Iberian ham legs hang in a cellar as part of their slow aging period at the Beher Iberian ham factory in Guijuelo, in the northern Spanish region of Salamanca, December 12, 2006. Iberian ham comes from free roaming hogs which live off of the acorns provided by the cork-oak trees during the last three to four months of their lives. Iberian hogs, which are descendants of the wild boar, have long legs, pointy snouts, and dark skin and hoofs (giving them the Spanish name "Pata Negra"). Picture taken on December 12, 2006. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN) 

Iberian ham legs hang in a cellar as part of their slow aging period at the Beher Iberian ham factory in Guijuelo, in the northern Spanish region of Salamanca, December 12, 2006. Iberian ham comes from free roaming hogs which live off of the acorns provided by the cork-oak trees during the last three to four months of their lives. Iberian hogs, which are descendants of the wild boar, have long legs, pointy snouts, and dark skin and hoofs (giving them the Spanish name "Pata Negra"). Picture taken on December 12, 2006. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN) 

A woman attends a function for AIDS patients at a hospital on the eve of World AIDS day in Mumbai November 30, 2006. According to hospital estimates over around 900 AIDS patients attended the function in which the took part in various entertainment programs, including a fashion show. REUTERS/Arko Datta (INDIA) 

Actress Joan Collins pauses before speaking on "Aging in Today's Society," at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. November 28, 2006. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES) 

A worker at the Flor de Cana distillery labels bottles of rum in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/Files (NICARAGUA) 

A worker at the Flor de Cana distillery walks past barrels of rum in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/Files (NICARAGUA) 

A worker at the Flor de Cana distillery labels bottles of rum as another inspects them in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/Files (NICARAGUA) 

Workers at the Flor de Cana distillery label bottles of rum in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/Files (NICARAGUA) 

A worker cycles past the Flor de Cana distillery in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/Files (NICARAGUA) 

A worker at the Flor de Cana distillery walks past barrels of rum in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA) 

A worker at the Flor de Cana distillery examines bottles of rum in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA) 

A worker at the Flor de Cana distillery examines bottles of rum in Chichigalpa, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Managua, in this June 21, 2006 file photo. The dark, slow-aged Flor de Cana rum distilled on Nicaragua's sun-blasted Pacific lowlands has been a gourmet favorite for years, yet the brand is barely known outside specialist circles. But high world sugar prices could change that, as the San Antonio mill uses windfall profits from its cane fields for U.S. and European marketing campaigns. To match feature FOOD NICARAGUA RUM REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA) 

Adidas athletic shoes sit on display at the company's store in downtown Portland, Oregon February 16, 2006. Nike Inc, the world's largest shoe company, on Thursday said it filed a patent infringement suit against Adidas-Salomon AG, alleging that several of its rival's top products violate a Nike patent. REUTERS/Richard Clement 

The logo on the hood of a Mercedes-Benz S600 sits in front of a reflection of the company's display during the North American debut of the Mercedes-Benz S-class cars at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California January 4, 2006. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson 

Ottoman era mosques, 17th century New Mosque and 16th century Suleyman the Magnificient Mosque are illuminated in Istanbul September 26, 2005. Turkey is set to begin accession talks with the European Union on October 3, though the negotiations are expected to last many years. Turkey has one of Europe's fastest-growing economies and a dynamic, youthful population which could help cushion a looming pensions crisis across an otherwise mostly ageing continent.Picture was taken September 26, 2005. REUTERS/Fatih Saribas 

Fifteen year old Mao smokes a cigarette in his grandmother's yard during a family meeting in downtown Santiago. Fifteen year old Mao smokes a cigarette in his grandmother's yard during a family meeting in downtown Santiago, September 06, 2005. Most Chileans have their first cigarette at age 15, says the government's National Narcotics Control Council. Overall, 26 percent of teenage girls and 55 percent of Chilean women aged 19-25 smoke. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

Sebastian, a fourteen year old, smokes a cigarette in his grandmother`s yard during a family meeting in Santiago. Fourteen year old Sebastian smokes a cigarette in his grandmother`s yard during a family meeting in downtown Santiago, September 06, 2005. Most Chileans have their first cigarette at age 15, says the government's National Narcotics Control Council. Overall, 26 percent of teenage girls and 55 percent of Chilean women aged 19-25 smoke. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

Seventy-four-year-old atomic bomb survivor Chiyoko Kuwabara speaks about the atomic bomb blast in 1945 at a Hiroshima hotel August 4, 2005. Hiroshima is marking the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing on August 6, which instantly took thousands of lives, with the death toll rising to some 140,000 by the end of 1945 out of the city's estimated population of 350,000. More have succumbed to cancer and other radiation-related ailments since then. Kuwabara spoke of the day 60 years ago when she, some 800 metres away from ground zero, was thrown into darkness, buried in wreckage, and found skin peeling off herself like seaweed, and the horrors she saw of dying mothers, babies, and people of all ages suffering and trying to call for help. Despite her continued vision and health problems, Kuwabara feels it her duty to pass on her plea: "No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki, no more hibakusha". REUTERS/Eriko Sugita ES/SA 

