Page 'Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, February 7, 19734 ,,,, Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, February 7, 1973 BANKS INTERVENE Sell-off spurs By The Associated Press and Reuters the West German Federal Bank The dollar fought a wave of was forced to buy up more than heavy:. selling Tuesday, and only one billion dollars to prevent the the intervention of European ,gov- U.S. currency sinking through its ernment banks kept it from taking floor price of 3.1500 marks. a sharp dive. Gold prices rose as The big influx of dollars to Ger- big holders of dollars in Europe many adds to the nation's infla- sought to get rid of them. tionary pressure and could mean West Germany was the focal an upward revaluation of the West point of the sell-off and Chancellor German mark. Willy Brandt summoned the am- This would make West German bassadors of 14 Western trading exports more expensive and hence, countries, including the United less competitive in the United States, to urge them to find ways States. But for U.S. exporters the to bring the selling wave to a drop.in the value of the dollar in halt. Europe would come as good news Under the impact of the deluge, for it makes their goods less ex- U - dollar pensive to Europeans.{ European inflation in 1972 was around 6 per cent, about twice the1 rate in the United States. In other European financial capi- tals, the dollar continued to lose ground while in London and Zurich' a massive transfer from currency investment into gold pushed up its price to within a few cents of its i all-time free market record. The big London bullion dealers. Spegged the gold price in the morn-i = ing at 68.90 dollars an ounce-1.30; dollars higher than the rate they set Monday.t This is nearly twice the official< price of gold before the United1 States abandoned dollar converti- bility into gold in August.z Banking circles in Tokyo yester- day nervously eyed West Ger- many's response to the wave ofI dollar sales which they believe will cause pressure to build up for float- ing or revaluation of the yen. The Japanese central bank last week bought only an estimated 500 mil- lion dollars. West Germany and other non- ; I' crisis Communist nations told Japan that it will not "float" the West Ger- man mark, informed sources re- ported Wednesday in Tokyo. The Bonn government also told Japan that it will not "float" the West German mark, informed: sources reported early in Tokyo. The Bonn government also told Japan that it will not introduce a "two-tier market" system, and asked Japan for its cooperation in the current monetary crisis, the' sources said. The newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported that if West Germany' closed its foreign excange mar- ket, the Japanese governmen would close the Toyko exchange market. A revalution of the yen would, make Japanese products more ex- pensive in the United States. The Place to Meet INTERESTING People! BACH CLUB FEATURING TONY CECERE, French Horn FRANK NEZEWAZEY, Piano REFRESHMENTS E. Quad, Green Lounge NO MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE NEEDED ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE INVITED READ AND USE THE DA I LY CLASSI F I EDS I I MMMMOMM S A B French claim new flu-fighting serum PARIS (Reuters) - A French medical research team claim- ed yesterday it has discovered a vaccine against influenza which will be effective against all strains of the disease. 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