1998 – Page 60

The lawyers of Mario Jose Redondo Llenas and Juan Moliné Rodríguez, that are accused of the assassination of minor Jose Rafael Llenas Aybar, said they would sue the former chief of the Police Segundo Antonio Imbert Tessón, chief of the Police when the murder occurred, and the former director of the Homicides Department of the …

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President Leonel Fernández returned yesterday to Santo Domingo at 5 pm after participating in the Puerto Rican trade, investment and tourism conference as part of the "One American Market: The South Looks South." President Fernández met with presidents of Central America and the governors of several U.S. southern states. In the final statement, the Declaration …

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The Supreme Court of Justice sent to the Attorney General of the Nation for his opinion the two requests to declare articles of the Judicial Career Law and the National Council of the Magistracy in violation with the Constitution. Lawyers of the leading opposition political party, the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano sent the cases to the …

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Orlando Gil, political commentator of El Siglo, explains that one of the reasons former President Joaquín Balaguer has again become active in politics is because former President Salvador Jorge Blanco has assumed the role of covert arbiter and behind the scenes thinker of the PRD, replacing the late José Francisco Peña Gómez. Gil mentions that …

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Orlando Gil points out that PRD governments have had tragic endings. In 1962, the first PRD government (Prof. Juan Bosch) was overthrown by a coup d’etat. The second PRD government, 1978-1982, President Antonio Guzman committed suicide shortly before handing the presidency to fellow party man, Dr. Salvador Jorge Blanco. And Dr. Jorge Blanco became the …

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The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Héctor Rafael Peguero Méndez (PRD-Independencia) said he would resign the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies if that would resolve the present political crisis. A political crisis has evolved from the passing of the Judicial Career Law that limits to 75 the age of the judges, affecting the …

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Questioning finally began in the case on the kidnapping and homicide of 12 year old Jose Rafael Llenas Aybar. The first witness called was the former chief of the Police, General Antonio Segundo Imbert Tesson who went into a detailed account of the circumstances in which the cadaver was found on 3 May 1996. 120 …

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Mercedes Sagredo, composer/author of "Quisqueya", a hymn of Dominicans worldwide, died yesterday in New York at 87. She suffered from leukemia. She had resided in New York for the past 60 years.

Dominican slugger, Sammy Sosa took a curtain call after hitting his 55th home run in the third inning of the Cubs’ 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Sosa’s 55th tied him with Mark McGwire who is expected to break Roger Maris’ all-time record of 61 before the remaining …

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President Leonel Fernández is in San Juan, Puerto Rico since Sunday, 30 August. He is participating in the conference, "One American Market: The South Looks South," which brings together governors of southern U.S. states and heads of state of Central America and the Dominican Republic. Southern U.S. states and the beneficiaries of the Caribbean Basin …

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