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...Fine Air Vice President Nancy Adels said the plane, filled with blue jeans bound for the Dominican Republic, was the victim of a "routine delay" while awaiting its cargo. "It happens all the time," she said. Meanwhile Fine Air also faces a stock problem - they went public only yesterday, and shares plummeted on the news of the crash...
...success is the dominant reason major league teams covet Japanese pitchers. There are two in the Mets camp, and one of them, left-handed reliever Takashi Kashiwada, has a chance of making the team. The Boston Red Sox are saving a spot in the bullpen for Robinson Checo, a Dominican who pitched last year for the Hiroshima Carp...
...arrangement. "We have discussed some points that I can't disclose, obviously, because our objective is to liberate the 72 hostages. We must be discreet," Fujimori said. While the President played down his surprise visit to Havana today as well as his talks yesterday with the leader of the Dominican Republic, Fujimori has acknowledged that offering the rebels asylum in exchange for the release of the hostages "might be necessary at some point." He seemed to lean toward Cuba's offer when he stated that he did not think the Dominican Republic would be a suitable destination for the rebels...
...with 36 homers, 123 rbis, 141 runs scored and a slugging percentage of .631. He may have had the best offensive season by a shortstop--ever. Like acquaintance Tiger Woods (whom he knows through their mutual friend Ken Griffey Jr.), Rodriguez is an exceedingly classy act. Raised by his Dominican mother in Miami, Alex maintains, "My mom always said, 'I don't care if you turn out to be a terrible ballplayer. I just want you to be a good person...
...When the first two hundred letters came, the guards gave me back my clothes," reads a quotation attributed to a released prisoner of conscience from the Dominican Republic. "Then the next two hundred letters came, and the prison director came to see me...The letters kept coming and coming: three thousand of them. The President was informed. The letters still kept arriving, and the President called the prison and told them...