	g seen fighting to keep currency pact international monetary officials will rush to paper over the deep cracks that have appeared in the louvre accord on currency stability to prevent a dollar free fall and to calm turmoil in world capital markets economists and currency traders said i don t think the louvre is dead because if it breaks up in an acrimonious way the potential outcome is a rout of the dollar higher interest rates and collapsing stock markets it s in the group of seven s interest to calm things down said douglas madison corporate trader at bankamerica corp in a weekend television interview u s treasury secretary james baker sharply criticised a recent rise in west german money market rates and said the eight month old louvre pact to foster exchange rate stability needs to be reviewed his comments rocked the currency markets and helped send the already fragile u s and overseas stock markets into a tailspin the dollar lost more than two pfennigs in the u s to about marks and about one yen to yen the dow jones industrial average slumped more than points at one stage and u s treasury bonds dropped about points reuter 
