1998 – Page 12

Sigma Dos/List?n Diario poll says that the race for the candidate of the PLD for the year 2000 elections will be close. Vice President Jaime David Fern?ndez and Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina are perceived as the leading contenders for the nomination. The Spanish polling firm commissioned by the leading newspaper posed the question: …

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Reporting for El Siglo Mar?a Rosa Jim?nez interviewed Pierre Cardin in Paris where the renown designer comments on his "Maxim’s" brand of cigars manufactured in the DR and calls the DR "the tobacco land par excellence." "This is my biggest dream… The creation of a brand of cigars with the Maxim’s name, as well as …

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Some 122 foreign press have come for the launching of the new CD, "No es lo mismo ni es igual" by Juan Luis Guerra and Karen Records at the Hotel Santo Domingo tomorrow, 16 December. Journalists from Spain, France, US, Puerto Rico, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Puerto Rico are in Santo …

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Sports Illustrated and Sporting News, the leading US sports publications, both chose Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire as their "sportsmen of the year." Both magazines publish photographs of the legendary baseball players on their front covers. Sosa becomes the first Latin to receive the honor in the 45 years of the award. It is the …

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A Sigma Dos poll commissioned by the List?n Diario, the leading Dominican daily, shows Hip?lito Mej?a as the leading pre-candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano. Mej?a has consistently placed ahead in most polls that seek to determine who should be the PRD presidential pre-candidate for the 16 May 2000 presidential election. So far, most polls …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez has assigned the task of policing the extraction of sand and construction materials from rivers and beaches of the DR to the Armed Forces. It has long been known that government contractors are responsible in great part for the annihilation of rivers around the country. The List?n Diario reports that intelligence units …

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Federico Mayor Zaragoza, director general of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization visited last week to be present at the inauguration of the new Santo Domingo UNESCO offices. The new offices are located at 105 Calle Luper?n in the Colonial City. Mayor Zaragoza promised to begin a campaign to seek the funding necessary …

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The Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia, Guillermo Fern?ndez Soto is expected in Santo Domingo today. He will meet with President Leonel Fern?ndez at 5 pm at he National Palace. On his agenda is a working session at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. He will also participate in the presentation of a book on human …

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The US Department of Justice is sending two legal experts to help prepare the extradition case against former Dominican military Mariano Dur?n. Dur?n is accused of firing the bullets that killed journalist Orlando Mart?nez on 17 March 1975. The case, regarded as untouchable for more than 20 years, is now being heard in Dominican courts. …

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Dominican ambassador in Washington, Bernardo Vega has requested that the DR receive equal treatment as other Central American nations on occasion of damages suffered by Hurricane Mitch. Vega says that the DR was the nation most affected in the Caribbean by Hurricane Georges. Vega says that if the US government condones the bilateral debt of …

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