ANDRES CALA, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-02-2001
Dateline: LA VEGA, Dominican Republic
Old friends remembered former President Juan Bosch on Friday as a confident youngster, who despite being born into a family of entrepreneurs, went on to fight for the poor.

Waving the purple banners of Bosch's Dominican Liberation Party, hundreds gathered in La Vega's central square to await the arrival Bosch's body that would be buried in the town's Ornamental Cemetery.

Bosch, whose influence in Dominican politics stretched across a half-century despite his only seven months in office, died ...

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