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DIED. RUDY PERPICH, 67, Governor of Minnesota, 1977-79, 1983-91; from colon cancer; in Minneapolis. His record 10 years in office mixed a knack for making headlines (with notions such as selling the Governor's mansion) with a yen for making history: the nation's largest mall, a state arts high school, unprecedented opportunities for women and minorities in government...
...Grace Yen Shen...
...YEN'S NOT THAT STRONG...
...have to be fluent in Japanese (although I am) to understand that the caption under the photo accompanying your article "An Uncontrollable Yen" is incorrect [Trade, April 24]. It says restaurants in Japan "charged $10 for a cup of coffee at the going exchange rate." But the article noted an exchange rate of 80.15 yen to the U.S. dollar, so the 100-yen price tag shown in the photograph comes to only...
Finance ministers for the Group of Seven industrialized nations (the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada) met in Washington and rejected any specific action to boost the troubled dollar's exchange rate against other currencies. Still, the greenback rallied sharply against the yen, hitting 84.20 at week's end, its highest since April...