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Marcos Diaz, who began swimming at 5 following doctors orders when he was diagnosed with asthma, hopes to break Victor Massalles record of 50 kilometer swimming non-stop between today and tomorrow. Massalles’s record (50 kilometers in 15 hours and 52 minutes) was set in February 1980, and is the longest standing Dominican swimming record. Marcos …

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Two handicapped athletes part of the basketball delegation of the Dominican Republic to the Special Olympics broke ranks after visiting a shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina. Maximo Martinez, 21 years and Jose Gallardo, 20, were last seen when a taxi dropped them off from the mall at the Charlotte bus station. They were members …

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In a game of multiple home runs, Sammy Sosa batted two contributing to the Chicaco Cubs defeat of the Colorado Rockies 12-10 in Denver. This is Sammy Sosa’s 26th home run. He leads in the National League, and is tied with Ken Griffey Jr. of the American League. José Canseco with 27 home runs still …

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The 26th Superior Basketball Tournament opens Friday, 25 June at the newly remodeled Palacio de los Deportes of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. San Lázaro, Mauricio Báez, San Carlos, Los Mina, Villa Duarte and Los Prados will vie for the Copa Cerveza Presidente. President Beer and Pepsi are the main sponsors of the tournament. …

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"Carmen," the Georges Bizet opera, has been staged to full houses at the National Theater since it opened on Wednesday. To accommodate all those that couldn’t find tickets, the National Theater is announcing an extra performance for Monday evening. The production is the most important artistic presentation of the National Theater so far this year, …

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The new Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace opens in theaters in Santo Domingo, La Romana and Santiago this Thursday, 1 July. The film, which was released in the US on May 19, will be shown in nine theaters in Santo Domingo and the interior. Star Wars will be showing both in Spanish and …

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Dr. Emmanuel Esquea Guerrero resigned from his post of president of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD), the leading opposition party. Esquea said he was resigning because he had fulfilled the promise made to the late José Francisco Peña Gómez to carry out a successful primary to choose the party’s presidential candidate in the next election. …

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Previous to the days of the PRD primary held last Sunday throughout the country, several leading publications published results of surveys carried out by international polling agencies. The actual results when compared to the polls was as follows:   PRDCandidates Bulletin # 7  Sigma Dos-Listín Diario  Hamilton-Hoy  Gallup-Rumbo  Hipólito Mejía  74.37%  67.9%  67%  71%  Rafael Suberví …

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A day after winning the PRD presidential candidacy, Hipólito Mejía visited former President Joaquín Balaguer at his home. Commenting on the meeting, Hipólito Mejía told Hoy newspaper that it was a "very interesting and harmonious visit". He said that Balaguer’s lucidness left him perplexed. Balaguer will be 93 this year. He further described the former …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that a Penn, Schoen & Berland poll, that took place 13-20 June when 1,000 PLD members were questioned throughout the country, showed these favor Vice President Jaime David Fernández Mirabal 61% to Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina’s 33% and 5% to Minister of Tourism Felix Jiménez. Félix Jiménez has retired …

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