1998 – Page 95

Dominican ball player Tony Fernández yesterday became only the fourth Dominican in the history of their participation in US Major League baseball to reach the mark of 2,000 hits. Fernández plays the short field for the Toronto Blue Jays. He joins Octavo Antonio Castro, Julio César Franco, Felipe Rojas Alou and César Cedeño. This is …

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Dr. José Joaquín Puello Herrera, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee, held a press conference at the Gran Hotel Lina to explain the plan of Olympic Committee to secure the site of the Pan Am Games for year 2003. Dr. Puello Herrera insists that the impact of the Games will be very positive. Furthermore, he …

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The new telephone directories produced by the GTE affiliate will soon include the numbers of Tricom clients. The directories featuring telephone numbers of the provinces will be available at the end of July. Those featuring the telephone numbers of Santo Domingo will be available in September.

Hoy newspaper carried a report on how the government of Japan is helping the Dominican government build 209 new classrooms in 52 schools, of which 33 will be ready for the school year that opens in September, and the remaining for February 1999. Some US$10 million are being invested in the public schools that are …

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Dominican orthopedician Rafael Ben, a graduate of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, with post graduate studies in the Hospital Frank Pais (Havanna, Cuba) and the Hospital Necker (Paris, France) won the silver medal in the Olympic Games of Inventors held in Budapest, Hungary in March of this year. He competed in the category of …

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The government announced the two parking buildings with capacity for 500 cars will be built near Avenida 27 de Febrero between Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln avenues and near the National Police headquarters of Leopoldo Navarro street. The latter, where a large number of government offices are located, is one of the most busy areas …

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President Leonel Fernández created a new system, "ventanilla única" (one window) that will simplify exporting. Decree 248-998 establishes that the system will expedite the documentation process for exporting as well as deal with special customs regimes established to promote exports. The measure is expected to improve the competitiveness of national exports. A Technical Council has …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved a bill for amnesty to all persons who confront accusations of corruption in office and have held office from September 1978 to the present time. The time period would encompass the governments of Antonio Guzmán, Salvador Jorge Blanco and the latest two periods of former President Joaquín Balaguer. According to …

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The Senate voted to eliminate the permanence of the judges. The initiative now passes to the Chamber of Deputies. The new bill establishes that judges after elected will only be in office for four years and sets at 75 years the maximum age for the obligatory retirement of the Supreme Court Judges. A four year …

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The board of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo chose to restore classes as of Monday in Santo Domingo. Recently, students protested the decision of the board of the state university to begin expelling from the university students that do not meet minimum academic requirements. The university’s finances have suffered from cases of students that …

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