)  that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor, any
     Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer shall cease to
     accrue interest after the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date;
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          (5)  that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Net
     Proceeds Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the form
     entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Note
     completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior
     to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Net Proceeds
     Offer Payment Date;

          (6)  that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
     Paying Agent receives, not later than the second Business Day prior to the
     Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission
     or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the
     Notes the holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is
     withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased; and

          (7)  that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be
     issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of
     the Note surrendered; provided, however, that each Note purchased and each
                           --------  -------
     new Note issued shall be in an original principal amount of $1,000, EU1,000
     or integral multiples thereof.
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          On or before the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, the Company shall
(i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof (in integral multiples of
$1,000 and EU1,000) validly tendered pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer, (ii)
deposit with the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 2.14 U.S. Legal Tender
(in the case of Dollar Notes) and/or euros (in the case of Euro Notes)
sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any,
of all Notes to be purchased and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted
together with an Officers' Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof
being purchased by the Company. Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of the monies
specified in clause (ii) above and a copy of the Officers' Certificate specified
in clause (iii) above, the Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of
Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price plus accrued
and unpaid interest, if any, out of the funds deposited with the Paying Agent in
accordance with the preceding sentence. The Trustee shall promptly authenticate
and mail to such Holders new Notes equal in principal amount to any unpurchased
portion of the Notes surrendered. Upon the payment of the purchase price for the
Notes accepted for purchase, the Trustee shall return the Notes purchased to the
Company for cancellation. Any monies remaining after the purchase of Notes
pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer shall be returned within three Business Days by
the Trustee to the Company except with respect to monies owed as obligations to
the Trustee pursuant to Article Seven. For purposes of this Section 4.15, the
Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.

          To the extent the amount of Notes tendered pursuant to any Net
Proceeds Offer is less than the amount of Net Cash Proceeds subject to such Net
Proceeds Offer, the Company may use any remaining portion of such Net Cash
Proceeds not required to fund the repurchase of tendered Notes for general
corporate purposes and such Net Proceeds Offer Amount shall be reset to zero.
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          The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such rule, laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
repurchase of Notes pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer. To the extent the
provisions of any securities laws and regulations conflict with the provisions
of this Indenture relating to a Net Proceeds Offer, the Company shall comply
with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to
have breached its obligations relating to such Net Proceeds Offer by virtue
thereof.

SECTION 4.16.      Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior
                   Subordinated Debt.
                   -----------------------------------

          The Company will not incur or suffer to exist Indebtedness that by its
terms is senior in right of payment to the Notes and subordinate in right of
payment to any other Indebtedness of the Company.

SECTION 4.17.      Limitation on Preferred Stock of
                   Restricted Subsidiaries.
                   --------------------------------

          The Company will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to
issue any Preferred Stock (other than to the Company or to a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company) or permit any Person (other than the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) to own any Preferred Stock of any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided, however, that (i) Class A Shares
                                      --------  -------
and Class B Shares may be issued pursuant to the terms of the Contribution
Agreement; (ii) any Person which is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company
may issue Preferred Stock to equity holders of such Person in exchange for
equity interests if after such issuance such Person becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary; and (iii) Tioxide Southern Africa (Pty) Limited may issue Preferred
Stock to its equity holders in exchange for its equity interests.
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SECTION 4.18.   Limitation on Liens.
                -------------------

          The Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or permit or suffer to exist
any Liens of any kind upon any property or assets of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary now owned or hereafter acquired, which secures
Indebtedness pari passu with or subordinated to the Notes unless (i) if such
Lien secures Indebtedness which is pari passu with the Notes, then the Notes are
secured on an equal and ratable basis with the obligations so secured until such
time as such obligation is no longer secured by a Lien or (ii) if such Lien
secures Indebtedness which is subordinated to the Notes, any such Lien shall be
subordinated to a Lien granted to the Holders of the Notes in the same
collateral as that securing such Lien to the same extent as such subordinated
Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes.

SECTION 4.19.   Limitation of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries.
                ---------------------------------------------------

          The Company will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
directly or indirectly, by way of the pledge of any intercompany note or
otherwise, to assume, guarantee or in any other manner become liable with
respect to any Indebtedness of the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary
(other than (A) Indebtedness under Currency Agreements and Commodity Agreements
in reliance on clause (v) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness, (B)
Interest Swap Obligations incurred in reliance on clause (iv) of the definition
of Permitted Indebtedness or (C) any guarantee by a Foreign Subsidiary of
Indebtedness of another Foreign Subsidiary permitted under Section 4.12),
unless, in any such case (a) such Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor
executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Indenture, providing a
guarantee of payment of the Notes by such Restricted Subsidiary (the
"Guarantee") and (b) (x) if any such assumption, guarantee or other liability of
such Restricted Subsidiary is provided in respect of Senior Debt, the guarantee
or other instrument provided by such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such
Senior Debt may be superior to the Guarantee pursuant to subordination
provisions no

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less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than those contained in
this Indenture and (y) if such assumption, guarantee or other liability of such
Restricted Subsidiary is provided in respect of Indebtedness that is expressly
subordinated to the Notes, the guarantee or other instrument provided by such
Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such subordinated Indebtedness shall be
subordinated to the Guarantee pursuant to subordination provisions no less
favorable in any material respect to the Holders than those contained in this
Indenture.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such Guarantee by a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Notes shall provide by its terms that it shall be
automatically and unconditionally released and discharged, without any further
action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, upon: (i) the
unconditional release of such Restricted Subsidiary from its liability in
respect of the Indebtedness in connection with which such Guarantee was executed
and delivered pursuant to the preceding paragraph; or (ii) any sale or other
disposition (by merger or otherwise) to any Person which is not a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company of all of the Capital Stock in, or all or
substantially all of the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary or the parent of
such Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (a) such sale or disposition of such
                            --------
Capital Stock or assets is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this
Indenture and (b) such assumption, guarantee or other liability of such
Restricted Subsidiary has been released by the holders of the other Indebtedness
so guaranteed or (iii) such Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary in
accordance with this Indenture.

SECTION 4.20.   Conduct of Business.
                -------------------

          The Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a
Securitization Entity) will not engage in any businesses which are not the same,
similar or related to the businesses in which the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries are engaged on the Issue Date, except to the extent that after
engaging in any new business, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, remain substantially engaged in similar lines of business as are
conducted by them on the Issue Date. HI Financial shall only conduct the
business of holding Indebtedness

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of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company and shall not incur or be liable for
any Indebtedness other than guarantees otherwise permitted under this Indenture.
TG shall only conduct the business of holding the equity interests in Restricted
Subsidiaries and shall not incur or be liable for any Indebtedness other than
guarantees otherwise permitted under this Indenture. Holdings U.K. shall only
conduct the business of holding equity interests and Indebtedness of Restricted
Subsidiaries and shall not incur or be liable for any Indebtedness other than
Indebtedness owing to the Company or HI Financial. Funds directly or indirectly
advanced to any Foreign Subsidiary by the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary may
only be so advanced if such funds are (i) advanced directly by the Company or a
Domestic Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) contributed to HI Financial as common
equity and HI Financial loans such funds, directly or indirectly through Wholly
Owned Restricted Subsidiaries, to such Foreign Subsidiary or (iii) contributed
to TG as common equity and TG invests such funds in such Foreign Subsidiary.

SECTION 4.21.   Capital Stock of Certain Subsidiaries.
                -------------------------------------

          The Company will at all times hold directly, or indirectly through a
Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary, (i) all issued and outstanding Capital Stock
of TG, other than Class A Shares issued pursuant to the terms of the
Contribution Agreement, which will be held by an ICI Affiliate and (ii) all
issued and outstanding Capital Stock of Holdings U.K., other than Class B Shares
issued pursuant to the terms of the Contribution Agreement, which will be held
by a Huntsman Affiliate. Neither TG nor Holdings U.K. will issue any Capital
Stock (or any direct or indirect rights, options or warrants to acquire such
Capital Stock) to any Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company except to qualify directors if required by applicable
law or other similar legal requirements and the Class A Shares and Class B
Shares described in the preceding sentence. TG will not make any direct or
indirect distribution with respect to its Capital Stock to any Person other than
the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company except that
after the UK Holdco Notes have been paid in full, dividends may be paid on the
Class A

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Shares of TG in an amount not to exceed 1% of the dividends paid by TG. Holdings
U.K. will not make any direct or indirect distribution with respect to its
Capital Stock to any Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company and other than nominal dividends on the Class B
Shares.

                                 ARTICLE FIVE

                             SUCCESSOR CORPORATION

SECTION 5.01.   Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets.
                ----------------------------------------

          (a)  The Company will not, in a single transaction or a series of
related transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any Person, or sell,
assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of (or cause or permit any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of) all or substantially all of the Company's assets
(determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries), whether as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any
Person unless:

          (i)  either (1) the Company shall be the surviving or continuing
     corporation or (2) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such
     consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person that
     acquires by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other
     disposition the properties and assets of the Company and of the Company's
     Restricted Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety (the "Surviving
     Entity") (x) shall be an entity organized and validly existing under the
     laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia
     and (y) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture (in form and
     substance satisfactory to the Trustee), executed and delivered to the
     Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if
     any, and interest on all the Notes and the performance of every cove-

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     nant of the Notes and this Indenture on the part of the Company to be
     performed or observed;

          (ii)   immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the
     assumption contemplated by clause (i)(2)(y) above (including giving effect
     to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be
     incurred in connection with or in respect of such transaction), the Company
     or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall be able to incur at
     least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness)
     pursuant to Section 4.12;

          (iii)  immediately before and immediately after giving effect to
     such transaction and the assumption contemplated by clause (i)(2)(y) above
     (including, without limitation, giving effect to any Indebtedness and
     Acquired Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred and any Lien
     granted in connection with or in respect of the transaction), no Default or
     Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing; and

          (iv)   the Company or the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the
     Trustee an officers' certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating
     that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease,
     conveyance or other disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is
     required in connection with such transaction, such supple mental indenture
     comply with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and that all
     conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to such transaction have
     been satisfied.

          (b)    For purposes of this Section 5.01, the transfer (by lease,
assignment, sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of related
transactions) of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or
more Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, the Capital Stock of which
constitutes all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company,
will be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties
and assets of the Company.

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          (c)  Each Guarantor (other than any Guarantor whose Guarantee is to be
released in accordance with the terms of the Guarantee and this Indenture in
connection with any transaction complying with the provisions of Section 4.15)
will not, and the Company will not cause or permit any Guarantor to, consolidate
with or merge with or into any Person other than the Company or any other
Guarantor unless: (i) the entity formed by or surviving any such consolidation
or merger (if other than the Guarantor) or to which such sale, lease, conveyance
or other disposition shall have been made assumes by supplemental indenture all
of the obligations of the Guarantor on its Guarantee; (ii) immediately after
giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing; and (iii) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction and the use of any net proceeds therefrom on a pro forma basis, the
Company could satisfy the provisions of clause (ii) of the first paragraph of
this Section 5.01. Any merger or consolidation of a Guarantor with and into the
Company (with the Company being the surviving entity) or another Guarantor need
not comply with clause (a) above.

          Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.01 to the contrary, (a) the
Company may merge with an Affiliate that has no material assets or liabilities
and that is incorporated or organized solely for the purpose of reincorporating
or reorganizing the Company in another state of the United States or the
District of Columbia to realize tax benefits without complying with clause (ii)
of the first paragraph of this covenant and (b) any transaction characterized as
a merger under applicable state law where each of the constituent entities
survives, shall not be treated as a merger for purposes of this covenant, but
shall instead be treated as (x) an Asset Sale, if the result of such transaction
is the transfer of assets by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or (y) an
Investment, if the result of such transaction is the acquisition of assets by
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary.

SECTION 5.02.   Successor Corporation Substituted.
                ---------------------------------

          Upon any consolidation, combination or merger, or any transfer of all
or substantially all of the assets of the Com-

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pany in accordance with Section 5.01 in which the Company is not the continuing
corporation, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or to which such conveyance, lease or transfer is made shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of,
the Company under this Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such
surviving entity had been named as such.

                                  ARTICLE SIX

                             DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

SECTION 6.01.   Events of Default.
                -----------------

          Each of the following shall be an "Event of Default":

          (1)  the failure to pay interest on the Notes when the same becomes
     due and payable and such Default continues for a period of 30 days (whether
     or not such payment shall be prohibited by the subordination provisions de
     scribed under Article Ten);

          (2)  the failure to pay principal on any Notes, when such principal
     becomes due and payable, at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise
     (including the failure to make a payment to purchase Notes tendered
     pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or a Net Proceeds Offer) (whether or
     not such payment shall be prohibited by the provisions described under
     Article Ten);

          (3)  a default in the observance or performance of any other covenant
     or agreement contained in this Indenture, which default continues for a
     period of 60 days after the Company receives written notice thereof
     specifying the default (and demanding that such default be remedied) from
     the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% of the outstanding principal
     amount of the Notes (except in the case of a default with respect to
     Section 5.01, which will

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     constitute an Event of Default with such notice requirement but without
     such passage of time requirement);

          (4)  the failure to pay at the final maturity (giving effect to any
     applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) the principal amount
     of any Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
     Company or the acceleration of the final stated maturity of any such
     Indebtedness if the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness,
     together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness in
     default for failure to pay principal at final maturity or which has been
     accelerated, aggregates $25.0 million or more at any time and such
     Indebtedness has not been discharged in full or such acceleration has not
     been rescinded or annulled within 30 days of such final maturity or
     acceleration;

          (5)  one or more judgments in an aggregate amount in excess of $25.0
     million (which are not covered by third party insurance as to which the
     insurer has not disclaimed coverage) shall have been rendered against the
     Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and such judgment or
     judgments remain undischarged, unpaid or unstayed for a period of 60 days
     after such judgment or judgments become final and nonappealable;

          (6)  the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which is also a
     Significant Subsidiary (A) commences a voluntary case or proceeding under
     any Bankruptcy Law with respect to itself, (B) consents to the entry of a
     judgment, decree or order for relief against it in an involuntary case or
     proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, (C) consents to the appointment of a
     custodian of it or for substantially all of its property, (D) consents to
     or acquiesces in the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency
     proceeding against it or (E) makes a general assignment for the benefit of
     its creditors;

          (7)  a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree or
     order for relief in respect of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
     which is also a Significant

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     Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law,
     which shall (A) approve as properly filed a petition seeking
     reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in respect of the
     Company or any Significant Subsidiary, (B) appoint a custodian of the
     Company or any Significant Subsidiary or for substantially all of its
     property or (C) order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; and
     such judgment, decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a
     period of 60 consecutive days; or

          (8)  any Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full
     force and effect or any such Guarantee is declared to be null and void and
     unenforceable or any of such Guarantee is found to be invalid or any of the
     Guarantors denies its liability under its Guarantee (other than by reason
     of release of a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Indenture).

SECTION 6.02.   Acceleration.
                ------------

          (a)  If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified
in Section 6.01(6) or (7) with respect to the Company) shall occur and be
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
outstanding Notes may declare the principal of all the Notes, together with all
accrued and unpaid interest, to be due and payable by notice in writing to the
Company and, in the case of an acceleration notice from the Holders of at least
25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, the Trustee specifying the
respective Event of Default and that it is a "notice of acceleration" (the
"Acceleration Notice"), and the same shall become immediately due and payable or
if there are any amounts outstanding under the Designated Senior Debt, shall
become immediately due and payable upon the first to occur of an acceleration
under the Designated Senior Debt or 5 Business Days after receipt by the Company
and the Representative under the Designated Senior Debt of such Acceleration
Notice. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(6) or (7) with respect
to the Company occurs and is continuing, then such amount will ipso facto become
                                                               ---- -----
and be immediately due and payable without any

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declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of the Notes.

          (b)  At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to
the Notes as described in the preceding paragraph, the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (by notice to the Trustee) may
rescind and cancel such declaration and its consequences if (i) the rescission
would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent
jurisdiction, (ii) all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived
except nonpayment of principal of or interest on the Notes that has become due
solely by such declaration of acceleration, (iii) to the extent the payment of
such interest is lawful, interest (at the same rate specified in the Notes) on
overdue installments of interest and overdue payments of principal, which has
become due other than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid, (iv)
the Company has paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the
Trustee for its expenses, disbursements and advances and (v) in the event of the
cure or waiver of a De fault or Event of Default of the type described in
Sections 6.01(6) and (7), the Trustee has received an Officers' Certificate and
Opinion of Counsel that such Default or Event of De fault has been cured or
waived and the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon such
Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel. No such rescission shall affect
any subsequent Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereto.

SECTION 6.03.   Other Remedies.
                --------------

          If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the
payment of principal of, premium, if any, or accrued and unpaid interest on the
Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this
Indenture.

          The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any
of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.  A delay or
omission by the Trustee or any

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Noteholder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default
shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence
in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy. All
available remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

SECTION 6.04.  Waiver of Past Defaults.
               -----------------------

          Subject to Sections 6.07 and 9.02, the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Notes by notice to the Trustee may waive any existing
Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default in the
payment of the principal of or interest on any Note as specified in clauses
(1) and (2) of Section 6.01.

SECTION 6.05.  Control by Majority.
               -------------------

          Subject to Section 2.09, the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may 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 it, including, without limitation,
any remedies provided for in Section 6.03.  Subject to Section 7.01, however,
the Trustee may, in its discretion, refuse to follow any direction that
conflicts with any law or this Indenture, that the Trustee determines may be
unduly prejudicial to the rights of another Holder (it being understood that the
Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or
forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders) or that may involve the
Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any
                               --------  -------
other action deemed proper by the Trustee, in its discretion, that is not
inconsistent with such direction.

SECTION 6.06.  Limitation on Suits.
               -------------------

          A Holder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or
the Notes unless:

          (1)  the Holder gives to the Trustee notice of a continuing Event of
     Default;
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          (2)  Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then
     outstanding Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the
     remedy;

          (3)  such Holders offer to the Trustee indemnity or security against
     any loss, liability or expense to be incurred in compliance with such
     request which is satisfactory to the Trustee;

          (4)  the Trustee does not comply with the request within 45 days after
     receipt of the request and the offer of satisfactory indemnity or security;
     and

          (5)  during such 45-day period the Holders of a majority in aggregate
     principal amount of the then outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a
     direction which, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with the
     request.

          A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another
Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over such other Holder.

SECTION 6.07.  Rights of Holders To Receive Payment.
               ------------------------------------

          Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of
any Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium and interest on a Note,
on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note, or to bring suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall
not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 6.08.  Collection Suit by Trustee.
               --------------------------

          If an Event of Default in payment of principal or interest specified
in clause (1) or (2) of Section 6.01 occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the
Company or any other obligor on the Notes for the whole amount of principal and
accrued interest remaining unpaid, together with inter-
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est on overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest at the rate set forth in
the Notes and 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.

SECTION 6.09.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
               --------------------------------

          The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, taxes,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the
Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relating to the Company or any other
obligor upon the Notes, any of their respective creditors or any of their
respective property, and shall be entitled and empowered to collect and receive
any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to
distribute the same, and any custodian in any such judicial proceedings 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 to it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, taxes, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.
The Company's payment obligations under this Section 6.09 shall be secured in
accordance with the provisions of Section 7.07.  Nothing herein contained 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 Notes 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.

