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...personal representative of Mitterrand's has arrived in Bourg St. Pierre (pop. 214) bearing a commemorative plaque and a handwritten letter from the President, thanking the village for the hospitality shown Napoleon. French officials said the matter had been resolved "in a warm and friendly way." Mayor Fernand Dorsaz accepted the plaque and letter as symbols of the debt's amicable settlement, and declared the matter "closed and settled-with a tinge of nostalgia...
Opponents of further deregulation are moving quickly to the attack. Among them is Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, who last week introduced a bill that would force commercial banks to sell their discount stock brokerage subsidiaries. Said St Germain of Continental's brush with failure...
...Neill that he demanded a letter of apology from the President. Without one, said O'Neill, the Democratic leader would not name any members of the Senate-House conference committee that must iron out the differences between the Senate and House bills. In addition, Democrat Fernand J. St Germain of Rhode Island, chairman of the House Banking Committee, said that he would bottle up the IMF bill unless the Administration persuades the Republican-controlled Senate to act on an unrelated bill on low-cost housing...
...proposal. The coalition strongly opposed it, and by week's end had shown so much clout that the House of Representatives was forced first to delay a vote on the increase and then to tie strings to it by adopting an amendment put forward by Banking Committee Chairman Fernand St Germain. The hastily drafted measure would tighten control over the release of funds to the IMF and discourage banks from making excessive overseas loans. The provisions should improve prospects for the increase when the House takes final action, perhaps as early as this week...
...collection, which includes paintings by abstract artists John Miro and Fernand Leger, is now on partial exhibit at the Fogg. Three especially noted works now hand in the Fogg courtyard in Sert's memory...