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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The Board of Directors and Shareholders,</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Debt Strategies Fund, Inc. (the &#147;Fund&#148;) for the year ended February 28, 2003 (on which we have issued our report dated April 24, 2003), we considered its internal control, including control activities for safeguarding securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, and not to provide assurance on the Fund&#146;s internal control.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal control. &nbsp;In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls. &nbsp;Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to the entity&#146;s objective of preparing financial statements for external purposes that are fairly presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. &nbsp;Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Our consideration of the Fund&#146;s internal control would not necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. &nbsp;A material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation of one or more of the internal control components does not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions. &nbsp;However, we noted no matters involving the Fund&#146;s internal control and its operation, including controls for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above a
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">This report is intended solely for the information and use of management, the Board of Directors and Shareholders of the Fund, and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties..</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Debt Strategies Fund, Inc.</B></P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Fund Asset Management, L.P., Investment Adviser to the Registrant, is subject to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Registrant. &nbsp;A Form 4 should have been filed on behalf of Fund Asset Management, L.P. by February 10, 2002. &nbsp;A late filing was executed on December 2, 2002.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Messrs. William Bentley, Lawrence Haber, Jerry Miller, Frank Salerno, and Charles Winters, all officers to the Registrant, are subject to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Registrant. &nbsp;A Form 3 should have been filed on behalf of Mr. Bentley by August 30, 2002 and Forms 3 should have been filed on behalf of Messrs. Haber, Miller, Salerno, and Winters by August 18, 2002. &nbsp;Late filings on behalf of each of the above officers were executed on October 25, 2002.</P>
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