SECTION 6.10.  Priorities.
               ----------

          If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article Six, it
shall pay out the money in the following order:
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                                     -105-

          First: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under
     Sections 6.09 and 7.07;

          Second: if the Holders are forced to proceed against the Company
     directly without the Trustee, to Holders for their collection costs;

          Third: to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for
     principal, premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without preference or
     priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes
     for principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and

          Fourth: to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, as their
     interests may appear, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

          The Trustee, upon prior notice to the Company, may fix a record date
and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10.

SECTION 6.11.  Undertaking for Costs.
               ---------------------

          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 or omitted by
it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party
litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the
court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant.
This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder
pursuant to Section 6.06 or 6.07.
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                                 ARTICLE SEVEN

                                    TRUSTEE

SECTION 7.01.  Duties of Trustee.
               -----------------

          (a)  If a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such rights and powers vested in it by
this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof
as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of its own affairs.

          (b)  Except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of
Default:

          (1)  The Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically
     set forth in this Indenture or the TIA and no duties, covenants,
     responsibilities or obligations shall be implied in this Indenture that are
     adverse to the Trustee.

          (2)  In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
     conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
     the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates (including Officers'
     Certificates) or opinions (including Opinions of Counsel) furnished to
     the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However,
     as to any certificates or opinions which are required by any provision of
     this Indenture to be delivered or provided to the Trustee, the Trustee
     shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not
     they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

          (c)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the
Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
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                                     -107-

          (1)  This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
     Section 7.01.

          (2)  The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
     good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee
     was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.

          (3)  The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
     takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
     received by it pursuant to Section 6.02, 6.04 or 6.05.

          (d)  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.

          (e)  Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 7.01.

          (f)  The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money or
assets received by it except as the Trustee may agree with the Company.  Assets
held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other assets except to
the extent required by law.

SECTION 7.02.  Rights of Trustee.
               -----------------

          Subject to Section 7.01:

          (a)  In the absence of bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct on
the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Per-
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                                     -108-

son. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

          (b)  Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may consult
with counsel and may require an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel,
which shall conform to Sections 13.04 and 13.05. The Trustee shall not be liable
for and shall be fully protected in respect of any action it takes or omits to
take in good faith in reliance on such Officers' Certificate, or an Opinion of
Counsel or advice of counsel.

          (c)  The Trustee shall not be liable for any action that it takes or
omits to take in good faith that it reasonably believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers.

          (d)  The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate (including any
Officers' Certificate), statement, instrument, opinion (including any Opinion of
Counsel), notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, 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, upon reasonable notice to the Company, to examine the books,
records, and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney.

          (e)  The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the provisions of
this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reason
able security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may
be incurred by it in compliance with such request, order or direction.

          (f)  The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the
advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this
Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection
from liability
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                                     -109-

with respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good
faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

          (g)  The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in
respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder.

          (h)  The permissive rights of the Trustee to do things enumerated in
this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty.

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

          (j)  The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default of
Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual
knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a
default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee,
and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture.

          (k)  The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits
given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be
indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each
of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and other Person
employed to act hereunder.

          (l)  The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Incumbency
Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers
authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture,
which Incumbency Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an
Incumbency Certificate, including any person as so authorized in any such
certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
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SECTION 7.03.  Individual Rights of Trustee.
               ----------------------------

          The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, any
Restricted or Unrestricted Subsidiary, or their respective Affiliates, with the
same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.  Any Agent may do the same
with like rights.  However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

SECTION 7.04.  Trustee's Disclaimer.
               --------------------

          The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of
this Indenture or the Notes, and it shall not be accountable for the Company's
use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any
statement of the Company in this Indenture or the Notes other than the Trustee's
certificate of authentication.

SECTION 7.05.  Notice of Default.
               -----------------

          If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if
the Trustee has actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default, the
Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of the uncured Default or Event of
Default within 90 days after such Default or Event of Default occurs. Except in
the case of a Default or an Event of Default in the payment of interest or
principal of, premium or interest on, any Note, including an accelerated payment
and the failure to make payment on the Change of Control Payment Date pursuant
to a Change of Control Offer or on the Proceeds Purchase Date pursuant to a Net
Proceeds Offer and, except in the case of a failure to comply with Article Five,
the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as its Board of Managers, the
executive committee of its Board of Managers or a committee of its Board of
Managers and/or Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding
the notice is in the interest of the Holders.  The Trustee shall not be deemed
to have knowledge of a Default or Event of Default other than (i) any Event of
Default occurring pursuant to Sections 6.01(1) or 6.01(2); or (ii) any Default
or Event of Default of which a Trust Officer shall have received
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                                     -111-

written notification or obtained actual knowledge. As used herein, the term
"actual knowledge" means the actual fact or statement of knowing, without any
duty to make any investigation with regard thereto.

SECTION 7.06.  Reports by Trustee to Holders.
               -----------------------------

          Within 60 days after April 1 of each year beginning with April 1,
2001, the Trustee shall, to the extent that any of the events described in TIA
(S) 313(a) occurred within the previous twelve months, but not otherwise, mail
to each Noteholder a brief report dated as of such date that complies with TIA
(S) 313(a).  The Trustee also shall comply with TIA (S)(S) 313(b) and 313(c).

          A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Noteholders shall
be mailed to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock exchange, if any,
on which the Notes are listed.

          The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee if the Notes become
listed on any stock exchange, and if the Notes are so listed, the Trustee shall
comply with TIA (S) 313(d).

SECTION 7.07.  Compensation and Indemnity.
               --------------------------

          The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation as may be agreed upon by the
Company and the Trustee.  The Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any
law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Company shall
reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by it in connection with the
performance of its duties and the discharge of its obligations under this
Indenture.  Such expenses shall include the reasonable fees and expenses of the
Trustee's agents and counsel.

          The Company shall indemnify the Trustee and its agents, employees,
officers, stockholders and directors for, and hold them harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense
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                                     -112-

including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee) incurred
by them except for such actions to the extent caused by any negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct on their part, arising out of or in connection with
the acceptance or administration of this trust including the reasonable costs
and expenses of defending themselves against or investigating any claim (whether
asserted by the Company, any Holder or any other Person) or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of the Trustee's rights,
powers or duties hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any
claim asserted against the Trustee or any of its agents, employees, officers,
stockholders and directors for which it may seek indemnity. The Company shall
defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee and
its agents, employees, officers, stockholders and directors subject to the claim
may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and
expenses of such counsel; provided, however, that the Company will not be
                          --------  -------
required to pay such fees and expenses if it assumes the Trustee's defense and
there is no conflict of interest between the Company and the Trustee and its
agents, employees, officers, stockholders and directors subject to the claim in
connection with such defense as reasonably determined by the Trustee; provided,
                                                                      --------
further, that, unless the Company otherwise agrees in writing, the Company shall
-------
not be liable to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel at any given
time located within one particular jurisdiction. The Company need not pay for
any settlement made without its written consent. The Company need not reimburse
any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability to the extent incurred by
the Trustee through its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.

          To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes on all assets or money held or
collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except assets or money
held in trust to pay principal of or interest on particular Notes.

          When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.01(6) or (7)
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                                     -113-

occurs, such expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for such services shall be paid to the extent
allowed under any Bankruptcy Law.

          The Provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.

SECTION 7.08.  Replacement of Trustee.
               ----------------------

          The Trustee may resign by so notifying the Company in writing at least
30 days in advance.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Company and the
Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee with the Company's consent.  A
resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee
shall become effective only with the successor Trustee's acceptance of
appointment as provided in this Section.  The Company may remove the Trustee if:

          (1)  the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

          (2)  the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or an order for
     relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

          (3)  a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or
     its property; or

          (4)  the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

          If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall notify each Holder of such
event and shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.  Within one year after the
successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company.

          A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company.  Promptly after that,
the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the
successor
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                                     -114-

Trustee, subject to the lien provided in Section 7.07, the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor
Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this
Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail notice of its succession to each
Holder.

          If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the
Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee.

          If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and
the appointment of a successor Trustee.

          Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee.

SECTION 7.09.  Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.
               --------------------------------

          If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall, if such resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is
otherwise eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee; provided, however, that
                                                        --------  -------
such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article
Seven.

SECTION 7.10.  Eligibility; Disqualification.
               -----------------------------

          This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirement of TIA (S)(S) 310(a)(1) and 310(a)(2). The Trustee (or in the case
of a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the related bank
holding company) shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least
$100,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of
condi-
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                                     -115-

tion. In addition, if the Trustee is a corporation included in a bank holding
company system, the Trustee, independently of such bank holding company, shall
meet the capital requirements of TIA (S) 310(a)(2). The Trustee shall comply
with TIA (S) 310(b); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the
                     --------  -------
operation of TIA (S) 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other
notes, or certificates of interest or participation in other notes, of the
Company are outstanding, if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA
(S) 310(b)(1) are met. The provisions of TIA (S) 310 shall apply to the Company
and any other obligor of the Notes.

SECTION 7.11.  Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.
               -----------------------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall comply with TIA (S) 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA (S) 311(b).  A Trustee who has resigned or been
removed shall be subject to TIA (S) 311(a) to the extent indicated therein.  The
provisions of TIA (S) 311 shall apply to the Company and any other obligor of
the Notes.

                                 ARTICLE EIGHT

                      DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE

SECTION 8.01.  Termination of the Company's Obligations.
               ----------------------------------------

          This Indenture will be Discharged and will cease to be of further
effect and the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture
shall terminate (except that the obligations under Sections 2.03 through 2.07,
7.01, 7.02, 7.07 and 7.08 and the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder shall survive the effect of this Article Eight) when
(a) either (i) all Notes, theretofore authenticated and delivered (except lost,
stolen or destroyed Notes which have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Com-
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                                     -116-

pany or discharged from such trust) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation or (ii) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation have become due and payable and the Company has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee funds in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes to the date of deposit together with
irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Trustee to apply such
funds to the payment thereof at maturity or redemption, as the case may be; (b)
the Company has paid all other sums payable under this Indenture by the Company;
and (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture
relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with; provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a
      --------  -------
certificate or certificates of officers of the Company.

          In addition, at the Company's option, either (a) the Company shall be
deemed to have been Discharged from any and all obligations with respect to the
Notes ("Legal Defeasance") after the applicable conditions set forth below have
been satisfied (except for the obligations of the Company under Sections 2.03,
2.04, 2.06, 2.07, 7.01, 7.02, 7.07 and this Section 8.01) or (b) the Company
shall cease to be under any obligation to comply with any term, provision or
condition set forth in Sections 4.03, 4.09 and 4.11 through 4.21 and Section
5.01 and thereafter any omission to comply with such obligations shall not
constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes ("Covenant
Defeasance") after the applicable conditions set forth below have been
satisfied:

          (1)  The Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be
     deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust, for the benefit of the
     Holders cash in U.S. Legal Tender, non-callable U.S. Government Obligations
     or a combination thereof (in the case of Dollar Notes) and euros or Euro
     Obligations (in the case of Euro Notes) that, to-
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                                     -117-

     gether with the payment of interest and premium thereon and principal in
     respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will be 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 all the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes on the
     dates such payments are due in accordance with the terms of such Notes, as
     well as the Trustee's fees and expenses; provided, however, that no
                                              --------  -------
     deposits made pursuant to this Section 8.01(1) shall cause the Trustee to
     have a conflicting interest as defined in and for purposes of the TIA; and
     provided, further, that, as confirmed by an Opinion of Counsel, no such
     --------  -------
     deposit shall result in the Company, the Trustee or the trust becoming or
     being deemed to be an "investment company" under the Investment Company Act
     of 1940;

          (2)  No Event of Default or Default with respect to the Notes shall
     have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit after giving
     effect to such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting
     from the incurrence of Indebtedness all or a portion of the proceeds of
     which will be used to defease the Notes pursuant to this Article Eight) or
     insofar as Events of Default pursuant to Section 6.01(6) or (7) are
     concerned, at any time in the period ending on the 91st day after the date
     of deposit;

          (3)  The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
     Counsel, to the effect that (A) either (i) the Company has assigned all its
     ownership interest in the trust funds to the Trustee or (ii) the Trustee
     has a valid perfected security interest in the trust funds and (B) assuming
     no intervening bankruptcy of the Company between the date of the deposit
     and the 124th day following the perfection of a security interest in the
     deposit and that no Holder is an insider of the Company, after the 124th
     day following the perfection of a security interest in the deposit, the
     trust funds will not be subject to avoidance
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                                     -118-

     as a preference under Section 547 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code.

          (4)  The Company shall have paid or duly provided for payment of all
     amounts then due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.07;

          (5)  No such deposit will result in a Default under this Indenture or
     a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
     instrument or material agreement to which the Company or any of its
     Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or its property is bound;

          (6)  The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
     Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the
     intent of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Company or
     with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other
     creditors of the Company or others;

          (7)  in the case of Legal Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered
     to the Trustee an opinion of counsel in the United States reasonably
     acceptable to the Trustee confirming 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 the Indenture, there has been a change in the
     applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and
     based thereon such opinion of counsel shall confirm that, the Holders will
     not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a
     result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax
     on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have
     been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;

          (8)  in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company shall have
     delivered to the Trustee an opinion of counsel in the United States
     reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders will not
     recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result
     of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal
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                                     -119-

     income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as
     would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; and

          (9)  The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
     Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that all conditions
     precedent to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be,
     have been complied with.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Opinion of Counsel required by
subparagraph 7 above need not be delivered if all Notes not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, (ii)
will become due and payable on the Maturity Date 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.

SECTION 8.02.  Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee.
               --------------------------------------

          Subject to Section 8.05, after (i) the conditions of Section 8.01,
have been satisfied and (ii) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel, stating that all conditions precedent referred to in clause (i)
above relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been
complied with, the Trustee upon written request of the Company shall acknowledge
in writing the discharge of the Company's obligations under this Indenture
except for those surviving obligations specified in this Article Eight.

SECTION 8.03.  Application of Trust Money.
               --------------------------

          The Trustee shall hold in trust Funds deposited with it pursuant to
Section 8.01.  It shall apply the Funds through the Paying Agent and in
accordance with this Indenture to the payment of all the principal of, or
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes.
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SECTION 8.04.  Repayment to the Company.
               ------------------------

          The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the Company any
Funds held by them for the payment of all the principal of, or premium, if any,
and interest that remains unclaimed for one year; provided, however, that the
                                                  --------  -------
Trustee or such Paying Agent may, at the expense of the Company, cause to be
published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of New York or
mailed to each Holder, notice that such Funds remain unclaimed and that, after a
date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of
such publication or mailing, any unclaimed balance of such Funds then remaining
will be repaid to the Company.  After payment to the Company, Holders entitled
to the Funds must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an
applicable abandoned property law designates another Person and all liability of
the Trustee and Paying Agent with respect to such Funds shall cease.

SECTION 8.05.  Reinstatement.
               -------------

          If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any Funds by reason
of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall
be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section
8.01 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all
such Funds in accordance with Section 8.01; provided, however, that if the
                                            --------  -------
Company has made any payment of principal, or premium, if any, and interest on
any Notes because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be
subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment
from Funds held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
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                                 ARTICLE NINE

                      AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS

SECTION 9.01.  Without Consent of Holders.
               --------------------------

          The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantors and
the Trustee, together, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes
without the consent of any Holders:

          (1)  to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, so long as such
     change does not, in the opinion of the Trustee, adversely affect the rights
     of any of the Holders in any material respect;

          (2)  to comply with Article Five;

          (3)  to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of
     certificated Notes;

          (4)  to comply with requirements of the Commission in order to effect
     or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA; or

          (5)  to make any other change that would provide any additional
     benefit or rights to the Holders or that does not adversely affect in any
     material respect the rights of any Noteholders hereunder;

provided, however, that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
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Counsel and an Officers' Certificate, each stating that such amendment or
supplement complies with the provisions of this Section 9.01.

SECTION 9.02.  With Consent of Holders.
               -----------------------

          Subject to Section 6.07, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, the Guarantors and the Trustee, together, with the written consent
of the Holder or Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then
outstanding
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Notes may make all other modifications, waivers and amendments of this Indenture
or the Notes, except that, without the consent of each Holder of Notes affected
thereby, no amendment or waiver may, directly or indirectly:

          (1)  reduce the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an
     amendment;

          (2)  change the method of calculation of or reduce the rate of or
     change or have the effect of changing the time for payment of interest,
     including defaulted interest, on any Notes;

          (3)  reduce the principal of or change or have the effect of changing
     the fixed maturity of any Notes, or change the date on which any Notes may
     be subject to redemption or repurchase, or reduce the redemption or
     repurchase price thereof;

          (4)  make any Notes payable in money other than that stated in the
     Notes and this Indenture;

          (5)  make any change in provisions of this Indenture protecting the
     right of each Holder to receive payment of principal and interest on such
     Note on or after the due date thereof or to bring suit to enforce such
     payment or permitting Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
     Notes to waive Defaults or Events of Default;

          (6)  amend, change or modify in any material respect the obligation of
     the Company to make and consummate a Change of Control Offer in the event
     of a Change of Control or make and consummate a Net Proceeds Offer with
     respect to any Asset Sale that has been consummated or modify any of the
     provisions or definitions with respect thereto;

          (7)  modify or change any provision of this Indenture or the related
     definitions affecting the subordination or ranking of the Notes or any
     Guarantee in a manner which adversely affects the Holders; or
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          (8) release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its
     Guarantee or this Indenture otherwise than in accordance with the terms of
     this Indenture.

          Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, if any amendment,
waiver or other modification will only effect the Dollar Notes or the Euro
Notes, only the consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Dollar
Notes or the Euro Notes, as the case may be, shall be required.

          It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment,
supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the
substance thereof.

          After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02
becomes effective (as provided in Section 9.04), the Company shall mail to the
Holders affected thereby a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement
or waiver. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.

SECTION 9.03.  Compliance with TIA.
               -------------------

          Every amendment, waiver or supplement of this Indenture or the Notes
shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.

SECTION 9.04.  Revocation and Effect of Consents.
               ---------------------------------

          Until an amendment, waiver or supplement becomes effective, a consent
to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent
Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the
consenting Holder's Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any
Note. Subject to the following paragraph, any such Holder or subsequent Holder
may revoke the consent as to his Note or portion of his Note by notice to the
Trustee or the Company received before the date on which the Trustee receives an
Officers' Certificate certifying that the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Notes have consented (and not theretofore revoked
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such consent) to the amendment, supplement or waiver (at which time such
amendment, supplement or waiver shall become effective).

          The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix such record date
as it may select for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent
to any amendment, supplement or waiver. If a record date is fixed, then
notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, those
Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies),
and only those Persons, shall be entitled to revoke any consent previously
given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record
date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after
such record date.

