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The Dominican Federation of Weightlifting announced Hungarian coach Impre Zsuga will arrive in January 2001 to train the national team for sporting events from 2001 to 2004. The DR will be host to the Panamerican Wrestling Championship 15-20 July 2001. Zsuga was described as one of the leading wrestling coaches in the world today. He …

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Santo Domingo-born 29-year old Pedro Martínez again won the most coveted award for pitchers in Major League baseball, the Cy Young of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. This is the third Cy Young award for the Boston Red Sox right-hander in the last four seasons. The first he won playing for the Montreal Expos …

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The King and Queen of Spain will arrive this evening for a three-day official visit to the DR. They will make the stopover en route to Panama where they will attend the Iberoamerican Summit. This is the monarchs’ second more than 24-hour sojourn to the DR. They previously had visited for two days (31 May-1 …

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Following a recommendation by the Panamerican Health Organization, local medical authorities are instructing pharmacies to discontinue sales of the following drugs, most cold medicine or appetite suppressors, containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA) that is considered damaging secondary effects: Achoo, Alivium, Antifludes, Babyrhinol Lepetit, Bonabron-D, Ciricidin-D, Coritussal, Delgazin, Descongel, Desenfriolito, Docefal, Fluvin, Gripocap, Mucorama TS, Multitab, Nasomixin, Rhinopront, …

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Orlando Gil, political analyst of El Siglo newspaper comments on how Dominicans are having a ball with the US election crisis. He comments that those that are most enjoying the difficulties with the declaring of a winner of the US election are the Reformistas that remember the pressures the US government made in 1994 when …

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Former US electoral observer to the 1994 election in the DR, Mark Hall sees much irony in the US electoral crisis. In an open letter to President Mejía he writes to request "the Dominican statesman’s help in organizing a seasoned and experienced Dominican observer delegation to help the US resolve its election crisis." Hall says …

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The president of the Dominican Federation of Track and Field, Andres Polimar announced that five Russian trainers to prepare athletes in shot put, javelin and hammer throwing, steeplechase and hurdles, and straddle jump will arrive on Friday, 24 November to begin training top notch Dominican athletes for major international competitions, including the 2003 Pan Am …

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