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       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]
                 United States Court of Appeals
                     For the First Circuit

No. 98-2229

                     JUAN RAMON FREIRE-ROLON,

                      Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                v.

                   CARMEN FELICIANO-DE-MELECIO,
                  SECRETARY OF HEALTH, ET AL.,
                                
                     Defendants, Appellees.
                                
                                
                                
          APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                                
                FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
                                
       [Hon. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, U.S. District Judge]
                                
                                
                                
                             Before
                                
                     Torruella, Chief Judge,
                Campbell, Senior Circuit Judge,
                   and Lynch, Circuit Judge.
                                
                                
                                
                                
     Ricardo L. Torres Munoz on brief for appellant.
     Carlos Lugo-Fiol, Solicitor General, Edda Serrano-Blasini,
Deputy Solicitor General, and Roxanna Badillo-Rodriguez, Assistant
Solicitor General, Department of Justice, on brief for appellees.

June 8, 1999

  
            Per Curiam.  Upon careful review of the briefs and
  record, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its
  discretion in dismissing the complaint for failure to
  prosecute.  We reach this conclusion essentially for the
  reasons stated by the district court in its Opinion and Order
  dated August 11, 1998.  Plaintiff's long-standing inactivity,
  in addition to his failure to respond to defendants'
  dispositive motion, justified the dismissal.  See John's
  Insulation, Inc. v. L. Addison & Assoc., Inc., 156 F.3d 101,
  108-10 (1st Cir. 1998).  Plaintiff's insufficient excuses and
  undeveloped appellate arguments do not convince us otherwise.
            Affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.