JAPAN CENTRAL BANK INTERVENES IN TOKYO AFTERNOON

  The Bank of Japan intervened in early
  afternoon Tokyo trading to support the dollar against active
  selling by institutional investors and speculative selling by
  overseas operators, dealers said.
      The central bank had also bought dollars against the yen in
  morning trade.
      The dollar traded around 145.20/30 yen when trading began
  in the afternoon here and weakened only slightly, the dealers
  said.
  