          After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall
bind every Holder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (1)
through (8) of Section 9.02, in which case, the amendment, supplement or waiver
shall bind only each Holder of a Note who has consented to it and every
subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as
a consenting Holder's Note; provided, however, that any such waiver shall not
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impair or affect the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and
interest on a Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note,
or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 9.05.  Notation on or Exchange of Notes.
               --------------------------------

          If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Note, the
Trustee may require the Holder of the Note to deliver it to the Trustee. The
Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Note about the changed terms
and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so
determines, the Company in exchange for the Note shall issue and the Trustee
shall authenticate a new Note that reflects the changed terms.
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SECTION 9.06.  Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc.
               -------------------------------

          The Trustee shall execute any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to and adopted in accordance with this Article Nine;
provided, however, that the Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, execute
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any such amendment, supplement or waiver which affects the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture. The Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and
an Officers' Certificate each stating that the execution of any amendment,
supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article Nine is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture. Such Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of
the Trustee.

                                  ARTICLE TEN

                            SUBORDINATION OF NOTES

SECTION 10.01. Notes Subordinated to Senior Debt.
               ---------------------------------

          Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company, for
itself and its successors, and each Holder, by his or her acceptance of Notes,
agrees that the payment of all Obligations owing to the Holders in respect of
the Notes is subordinated, to the extent and in the manner provided in this
Article Ten, in right of payment to the prior payment in full in cash, Cash
Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to
the satisfaction of the holders of Senior Debt, of all Obligations on Senior
Debt, including without limitation, the Company's obligations under the Credit
Facilities.

          This Article Ten shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons
who become holders of, or continue to hold, Senior Debt, and such provisions are
made for the benefit of the holders of Senior Debt and such holders are made
obligees hereunder and any one or more of them may enforce such provisions.
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SECTION 10.02. Suspension of Payment When Senior Debt Is in Default.
               ----------------------------------------------------

          (a) Unless Section 10.03 shall be applicable, upon (1) the occurrence
and continuance of any default in the payment when due, whether at maturity,
upon any redemption, by declaration or otherwise, of any principal of, interest
on, unpaid drawings for letters of credit issued in respect of, or regularly
accruing fees with respect to, any Senior Debt (a "Payment Default") and (2)
receipt by the Trustee and the Company from a Representative of written notice
of such occurrence, then no payment (other than payments previously made
pursuant to Article Eight) or distribution of any assets of the Company of any
kind or character shall be made by or on behalf of the Company or any other
Person on its or their behalf on account of any Obligations under the Notes or
on account of the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Notes for cash or
property or otherwise (except that Holders may receive (i) Permitted Junior
Securities and (ii) payments made from the trusts described in Section 8.01) and
until such Payment Default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased
to exist or such Senior Debt as to which such Payment Default relates shall have
been discharged or paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash
Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of Senior Debt, after which the Company shall resume making any and all
required payments in respect of the Notes, including any missed payments.

          (b) Unless Section 10.03 shall be applicable, upon (1) the occurrence
and continuance of any event of default (other than a Payment Default) with
respect to any Designated Senior Debt (as such event of default is defined in
the instrument creating or evidencing such Designated Senior Debt) permitting
the holders of such Designated Senior Debt then outstanding to accelerate the
maturity thereof (a "Non-payment Default") and (2) the earlier of (i) receipt by
the Trustee and the Company from a Representative of written notice of such
occurrence stating that such notice is a "Payment Blockage Notice" pursuant to
this Section 10.02 or (ii) if such Non-payment Default results from the
acceleration of the Notes, the
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date of such acceleration, no payment (other than payments previously made
pursuant to Article Eight) or distribution of any assets of the Company of any
kind or character shall be made by or on behalf of the Company or any other
Person on its or their behalf on account of any Obligations under the Notes or
on account of the purchase or redemption or other acquisition of Notes for cash
or property or otherwise (except that Holders may receive (i) Permitted Junior
Securities and (ii) payments made from the trusts described in Section 8.01) for
a period (the "Payment Blockage Period") commencing on the date of receipt by
the Trustee of the written notice of a Non-payment Default from such
Representative or the date of the acceleration referred to in clause (ii) above,
as the case may be, unless and until the earlier to occur of the following
events: (w) 180 days shall have elapsed since receipt of such notice or the date
of the acceleration of the Notes, as the case may be (provided no Designated
Senior Debt shall theretofore have been accelerated), (x) such Non-payment
Default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, (y) such
Designated Senior Debt shall have been discharged or paid in full in cash, Cash
Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to
the satisfaction of the holders of such Designated Senior Debt, or (z) such
Payment Blockage Period shall have been terminated by written notice to the
Company or the Trustee from the Representative initiating such Payment Blockage
Period or the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of such issue
of Designated Senior Debt initiating such Payment Blockage Period, after which,
in the case of clause (w), (x), (y) or (z), the Company shall resume making any
and all required payments in respect of the Notes, including any missed
payments. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) in no event will
a Payment Blockage Period or successive Payment Blockage Periods with respect to
the same payment on the Notes extend beyond 180 days from the date the payment
on the Notes was due and (y) only one such Payment Blockage Period may be
commenced within any 360 consecutive days. For all purposes of this Section
10.02(b), no event of default which existed or was continuing on the date of the
commencement of any Payment Blockage Period with respect to the Designated
Senior Debt of the Company initiating such Payment
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Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis for the commencement of a second
Payment Blockage Period by the holders or by the Representative of such
Designated Senior Debt whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days,
unless such event of default shall have been cured or waived for a period of not
less than 90 consecutive days (it being acknowledged that any subsequent action,
or any breach of any financial covenants for a period commencing after the date
of commencement of such Payment Blockage Period that, in either case, would give
rise to an event of default pursuant to any provisions under which an event of
default previously existed or was continuing shall constitute a new event of
default for this purpose).

          (c) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
shall have made payment to the Trustee or directly to the Holder of any Note
prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.02, then and in such
event such payment shall be segregated from other funds and held in trust by the
Trustee or such Holder or Paying Agent for the benefit of, and shall immediately
be paid over to, the holders of Senior Debt or to the Representatives or as a
court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

SECTION 10.03. Notes Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior Debt on
               ---------------------------------------------------------
               Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of Company.
               -----------------------------------------------------

          Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind
or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon any
liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit
of creditors or marshaling of assets of the Company or in a bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding relating to
the Company or its property, whether voluntary or involuntary:

          (a) the holders of all Senior Debt shall first be entitled to receive
     payments in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or
     such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior
     Debt, of all amounts payable under Senior Debt before the
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     Holders will be entitled to receive any payment or distribution of any kind
     or character is made on account of any Obligations on the Notes or for the
     acquisition of any of the Notes for cash or property or otherwise, and
     until all Obligations with respect to the Senior Debt are paid in full in
     cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment
     provided for to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior Debt, any
     distribution to which the Holders would be entitled shall be made to the
     holders of Senior Debt;

          (b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind
     or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Holders
     or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders would be entitled except for the
     provisions of this Article Ten, shall be paid by the liquidating trustee or
     agent or other Person making such a payment or distribution, directly to
     the holders of Senior Debt or their representatives, ratably according to
     the respective amounts of Senior Debt remaining unpaid held or represented
     by each, until all Senior Debt remaining unpaid shall have been paid in
     full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment
     duly provided for to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior Debt, after
     giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of
     such Senior Debt; and

          (c) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
     distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether
     such payment shall be in cash, property or securities, and the Company
     shall have made payment to the Trustee or directly to the Holders or any
     Paying Agent on account of any Obligations under the Notes before all
     Senior Debt is paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash
     Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
     holders of Senior Debt, such payment or distribution (subject to the
     provisions of Sections 10.06 and 10.07) shall be received, segregated from
     other funds, and held in trust by the Trustee or such Holder or Paying
     Agent for the benefit of,
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     and shall immediately be paid over by the Trustee (if the notice required
     by Section 10.06 has been received by the Trustee) or by the Holder to, the
     holders of Senior Debt or their representatives, ratably according to the
     respective amounts of Senior Debt held or represented by each, until all
     Senior Debt remaining unpaid shall have been paid in full in cash, Cash
     Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for
     to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior Debt, after giving effect to
     any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior
     Debt.

          (d) The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the
     Company with or into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of
     the Company following the conveyance, transfer or lease of its properties
     and assets substantially as an entirety to another Person upon the terms
     and conditions set forth in Article Five shall not be deemed a liquidation,
     dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of
     creditors or marshaling of assets of the Company, as the case may be, for
     the purposes of this Article Ten; provided, however, that the Person formed
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     by such consolidation or the surviving entity of such merger or the Person
     which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease such properties and assets
     substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such
     consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, comply with the
     conditions set forth in such Article Five.

          The Company shall give prompt notice to the Trustee prior to any
liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit
of creditors or marshaling of assets.

SECTION 10.04. Holders To Be Subrogated to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt.
               ------------------------------------------------------------

          Subject to the payment in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign
Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of Senior Debt, of
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all Senior Debt, the Holders of Notes shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of Senior Debt to receive payments or distributions of assets of the
Company applicable to the Senior Debt until all amounts owing on the Notes shall
be paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, and for
the purpose of such subrogation no payments or distributions to the holders of
Senior Debt by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Holders by
virtue of this Article Ten, which otherwise would have been made to the Holders
shall, as between the Company and the Holders, be deemed to be payment by the
Company to or on account of the Senior Debt, it being understood that the
provisions of this Article Ten are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of
Senior Debt, on the other hand.

          If any payment or distribution to which the Holders would otherwise
have been entitled but for the provisions of this Article Ten shall have been
applied, pursuant to the provisions of this Article Ten, to the payment of all
amounts payable under the Senior Debt, then the Holders shall be entitled to
receive from the holders of such Senior Debt any such payments or distributions
received by such holders of Senior Debt in excess of the amount sufficient to
pay all amounts payable under or in respect of the Senior Debt in full in cash,
Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for
to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior Debt.

          Each Holder by purchasing or accepting a Note waives any and all
notice of the creation, modification, renewal, extension or accrual of any
Senior Debt of the Company and notice of or proof of reliance by any holder or
owner of Senior Debt of the Company upon this Article Ten and the Senior Debt of
the Company shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or
incurred in reliance upon this Article Ten, and all dealings between the Company
and the holders and owners of the Senior Debt of the Company shall be deemed to
have been consummated in reliance upon this Article Ten.
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SECTION 10.05. Obligations of the Company Unconditional.
               ----------------------------------------

          Nothing contained in this Article Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in the Notes is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company and the
Holders, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to
pay to the Holders the principal of and interest on the Notes as and when the
same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended
to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of the
Company other than the holders of the Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or
therein prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the
rights, if any, under this Article Ten, of the holders of Senior Debt in respect
of cash, property or Notes of the Company received upon the exercise of any such
remedy. Upon any payment or distribution of assets or securities of the Company
referred to in this Article Ten, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Sections 7.01 and 7.02, and the Holders shall be entitled to rely upon any order
or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which any liquidation,
dissolution, winding-up or reorganization proceedings are pending, or a
certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee or agent
or other Person making any payment or distribution to the Trustee or to the
Holders for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in
such payment or distribution, the holders of Senior Debt and other Indebtedness
of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts
paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this
Article Ten. Nothing in this Article Ten shall apply to the claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.07. The Trustee shall be
entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself or itself to be a holder of any Senior Debt (or a trustee
on behalf of, or other representative of, such holder) to establish that such
notice has been given by a holder of such Senior Debt or a trustee or
representative on behalf of any such holder.
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          In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that any
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article Ten, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such
Person under this Article Ten, and if such evidence is not furnished, the
Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.

SECTION 10.06.   Trustee Entitled To Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence
                 of Notice.
                 -------------------------------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by
the Trustee unless and until the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall have received
written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more holders of Senior
Debt or from any Representative therefor and, prior to the receipt of any such
notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01 and 7.02, shall
be entitled in all respects conclusively to assume that no such fact exists.

SECTION 10.07.   Application by Trustee of Assets Deposited with It.
                 --------------------------------------------------

          U.S. Legal Tender, U.S. Government Obligations, Euros or Euro
Obligations deposited in trust with the Trustee pursuant to and in accordance
with Section 8.01 and 8.02 shall be for the sole benefit of the Holders of the
Notes and, to the extent allocated for the payment of Notes, shall not be
subject to the subordination provisions of this Article Ten. Otherwise, any
deposit of assets or securities by or on behalf of the Company with the Trustee
or any Paying Agent (whether or not in trust) for the payment of principal of or
interest on any Notes shall be subject to the provisions of this Article Ten;
provided, however, that if prior to the second Business Day preceding the date
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on which by the terms of this Indenture
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any such assets may become distributable for any purpose (including, without
limitation, the payment of either principal of or interest on any Note) the
Trustee or such Paying Agent shall not have received with respect to such assets
the notice provided for in Section 10.06, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent
shall have full power and authority to receive such assets and to apply the same
to the purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any
notice to the contrary received by it on or after such date. The foregoing shall
not apply to the Paying Agent if the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of
the Company is acting as Paying Agent. Nothing contained in this Section 10.07
shall limit the right of the holders of Senior Debt to recover payments as
contemplated by this Article Ten.

SECTION 10.08.   No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
                 -------------------------------------

          (a)  No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act by any such holder, or by any non-compliance by
the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise
charged with.

          (b)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (a) of this Section
10.08, the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes,
without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Notes and without
impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article Ten or the
obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Notes to the holders of Senior Debt,
do any one or more of the following:  (1) change the manner, place, terms or
time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt or any instrument evidencing
the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt is outstanding; (2) sell,
exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or
otherwise securing Senior Debt; (3) release any Person liable in any manner for
the collection
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or payment of Senior Debt; and (4) exercise or refrain from exercising any
rights against the Company and any other Person.

SECTION 10.09.   Holders Authorize Trustee To Effectuate Subordination of Notes.
                 --------------------------------------------------------------

          Each Holder of the Notes by such Holder's acceptance thereof
authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action
as may be necessary or appropriate to effect the subordination provisions
contained in this Article Ten, and appoints the Trustee such Holder's attorney-
in-fact for such purpose, including, in the event of any liquidation,
dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors
or marshaling of assets of the Company tending towards liquidation or
reorganization of the business and assets of the Company, the immediate filing
of a claim for the unpaid balance of such Holder's Notes in the form required in
said proceedings and cause said claim to be approved.  If the Trustee does not
file a proper claim or proof of debt in the form required in such proceeding
prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim or claims,
then any of the holders of the Senior Debt or their Representative is hereby
authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the Holders of said
Notes. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee or the
holders of Senior Debt or their Representative to authorize or consent to or
accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Debt or their
Representative to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.

SECTION 10.10.   Right of Trustee To Hold Senior Debt.
                 ------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this
Article Ten in respect of any Senior Debt at any time held by it to the same
extent as any other holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall
be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
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SECTION 10.11.   No Suspension of Remedies.
                 -------------------------

          The failure to make a payment on account of principal of or interest
on the Notes by reason of any provision of this Article Ten shall not be
construed as preventing the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under
Section 6.01.

          Nothing contained in this Article Ten shall limit the right of the
Trustee or the Holders of Notes to take any action to accelerate the maturity of
the Notes pursuant to Article Six or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder
or under applicable law, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article Ten
of the holders, from time to time, of Senior Debt.

SECTION 10.12.   No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to Holders of Senior Debt.
                 ------------------------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Debt, and it undertakes to perform or observe such of its
covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article Ten, and
no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the Senior Debt shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee.  The Trustee shall not be liable
to any such holders (other than for its willful misconduct or gross negligence)
if it shall pay over or deliver to the Holders of Notes or the Company or any
other Person, money or assets in compliance with the terms of this Indenture.
Nothing in this Section 10.12 shall affect the obligation of any Person other
than the Trustee to hold such payment for the benefit of, and to pay such
payment over to, the holders of Senior Debt or their Representative.

                                ARTICLE ELEVEN

                              GUARANTEE OF NOTES

SECTION 11.01.   Unconditional Guarantee.
                 -----------------------

          Subject to the provisions of this Article Eleven, each of the
Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, uncondi-
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tionally and irrevocably guarantees, on a senior subordinated basis (such
guarantees to be referred to herein as the "Guarantee") to each Holder of a Note
(including any Additional Notes upon issuance in accordance with Section 2.18)
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors
and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture,
the Notes or the obligations of the Company or any other Guarantors to the
Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder, that: (a) the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes (and any Additional Interest payable
thereon) shall be duly and punctually paid in full when due, whether at
maturity, upon redemption at the option of Holders pursuant to the provisions of
the Notes relating thereto, by acceleration or otherwise, and interest on the
overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by law) interest, if any, on the
Notes and all other obligations of the Company or the Guarantors to the Holders
or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder (including amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.07 hereof) and all other obligations shall be promptly paid in full or
performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case
of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other
obligations, the same shall be promptly paid in full when due or performed in
accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed,
or failing performance of any other obligation of the Company to the Holders
under this Indenture or under the Notes, for whatever reason, each Guarantor
shall be obligated to pay, or to perform or cause the performance of, the same
immediately. An Event of Default under this Indenture or the Notes shall
constitute an event of default under this Guarantee, and shall entitle the
Holders of Notes to accelerate the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in
the same manner and to the same extent as the obligations of the Company.

          Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder
shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or
enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to
enforce the same, any
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waiver or consent by any Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions
hereof or thereof, any release of any other Guarantor, the recovery of any
judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same, whether or not a
Guarantee is affixed to any particular Note, or any other circumstance which
might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a
Guarantor. Each of the Guarantors hereby waives the benefit of diligence,
presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of
insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first
against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants
that its Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the
obligations contained in the Notes, this Indenture and this Guarantee. This
Guarantee is a guarantee of payment and not of collection. If any Holder or the
Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company or to any
Guarantor, or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official
acting in relation to the Company or such Guarantor, any amount paid by the
Company or such Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder, this Guarantee, to the
extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between it, on the one hand, and the
Holders of Notes and the Trustee, on the other hand, (a) subject to this Article
Eleven, the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as
provided in Article Six hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee,
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such
acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (b) in the
event of any acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article Six hereof,
such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and
payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of this Guarantee.

          No stockholder, officer, director, employee or incorporator, past,
present or future, or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any personal liability
under this Guarantee by reason of his, her or its status as such stockholder,
officer, director, employee or incorporator.
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          Each Guarantor that makes a payment or distribution under its
Guarantee shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor in an
amount pro rata, based on the net assets of each Guarantor, determined in
accordance with GAAP.

SECTION 11.02.   Limitations on Guarantees.
                 -------------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee are limited to
the maximum amount which, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed
liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or
payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the
obligations of such other Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to its
contribution obligations under this Indenture, will result in the obligations of
such Guarantor under the Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or
fraudulent transfer under federal or state law.

SECTION 11.03.   Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.
                 -----------------------------------

          To further evidence the Guarantee set forth in Section 11.01, each
Guarantor hereby agrees that a notation of such Guarantee, substantially in the
form of Exhibit E hereto, shall be endorsed on each Note authenticated and
        ---------
delivered by the Trustee.  Such Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of each
Guarantor by either manual or facsimile signature of two Officers of each
Guarantor, each of whom, in each case, shall have been duly authorized to so
execute by all requisite corporate action.  The validity and enforceability of
any Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any
particular Note.

          Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in
Section 11.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure
to endorse on each Note a notation of such Guarantee.

