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DATE: TUESDAY, March 6, 1990                   TAG: 9003062016
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

THRIFT AGENCY TO GET TOUGH ACTING HEAD

President Bush plans to name an assistant secretary of the Treasury who has a reputation as a tough enforcer and strong manager as an interim successor to M. Danny Wall, the nation's top federal regulator of the savings and loan associations, administration officials said Monday.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, said that Salvatore R. Martoche, assistant secretary of the Treasury for enforcement,would be named today as acting director of the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Martoche has no direct experience as a banker or savings and loan executive, but he is a former U.S. attorney from Buffalo, N.Y., and is expected to focus heavily on the agency's growing caseload of lawsuits against savings executives accused of fraud and illegal lending practices.

- The New York Times 


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