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At minimum, however, last week's Rome meeting sketched the rough outlines of a final settlement: it will surely include, in addition to dollar devaluation, the dropping of the surcharge and some other currency shifts. The situation was summarized by Wilhelm Hankel, an exceptionally shaggy expert at the German Economics Ministry who has let his black hair grow over his ears and vowed not to cut it until an official value is fixed for the floating Deutsche Mark. "The scenario is known," says Hankel. "It only remains for the actors to play their roles."