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          Effective Date will not occur unless Rockport has made the                  
          payment, if any, required by the preceding paragraph.”                      
               6.  Consent                                                            
               Prior to becoming members of SMP, CLIS and Generale Bank               
          required Mr. Lerner, as manager of SMP, to execute a document               
          (the consent) to provide advance consent to transfer CLIS’s and             
          Generale Bank’s preferred interests and to withdraw from SMP.33             
          White & Case drafted the consent on behalf of CLIS and Generale             
          Bank and dated it “___________, 1996”.34                                    
               Prior to CLIS’s and Generale Bank’s becoming members of                
          SMP, Mr. Lerner, as manager of SMP, signed the consent agreeing             
          to CLIS’s and Generale Bank’s transfer of preferred interests in            
          SMP and withdrawal as members of SMP.                                       
               D.  Assignment to Santa Monica Finance, B.V.                           
               On December 23, 1996, Mr. Geary sent Mr. Lerner:  (i) A                
          facsimile of an instrument assigning Generale Bank’s 61.27-                 
          percent preferred interest in SMP to Santa Monica Finance, B.V.;            
          and (ii) an executed ratification certificate from the latter               
          entity.                                                                     



               33 CLIS and Generale Bank planned to transfer the preferred            
          interests to a CDR affiliate, Santa Monica Finance B.V., before             
          the put under the side letter agreement was exercised.                      
               34 Mr. Lerner executed two other consents for the transfer             
          of preferred interests and the withdrawal of an unnamed “Member”            
          of SMP.  These consents were also predated “    , 1996”.                    





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