          If an Officer of a Guarantor whose signature is on this Indenture or a
Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the
Note on which such Guar-
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antee is endorsed or at any time thereafter, such Guarantor's Guarantee of such
Note shall be valid nevertheless.

          The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication
thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of any Guarantee set forth in
this Indenture on behalf of each Guarantor.

SECTION 11.04.   Release of a Guarantor.
                 ----------------------

          (a)  If no Default exists or would exist under this Indenture, upon
the sale or disposition of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor by the
Company, in a transaction or series of related transactions that either (i) does
not constitute an Asset Sale or (ii) constitutes an Asset Sale the Net Cash
Proceeds of which are applied in accordance with Section 4.15, or upon the
consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into any Person in compliance
with Article Five (in each case, other than to the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company), or if any Guarantor is dissolved or liquidated in accordance with
this Indenture, or if a Guarantor is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary, such
Guarantor's Guarantee will be automatically discharged and released, and such
Guarantor and each Subsidiary of such Guarantor that is also a Guarantor shall
be deemed automatically discharged and released from all obligations under this
Article Eleven without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or
any Holder.  Any Guarantor not so released or the entity surviving such
Guarantor, as applicable, shall remain or be liable under its Guarantee as
provided in this Article Eleven.

          (b)  In connection with any transaction set forth in Section 11.04(a),
the Trustee shall receive an Officers' Certificate and an opinion of counsel
certifying as to the compliance with this Section 11.04; provided, however, that
                                                         --------  -------
the legal counsel delivering such Opinion of Counsel may rely as to matters of
fact on one or more Officers Certificates of the Company.

          The Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably requested by the
Company or a Guarantor in order to evidence
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the release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guarantee endorsed
on the Notes and under this Article Eleven.

          Except as set forth in Articles Four and Five and this Section 11.04,
nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any
consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another
Guarantor or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the property of a Guarantor
as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or another
Guarantor.

SECTION 11.05.   Waiver of Subrogation.
                 ---------------------

          Until this Indenture is discharged and all of the Notes are discharged
and paid in full, each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives and agrees not to
exercise any claim or other rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against
the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement
of the Company's obligations under the Notes or this Indenture and such
Guarantor's obligations under this Guarantee and this Indenture, in any such
instance including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement,
exoneration, contribution, indemnification, and any right to participate in any
claim or remedy of the Holders against the Company, whether or not such claim,
remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law,
including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Company,
directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other
manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any
amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and
any amounts owing to the Trustee or the Holders of Notes under the Notes, this
Indenture, or any other document or instrument delivered under or in connection
with such agreements or instruments, shall not have been paid in full, such
amount shall have been deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the
benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Trustee or the Holders and
shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of itself or such Holders
to be credited and applied to the obligations in favor of the Trustee or the
Holders, as the case may be, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with
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the terms of this Indenture. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive
direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by
this Indenture and that the waiver set forth in this Section 11.05 is knowingly
made in contemplation of such benefits.

SECTION 11.06.   Immediate Payment.
                 -----------------

          Each Guarantor agrees to make immediate payment to the Trustee on
behalf of the Holders of all Obligations owing or payable to the respective
Holders upon receipt of a demand for payment therefor by the Trustee to such
Guarantor in writing.

SECTION 11.07.   No Set-Off.
                 ----------

          Each payment to be made by a Guarantor hereunder in respect of the
Obligations shall be payable in the currency or currencies in which such
Obligations are denominated, and shall be made without set-off, counterclaim,
reduction or diminution of any kind or nature.

SECTION 11.08.   Obligations Absolute.
                 --------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are and shall be absolute
and unconditional and any monies or amounts expressed to be owing or payable by
each Guarantor hereunder which may not be recoverable from such Guarantor on the
basis of a Guarantee shall be recoverable from such Guarantor as a primary
obligor and principal debtor in respect thereof.

SECTION 11.09.   Obligations Continuing.
                 ----------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be continuing and
shall remain in full force and effect until all the obligations have been paid
and satisfied in full.  Each Guarantor agrees with the Trustee that it will from
time to time deliver to the Trustee suitable acknowledgments of this continued
liability hereunder and under any other instrument or instruments in such form
as counsel to the Trustee may advise and as will prevent any action brought
against it in respect of
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any default hereunder being barred by any statute of limitations now or
hereafter in force and, in the event of the failure of a Guarantor so to do, it
hereby irrevocably appoints the Trustee the attorney and agent of such Guarantor
to make, execute and deliver such written acknowledgment or acknowledgments or
other instruments as may from time to time become necessary or advisable, in the
judgment of the Trustee on the advice of counsel, to fully maintain and keep in
force the liability of such Guarantor hereunder.

SECTION 11.10.   Obligations Not Reduced.
                 -----------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be satisfied,
reduced or discharged solely by the payment of such principal, premium, if any,
interest, fees and other monies or amounts as may at any time prior to discharge
of this Indenture pursuant to Article Eight be or become owing or pay able under
or by virtue of or otherwise in connection with the Notes or this Indenture.

SECTION 11.11.   Obligations Reinstated.
                 ----------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall continue to be
effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment
which would otherwise have reduced the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder
(whether such payment shall have been made by or on behalf of the Company or by
or on behalf of a Guarantor) is rescinded or reclaimed from any of the Holders
upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company or
any Guarantor or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. If
demand for, or acceleration of the time for, payment by the Company is stayed
upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company,
all such Indebtedness otherwise subject to demand for payment or acceleration
shall nonetheless be payable by each Guarantor as provided herein.
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SECTION 11.12.   Obligations Not Affected.
                 ------------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected,
impaired or diminished in any way by any act, omission, matter or thing
whatsoever, occurring before, upon or after any demand for payment hereunder
(and whether or not known or consented to by any Guarantor or any of the
Holders) which, but for this provision, might constitute a whole or partial
defense to a claim against any Guarantor hereunder or might operate to release
or otherwise exonerate any Guarantor from any of its obligations hereunder or
otherwise affect such obligations, whether occasioned by default of any of the
Holders or otherwise, including, without limitation:

          (a)  any limitation of status or power, disability, incapacity or
     other circumstance relating to the Company or any other Person, including
     any insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, readjustment,
     composition, dissolution, winding-up or other proceeding involving or
     affecting the Company or any other Person;

          (b)  any irregularity, defect, unenforceability or invalidity in
     respect of any indebtedness or other obligation of the Company or any other
     Person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other document or instrument;

          (c)  any failure of the Company, whether or not without fault on its
     part, to perform or comply with any of the provisions of this Indenture or
     the Notes, or to give notice thereof to a Guarantor;

          (d)  the taking or enforcing or exercising or the refusal or neglect
     to take or enforce or exercise any right or remedy from or against the
     Company or any other Person or their respective assets or the release or
     discharge of any such right or remedy;

          (e)  the granting of time, renewals, extensions, compromises,
     concessions, waivers, releases, discharges and other indulgences to the
     Company or any other Person;
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          (f)  any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any
     other term of, any of the Notes, or any other amendment, variation,
     supplement, replacement or waiver of, or any consent to departure from, any
     of the Notes or this Indenture, including, without limitation, any increase
     or decrease in the principal amount of or premium, if any, or interest on
     any of the Notes;

          (g)  any change in the ownership, control, name, objects, businesses,
     assets, capital structure or constitution of the Company or a Guarantor;

          (h)  any merger or amalgamation of the Company or a Guarantor with any
     Person or Persons;

          (i)  the occurrence of any change in the laws, rules, regulations or
     ordinances of any jurisdiction by any present or future action of any
     governmental authority or court amending, varying, reducing or otherwise
     affecting, or purporting to amend, vary, reduce or otherwise affect, any of
     the Obligations or the obligations of a Guarantor under its Guarantee; and

          (j)  any other circumstance, including release of the Guarantor
     pursuant to Section 11.04 (other than by complete, irrevocable payment)
     that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense
     of the Company under this Indenture or the Notes or of a Guarantor in
     respect of its Guarantee hereunder.

SECTION 11.13.   Waiver.
                 ------

          Without in any way limiting the provisions of Section 11.01 hereof,
each Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance hereof, notice of any
liability of any Guarantor hereunder, notice or proof of reliance by the Holders
upon the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder, and diligence, presentment,
demand for payment on the Company, protest, notice of dishonor or non-payment of
any of the Obligations, or other notice or formalities to the Company or any
Guarantor of any kind whatsoever.
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SECTION 11.14.   No Obligation To Take Action Against the Company.
                 ------------------------------------------------

          Neither the Trustee nor any other Person shall have any obligation to
enforce or exhaust any rights or remedies or to take any other steps under any
security for the Obligations or against the Company or any other Person or any
property of the Company or any other Person before the Trustee is entitled to
demand payment and performance by any or all Guarantors of their liabilities and
obligations under their Guarantees or under this Indenture.

SECTION 11.15.   Dealing with the Company and Others.
                 -----------------------------------

          The Holders, without releasing, discharging, limiting or otherwise
affecting in whole or in part the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor
hereunder and without the consent of or notice to any Guarantor, may

          (a)  grant time, renewals, extensions, compromises, concessions,
     waivers, releases, discharges and other indulgences to the Company or any
     other Person;

          (b)  take or abstain from taking security or collateral from the
     Company or from perfecting security or collateral of the Company;

          (c)  accept compromises or arrangements from the Company;

          (d)  apply all monies at any time received from the Company or from
     any security upon such part of the Obligations as the Holders may see fit
     or change any such application in whole or in part from time to time as the
     Holders may see fit; and

          (e)  otherwise deal with, or waive or modify their right to deal with,
     the Company and all other Persons and any security as the Holders or the
     Trustee may see fit.
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SECTION 11.16.   Default and Enforcement.
                 -----------------------

          If any Guarantor fails to pay in accordance with Section 11.06 hereof,
the Trustee may proceed in its name as trustee hereunder in the enforcement of
the Guarantee of any such Guarantor and such Guarantor's obligations thereunder
and hereunder by any remedy provided by law, whether by legal proceedings or
otherwise, and to recover from such Guarantor the obligations.

SECTION 11.17.   Amendment, Etc.
                 --------------

          No amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this
Indenture relating to any Guarantor or consent to any departure by any Guarantor
or any other Person from any such provision will in any event be effective
unless it is signed by such Guarantor and the Trustee.

SECTION 11.18.   Acknowledgment.
                 --------------

          Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges communication of the terms of this
Indenture and the Notes and consents to and approves of the same.

SECTION 11.19.   Costs and Expenses.
                 ------------------

          Each Guarantor shall pay on demand by the Trustee any and all costs,
fees and expenses (including, without limitation, legal fees on a solicitor and
client basis) incurred by the Trustee, its agents, advisors and counsel or any
of the Holders in enforcing any of their rights under any Guarantee.

SECTION 11.20.   No Merger or Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.
                 ----------------------------------------

          No Guarantee shall operate by way of merger of any of the obligations
of a Guarantor under any other agreement, including, without limitation, this
Indenture.  No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of
the Trustee or the Holders, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or
under this Indenture or the Notes, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall
any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege
hereunder or under this Indenture or
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the Notes preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and
privileges in the Guarantee and under this Indenture, the Notes and any other
document or instrument between a Guarantor and/or the Company and the Trustee
are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privilege
provided by law.

SECTION 11.21.   Survival of Obligations.
                 -----------------------

          Without prejudice to the survival of any of the other obligations of
each Guarantor hereunder, the obligations of each Guarantor under Section 11.01
shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and shall be enforceable
against such Guarantor without regard to and without giving effect to any
defense, right of offset or counterclaim available to or which may be asserted
by the Company or any Guarantor.

SECTION 11.22.   Guarantee in Addition to Other Obligations.
                 ------------------------------------------

          The obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee and this
Indenture are in addition to and not in substitution for any other obligations
to the Trustee or to any of the Holders in relation to this Indenture or the
Notes and any guarantees or security at any time held by or for the benefit of
any of them.

SECTION 11.23.   Severability.
                 ------------

          Any provision of this Article Eleven which is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions
and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not
invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction
unless its removal would substantially defeat the basic intent, spirit and
purpose of this Indenture and this Article Eleven.

SECTION 11.24.   Successors and Assigns.
                 ----------------------

          Each Guarantee shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each
Guarantor and the Trustee and the other Holders
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and their respective successors and permitted assigns, except that no Guarantor
may assign any of its obligations hereunder or thereunder.

                                ARTICLE TWELVE

                          SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTEE

SECTION 12.01.   Guarantee Obligations Subordinated to Guarantor Senior Debt.
                 -----------------------------------------------------------

          Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each of the
Guarantors, for itself and its successors, and each Holder, by his or her
acceptance of Guarantees, agrees that the payment of all Obligations owing to
the Holders in respect of its Guarantee (collectively, as to any Guarantor, its
"Guarantee Obligations") is subordinated, to the extent and in the manner
provided in this Article Twelve, to the prior payment in full in cash, Cash
Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to
the satisfaction of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, of all Obligations on
Guarantor Senior Debt of such Guarantor, including without limitation, the
Guarantors' obligations under the Credit Facilities.

          This Article Twelve shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons
who become holders of, or continue to hold, Guarantor Senior Debt, and such
provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt and
such holders are made obligees hereunder and any one or more of them may enforce
such provisions.

SECTION 12.02.   Suspension of Guarantee Obligations When Guarantor Senior Debt
                 Is in Default.
                 --------------------------------------------------------------

          (a)  Unless Section 12.03 shall be applicable, upon (1) the occurrence
of a Payment Default with respect to any Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor
or guaranteed by a Guarantor (which Designated Senior Debt or guarantee, as the
case may be, constitutes Guarantor Senior Debt of such Guarantor)
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and (2) receipt by the Trustee, the Company and such Guarantor from a
Representative of written notice of such occurrence, then no payment (other than
payments previously made pursuant to Article Eight) or distribution of any
assets of such Guarantor of any kind or character shall be made by or on behalf
of such Guarantor or any other Person on its behalf on account of any
Obligations under the Notes or on account of the purchase, redemption or other
acquisition of Notes for cash or property or otherwise (except that Holders may
receive (i) Permitted Junior Securities and (ii) payments made from the trusts
described in Section 8.01) until such Payment Default shall have been cured or
waived or shall have ceased to exist or such Guarantor Senior Debt shall have
been discharged or paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash
Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, after which such Guarantor shall resume making
any and all required payments in respect of its obligations under this
Guarantee, including any missed payments.

          (b)  Unless Section 12.03 shall be applicable upon (1) the occurrence
of any event of default (other than a Payment Default) with respect to any
Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor (as such event of default is defined in
the instrument creating or evidencing such Designated Senior Debt of a
Guarantor) and (2) the earlier of (i) receipt by the Trustee, the Company and
such Guarantor from a Representative of written notice of such occurrence
stating that such notice is a "Payment Blockage Notice" pursuant to this Section
12.02 or (ii) if such Non-payment Default results from the acceleration of the
Securities, the date of the acceleration of the Securities, no payment (other
than payments previously made pursuant to Article Eight hereof) or distribution
of any assets of such Guarantor of any kind or character shall be made by on or
behalf of such Guarantor or any other Person on its or their behalf on account
of principal, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes or on account of the
purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Notes for cash or property or
otherwise (except that Holders may receive (i) Permitted Junior Securities and
(ii) payments made from the trusts described in Section 8.01) for a period
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(the "Guarantor Payment Blockage Period") commencing on the date of receipt by
the Trustee of such notice or the date of the acceleration referred to in clause
(ii) above, as the case may be, unless and until the earlier to occur of the
following events: (w) 180 days shall have elapsed since receipt of such written
notice by the Trustee or the date of the acceleration of the Notes, as the case
may be (provided no Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor shall theretofore have
been accelerated), (x) such Non-payment Default shall have been cured or waived
or shall have ceased to exist, (y) such Designated Senior Debt shall have been
discharged or paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash
Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of such Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor or (z) such Guarantor
Payment Blockage Period shall have been terminated by written notice to the
Trustee from the Representative initiating Guarantor Payment Blockage Period, or
the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of such issue of
Guarantor Senior Debt, after which, in the case of clause (w), (x), (y) or (z),
such Guarantor shall resume making any and all required payments in respect of
its obligations under its Guarantee, including any missed payments.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) in no event will a
Guarantor Payment Blockage Period or successive Guarantor Payment Blockage
Periods with respect to the same payment on a Guarantee extend beyond 180 days
from the date the payment on a Guarantee was due and (y) only one such Guarantor
Payment Blockage Period may be commenced within any 360 consecutive days. For
all purposes of this Section 12.02(b), no event of default which existed or was
continuing on the date of the commencement of any Guarantor Payment Blockage
Period with respect to the Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor initiating such
Guarantor Payment Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis for the
commencement of a second Guarantor Payment Blockage Period by the holders or by
the agent or other representative of such Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor
whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such event of
default shall have been cured or waived for a period of not less than 90
consecutive days (it being acknowledged that any subsequent action, or any
breach of any financial covenants for a period commencing after the date
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of commencement of such Guarantor Payment Blockage Period that, in either case,
would give rise to an event of default pursuant to any provisions under which an
event of default previously existed or was continuing shall constitute a new
event of default for this purpose).

          (c)  In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, a Guarantor
shall have made payment to the Trustee or directly to the Holder of any Note
prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.02, then and in such
event such payment shall be segregated from other funds and held in trust by the
Trustee or such Holder or Paying Agent for the benefit of, and shall immediately
be paid over to, the holders of Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor or to the
Representatives or as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

SECTION 12.03.   Guarantee Obligations Subordinated to Prior Payment of All
                 Guarantor Senior Debt on Dissolution, Liquidation or
                 Reorganization of Such Subsidiary Guarantor.
                 ----------------------------------------------------------

          Upon any payment or distribution of assets of any Guarantor of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities to creditors upon any
liquidation, dissolution, winding up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit
of creditors or marshaling of assets of such Guarantor, whether voluntary or
involuntary, or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or
other similar proceeding relating to any Guarantor or its property, whether
voluntary or involuntary, but excluding any liquidation or dissolution of a
Guarantor into the Company or into another Guarantor:

          (a)  the holders of all Guarantor Senior Debt of such Guarantor shall
     first be entitled to receive payments in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or
     Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the
     satisfaction of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, of all amounts
     payable under Guarantor Senior Debt before the Holders will be entitled to
     receive any payment or distribution of any kind or character on account of
     the Guaran-
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     tee of such Guarantor, and until all Obligations with respect to the
     Guarantor Senior Debt are paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign
     Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of
     the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, any distribution to which the Holders
     would be entitled shall be made to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt of
     such Guarantor;

          (b)  any payment or distribution of assets of such Guarantor of any
     kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the
     Holders or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders would be entitled except
     for the provisions of this Article Twelve shall be paid by the liquidating
     trustee or agent or other Person making such a payment or distribution,
     directly to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt of such Guarantor or their
     representatives, ratably according to the respective amounts of such
     Guarantor Senior Debt remaining unpaid held or represented by each, until
     all such Guarantor Senior Debt remaining unpaid shall have been paid in
     full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment
     duly provided for to the satisfaction of the holders of Guarantor Senior
     Debt, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the
     holders of such Guarantor Senior Debt;

          (c)  in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
     distribution of assets of such Guarantor of any kind or character, whether
     such payment shall be in cash, property or securities, and such Guarantor
     shall have made payment to the Trustee or directly to the Holders or any
     Paying Agent in respect of payment of the Guarantees before all Guarantor
     Senior Debt of such Guarantor is paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or
     Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the
     satisfaction of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, such payment or
     distribution (subject to the provisions of Sections 12.06 and 12.07) shall
     be received, segregated from other funds, and held in trust by the Trustee
     or such Holder or Paying Agent for the benefit of, and shall imme-
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     diately be paid over by the Trustee (if the notice required by Section
     12.06 has been received by the Trustee) or by the Holder to, the holders of
     such Guarantor Senior Debt or their representatives, ratably according to
     the respective amounts of such Guarantor Senior Debt held or represented by
     each, until all such Guarantor Senior Debt remaining unpaid shall have been
     paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such
     payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the holders of Guarantor
     Senior Debt, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution
     to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.