Seventy-four-year-old atomic bomb survivor Chiyoko Kuwabara speaks about the atomic bomb blast in 1945 at a Hiroshima hotel August 4, 2005. Hiroshima is marking the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing on August 6, which instantly took thousands of lives, with the death toll rising to some 140,000 by the end of 1945 out of the city's estimated population of 350,000. More have succumbed to cancer and other radiation-related ailments since then. Kuwabara spoke of the day 60 years ago when she, some 800 metres away from ground zero, was thrown into darkness, buried in wreckage, and found skin peeling off herself like seaweed, and the horrors she saw of dying mothers, babies, and people of all ages suffering and trying to call for help. Despite her continued vision and health problems, Kuwabara feels it her duty to pass on her plea. "No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki, no more hibakusha," she said. REUTERS/Eriko Sugita ES/SA 

A man stands in a doorway before removing a corpse that was washed into his house during the tsunami in the village of Pandirupu on Sri Lanka's east coast in this January 5, 2005 file photo. This picture is part of the After The Wave exhibition which opened in London's Air Gallery June 27, 2005, commemorating the six month anniversary of the Asian tsunami. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty ASA 

Cuban Andres Lester, a friend of Luis Grass, talks to Reuters about Grass' latest bid to leave Cuba, at a beach outside of Havana, February 4, 2004. Grass and nine others, including five children aged four to 15, left Havana on February 2 trying to reach Florida in a 1959 Buick converted into an amphibious craft, after their first attempt to flee Cuba in a Chevrolet truck in July 2003. Lester said the group drove into the sea from the beach after dark on February 2 in the modified 1959 Buick powered by its original V8 engine. Lester was among those who tried to flee the island in the first occassion but stayed back this time due to lack of space in the Buick. REUTERS/Rafael Perez CD/HB 

Johnny Cash, country music's "Man in Black," died September 12, 2003,
silencing a dark and brooding voice that for nearly 50 years sang
plaintive tales of coal miners and sharecroppers, convicts and cowboys.
He was 71. His death, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, cast a late
summer pall over Tennessee's Music City where he was easily the
industry's most iconic performer. It came four months after the death
of his wife June Carter Cash, a member of one of the country's most
famous music families. She succumbed to complications from heart
surgery at the age of 73. File photo of Kennedy Center honoree Cash,
his wife June and their daughter Rosanne (L) arriving at the Trustees
Dinner in Washington, December 7, 1996. REUTERS/Mike Theiler-Files

WM/HB 

Buddhist monks speak beneath a kannon statue in kondo, the golden
temple, at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, western Japan May 21, 2003.
Shitennoji Temple is one of Japan's first Buddhist temples, most of
which was built by family construction business Kongo Gumi's earlier
generations. The Kongos started building temples for the Japanese
emperor in 578, when Europe was mired in the Dark Ages barely a century
after the fall of the Roman Empire. WPicture taken May 21, 2003.
REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE
LIFE-JAPAN-FAMILYBUSINESS

ES/CP 

Dr. Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British
Library in London, with a copy of the legendary Lindisfarne Gospels,
believed to be the work of Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne, between
around 715-720. The Lindisfarne Gospels were saved from the first known
Viking raid on England more than 1,200 years ago and survived the
upheavals of the Dark Ages and the Reformation, and are now kept in the
British Library. The library has just completed a three-year project
creating new facsimiles of the Gospels which it is presenting to the
Community Heritage Centre on Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island,
and nearby Durham Cathedral in separate ceremonies on May 16-17, 2003.
REUTERS/Rolf Soderlind TO MATCH FEATURE BRITAIN-LINDISFARNE

CRB 

Archaelogists Gert Pie (R) and Josef Lange work on the discovery place
(dark area) where the so called "Star Disk of Nebra", dated to the
early Bronze age (about 3,600 years old) was discovered in a forest
near the small village of Nebra, about 270 kilometres south west of the
German capital Berlin on September 27, 2002. The disk and other bronze
objects were discovers near Nebra, about 270 kilometres south west of
Berlin by local looters in July 1999 during illegal excavations of a
possible cult monument. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

FAB/AH 

- FILE PHOTO TAKEN 06MAY94 - Joaquin Balaguer, the former president of the Dominican Republic whose half century in politics spanned the dark days of dictatorship to the emergence of democracy, died early July 14, 2002 aged 95, his doctors said. Balaguer, who was president of this Caribbean nation of eight million people for a total of 22 years between 1966 and 1996, died before dawn in his sleep. He is shown in a May 6, 1994 file photo. 

