2001 – Page 21

Former President Juan Bosch was taken out of the intensive care unit of the Dr. Abel Gonzalez medical center yesterday. The 93-year old politician and writer will be sent home as soon as arrangements for his care are made. Bosch has been chronically ill for several years now, managing to survive several critical moments.

Catholic Priest Jose Luis Hernandez, pastor of the Sagrada Familia church community of Villa Francisca, has justified the assassination of 18-year-old Pedro Manuel Contreras in a case deemed by many to have been police brutality. His comments were picked up by El Nacional afternoon newspaper. He described the youth as a “savage beast that attacked …

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El Caribe newspaper reports that Friedrich Leibacher, the deranged Swiss gunman who entered a regional parliament in central Switzerland on 27 September killing 14 and injuring another 14 before committing suicide, had family ties in the DR since 1986. The newspaper says he married three barely educated Dominican women and had two daughters. The first, …

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The Dutch Embassy is reaching out to Dutch nationals to apply for their new passport or identity card. Dutch citizens are being asked to apply for the documents at least three weeks before they need them. For more information, visit http://www.passportinformation.org

Weather forecasters say Jerry, the eleventh storm to affect the Atlantic Basin this year, will not affect the Dominican Republic. The storm has lost strength and is now a tropical depression as it makes its way west well south of the DR. Weather forecasters say there are no other storms developing that could affect the …

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Contemporary Latin American music greats, Juan Luis Guerra and Jose Antonio Molina, will perform on Friday, 12 October at the White House for the presentation of “El Ultimo Adios,” an ode to those who died on 11 September in the US. Molina will conduct the orchestra and performers from all over Latin America.

Nineteen Dominicans will play in the Major League Baseball playoffs which start today. These are Bartolo Colon, Moises Alou, Octavio Dotel, Julio Lugo, Jose Vizcaino, Nelson Cruz, Tony Eusebio, Alberto Pujols, Miguel Tejada, Alfonso Soriano, Julio Franco, Miguel Batista, Placido Polanco, Danny Bautista, Enrique Wilson, Odalis Perez, Jose Paniagua, Jose Cabrera and Stanley Javier. The …

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The Canadian women’s volleyball team has decided not to participate in the North, Central and Caribbean Volleyball Championships to be held in Santo Domingo this week. Lorne Sawula, spokesman for the team, sent a fax to event organizer Cristobal Marte saying the decision was made as a result of the recent bombings in Afghanistan. He …

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