          Each Guarantor shall give prompt notice to the Trustee prior to any
dissolution, winding up, total or partial liquidation or total or reorganization
(including, without limitation, in bankruptcy, insolvency, or receivership
proceedings or upon any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other
marshaling of such Guarantor's assets and liabilities).

SECTION 12.04.   Holders of Guarantee Obligations To Be Subrogated to Rights of
                 Holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.
                 --------------------------------------------------------------

          Subject to the payment in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign
Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, of all Guarantor Senior Debt, the Holders of
Guarantee Obligations of a Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of Guarantor Senior Debt of such Guarantor to receive payments or
distributions of assets of such Guarantor applicable to such Guarantor Senior
Debt until all amounts owing on or in respect of the Guarantee Obligations shall
be paid in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or Foreign Cash Equivalents, and for
the purpose of such subrogation no payments or distributions to the holders of
such Guarantor Senior Debt by or on behalf of such Guarantor, or by or on behalf
of the Holders by virtue of this Article Twelve, which otherwise would have been
made to the Holders shall, as between such Guarantor and the Holders, be deemed
to be payment by such Guarantor to or on account of such Guarantor Senior Debt,
it
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                                     -155-

being understood that the provisions of this Article Twelve are and are intended
solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders, on the
one hand, and the holders of such Guarantor Senior Debt, on the other hand.

          If any payment or distribution to which the Holders would otherwise
have been entitled but for the provisions of this Article Twelve shall have been
applied, pursuant to the provisions of this Article Twelve, to the payment of
all amounts payable under such Guarantor Senior Debt, then the Holders shall be
entitled to receive from the holders of such Guarantor Senior Debt any such
payments or distributions received by such holders of such Guarantor Senior Debt
in excess of the amount sufficient to pay all amounts payable under or in
respect of such Guarantor Senior Debt in full in cash, Cash Equivalents or
Foreign Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction
of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.

          Each Holder by purchasing or accepting a Note waives any and all
notice of the creation, modification, renewal, extension or accrual of any
Guarantor Senior Debt of the Guarantors and notice of or proof of reliance by
any holder or owner of Guarantor Senior Debt of the Guarantors upon this Article
Twelve and the Guarantor Senior Debt of the Guarantors shall conclusively be
deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred in reliance upon this
Article Twelve, and all dealings between the Guarantors and the holders and
owners of the Guarantor Senior Debt of the Guarantors shall be deemed to have
been consummated in reliance upon this Article Twelve.

SECTION 12.05.  Obligations of the Guarantors Unconditional.
                -------------------------------------------

          Nothing contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Guarantees is intended to or shall impair, as between the
Guarantors and the Holders, the obligation of the Guarantors, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay to the Holders all amounts due and payable under the
Guarantees as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms, or is intended to or shall affect
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                                     -156-

the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of the Guarantors other than
the holders of the Guarantor Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or therein
prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the
rights, if any, under this Article Twelve, of the holders of Guarantor Senior
Debt in respect of cash, property or securities of the Guarantors received upon
the exercise of any such remedy. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of
any Guarantor referred to in this Article Twelve, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Sections 7.01 and 7.02, and the Holders shall be entitled to rely
upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which
any liquidation, dissolution, winding up or reorganization proceedings are
pending, or a certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating
trustee or agent or other Person making any payment or distribution to the
Trustee or to the Holders for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of Guarantor Senior
Debt and other Indebtedness of any Guarantor, the amount thereof or payable
thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts
pertinent thereto or to this Article Twelve. Nothing in this Article Twelve
shall apply to the claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to
Section 7.07. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a
written notice by a Person representing himself or itself to be a holder of any
Guarantor Senior Debt (or a trustee on behalf of, or other representative of,
such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of such
Guarantor Senior Debt or a trustee or representative on behalf of any such
holder.

          In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that any
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Guarantor Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Article Twelve, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to
the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Guarantor Senior
Debt held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to
participate in such payment or
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                                     -157-

distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under
this Article Twelve, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may
defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right
of such Person to receive such payment.

SECTION 12.06.  Trustee Entitled To Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence of
                Notice.
                ----------------------------------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by
the Trustee unless and until the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall have received
notice thereof from the Company or any Guarantor or from one or more holders of
Guarantor Senior Debt or from any Representative therefor and, prior to the
receipt of any such notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections
7.01 and 7.02, shall be entitled in all respects conclusively to assume that no
such fact exists.

SECTION 12.07.  Application by Trustee of Assets Deposited with It.
                --------------------------------------------------

          U.S. Legal Tender, U.S. Government Obligations, Euros or Euro
Obligations deposited in trust with the Trustee pursuant to and in accordance
with Sections 8.01 and 8.02 shall be for the sole benefit of Holders of the
Notes and, to the extent allocated for the payment of Notes, shall not be
subject to the subordination provisions of this Article Twelve. Otherwise, any
deposit of assets or securities by or on behalf of a Guarantor with the Trustee
or any Paying Agent (whether or not in trust) for payment of the Guarantees
shall be subject to the provisions of this Article Twelve; provided, however,
                                                           --------  -------
that if prior to the second Business Day preceding the date on which by the
terms of this Indenture any such assets may become distributable for any purpose
(including, without limitation, the payment of either principal of or interest
on any Note) the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall not have received with
respect to such assets the notice provided for in Section 12.06, then the
Trustee or such Paying Agent shall have full power and authority to receive such
assets and to apply the same to the
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                                     -158-

purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to
the contrary received by it on or after such date. The foregoing shall not apply
to the Paying Agent if the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company
is acting as Paying Agent. Nothing contained in this Section 12.07 shall limit
the right of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt to recover payments as
contemplated by this Article Twelve.

SECTION 12.08.  No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
                -------------------------------------

          (a) No right of any present or future holder of any Guarantor Senior
Debt to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of any Guarantor
or by any act or failure to act, by any such holder, or by any non-compliance by
any Guarantor with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise
charged with.

          (b) Without limiting the generality of subsection (a) of this Section
12.08, the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to
time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Notes and
without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article Twelve
or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Notes to the holders of
Guarantor Senior Debt, do any one or more of the following:  (1) change the
manner, place, terms or time of payment of, or renew or alter, Guarantor Senior
Debt or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which
Guarantor Senior Debt is outstanding; (2) sell, exchange, release or otherwise
deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Guarantor Senior
Debt; (3) release any Person liable in any manner for the collection or payment
of Guarantor Senior Debt; and (4) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights
against the Guarantors and any other Person.
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SECTION 12.09.  Holders Authorize Trustee To Effectuate Subordination of
                Guarantee Obligations.
                --------------------------------------------------------

          Each Holder of the Guarantee Obligations by his acceptance thereof
authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action
as may be necessary or appropriate to effect the subordination provisions
contained in this Article Twelve, and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact
for such purpose, including, in the event of any liquidation, dissolution,
winding up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors or
marshaling of assets of any Guarantor tending towards liquidation or
reorganization of the business and assets of any Guarantor, the immediate filing
of a claim for the unpaid balance under its or his Guarantee Obligations in the
form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to be approved.  If the
Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the form required in
such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such
claim or claims, then any of the holders of the Guarantor Senior Debt or their
Representative is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on
behalf of the Holders of said Guarantee Obligations.  Nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee or the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt
or their Representative to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf
of any holder of Guarantee Obligations any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Guarantee Obligations or the rights of
any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee or the holders of Guarantor
Senior Debt or their Representative to vote in respect of the claim of any
holder of Guarantee Obligations in any such proceeding.

SECTION 12.10.  Right of Trustee To Hold Guarantor Senior Indebtedness.
                ------------------------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this
Article Twelve in respect of any Guarantor Senior Debt at any time held by it to
the same extent as any other holder of Guarantor Senior Debt, and nothing in
this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as
such holder.
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SECTION 12.11.  No Suspension of Remedies.
                -------------------------

          The failure to make a payment in respect of the Guarantees by reason
of any provision of this Article Twelve shall not be construed as preventing the
occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.01.

          Nothing contained in this Article Twelve shall limit the right of the
Trustee or the Holders of Notes to take any action to accelerate the maturity of
the Notes pursuant to Article Six or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder
or under applicable law, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article
Twelve of the holders, from time to time, of Guarantor Senior Debt.

SECTION 12.12.  No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to Holders of Guarantor Senior
                Debt.
                -----------------------------------------------------------

          The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, and it undertakes to perform or observe such
of its covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article
Twelve, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the Guarantor
Senior Debt shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.  The Trustee
shall not be liable to any such holders (other than for its willful misconduct
or gross negligence) if it shall pay over or deliver to the holders of Guarantee
Obligations or the Guarantors or any other Person, money or assets in compliance
with the terms of this Indenture.  Nothing in this Section 12.12 shall affect
the obligation of any Person other than the Trustee to hold such payment for the
benefit of, and to pay such payment over to, the holders of Guarantor Senior
Debt or their Representative.
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                               ARTICLE THIRTEEN

                                 MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 13.01.  TIA Controls.
                ------------

          If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts
with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the
TIA, the required provision shall control.  If any provision of this Indenture
modifies or excludes any provision of the TIA that may be so modified or
excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so
modified or excluded, as the case may be.

SECTION 13.02.  Notices.
                -------

          Any notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder
shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery,
by telex, by telecopier or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return
receipt requested, addressed as follows:

          if to the Company or any Guarantor:

          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC
          500 Huntsman Way
          Salt Lake City, Utah  84108

          Attention:  Office of General Counsel

          with a copy to:

          Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
          4 Times Square
          New York, NY  10036

          Attention:  Phyllis Korff

          if to the Trustee:
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          The Bank of New York
          48th Floor
          One Canada Square
          London E14 5 AL, United Kingdom
          Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

          The Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee by written notice to each
other may designate additional or different addresses for notices.  Any notice
or communication to the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee shall be deemed
to have been given when received.

          As long as the Securities are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
and notice is required by the rules of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, such
notice shall be sufficiently given by publication of such notice to Holders of
the Securities in English in a leading newspaper having general circulation in
Luxembourg (which is expected to be the Luxembourg Wort) or, if such publication
is not practicable, in one other leading English language daily newspaper with
general circulation in Europe, such newspaper being published on each business
day in morning editions, whether or not it shall be published in Saturday,
Sunday or holiday editions.

          Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed to him
by first class mail or other equivalent means at his address as it appears on
the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given to him
if so mailed within the time prescribed.

          Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Noteholder or any
defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.  If
a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly
given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

SECTION 13.03.  Communications by Holders with Other Holders.
                --------------------------------------------

          Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA (S) 312(b) with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture
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                                     -163-

or the Notes. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall
have the protection of TIA (S) 312(c).

SECTION 13.04.  Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.
                --------------------------------------------------

          Upon any request or application by the Company or the Guarantors to
the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish
to the Trustee:

          (1) an Officers' Certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to
     the Trustee, stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions
     precedent to be performed by the Company, if any, provided for in this
     Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

          (2) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
     counsel, all such conditions precedent to be performed by the Company, if
     any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have
     been complied with.

SECTION 13.05.  Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.
                ---------------------------------------------

          Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture, other than the Officers'
Certificate required by Section 4.07, shall include:

          (1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has
     read such covenant or condition;

          (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 such Person, he has made such
     examination or investigation as is reasonably necessary to enable him to
     express an informed
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                                     -164-

     opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied
     with; and

          (4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of each such
     Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 SECTION 13.06.  Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar.
                 -----------------------------------------

          The Trustee may make reasonable rules in accordance with the Trustee's
customary practices for action by or at a meeting of Holders.  The Paying Agent
or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its functions.

SECTION 13.07.  Legal Holidays.
                --------------

          A "Legal Holiday" used with respect to a particular place of payment
is a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in New York,
London, Salt Lake City, Utah or at such place of payment are not required to be
open.  If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at such place, payment may be made
at such place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no
interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

SECTION 13.08.  Governing Law.
                -------------

          THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING
EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT THAT THE
APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.  Each
of the parties hereto agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the
State of New York in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Indenture or the Notes.

SECTION 13.09.  No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.
                ---------------------------------------------

          This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or
debt agreement of the Company or any of its
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                                     -165-

Subsidiaries. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to
interpret this Indenture.

SECTION 13.10.  No Recourse Against Others.
                --------------------------

          A past, present or future director, officer, member, manager,
employee, stockholder or incorporator, as such, of the Company or any Guarantor
shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor
under the Notes, the Guarantees or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in
respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creations. Each Holder by
accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  Such waiver and
release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

SECTION 13.11.  Successors.
                ----------

          All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall
bind its successors.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind
its successors.

SECTION 13.12.  Duplicate Originals.
                -------------------

          All parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.  Each
signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the
same agreement.

SECTION 13.13.  Severability.
                ------------

          In case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture or in the
Notes shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for any
reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every
other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions hereof shall
be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.

SECTION 13.14.  Independence of Covenants.
                -------------------------

          All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes shall be
given independent effect so that if any par-
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                                     -166-

ticular action or condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact
that it would be permitted by an exception to, or otherwise be within the
limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of a Default or
an Event of Default if such action is taken or condition exists.

                 [Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank]
<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES
                                   ----------

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

                                        HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                                        By:____________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        GUARANTORS:

                                        EUROFUELS LLC

                                        By:____________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        EUROSTAR INDUSTRIES LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        HUNTSMAN EA HOLDINGS LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                      S-1
<PAGE>

                                        HUNTSMAN ETYLENEAMINES LTD.,
                                        by its following General Partner:
                                        Huntsman EA Holdings LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL FUELS, L.P.,
                                        by its following General Partner:
                                        Eurofuels LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        HUNTSMAN PROPYLENE OXIDE HOLDINGS LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        HUNTSMAN PROPYLENE OXIDE LTD.,
                                        by its following General Partner:
                                        Huntsman Propylene Oxide Holdings LLC

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:

                                        HUNTSMAN TEXAS HOLDINGS LLC
<PAGE>

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:
<PAGE>

Executed as a Deed by, for and          TIOXIDE AMERICAS INC.
on behalf of in the presence of
                                        By:___________________________
--------------------------------
Witness                                      Name:
                                             Title

<PAGE>

                                        TIOXIDE GROUP

                                        By:______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:
<PAGE>

                                        THE BANK OF NEW YORK,   as Trustee

                                        By:_______________________________
                                             Name:
                                             Title:
<PAGE>

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-1
                                                                     -----------

                        [FORM OF RESTRICTED DOLLAR NOTE]

          THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR
THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B)
IT IS AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3), OR (7)
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S.
PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE
WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN TWO
YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER
THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE ISSUER THEREOF OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B)
INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN
ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES (OR HAS FURNISHED ON
ITS BEHALF BY A U.S. BROKER-DEALER) TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING
CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER
OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE FOR
THIS SECURITY), (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN
COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE),
OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY IS
TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND IN CONNECTION
WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE
OF THIS SECURITY, IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, THE
HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE ISSUER SUCH
CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER

                                     A-1-1
<PAGE>

OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS
"OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE MEANING GIVEN
TO THEM BY REGULATIONS S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

                                     A-1-2
<PAGE>

                           HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

No.                                                                   $[      ]
CUSIP

          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
"Company"), for value received, promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered
assigns, the principal sum of            , on July 1, 2009.

          Interest Payment Dates:  January 1 and July 1

          Record Dates:  December 15 and June 15

          Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained
herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.

                                     A-1-3
<PAGE>

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed
manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

Dated:                             HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                                   By:_______________________________________
                                        Name:
                                        Title:

Trustee's Certificate of Authentication

          This is one of the 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

                                   The Bank of New York, as Trustee

                                   By:_______________________________________
                                        Authorized Signature

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                               (REVERSE OF NOTE)

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

          1.   Interest.  HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited
               --------
liability company (the "Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal
amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above. Interest on the Notes
will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from ______________. The Company will pay interest semi-
annually in arrears on each January 1 and July 1 (each, an "Interest Payment
Date") and at stated maturity, commencing on _____________. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

          The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.

          2.   Method of Payment.  The Company shall pay interest on the Notes
               -----------------
(except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the
close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date even if the Notes are cancelled on registration of transfer or registration
of exchange after such Record Date.  Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying
Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal, premium
and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender").  However,
the Company may pay principal, premium and interest by its check payable in such
U.S. Legal Tender.  The Company may deliver any such interest payment to the
Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered address.

          3.   Paying Agent and Registrar.  Initially, The Bank of New York (the
               --------------------------
"Trustee") will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may change any
Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.  The
Company or any

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of its Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as Registrar or co-
Registrar.

          4.   Indenture.  The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture,
               ---------
dated as of March 13, 2001 (the "Indenture"), among the Company, each of the
Guarantors named therein and the Trustee.  This Note is one of a duly authorized
issue of Notes of the Company designated as its dollar denominated 10 1/8%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009.  The Company shall be entitled to issue
Additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.18 of the Indenture.  The Initial Notes,
any Additional Notes and any Exchange Notes issued in accordance with the
Indenture are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture unless
otherwise specified in the Indenture.  Capitalized terms used herein shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.
The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part
of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.
(S)(S) 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all
such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a
statement of them.  The Notes are senior subordinated unsecured obligations of
the Company.

          5.   Optional Redemption.  (a) The Notes will be redeemable, at the
               -------------------
Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and
after July 1, 2004, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the
following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount
thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on July 1 of the
year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of redemption:

                       Year                      Percentage
                       ----                      ----------

                       2004                      105.063%
                       2005                      103.375%
                       2006                      101.688%

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                       2007 and thereafter       100.000%

          (b) At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to July 1, 2002,
the Company may, at its option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity
Offerings (as defined below) to redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal
amount of Notes (including the original principal amount of any Additional
Notes) originally issued at a redemption price equal to 110.125% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to
the date of redemption; provided, however, that at least 65% of the aggregate
                        --------  -------
principal amount of the Dollar Notes and Euro Notes originally issued (including
the original principal amount of any Additional Notes) remain outstanding
immediately after any such redemption.  In order to effect the foregoing
redemption with the proceeds of any Equity Offering, the Company shall make such
redemption not more than 120 days after the consummation of any such Equity
Offering.

          As used in the preceding paragraph, "Equity Offering" means any sale
of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or any capital contribution to the
equity of the Company.

