Bill and Hillary Clinton visited the Centro Educativo Punta Cana, a bilingual education grade school in Punta Cana yesterday, and allowed their photographs to be taken along with the school children. The Clintons are here on a rest and relaxation trip and have allowed scant access to their activities. Some 117 students go to the school. Most are children of employees in Punta Cana hotels. They were accompanied on the visit by Frank and Haydee Rainieri, promoters of the Punta Cana tourism project. El Siglo newspaper’s Orlando Gil features details in his column today on the Clinton’s visit to La Romana/Casa de Campo over the weekend. Gil says Bill Clinton played golf there with former Vice President Carlos Morales Troncoso (who was ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Washington when Clinton was President), and Argentine businessman Rolando Gonzalez Bunster, president of the Wartsila power plant operations in the DR. Gonzalez Bunster reportedly studied with Clinton at the University of Georgetown. They were joined by Bryant Greenspan, described as a top executive of a Nevada newspaper. Reportedly, Clinton and Morales defeated the Gonzalez and Greenspan twosome. They later had lunch at the Casa de Campo home of Gonzalez Bunster in company with executives of Central Romana, including Papo Menendez and Claudio Silvestre of Premier Hotels. (19 April 2001)
