| BRITISH, FRENCH MINISTERS DISCUSS PUBLIC SPENDING | |
| French Finance Minister Edouard Balladur | |
| discussed the need to control public spending in talks here | |
| today with British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, a | |
| Treasury spokesman said. | |
| The spokesman said the ministers reviewed their economies, | |
| and public spending, domestic and European Community-wide. | |
| He declined to comment on whether the subject of concerted | |
| action to shore up the dollar had arisen. The U.S. Currency | |
| dipped sharply earlier this week after a month of relative | |
| stability after an agreement by six major industrialised | |
| nations in Paris on February 22 to stabilise their currencies. | |