          (c) At any time on or prior to July 1, 2004, the Notes may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, upon not less than
30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at a redemption price (the "Make-Whole Price")
equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount thereof or (ii) as
determined by an Independent Investment Banker, the present value of (A) the
redemption price of such Notes at July 1, 2004 (as set forth below) plus (B) all
required interest payments due on such Notes through July 1, 2004 (excluding
accrued interest), discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at, in the case of
the Dollar Notes, the Adjusted Treasury Rate and, in the case of the Euro Notes,
the Adjusted Bund Rate, plus in each case accrued interest to the redemption
date.

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          "Adjusted Bund Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the
mid-market yield under the heading which represents the average for the
immediately prior week appearing on Reuters page AABBUND01, or its successor,
for the maturity corresponding to July 1, 2009 (if no maturity date is within
three months before or after July 1, 2009, yields for the two published
maturities most closely corresponding to July 1, 2009 shall be determined and
the Bund yield shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a
straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month), plus 0.50%.  The Bund Rate
shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

          "Adjusted Treasury Rate" means with respect to any redemption date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the
Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable
Treasury Price for such redemption date, plus 0.50%.

          "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury Security
selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to
the remaining term of the Notes that would be utilized, at the same time of
selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new
issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term
of the Notes.

          "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption
date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily
statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.
Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not
published or does not contain such prices on such Business Day, (A) the
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding
the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if
the Trustee ob-

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tains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of
all such quotations.

          "Independent Investment Banker" means any Reference Treasury Dealer
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer" means the U.S. affiliates of the Initial
Purchasers and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of
                                            --------  -------
the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in
New York City (a "Primary Treasury Dealer"), the Company shall substitute
therefor another Reference Treasury Dealer.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by
the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices of the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

          6.   Notice of Redemption.  Notice of redemption will be mailed at
               --------------------
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address.
Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part.

          7.   Change of Control Offer.  In the event of a Change of Control,
               -----------------------
upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Company
shall be required to offer to repurchase all of the then outstanding Notes
pursuant to a Change of Control Offer at a purchase price equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date
of purchase.  Holders of Notes that are the subject of such an offer to
repurchase shall receive an offer to repurchase and may elect to have such Notes
repurchased in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture pursuant to and
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

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          8.   Limitation on Asset Sales.  Under certain circumstances set forth
               -------------------------
in Section 4.15 of the Indenture, the Company is required to apply the net
proceeds from Asset Sales to offer to repurchase the Notes at a price equal to
100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of repurchase.

          9.   Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.  The Notes are in fully
               ---------------------------------
registered form only, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral
multiples of $1,000.  A Holder shall register the transfer or exchange of Notes
in accordance with the Indenture.  The Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to
pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection
therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the
transfer or exchange of any Notes during a period beginning 15 days before the
mailing of a redemption notice for any Notes or portions thereof selected for
redemption.

          10.  Persons Deemed Owners.  The registered Holder of a Note shall be
               ---------------------
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

          11.  Unclaimed Money.  If money for the payment of principal or
               ---------------
interest remains unclaimed for one year, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.

          12.  Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity.  If the Company at any
               -----------------------------------------
time deposits with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender or non-callable U.S. Government
Obligations sufficient to pay the principal of, premium and interest on the
Notes to redemption or maturity and complies with the other provisions of this
Indenture relating thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain
provisions of the Indenture and the Notes (including certain covenants, but
excluding its obligation to pay the principal of, premium and interest on the
Notes).

          13.  Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.  Subject to certain exceptions,
               -----------------------------
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or

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supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including any
Additional Notes), and any existing Default or Event of Default or noncompliance
with any provision may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including
any Additional Notes). Without consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may
amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any
ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition
to or in place of certificated Notes, or comply with Article Five of the
Indenture or make any other change that does not adversely affect in any
material respect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

          14.  Restrictive Covenants.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations
               ---------------------
on the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries to, among other things, incur
additional Indebtedness, pay dividends or make certain other restricted
payments, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create dividend or other
payment restrictions affecting Restricted Subsidiaries and merge or consolidate
with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation.  Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions.  The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.

          15.  Successors.  When a successor assumes, in accordance with this
               ----------
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.

          16.  Defaults and Remedies.  If an Event of Default occurs and is
               ---------------------
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes) may declare all the
Notes to be due and payable in the manner, at the time and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or
the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to
enforce the Indenture

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or the Notes unless it has been offered indemnity or security reasonably
satisfactory to it. The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations
therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Notes (including any Additional Notes) then outstanding to direct the Trustee in
its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of
Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default in
payment of principal or interest) if it determines in good faith that
withholding notice is in their interest.

          17.  Trustee Dealings with Company.  The Trustee under the Indenture,
               -----------------------------
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Restricted and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.

          18.  No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future
               --------------------------
stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such, of the
Company shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company under the
Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of,
such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

          19.  Authentication.  This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
               --------------
or authenticating agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.

          20.  Governing Law.  This Note shall be governed by, and construed in
               -------------
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to
applicable principles of conflicts of laws to the extent that the application of
the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

          21.  Abbreviations and Defined Terms.  Customary abbreviations may be
               -------------------------------
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with

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right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and
U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

          22.  CUSIP/ISIN Numbers.  The Company has caused CUSIP and/or ISIN
               ------------------
numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes.
No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.

          23.  Registration Rights.  Pursuant to the Registration Rights
               -------------------
Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors will be obligated upon the occurrence
of certain events to consummate an exchange offer pursuant to which the Holder
of this Note shall have the right to exchange this Note for a 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Note due 2009, of the Company (an "Unrestricted Note") which has
been registered under the Securities Act, in like principal amount and having
terms identical in all material respects as this Note.  The Holders shall be
entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such
exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all
pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.

          24.  Indenture.  Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
               ---------
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.

          25.  Guarantees.  This Note will be entitled to the benefits of
               ----------
certain senior subordinated Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the
Holders.  Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of
the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

          The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request
and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:  HUNTSMAN
INTERNATIONAL LLC,

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500 Huntsman Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, Attention: Office of General
Counsel.

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                             [FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]

I or we assign to

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER

________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
                    (please print or type name and address)

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints

________________________________________________________________________________
attorney to transfer the Note on the books of the Company with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated:___________________________                 ______________________________
                                                  NOTICE:  The signature on this
                                                  assignment must correspond
                                                  with the name as it appears
                                                  upon the face of the within
                                                  Note in every particular
                                                  without alteration or
                                                  enlargement or any change
                                                  whatsoever and be guaranteed
                                                  by the endorser's bank or
                                                  broker.

Signature Guarantee: ___________________________________________________________

          In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the
date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the Commission
of the effectiveness of a

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registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act") covering resales of this Note (which effectiveness shall not
have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii) [     ],
2001 the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general solicitation
or general advertising in connection with the transfer:

                                  [Check One]
                                   ---------

(1)  ___   to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or

(2)  ___   pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act
           of 1933, as amended; or

(3)  ___   to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
           501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
           amended) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing
           certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
           be obtained from the Trustee); or

(4)  ___   outside the United States to a "foreign purchaser" in compliance with
           Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as
           amended; or

(5)  ___   pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144
           under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

(6)  ___   pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
           Act of 1933, as amended; or

(7)  ___   pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
           statement requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is
not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):

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          .    The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.

          Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item
                                                 --------  -------
(3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior
to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in their sole discretion, such
written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the
case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company have
reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an
exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of l933, as amended.

          If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar
shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other
than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of
registration set forth herein and in Section 2.16 of the Indenture shall have
been satisfied.

Dated: _______________        Signed: ________________________________
                                        (Sign exactly as name appears on the
                                        other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

          The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has re-

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ceived such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested
pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that
it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned's foregoing
representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by
Rule 144A.

Dated: _______________                       ___________________________________
                                             NOTICE:  To be executed by an
                                                      executive officer

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<PAGE>

                      OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

          If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:

Section 4.14 [      ] Section 4.15 [      ]

          If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, state the
amount:  $_____________

Date:_________________                Your Signature:___________________________
                                                     (Sign exactly as your name
                                                     appears on the other side
                                                     of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________
                    Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion
                    Program (or other signature guarantor program reasonably
                    acceptable to the Trustee)

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                                                                     EXHIBIT A-2
                                                                     -----------
                         [FORM OF RESTRICTED EURO NOTE]
                         ------------------------------

          THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR
THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW.  BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B)
IT IS AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3), OR (7)
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S.
PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE
WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN TWO
YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER
THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE ISSUER THEREOF OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B)
INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN
ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES (OR HAS FURNISHED ON
ITS BEHALF BY A U.S. BROKER-DEALER) TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING
CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER
OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE FOR
THIS SECURITY), (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN
COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE),
OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY IS
TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND IN CONNECTION
WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE
OF THIS SECURITY, IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, THE
HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE ISSUER SUCH
CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER

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OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS
"OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE MEANING GIVEN
TO THEM BY REGULATIONS S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

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                          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

No.                                                                 EU[        ]

ISIN

          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
"Company"), for value received, promises to pay to                    or
registered assigns, the principal sum of        , on July 1, 2009.

          Interest Payment Dates:  January 1 and July 1

          Record Dates:  December 15 and June 15

          Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained
herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.

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<PAGE>

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed
manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

Dated:                        HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                              By:___________________________
                                 Name:
                                 Title:

Trustee's Certificate of Authentication

          This is one of the 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

                              The Bank of New York, as Trustee

                              By:___________________________
                                 Authorized Signature

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<PAGE>

                               (REVERSE OF NOTE)

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

          1.   Interest.  HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited
               --------
liability company (the "Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal
amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Interest on the Notes
will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from ___________.  The Company will pay interest semi-
annually in arrears on each January 1 and July 1 (each, an "Interest Payment
Date") and at stated maturity, commencing on _______________.  Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

          The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.

          2.   Method of Payment.  The Company shall pay interest on the Notes
               -----------------
(except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the
close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date even if the Notes are cancelled on registration of transfer or registration
of exchange after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying
Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal, premium
and interest in euros.  However, the Company may pay principal, premium and
interest by its check payable in euros.  The Company may deliver any such
interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered
address.

          3.   Paying Agent and Registrar.  Initially, The Bank of New York (the
               --------------------------
"Trustee") will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may change any
Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.  The
Company or any of its Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as
Registrar or co-Registrar.

                                     A-2-5
<PAGE>

          4.   Indenture.  The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture,
               ---------
dated as of March 13, 2001 (the "Indenture"), among the Company, each of the
Guarantors named therein and the Trustee.  This Note is one of a duly authorized
issue of Notes of the Company designated as its euro denominated 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2009, which may be issued under the Indenture.  The
Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes pursuant to the Indenture.
The Initial Notes, any Additional Notes and any Exchange Notes issued in
accordance with the Indenture are treated as a single class of securities under
the Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture.  Capitalized terms
used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S)(S) 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect
on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein,
the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to
the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  The Notes are senior
subordinated unsecured obligations of the Company.

          5.   Optional Redemption.  (a) The Notes will be redeemable, at the
               -------------------
Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and
after July 1, 2004, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the
following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount
thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on July 1 of the
year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of redemption:

                       Year                      Percentage
                       ----                      ----------

                       2004                      105.063%
                       2005                      103.375%
                       2006                      101.688%
                       2007 and thereafter       100.000%

                                     A-2-6
<PAGE>

          (b) At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to July 1, 2002,
the Company may, at its option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity
Offerings (as defined below) to redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal
amount of Notes (including the original principal amount of any Additional
Notes) originally issued at a redemption price equal to 110.125% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to
the date of redemption; provided, however, that at least 65% of the aggregate
                        --------  -------
principal amount of the Dollar Notes and Euro Notes originally issued (including
the original principal amount of any Additional Notes) remain outstanding
immediately after any such redemption.  In order to effect the foregoing
redemption with the proceeds of any Equity Offering, the Company shall make such
redemption not more than 120 days after the consummation of any such Equity
Offering.

          As used in the preceding paragraph, "Equity Offering" means any sale
of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or any capital contribution to the
equity of the Company.

          (c) At any time on or prior to July 1, 2004, the Notes may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, upon not less than
30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at a redemption price (the "Make-Whole Price")
equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount thereof or (ii) as
determined by an Independent Investment Banker, the present value of (A) the
redemption price of such Notes at July 1, 2004 (as set forth below) plus (B) all
required interest payments due on such Notes through July 1, 2004 (excluding
accrued interest), discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at, in the case of
the Dollar Notes, the Adjusted Treasury Rate and, in the case of the Euro Notes,
the Adjusted Bund Rate, plus in each case accrued interest to the redemption
date.

          "Adjusted Bund Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the
mid-market yield under the heading which represents the average for the
immediately prior week appearing on Reuters page AABBUND01, or its successor,
for the maturity

                                     A-2-7
<PAGE>

corresponding to July 1, 2009 (if no maturity date is within three months before
or after July 1, 2009, yields for the two published maturities most closely
corresponding to July 1, 2009 shall be determined and the Bund yield shall be
interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding
to the nearest month), plus 0.50%. The Bund Rate shall be calculated on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

          "Adjusted Treasury Rate" means with respect to any redemption date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the
Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable
Treasury Price for such redemption date, plus 0.50%.

          "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury Security
selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to
the remaining term of the Notes that would be utilized, at the same time of
selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new
issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term
of the Notes.

          "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption
date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily
statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.
Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not
published or does not contain such prices on such Business Day, (A) the
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding
the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if
the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such quotations.

                                     A-2-8
<PAGE>

          "Independent Investment Banker" means any Reference Treasury Dealer
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer" means the U.S. affiliates of the Initial
Purchasers and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of
                                            --------  -------
the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in
New York City (a "Primary Treasury Dealer"), the Company shall substitute
therefor another Reference Treasury Dealer.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by
the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices of the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

          6.   Notice of Redemption.  Notice of redemption will be mailed at
               --------------------
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address.
Notes in denominations larger than EU1,000 may be redeemed in part.

          7.   Change of Control Offer.  In the event of a Change of Control,
               -----------------------
upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Company
shall be required to offer to repurchase all of the then outstanding Notes
pursuant to a Change of Control Offer at a purchase price equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date
of purchase.  Holders of Notes that are the subject of such an offer to
repurchase shall receive an offer to repurchase and may elect to have such Notes
repurchased in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture pursuant to and
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

          8.   Limitation on Asset Sales.  Under certain circumstances set forth
               -------------------------
in Section 4.15 of the Indenture, the Company is required to apply the net
proceeds from Asset Sales to

                                     A-2-9
<PAGE>

offer to repurchase the Notes at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount
thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of
repurchase.

          9.   Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.  The Notes are in fully
               ---------------------------------
registered form only, without coupons, in denominations of EU1,000 and integral
multiples of EU1,000.  A Holder shall register the transfer or exchange of Notes
in accordance with the Indenture.  The Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to
pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection
therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the
transfer or exchange of any Notes during a period beginning 15 days before the
mailing of a redemption notice for any Notes or portions thereof selected for
redemption.

          10.  Persons Deemed Owners.  The registered Holder of a Note shall be
               ---------------------
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

          11.  Unclaimed Money.  If money for the payment of principal or
               ---------------
interest remains unclaimed for one year, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.

          12.  Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity.  If the Company at any
               -----------------------------------------
time deposits with the Trustee euros or non-callable Euro Obligations sufficient
to pay the principal of, premium and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of this Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of, premium and interest on the Notes).

          13.  Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.  Subject to certain exceptions,
               -----------------------------
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes), and any exist-

                                    A-2-10
<PAGE>

ing Default or Event of Default or noncompliance with any provision may be
waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes).
Without consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the
Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or
inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of
certificated Notes, or comply with Article Five of the Indenture or make any
other change that does not adversely affect in any material respect the rights
of any Holder of a Note.

          14.  Restrictive Covenants.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations
               ---------------------
on the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries to, among other things, incur
additional Indebtedness, pay dividends or make certain other restricted
payments, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create dividend or other
payment restrictions affecting Restricted Subsidiaries and merge or consolidate
with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation.  Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions.  The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.

          15.  Successors.  When a successor assumes, in accordance with this
               ----------
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.

          16.  Defaults and Remedies.  If an Event of Default occurs and is
               ---------------------
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes) may declare all the
Notes to be due and payable in the manner, at the time and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or
the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to
enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has been offered indemnity or
security reasonably satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to
certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority

                                    A-2-11
<PAGE>

in aggregate principal amount of the Notes (including any Additional Notes) then
outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The
Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or
Event of Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest) if it
determines in good faith that withholding notice is in their interest.

          17.  Trustee Dealings with Company.  The Trustee under the Indenture,
               -----------------------------
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Restricted and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.

          18.  No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future
               --------------------------
stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such, of the
Company shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company under the
Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of,
such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

          19.  Authentication.  This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
               --------------
or authenticating agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.

          20.  Governing Law.  This Note shall be governed by, and construed in
               -------------
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to
applicable principles of conflicts of laws to the extent that the application of
the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

          21.  Abbreviations and Defined Terms.  Customary abbreviations may be
               -------------------------------
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

                                    A-2-12
<PAGE>

          22.  CUSIP/ISIN Numbers.  The Company has caused CUSIP and/or ISIN
               ------------------
numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes.
No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.

          23.  Registration Rights.  Pursuant to the Registration Rights
               -------------------
Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors will be obligated upon the occurrence
of certain events to consummate an exchange offer pursuant to which the Holder
of this Note shall have the right to exchange this Note for a 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Note due 2009, of the Company (an "Unrestricted Note") which has
been registered under the Securities Act, in like principal amount and having
terms identical in all material respects as this Note.  The Holders shall be
entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such
exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all
pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.

          24.  Indenture.  Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
               ---------
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.

          25.  Guarantees.  This Note will be entitled to the benefits of
               ----------
certain senior subordinated Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the
Holders.  Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of
the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

          The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request
and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:  HUNTSMAN
INTERNATIONAL LLC, 500 Huntsman Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, Attention:
Office of General Counsel.

                                    A-2-13
<PAGE>

                             [FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]

I or we assign to

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER

_______________________

________________________________________________________________________________
                    (please print or type name and address)

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints

________________________________________________________________________________
attorney to transfer the Note on the books of the Company with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated:___________________     __________________________________________________
                              NOTICE:  The signature on this assignment must
                              correspond with the name as it appears upon the
                              face of the within Note in every particular
                              without alteration or enlargement or any change
                              whatsoever and be guaranteed by the endorser's
                              bank or broker.

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________

          In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the
date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the Commission
of the effectiveness of a

                                    A-2-14
<PAGE>

registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act") covering resales of this Note (which effectiveness shall not
have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii) [ ],
2001 the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general solicitation
or general advertising in connection with the transfer:

                                  [Check One]
                                   ---------

(1)  ___   to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or

(2)  ___   pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act
           of 1933, as amended; or

(3)  ___   to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
           501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
           amended) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing
           certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
           be obtained from the Trustee); or

(4)  ___   outside the United States to a "foreign purchaser" in compliance with
           Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as
           amended; or

(5)  ___   pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144
           under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

(6)  ___   pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
           Act of 1933, as amended; or

(7)  ___   pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
           statement requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is
not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):

                                    A-2-15
<PAGE>

               The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.

          Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item
                                                 --------  -------
(3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior
to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in their sole discretion, such
written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the
case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company have
reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an
exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of l933, as amended.

          If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar
shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other
than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of
registration set forth herein and in Section 2.16 of the Indenture shall have
been satisfied.

Dated:______________               Signed:______________________________________
                                          (Sign exactly as name appears on the
                                          other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

          The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has re-

                                    A-2-16
<PAGE>

ceived such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested
pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that
it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned's foregoing
representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by
Rule 144A.

Dated:___________________                    ___________________________________
                                             NOTICE:  To be executed by an
                                                      executive officer

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<PAGE>

                      OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

          If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:

Section 4.14 [      ]   Section 4.15 [      ]

          If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, state the
amount:  $_____________

Date:____________________     Your Signature:___________________________________
                                             (Sign exactly as your name appears
                                             on the other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________
                    Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion
                    Program (or other signature guarantor program reasonably
                    acceptable to the Trustee)

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<PAGE>

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-3
                                                                     -----------

                             [FORM OF DOLLAR NOTE]

                          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

No.                                                                  $[        ]
CUSIP

          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
"Company"), for value received, promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered
assigns, the principal sum of             , on July 1, 2009.

          Interest Payment Dates:  January 1 and July 1

          Record Dates:  December 15 and June 15

          Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained
herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.

                                     A-3-1
<PAGE>

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed
manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.

Dated:                             HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                                   By:__________________________________
                                      Name:
                                      Title:

Trustee's Certificate of Authentication

          This is one of the 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

                                   The Bank of New York, as Trustee

                                   By:__________________________________
                                      Authorized Signature

                                     A-3-2
<PAGE>

                               (REVERSE OF NOTE)

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

          1.   Interest.  HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited
               --------
liability company (the "Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal
amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Interest on the Notes
will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from ___________.  The Company will pay interest
semi-annually in arrears on each January 1 and July 1 (each, an "Interest
Payment Date") and at stated maturity, commencing on _______________. Interest
will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

          The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.

          2.   Method of Payment.  The Company shall pay interest on the Notes
               -----------------
(except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the
close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date even if the Notes are cancelled on registration of transfer or registration
of exchange after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying
Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal, premium
and interest in euros.  However, the Company may pay principal, premium and
interest by its check payable in euros.  The Company may deliver any such
interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered
address.

          3.   Paying Agent and Registrar.  Initially, The Bank of New York (the
               --------------------------
"Trustee") will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may change any
Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.  The
Company or any

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<PAGE>

of its Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as Registrar or
co-Registrar.

          4.   Indenture.  The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture,
               ---------
dated as of March 13, 2001 (the "Indenture"), among the Company, each of the
Guarantors named therein and the Trustee.  This Note is one of a duly authorized
issue of Notes of the Company designated as its euro denominated 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2009, which may be issued under the Indenture.  The
Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes pursuant to the Indenture.
The Initial Notes, any Additional Notes and any Exchange Notes issued in
accordance with the Indenture are treated as a single class of securities under
the Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture.  Capitalized terms
used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S)(S) 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect
on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein,
the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to
the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  The Notes are senior
subordinated unsecured obligations of the Company.

          5.   Optional Redemption.  (a) The Notes will be redeemable, at the
               -------------------
Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and
after July 1, 2004, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the
following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount
thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on July 1 of the
year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of redemption:

               Year                          Percentage
               ----                          -----------
               2004                          105.063%
               2005                          103.375%
               2006                          101.688%
               2007 and thereafter           100.000%

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<PAGE>

          (b)  At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to July 1, 2002,
the Company may, at its option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity
Offerings (as defined below) to redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal
amount of Notes (including the original principal amount of any Additional
Notes) originally issued at a redemption price equal to 110.125% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to
the date of redemption; provided, however, that at least 65% of the aggregate
                        --------  -------
principal amount of the Dollar Notes and Euro Notes originally issued (including
the original principal amount of any Additional Notes) remain outstanding
immediately after any such redemption.  In order to effect the foregoing
redemption with the proceeds of any Equity Offering, the Company shall make such
redemption not more than 120 days after the consummation of any such Equity
Offering.

          As used in the preceding paragraph, "Equity Offering" means any sale
of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or any capital contribution to the
equity of the Company.

          (c)  At any time on or prior to July 1, 2004, the Notes may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, upon not less than
30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at a redemption price (the "Make-Whole Price")
equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount thereof or (ii) as
determined by an Independent Investment Banker, the present value of (A) the
redemption price of such Notes at July 1, 2004 (as set forth below) plus (B) all
required interest payments due on such Notes through July 1, 2004 (excluding
accrued interest), discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at, in the case of
the Dollar Notes, the Adjusted Treasury Rate and, in the case of the Euro Notes,
the Adjusted Bund Rate, plus in each case accrued interest to the redemption
date.

          "Adjusted Bund Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the
mid-market yield under the heading which represents the average for the
immediately prior week appearing

                                     A-3-5
<PAGE>

on Reuters page AABBUND01, or its successor, for the maturity corresponding to
July 1, 2009 (if no maturity date is within three months before or after July 1,
2009, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to July
1, 2009 shall be determined and the Bund yield shall be interpolated or
extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest
month), plus 0.50%. The Bund Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day
preceding such redemption date.

          "Adjusted Treasury Rate" means with respect to any redemption date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the
Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable
Treasury Price for such redemption date, plus 0.50%.

          "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury Security
selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to
the remaining term of the Notes that would be utilized, at the same time of
selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new
issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term
of the Notes.

          "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption
date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily
statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.
Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not
published or does not contain such prices on such Business Day, (A) the
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding
the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if
the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such quotations.

                                     A-3-6
<PAGE>

          "Independent Investment Banker" means any Reference Treasury Dealer
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer" means the U.S. affiliates of the Initial
Purchasers and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of
                                            --------  -------
the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in
New York City (a "Primary Treasury Dealer"), the Company shall substitute
therefor another Reference Treasury Dealer.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by
the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices of the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

          6.   Notice of Redemption.  Notice of redemption will be mailed at
               --------------------
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address.
Notes in denominations larger than EU1,000 may be redeemed in part.

          7.   Change of Control Offer.  In the event of a Change of Control,
               -----------------------
upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Company
shall be required to offer to repurchase all of the then outstanding Notes
pursuant to a Change of Control Offer at a purchase price equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date
of purchase.  Holders of Notes that are the subject of such an offer to
repurchase shall receive an offer to repurchase and may elect to have such Notes
repurchased in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture pursuant to and
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

          8.   Limitation on Asset Sales.  Under certain circumstances set forth
               -------------------------
in Section 4.15 of the Indenture, the Company is required to apply the net
proceeds from Asset Sales to

                                     A-3-7
<PAGE>

offer to repurchase the Notes at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount
thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of
repurchase.

          9.   Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.  The Notes are in fully
               ---------------------------------
registered form only, without coupons, in denominations of EU1,000 and integral
multiples of EU1,000.  A Holder shall register the transfer or exchange of Notes
in accordance with the Indenture.  The Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to
pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection
therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the
transfer or exchange of any Notes during a period beginning 15 days before the
mailing of a redemption notice for any Notes or portions thereof selected for
redemption.

          10.  Persons Deemed Owners.  The registered Holder of a Note shall be
               ---------------------
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

          11.  Unclaimed Money.  If money for the payment of principal or
               ---------------
interest remains unclaimed for one year, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.

          12.  Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity.  If the Company at any
               -----------------------------------------
time deposits with the Trustee euros or non-callable Euro Obligations sufficient
to pay the principal of, premium and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of this Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of, premium and interest on the Notes).

          13.  Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.  Subject to certain exceptions,
               -----------------------------
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes), and any exist-

                                     A-3-8
<PAGE>

ing Default or Event of Default or noncompliance with any provision may be
waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes).
Without consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the
Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or
inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of
certificated Notes, or comply with Article Five of the Indenture or make any
other change that does not adversely affect in any material respect the rights
of any Holder of a Note.

          14.  Restrictive Covenants.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations
               ---------------------
on the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries to, among other things, incur
additional Indebtedness, pay dividends or make certain other restricted
payments, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create dividend or other
payment restrictions affecting Restricted Subsidiaries and merge or consolidate
with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation.  Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions.  The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.

          15.  Successors.  When a successor assumes, in accordance with this
               ----------
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.

          16.  Defaults and Remedies.  If an Event of Default occurs and is
               ---------------------
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes) may declare all the
Notes to be due and payable in the manner, at the time and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or
the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to
enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has been offered indemnity or
security reasonably satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to
certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority

                                     A-3-9
<PAGE>

in aggregate principal amount of the Notes (including any Additional Notes) then
outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The
Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or
Event of Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest) if it
determines in good faith that withholding notice is in their interest.

          17.  Trustee Dealings with Company.  The Trustee under the Indenture,
               -----------------------------
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Restricted and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.

          18.  No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future
               --------------------------
stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such, of the
Company shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company under the
Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of,
such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

          19.  Authentication.  This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
               --------------
or authenticating agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.

          20.  Governing Law.  This Note shall be governed by, and construed in
               -------------
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to
applicable principles of conflicts of laws to the extent that the application of
the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

          21.  Abbreviations and Defined Terms.  Customary abbreviations may be
               -------------------------------
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

                                    A-3-10
<PAGE>

          22.  CUSIP/ISIN Numbers.  The Company has caused CUSIP and/or ISIN
               ------------------
numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes.
No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.

          23.  Registration Rights.  Pursuant to the Registration Rights
               -------------------
Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors will be obligated upon the occurrence
of certain events to consummate an exchange offer pursuant to which the Holder
of this Note shall have the right to exchange this Note for a 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Note due 2009, of the Company (an "Unrestricted Note") which has
been registered under the Securities Act, in like principal amount and having
terms identical in all material respects as this Note.  The Holders shall be
entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such
exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all
pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.

          24.  Indenture.  Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
               ---------
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.

          25.  Guarantees.  This Note will be entitled to the benefits of
               ----------
certain senior subordinated Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the
Holders.  Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of
the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

          The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request
and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:  HUNTSMAN
INTERNATIONAL LLC, 500 Huntsman Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, Attention:
Office of General Counsel.

                                    A-3-11
<PAGE>

                             [FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]

I or we assign to

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER

______________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
                    (please print or type name and address)

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints

________________________________________________________________________________
attorney to transfer the Note on the books of the Company with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated: ________________________________         ________________________________

                                                NOTICE:  The signature on this
                                                assignment must correspond with
                                                the name as it appears upon the
                                                face of the within Note in every
                                                particular without alteration or
                                                enlargement or any change
                                                whatsoever and be guaranteed by
                                                the endorser's bank or broker.

Signature Guarantee: ___________________________________________________________

          In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the
date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the Commission
of the effectiveness of a

                                    A-3-12
<PAGE>

registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act") covering resales of this Note (which effectiveness shall not
have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii) [ ],
2001 the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general solicitation
or general advertising in connection with the transfer:

                                  [Check One]
                                   ---------

(1) ___   to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or

(2) ___   pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act
          of 1933, as amended; or

(3) ___   to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
          501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
          amended) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing
          certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
          be obtained from the Trustee); or

(4) ___   outside the United States to a "foreign purchaser" in compliance with
          Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
          or

(5) ___   pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under
          the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

(6) ___   pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
          Act of 1933, as amended; or

(7) ___   pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
          statement requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is
not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):

                                    A-3-13
<PAGE>

          The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.

          Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item
                                                 --------  -------
(3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior
to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in their sole discretion, such
written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the
case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company have
reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an
exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of l933, as amended.

          If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar
shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other
than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of
registration set forth herein and in Section 2.16 of the Indenture shall have
been satisfied.

Dated: ______________________            Signed: _______________________________
                                                  (Sign exactly as name appears
                                                 on the other side of this
                                                 Note)

Signature Guarantee: ___________________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

          The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has re

                                    A-3-14
<PAGE>

ceived such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested
pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that
it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned's foregoing
representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by
Rule 144A.

Dated: ________________________                  _______________________________
                                                 NOTICE:   To be executed by an
                                                           executive officer

                                    A-3-15
<PAGE>

                      OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

          If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:

Section 4.14 [      ] Section 4.15 [      ]

          If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, state the
amount: $_____________

Date: _________________________      Your Signature: ___________________________
                                                      (Sign exactly as your
                                                     name appears on the other
                                                     side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee: __________________________________________________________
                     Participant in a recognized Signature
                     Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
                     signature guarantor program reasonably
                     acceptable to the Trustee)

                                    A-3-16
<PAGE>

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-4
                                                                     -----------
                              [FORM OF EURO NOTE]
                              -------------------

                          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

No.                                                                 EU[        ]

ISIN

          HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
"Company"), for value received, promises to pay to                       or
registered assigns, the principal sum of             , on July 1, 2009.

          Interest Payment Dates:  January 1 and July 1

          Record Dates:  December 15 and June 15

          Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained
herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.

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<PAGE>

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed
manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

Dated:                                  HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

                                        By: ____________________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

Trustee's Certificate of Authentication

          This is one of the 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

                                        The Bank of New York, as Trustee

                                        By: ____________________________________
                                            Authorized Signature

                                     A-4-2
<PAGE>

                               (REVERSE OF NOTE)

                   10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009

          1.   Interest. HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware limited
               --------
liability company (the "Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal
amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Interest on the Notes
will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from ___________.  The Company will pay interest semi-
annually in arrears on each January 1 and July 1 (each, an "Interest Payment
Date") and at stated maturity, commencing on ____________.  Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

          The Company shall pay interest on  and on overdue installments of
interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and on
overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace
periods) to the extent lawful.

          2.   Method of Payment. The Company shall pay interest on the Notes
               -----------------
(except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the
close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date even if the Notes are cancelled on registration of transfer or registration
of exchange after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying
Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal, premium
and interest in euros. However, the Company may pay principal, premium and
interest by its check payable in euros. The Company may deliver any such
interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered
address .

          3.   Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, The Bank of New York (the
               --------------------------
"Trustee") will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any
Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders. The
Company or any of its Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as
Registrar or co-Registrar.

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<PAGE>

          4.   Indenture. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture,
               ---------
dated as of March 13, 2001 (the "Indenture"), among the Company, each of the
Guarantors named therein and the Trustee. This Note is one of a duly authorized
issue of Notes of the Company designated as its euro denominated 10 1/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2009, which may be issued under the Indenture. The
Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes pursuant to the Indenture.
The Initial Notes, any Additional Notes and any Exchange Notes issued in
accordance with the Indenture are treated as a single class of securities under
the Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms
used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S)(S) 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect
on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein,
the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to
the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Notes are senior
subordinated unsecured obligations of the Company.

          5.   Optional Redemption. (a) The Notes will be redeemable, at the
               -------------------
Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and
after July 1, 2004, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the
following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount
thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on July 1 of the
year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of redemption:

                       Year                      Percentage
                       ----                      ----------
                       2004                       105.063%
                       2005                       103.375%
                       2006                       101.688%
                       2007 and thereafter        100.000%

          (b)  At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to July 1, 2002,
the Company may, at its option, use the net cash

                                     A-4-4
<PAGE>

proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings (as defined below) to redeem up to 35%
of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the original principal
amount of any Additional Notes) originally issued at a redemption price equal to
110.125% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon, if any, to the date of redemption; provided, however, that at least 65%
                                            --------  -------
of the aggregate principal amount of the Dollar Notes and Euro Notes originally
issued (including the original principal amount of any Additional Notes) remain
outstanding immediately after any such redemption. In order to effect the
foregoing redemption with the proceeds of any Equity Offering, the Company shall
make such redemption not more than 120 days after the consummation of any such
Equity Offering.

          As used in the preceding paragraph, "Equity Offering" means any sale
of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or any capital contribution to the
equity of the Company.

          (c)  At any time on or prior to July 1, 2004, the Notes may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, upon not less than
30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at a redemption price (the "Make-Whole Price")
equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount thereof or (ii) as
determined by an Independent Investment Banker, the present value of (A) the
redemption price of such Notes at July 1, 2004 (as set forth below) plus (B) all
required interest payments due on such Notes through July 1, 2004 (excluding
accrued interest), discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at, in the case of
the Dollar Notes, the Adjusted Treasury Rate and, in the case of the Euro Notes,
the Adjusted Bund Rate, plus in each case accrued interest to the redemption
date.

          "Adjusted Bund Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the
mid-market yield under the heading which represents the average for the
immediately prior week appearing on Reuters page AABBUND01, or its successor,
for the maturity corresponding to July 1, 2009 (if no maturity date is within
three months before or after July 1, 2009, yields for the two

                                     A-4-5
<PAGE>

published maturities most closely corresponding to July 1, 2009 shall be
determined and the Bund yield shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such
yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month), plus 0.50%. The
Bund Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding such
redemption date.

          "Adjusted Treasury Rate" means with respect to any redemption date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the
Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable
Treasury Price for such redemption date, plus 0.50%.

          "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury Security
selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to
the remaining term of the Notes that would be utilized, at the same time of
selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new
issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term
of the Notes.

          "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption
date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily
statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S.
Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not
published or does not contain such prices on such Business Day, (A) the
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding
the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if
the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such quotations.

          "Independent Investment Banker" means any Reference Treasury Dealer
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

                                     A-4-6
<PAGE>

          "Reference Treasury Dealer" means the U.S. affiliates of the Initial
Purchasers and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of
                                            --------  -------
the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in
New York City (a "Primary Treasury Dealer"), the Company shall substitute
therefor another Reference Treasury Dealer.

          "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by
the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices of the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

          6.   Notice of Redemption.  Notice of redemption will be mailed at
               --------------------
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address.
Notes in denominations larger than EU1,000 may be redeemed in part.

          7.   Change of Control Offer.  In the event of a Change of Control,
               -----------------------
upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Company
shall be required to offer to repurchase all of the then outstanding Notes
pursuant to a Change of Control Offer at a purchase price equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date
of purchase.  Holders of Notes that are the subject of such an offer to
repurchase shall receive an offer to repurchase and may elect to have such Notes
repurchased in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture pursuant to and
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

          8.   Limitation on Asset Sales.  Under certain circumstances set forth
               -------------------------
in Section 4.15 of the Indenture, the Company is required to apply the net
proceeds from Asset Sales to offer to repurchase the Notes at a price equal to
100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of repurchase.

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<PAGE>

          9.   Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.  The Notes are in fully
               ---------------------------------
registered form only, without coupons, in denominations of EU1,000 and integral
multiples of EU1,000.  A Holder shall register the transfer or exchange of Notes
in accordance with the Indenture.  The Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to
pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection
therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the
transfer or exchange of any Notes during a period beginning 15 days before the
mailing of a redemption notice for any Notes or portions thereof selected for
redemption.

          10.  Persons Deemed Owners.  The registered Holder of a Note shall be
               ---------------------
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

          11.  Unclaimed Money.  If money for the payment of principal or
               ---------------
interest remains unclaimed for one year, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.

