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SIGNATURE SUSAN C. COTE'
TITLE TREASURER
For the six month period ended (a) August 31, 1994
File number (c) 811-3712
SUB-ITEM 77D
EXHIBITS
At a meeting of the Shareholders held on July 19, 1994, the
Shareholders approved the following investment policy
modifications:
(1) to clarify that collateral transactions with respect
to interest rate swap transactions, reverse repurchase
agreements and dollar roll transactions are not deemed to
be the issuance of a senior security or the pledge of
assets; (2) to eliminate the Fund's investment
restrictions regarding restricted and illiquid securities
and to replace them with non-fundamental policies; (3)
eliminate the Fund's investment restriction which limits
the Fund's ability to purchase any security if the Fund
would hold more than 10% of any class of securities of an
issuer; (4) eliminate the Fund's investment restriction
limiting the Fund's ability to invest in the securities
of any issuer in which officers and Directors of the Fund
or officers and directors of its investment adviser own
more than a specified interest.
For the six month period ended (a) August 31, 1994
File number (c) 811-3712
SUB-ITEM 77I
EXHIBITS
Effective August 1, 1994, the Fund amended it Articles of Incorporation to
create a third class of shares, designated Class C shares. The Class C shares
represent an interest in the same assets of the Funds as the Class A and
Class B shares and are identical to the currently existing Class A and Class B
shares except that (i) they will be subject to a Rule 12b-1 fee of up to 1% of
the average daily assets of the Class C shares and to a contingent deferred
sales charge of up to 1% for redemptions made within one year of purchase, (ii)
it has exclusive voting rights with respect to its Distribution and Service
Plans, (iii) it has a different exchange privilege, and (iv) it does not have
a conversion
feature.
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