Dancers from the Australian Dance Theatre leap in the air as they rehearse their new show called 'The Age of Beauty' at the Sydney Opera House June 26, 2002. [The show fuses ballet, martial arts and acrobatics and has been described by the choreographer Garry Stewart as 'an artistic work that revolves around the dark world we live in, with events such as the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, the crisis in the Middle East, and Australia's response to refugees having all contributed to the making of the dance movements in the show'. The company will again tour the USA early September after a sell-out season last year when they performed in New York city only two weeks after the September 11 attacks. Picture taken from ground level.] 

Dancers from the Australian Dance Theatre jump into the air as they
rehearse their new show called 'The Age of Beauty' at the Sydney Opera
House June 26, 2002. The show fuses ballet, martial arts and acrobatics
and has been described by the choreographer Garry Stewart as 'an
artistic work that revolves around the dark world we live in, with
events such as the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, the
crisis in the Middle East, and Australia's response to refugees having
all contributed to the making of the dance movements in the show'. The
company will again tour the USA early September after a sell-out season
last year when they performed in New York city only two weeks after the
September 11 attacks. REUTERS/David Gray

DG/JS 

Dancers from the Australian Dance Theatre leap in the air as they
rehearse their new show called 'The Age of Beauty' at the Sydney Opera
House June 26, 2002. The show fuses ballet, martial arts and acrobatics
and has been described by the choreographer Garry Stewart as 'an
artistic work that revolves around the dark world we live in, with
events such as the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, the
crisis in the Middle East, and Australia's response to refugees having
all contributed to the making of the dance movements in the show'. The
company will again tour the USA early September after a sell-out season
last year when they performed in New York city only two weeks after the
September 11 attacks. Picture taken from ground level. REUTERS/David
Gray

DG/JS 

A homeless person sits in the dark as others sleep under newspapers and
in paper boxes outside the Hong Kong Cultural Center in the early hours
of October 9, 2001, one day before Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa makes
his annual policy speech on the brink of recession in the territory.
Government said Hong Kong had about 1,270 registered homeless people,
almost 1.5 times higher than in last January, with 70 percent of them
aged between 20 and 49. Social group believed the rise was mainly due
to the poor job market. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

BY/DL 

U2 superstar Bono sings into the fans during the blockbuster
'Elevation' summer tour to Slane Castle in County Meath, Ireland, in
this file photo taken August 25, 2001. Renowned during the Dark Ages as
the island of saints and scholars, Ireland these days seems more like a
breeding ground for star-struck singers and dancers. Over the past
decade, the country has spawned a dazzling array of pop acts whose
songs have stormed hit parades from Dublin to Darwin. With their
light-hearted, frothy tunes - often covers of old hits like Billy
Joel's "Uptown Girl" and Cat Stevens's "Father and Son" - plus
photogenic music videos, pop groups such as Boyzone, Westlife and The
Corrs have sold millions of records worldwide. They have also
revitalised an Irish music industry grown over-reliant on veteran
rockers U2 and the traditional Irish dance extravaganza "Riverdance".
REUTERS/Paul McErlane

PM 

Astronomers looking back in time have seen signs of a cosmic renaissance, a period not long after the Big Bang when galaxies and quasars first began to shine. Just as it did in human history, the light-filled renaissance of the early universe followed a time of darkness and murk that cosmologists call the dark ages, researcher [George Djorgovski] said August 7, 2001. 

BHARAT THAKUR, A YOUNG NEW AGE INDIAN GURU POSES FOR A PHOTOGRAPH IN BOMBAY FOR USE WITH STORY LIFE-INDIA-GURU.


Bharat Thakur, a young new age guru wears dark glasses as he poses for a photograph in Bombay July 2, 2001. With his high-rolling lifestyle and slang talk, the trendy young Indian guru breaks all stereotypes of holymen as he seeks to presuade people that spirituality can be fun. 

A team of Canadian civilian aviators make last adjustments on April 22, 2001, in Punta Arenas, on a De Havilland Twin-Otter for the further evacuation of physician Dr. Ronald Shemenski based at the U.S. scientific station Amundsen-Scott at the Southpole. The plane finally departed for the station on April 24 to pick up Shemenski, age 59, who has been suffering from gallstones and associated pancreatitis and must be evacuated as soon as possible in this flight to the Southpole under extreme conditions in the near-dark with temperatures around -75 Celsius (-103 Fahrenheit). A second plane will be waiting at Britain's Rothera research station on the Antarctic Peninsula and fly Shemenski to Chile's Punta Arenas where he is planned to board a commercial flight to the United States for medical treatment.

CD 

President Fernando Henrique Cardoso winces during the funeral for Sao Paulo state Governor Mario Covas in the port city of Santos, March 7, 2001. Covas, one of the country's most respected politicians, died at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer. Cardoso's wife Ruth follows close behind, wearing dark glasses. Together, Covas and Cardoso founded the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) in 1988, and remained the closest of political allies.

