1998 – Page 193

President Leonel Fernandez, aides and a group of journalists, were trapped on Tuesday, 27 January inside the elevator of the Hotel Honduras Maya, where the Dominican statesman and six other chiefs of state who attended the inaugural of the new Honduran President were stayed in Tegucigalpa from 26 January to 27 January. It took technicians …

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Twenty-year old model Melisandra Soriano was in the wrong place at the wrong time yesterday. She was crossing the John F. Kennedy Avenue at 4 pm with a friend when she died crushed by steel rods that fell from a truck that had made a violent turn to the right trying to avoid crashing into …

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District Attorney Francisco Domínguez Brito sent to the Attorney General conclusions of investigations into the alleged adultering of the telecommunications bill passed by Congress. He confirmed that changes do not correspond with what was approved during the congressional session. The differences revolve around clause 119.3 of the bill. President Leonel Fernández vetoed the bill and …

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Dominican World Boxing Association medium weight title holder Julio Cesar Green said he is optimistic he will retain his championship in a return bout against Williams Joppy, set for Saturday, 31 January in Tampa, Florida. Green is the first and only Dominican to win a world title in the 160 weight category. He said he …

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Fred Wilpon, president of the New York Mets, met with President Leonel Fernández yesterday at the National Palace. President Fernández reminisced that as a teenager, when he lived in New York, he would run behind the buses of the Mets and the Giants. Wilpon informed the President of his plans to build an academy for …

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Santiago de los Caballeros partied all night after the Aguilas Cibaeñas won their third consecutive title of the Dominican Winter Baseball League. It had been 12 years since the Aguilas had won a championship in their home city stadium. The Aguilas defeated the Licey in a dramatic game that ended 7-6. It was the sixth …

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The general manager of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad, Temístocles Montás, assured the nation that the electricity service would improve considerably before summer with the installation of the five new turbine power plants purchased from the French company, GEC Alsthom. Montás travelled to France to visit the headquarters of the European Gas Turbine, the subsidiary …

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The director of the United Nations Development Program in the Dominican Republic, Paolo Oberti, said yesterday that the economic growth the country has experimented has not filtered down to the poor. Addressing the audience at the monthly luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce, he said that an improvement in the education system is not …

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Union members of the Federación Nacional de Transporte La Nueva Opcion (Fenatrano) and the Central Nacional de Transportistas Unfiicados (CNTU) clashed with police units in charge of the new order on the 27 de Febrero Avenue expressway, an exclusive bus lane established by the government with new buses to service the public. The clashes were …

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The director of urbane transit unit of the Municipality of Santo Domingo, engineer Deligne Ascención Burgos, said that his department would remove all the billboards located on the central isles of the Avenida 27 de Febrero expressway that have not been authorized by city hall. He said owners of billboards in the intersection of Ortega …

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