          12.  Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity.  If the Company at any
               -----------------------------------------
time deposits with the Trustee euros or non-callable Euro Obligations sufficient
to pay the principal of, premium and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of this Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of, premium and interest on the Notes).

          13.  Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.  Subject to certain exceptions,
               -----------------------------
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes), and any existing
Default or Event of Default or noncompliance with any provision may be waived
with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes).  Without
consent of

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any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture or the
Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency,
provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated
Notes, or comply with Article Five of the Indenture or make any other change
that does not adversely affect in any material respect the rights of any Holder
of a Note.

          14.  Restrictive Covenants.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations
               ---------------------
on the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries to, among other things, incur
additional Indebtedness, pay dividends or make certain other restricted
payments, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create dividend or other
payment restrictions affecting Restricted Subsidiaries and merge or consolidate
with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation.  Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions.  The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.

          15.  Successors.  When a successor assumes, in accordance with this
               ----------
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.

          16.  Defaults and Remedies.  If an Event of Default occurs and is
               ---------------------
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes) may declare all the
Notes to be due and payable in the manner, at the time and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or
the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to
enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has been offered indemnity or
security reasonably satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to
certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Notes (including any Additional Notes) then outstanding
to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may
withhold from Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of

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Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest) if it determines
in good faith that withholding notice is in their interest.

          17.  Trustee Dealings with Company.  The Trustee under the Indenture,
               -----------------------------
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Restricted and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.

          18.  No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future
               --------------------------
stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such, of the
Company shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company under the
Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of,
such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

          19.  Authentication.  This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
               --------------
or authenticating agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.

          20.  Governing Law.  This Note shall be governed by, and construed in
               -------------
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to
applicable principles of conflicts of laws to the extent that the application of
the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

          21.  Abbreviations and Defined Terms.  Customary abbreviations may be
               -------------------------------
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

          22.  CUSIP/ISIN Numbers.  The Company has caused CUSIP and/or ISIN
               ------------------
numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes.
No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Notes

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and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.

          23.  Indenture.  Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
               ---------
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.

          24.  Guarantees.  This Note will be entitled to the benefits of
               ----------
certain senior subordinated Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the
Holders.  Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of
the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

          The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request
and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:  HUNTSMAN
INTERNATIONAL LLC, 500 Huntsman Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, Attention:
Office of General Counsel.

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                             [FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]

I or we assign to

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER

__________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
                    (please print or type name and address)

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints

________________________________________________________________________________
attorney to transfer the Note on the books of the Company with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated:____________________    __________________________________________________
                              NOTICE: The signature on this assignment must
                              correspond with the name as it appears upon the
                              face of the within Note in every particular
                              without alteration or enlargement or any change
                              whatsoever and be guaranteed by the endorser's
                              bank or broker.

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________

          In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the
date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the Commission
of the effectiveness of a

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registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act") covering resales of this Note (which effectiveness shall not
have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii)
____________ the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general
solicitation or general advertising in connection with the transfer:

                                  [Check One]
                                   ---------

(1) ___   to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or

(2) ___   pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act
          of 1933, as amended; or

(3) ___   to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
          501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
          amended) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing
          certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
          be obtained from the Trustee); or

(4) ___   outside the United States to a "foreign purchaser" in compliance with
          Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
          or

(5) ___   pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under
          the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

(6) ___   pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
          Act of 1933, as amended; or

(7) ___   pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
          statement requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is
not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):

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               The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.

          Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item
                                                 --------  -------
(3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior
to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in their sole discretion, such
written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the
case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company have
reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an
exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of l933, as amended.

          If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar
shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other
than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of
registration set forth herein and in Section 2.16 of the Indenture shall have
been satisfied.

Dated:________________________     Signed:______________________________________
                                          (Sign exactly as name appears on the
                                          other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

          The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has re-

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ceived such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested
pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that
it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned's foregoing
representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by
Rule 144A.

Dated:______________________       _____________________________________________
                                   NOTICE: To be executed by an executive
                                           officer

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                      OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

          If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:

Section 4.14 [      ] Section 4.15 [      ]

          If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.14 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, state the
amount:  EU_____________

Date:________________________  Your Signature:__________________________________
                                              (Sign exactly as your name appears
                                              on the other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:____________________________________________________________
                    Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion
                    Program (or other signature guarantor program reasonably
                    acceptable to the Trustee)

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                                                                       EXHIBIT B
                                                                       ---------

                       FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITY

          Any Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a
legend (which would be in addition to any other legends required in the case of
a Restricted Security) in substantially the following form:

          THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
     HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A
     NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY OR A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY.  THIS NOTE IS NOT
     EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE
     DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN
     THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS
     NOTE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A
     NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
     DEPOSITORY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED
     IN THE INDENTURE.

          UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
     OF THE DEPOSITORY, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF
     TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN
     THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DESPOSITORY OR IN SUCH OTHER
     NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND
     ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO ITS NOMINEE OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED
     BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR
     OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
     INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, A NOMINEE OF THE DESPOSITORY, HAS
     AN INTEREST HEREIN.

          TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN
     WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF THE

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     DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S
     NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED
     TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE
     INDENTURE.

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                                                                     EXHIBIT C-1
                                                                     -----------

                        FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE --
                         RESTRICTED GLOBAL SECURITY TO
                         REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY
         (Transfers pursuant to Sections 2.16(a)(ii) of the Indenture)

The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
New York, N.Y.  10286
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

     Re:  Huntsman International LLC 10 1/8% Senior
          Subordinated Notes due 2009 (the "Securities")

     Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2001
between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee, (the "Indenture").
Terms used but not defined herein and defined in Regulation S under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") or in the Indenture shall have the
meanings given to them in Regulation S or the Indenture, as the case may be.

     This certificate relates to U.S.$______ principal amount of Securities,
which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):

     [CUSIP][CINS][ISIN] No(s). ________________________________

     CERTIFICATE No(s). _________________________

The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the "Undersigned")
hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the
Specified Securities or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial owners
of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so.  Such
beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the "Owner".
If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security, they are held
through the appropriate Depositary or an Agent Member in the name of the
Undersigned, as or

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on behalf of the Owner.

     The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred to a
person (the "Transferee") who will take delivery in the form of an interest in
the Regulation S Global Security.  In connection with such transfer, the Owner
hereby certifies that such transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule
904 under the Securities Act and with all applicable securities laws of the
states of the United States and other jurisdictions.  Accordingly, the Owner
hereby further certifies as follows:

     1.   the Owner is not a distributor of the Specified Securities, an
Affiliate of the Company or any such distributor or a person acting on behalf of
any of the foregoing;

     2.   the offer of the Specified Securities was not made to a person in the
United States;

     3    either:

          (a) at the time the buy order was originated, the Transferee was
outside the United States or the Owner and any person acting on its behalf
reasonably believed that the Transferee was outside the United States; or

          (b) the transaction is being executed in, on or through the facilities
of the Eurobond market, as regulated by the Association of International Bond
Dealers, or another designated offshore securities market and neither the Owner
nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transactions have been
prearranged with a buyer in the United States;

     4.   no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States by or
on behalf of the Owner or any Affiliate thereof;

     5.   if the Owner is a dealer in securities or has received a selling
concession, fee or other remuneration in respect of the Specified Securities,
and the transfer is to occur during the Restricted Period, then the requirements
of Rule

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904(c)(1) have been satisfied;

     6.   the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
registration requirements of the Securities Act; and

     7.   upon completion of the transaction, the beneficial interest being
transferred will be held through an Agent Member acting for and on behalf of
Euroclear or Clearstream.

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     This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your
benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Initial Purchasers under the
Purchase Agreement.

Dated:

                                          ______________________________________
                                          (Print the name of the Undersigned, as
                                          such term is defined in the second
                                          paragraph of this certificate.)

                                          By: __________________________________
                                              Name:
                                              Title:

                                          (If the Undersigned is a corporation,
                                          partnership or fiduciary, the title of
                                          the person signing on behalf of the
                                          Undersigned must be stated.)

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                                                                     EXHIBIT C-2
                                                                     -----------

                        FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE --
                  RESTRICTED GLOBAL SECURITY TO UNRESTRICTED
                                GLOBAL SECURITY
(Transfers Pursuant to Sections 2.16(a)(iii) and 2.16(b)(ii) of the Indenture)

The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
New York, N.Y. 10286
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

     Re:  Huntsman International LLC 10 1/8% Senior
          Subordinated Notes due 2009 (the "Securities")

     Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2001
between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee, ( the "Indenture").
Terms used but not defined herein and defined in Regulation S under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") or in the Indenture shall have the
meanings given to them in Regulation S or the Indenture, as the case may be.

     This certificate relates to [U.S.$][EU]_____ principal amount of
Securities, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):

     [CUSIP][CINS][ISIN] No(s). _________________________

     CERTIFICATE No(s). __________________

The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the "Undersigned")
hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the
Specified Securities or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial owners
of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so.  Such
beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the "Owner".
If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security, they are held
through the appropriate Depositary or an Agent Member in the name of the
Undersigned, as or

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on behalf of the Owner.

     The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred to a
person (the "Transferee") who will take delivery in the form of an interest in
the Unrestricted Global Security.  In connection with such transfer, the Owner
hereby certifies that such transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule
904 or Rule 144 under the Securities Act and with all applicable securities laws
of the states of the United States and other jurisdictions.  Accordingly, the
Owner hereby further certifies as follows:

          (1)  Rule 904 Transfers.  If the transfer is being effected in
     accordance with Rule 904:

               (A)  the Owner is not a distributor of the Specified Securities,
          an Affiliate of the Company or any such distributor or a person acting
          on behalf of any of the foregoing;

               (B)  the offer of the Specified Securities was not made to a
          person in the United States;

               (C)  either:

                    (i)  at the time the buy order was originated, the
               Transferee was outside the United States or the Owner and any
               person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the
               Transferee was outside the United States; or

                    (ii) the transaction is being executed in, on or through the
               facilities of the Eurobond market, as regulated by the
               Association of International Bond Dealers, or another designated
               offshore securities market and neither the Owner nor any person
               acting on its behalf knows that the transactions has been
               prearranged with a buyer in the United States;

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               (D)  no directed selling efforts have been made in the United
          States by or on behalf of the Owner or any Affiliate thereof;

               (E)  if the Owner is a dealer in securities or has received a
          selling concession, fee or other remuneration in respect of the
          Specified Securities, and the transfer is to occur during the
          Restricted Period, then the requirements of Rule 904(c)(1) have been
          satisfied; and

               (F)  the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
          registration requirements of the Securities Act.

          (2)  Rule 144 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected pursuant to
     Rule 144:

               (A)  the transfer is occurring after [date one year after the
          latest date of issuance of any of the Specified Securities] and is
          being effected in accordance with the applicable amount, manner of
          sale and notice requirements of Rule 144; or

               (B)  the transfer is occurring after [date two years after the
          latest date of issuance of any of the Specified Securities] and the
          Owner is not, and during the preceding three months has not been, an
          Affiliate of the Company.

     This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your
benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Initial Purchasers under the
Purchase Agreement.

Dated:                                  ________________________________________
                                        (Print the name of the Undersigned, as
                                        such term is defined in the second
                                        paragraph of this certificate.)

                                        By: ____________________________________
                                            Name:

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                                            Title:

          (If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or fiduciary, the
     title of the person signing on behalf of the Undersigned must be stated.)

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                                                                     EXHIBIT C-3
                                                                     -----------

                        FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE --
                        REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY TO
                          RESTRICTED GLOBAL SECURITY
(Transfers to QIBs Pursuant to Sections 2.16(a)(iv) of the Indenture)

The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
New York, N.Y. 10286

Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

     Re:  Huntsman International LLC [     ] Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009
          (the "Securities")

     Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of March 13, 2001
between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee, (the "Indenture").
Terms used but not defined herein and defined in Regulation S under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") or in the Indenture shall have the
meanings given to them in Regulation S or the Indenture, as the case may be.

     This certificate relates to U.S.$______ principal amount of Securities,
which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):

     [CUSIP][CINS][ISIN] No(s). _________________________

     CERTIFICATE No(s). __________________

The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the "Undersigned")
hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the
Specified Securities or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial owners
of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so. Such
beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the "Owner".
If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security, they are held
through the appropriate Deposi-

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tary or an Agent Member in the name of the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the
Owner.

     The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred to a
person (the "Transferee") who will take delivery in the form of an interest in
the Restricted Global Security. In connection with such transfer, the Owner
hereby certifies that such transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule
144A under the Securities Act and with all applicable securities laws of the
states of the United States and other jurisdictions. Accordingly, the Owner
hereby further certifies as follows:

          (1) the Specified Securities are being transferred to a person that
     the Owner and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe is a
     "qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A, acquiring
     for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer;
     and

          (2) the Owner and any person acting on its behalf have taken
     reasonable steps to ensure that the Transferee is aware that the Owner may
     be relying on Rule 144A in connection with the transfer.

     This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your
benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Initial Purchasers under the
Purchase Agreement.

Dated:                                  __________________________________
                                        (Print the name of the Undersigned, as
                                        such term is defined in the second
                                        paragraph of this certificate.)

                                        By:_______________________________
                                           Name:
                                           Title:

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     (If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or fiduciary, the title
of the person signing on behalf of the Undersigned must be stated.)

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                                                                       EXHIBIT D

                           FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE
                         DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH
                TRANSFERS TO INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS
           (Transfers Pursuant to Section 2.17(a) of the Indenture)

The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
New York, N.Y. 10286
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

     Re:  Huntsman International LLC 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen:

          Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of [           ],
2001 between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the "Indenture").
Terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the
Indenture.

          This certificate relates to [U.S. $] [EU]____ principal amount of
Securities, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the
"Securities"):

          1.   We understand that the Securities have not been registered under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and may not be
sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We understand and agree, on
our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as
hereinafter stated, (x) that such Securities are being offered only in a
transaction not involving any public offering within two years after the date of
the original issuance of the Securities or if within three months after we cease
to be an affiliate (within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of
the Company, such Securities may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to
the Company, (ii) so long as the Securities are eligible for resale pursuant to
Rule 144A under the Securities Act ("Rule 144A"), to a person whom we reasonably
believe is a "qualified institution buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A) ("QIB")
that purchases for its own account or for the ac-

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count of a QIB to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is
being made in reliance on Rule 144A (as indicated by the box checked by the
transferor on the Certificate of Transfer on the reverse of the certificate for
the Securities), (iii) in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation
S under the Securities Act (as indicated by the box checked by the transferor on
the Certificate of Transfer on the reverse of the Note if the Note is not in
book-entry form), and, if such transfer is being effected by certain transferors
prior to the expiration of the "40-day distribution compliance period" (within
the meaning of Rule 903(b)(2) of Regulation S under the Securities Act), a
certificate that may be obtained from the Trustee is delivered by the
transferee, (iv) to an institution that is an "accredited investor" as defined
in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act (as indicated by the
box checked by the transferor on the Certificate of Transfer on the reverse of
the certificate for the Securities) which has certified to the Company and the
Trustee for the Securities that it is such an accredited investor and is
acquiring the Securities for investment purposes and not for distribution
(provided that no Securities purchased from a foreign purchaser or from any
person other than a QIB or an institutional accredited investor pursuant to this
clause (iii) shall be permitted to transfer any Securities so purchased to an
institutional accredited investor pursuant to this clause (iv) prior to the
expiration of the "applicable restricted period" (within the meaning of
Regulation S under the Securities Act), (v) pursuant to an exemption from
registration under the Securities Act provided by Rule 144 (if applicable) under
the Securities Act, or (vi) pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable
securities laws of any state of the United States, and we will notify any
purchaser of the Securities from us of the above resale restriction, if then
applicable. We further understand that in connection with any transfer of the
Securities by us that the Company and the Trustee for the Securities may
request, and if so requested we will furnish, such certificates, legal opinions
and other information as they may reasonably require to confirm that any such
transfer complies with the foregoing restrictions.

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          2.   We are able to fend for ourselves in the transactions
contemplated by this Offering Circular, we have such knowledge and experience in
financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and
risks of our investment in the Securities, and we and any accounts for which we
are acting are each able to bear the economic risk of our or its investment and
can afford the complete loss of such investment.

          3.   We understand that the Company and others will rely upon the
truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and
agreements and we agree that if any of the acknowledgments, representations and
warranties deemed to have been made by us by our purchase of Securities, for our
own account or of one or more accounts as to each of which we exercise sole
investment discretion, are no longer accurate, we shall promptly notify the
Company.

          4.   We are acquiring the Securities purchased by us for investment
purposes and not for distribution of our own account or for one or more accounts
as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion and we are or such
account is an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in rule 501(a)(1),
(2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act).

          5.   You are entitled to rely upon this letter and you are irrevocably
authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in
any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby.

                                        Very truly yours,

                                        ________________________________
                                        (Name of Purchaser)

                                        By:_____________________________

                                      D-3
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Date:

                                      D-4
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                                                                       EXHIBIT E
                                                                       ---------

                                   GUARANTEE
                                   ---------

          For value received, the undersigned hereby unconditionally
guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holder of this
Note the cash payments in United States dollars of principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on this Note in the amounts and at the times when due and
interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, of
this Note, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other obligations of
the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Notes, to the Holder
of this Note and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms
and limitations of this Note, Article Eleven of the Indenture and this
Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in accordance with Article
Eleven of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced therein. The validity
and enforceability of any Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is
not affixed to any particular Note.

          Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Indenture dated as of March 13, 2001, among HUNTSMAN
INTERNATIONAL LLC as issuer (the "Company"), each of the Guarantors named
therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the "Trustee"), as amended or
supplemented (the "Indenture").

          The obligations of the undersigned to the Holders of Notes and to the
Trustee pursuant to this Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in
Article Eleven of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture
for the precise terms of the Guarantee and all of the other provisions of the
Indenture to which this Guarantee relates.

          THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDNACE WITH,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OF
CONFLICTS OF LAWS. The undersigned Guarantor hereby agrees to submit to the
jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in any action or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this Guarantee.

                                      E-1
<PAGE>

          This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the
Indenture.

                                      E-2
<PAGE>

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Guarantor has caused its Guarantee to be duly
executed.

Date: ________________

                              as Guarantor

                              By: _________________________
                                  Name:
                                  Title:

                                      E-3
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                                                                       EXHIBIT F
                                                                       ---------

                       [FORM OF INCUMBENCY CERTIFICATE]
                       --------------------------------

          The undersigned, _________________, being the _________ of
______________ (the "Company") does hereby certify that the individuals listed
below are qualified and acting officers of the Company as set forth in the right
column opposite their respective names and the signatures appearing in the
extreme right column opposite the name of each such officer is a true specimen
of the genuine signature of such officer and such individuals have the authority
to execute documents to be delivered to, or upon the request of, The Bank of New
York, as Trustee under the Indenture dated as of ___________, 20__, by and
between the Company and The Bank of New York.

Name                      Title                       Signature
----                      -----                       ---------

_______________________   _________________________   _______________________

_______________________   _________________________   _______________________

_______________________   _________________________   _______________________

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed and delivered
this Certificate as of the ___ day of __________, 20___.

                                        ______________________________
                                        Name:
                                        Title:

                                      E-4

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