Santo Domingo residents know she’s visiting by the more than usually bottlenecks caused by security measures near the areas she is visiting. She arrived last night at 11:12 pm and was received by the wife of Vice President Jaime David Fernández, Dr. Lizzy Campos de Fernández (President Leonel Fernández is single), and by Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre, Minister of Education Ligia Amada and Minister of Public Health Altagracia Guzmán as well as by the director of the Department of Promotion of Women (DGPM), Gladys Gutiérrez. She also was received by Linda Watts, charge d’affairs of the US Embassy in the DR (the US government has not appointed a new ambassador) and by Dominican Ambassador in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Vega. She arrived on board a US Air Force Boeing 757 jet. She spent the night in Santo Domingo at the residence of the United States Embassy. Today she was scheduled to visit the Center for Family Integration (CIF) and then meet at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra with non governmental organizations (NGOs) and civic groups, with an emphasis on those concerned with women’s issues. She will then go to the National Palace to meet with President Fernández, to meet the Dominican government cabinet, and after which she will deliver President Clinton’s message to the Dominican people from the Ambassador’s Room at the government house and then meet with local and international press. Subsequently she will travel to San Pedro de Macorís to visit the Dr. Carl T. George Hospital. In San Pedro de Macorís she is expected to meet with Sammy Sosa, the National League’s MVP. From there she travels to La Romana to visit the Hogar Casa del Niño, an orphanage sponsored by Oscar de la Renta. From La Romana she will go to Punta Cana for a private visit, leaving Saturday from the airport there to Haiti, last stop on her tour of countries affected by September and October hurricanes. In Punta Cana she will stay at the beach home of Oscar de la Renta, in a new development of the Punta Cana Group next door to Club Med Punta Cana.
