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                               UNITED STATES
                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549

                          SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
                 PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a)
                   OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
                             (AMENDMENT NO. __)

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                  COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
              (Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

                          RANGER GOVERNANCE, LTD.
  (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)

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                                                             Employment History or Present
                                                               Principal Occupation and
                                                             Five-Year Employment History
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Stephen R. Perkins - 58                   Mr. Perkins has been a Managing Director of Ranger since June 2001
Ranger Governance, Ltd.                   and was appointed President of Ranger and President of Ranger
300 Crescent Court                        Governance in June 2002.  He also has been the Chief Executive
Suite 1000                                Officer of Transfinity Corp. since November 2001 and has done
Dallas, TX  75201                         consulting work since March 2001.  Until March 2001, Mr. Perkins
                                          was Executive Vice President and Communications Software Group
[photo]                                   President of Sterling Commerce Inc., an industry leader in
                                          business-to-business e-commerce and a unit of SBC Communications.
                                          During his seven-year tenure at Sterling Commerce, he grew a
                                          division from revenues of $35 million and 150 domestic employees
                                          to one with revenues of $200 million and 1,000 employees worldwide
                                          and transitioned that division through a spin-off from Sterling
                                          Software and a subsequent acquisition. He also spent 16 years at
                                          University Computing Company, where he was part of a team that
                                          created the first system software package ever commercially sold
                                          to the information technology industry.


Ranger Governance, Ltd. ("Ranger") and certain other persons may be deemed
participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of
Computer Associates International, Inc. ("Computer Associates") in
connection with Computer Associates' 2002 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Information concerning such participants is available in Ranger's
preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the "Preliminary Proxy
Statement") filed by Ranger with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") on June 27, 2002.

STOCKHOLDERS OF COMPUTER ASSOCIATES ARE ADVISED TO READ RANGER'S DEFINITIVE
PROXY STATEMENT (THE "DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT") IN CONNECTION WITH
RANGER'S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FROM COMPUTER ASSOCIATES STOCKHOLDERS WHEN
IT BECOMES AVAILABLE, BECAUSE IT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.

Stockholders of Computer Associates and other interested parties may
obtain, free of charge, copies of the Preliminary Proxy Statement and the
Definitive Proxy Statement (when available), and any other documents filed
by Ranger with the SEC, at the SEC's Internet website at www.sec.gov. The
Preliminary Proxy Statement and the Definitive Proxy Statement (when
available) and these other documents may also be obtained free of charge by
contacting Morrow & Co., Inc., the firm assisting Ranger in the
solicitation of proxies, toll-free at 1-800-607-0088.