GN/ME 

FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE BC-GREECE-MUSEUM - A visitor enters a dark room with old parchment bibles, icons and mosaics in the renovated Benaki Museum in Athens July 5. The Museum open its doors last month celebrating all things Greek from the Stone Age to the 20th century, after a seven billion drachma ($20 million) renovation to offer visitors a unique glimpse of Greek culture through the ages. PICTURE TAKEN JULY 5 2000.

YK 

A visitor enters a dark room with old parchment bibles, icons and mosaics in the renovated Benaki Museum in Athens July 5. The Museum open its doors last month celebrating all things Greek from the Stone Age to the 20th century, after a seven billion drachma ($20 million) renovation to offer visitors a unique glimpse of Greek culture through the ages. PICTURE TAKEN JULY 5 2000. 

Nicaraguan Archeologists Ramiro Garcia looks June 2 at the remains of former governor Pedrarias Davila, who died in 1531 in Leon Viejo, west of Managua at the age of 91. Pedrarias Davila - Spanish conqueror, was the first governor of Nicaragua. The historic discovery of a Spanish conqueror's remains has prompted Nicaraguans to celebrate their rich heritage, and to confront its dark side.

OR/JP 

Johnny Cash, country music's "Man in Black," died September 12, 2003,
silencing a dark and brooding voice that for nearly 50 years sang
plaintive tales of coal miners and sharecroppers, convicts and cowboys.
He was 71. His death, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, cast a late
summer pall over Tennessee's Music City where he was easily the
industry's most iconic performer. It came four months after the death
of his wife June Carter Cash, a member of one of the country's most
famous music families. She succumbed to complications from heart
surgery at the age of 73. File photo of Cash with wife June at the end
of a tribute in Johnny Cash's honor, April 6, 1999 in New York.
REUTERS/Jeff Christensen-Files

WM/HB 

Actors demonstrate the Israeli Shin Bet torture method known as "Banana b'kiseh", where a detainee with hands and feet cuffed is painfully stretched over a chair by his jailer in the shape of a banana, during a press conference held by the Israeli human rights group B'tselem May 19. [Calling on Israel to come out of the "dark ages", B'tselem said the Israel General Security Service, also known as the Shin Bet, tortures at least 850 Palestinian detainees a year]. 

Actors demonstrate the Israeli Shin Bet torture method known as "Qas'at a-Tawleh", where a detainee with hands cuffed behind his back is painfully stretched as his jailer applies physical pressure to his neck with his foot, during a press conference held by the Israeli human rights group B'tselem May 19. Calling on Israel to come out of the "dark ages", B'tselem said the Israel General Security Service, also known as the Shin Bet, tortures at least 850 Palestinian detainees a year.

DPS/ME 

Former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (C with dark glasses) stands by the graveside in the cemetery in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial from crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the southwestern city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1. Man at left side is unidentified. 

An unidentified woman (R) touches the shoulder of former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (L with dark glasses) as they stand by the gravesides in the cemetery in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial from crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the southwestern city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1. 

Former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (C with dark glasses) embraces mourners by the graveside in the cemetery in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial from crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the southwestern city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1. 

Former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (C with dark glasses) stands by the graveside the cemetery accompanied by police and relatives, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial from crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the southwestern city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1. 

Former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (C with dark glasses) stands by the graveside in the cemetery in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial from crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the south western city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1. Man at left side is unidentified.

FRANCE PAPON 

Former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (C with dark glasses) embraces mourners by the graveside in the cemetery in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial for crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the south western city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1.

FRANCE PAPON 

An unidentified woman (R) touches the shoulder of former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, Maurice Papon (L with dark glasses) as they stand by the gravesides in the cemetery in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers, following the burial of his wife, Paulette, who died aged 88, March 27. Papon, who is currently on trial from crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the south western city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1.

FRANCE PAPON 

Maurice Papon, (2L with dark glasses) a former official in France's wartime Vichy regime, stands by a graveside accompanied by police and relatives, following the burial of his wife, Paulette March 27, who died aged 88, in the Paris suburb of Gretz-Armanvilliers. Papon, who is currently on trial for crimes against humanity, rushed home to attend the private ceremony in the early hours of Wednesday from the south western city of Bordeaux. The verdict in his trial is expected April 1.

FRANCE PAPON 

Joaquin Balaguer, the former president of the Dominican Republic whose
half century in politics spanned the dark days of dictatorship to the
emergence of democracy, died early July 14, 2002 aged 95, his doctors
said. Balaguer, who was president of this Caribbean nation of eight
million people for a total of 22 years between 1966 and 1996, died
before dawn in his sleep. He is shown in a May 6, 1994 file photo.
REUTERS/Onorio Montas-Files

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