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Stories for March 29th 2001

• Thursday, March 29th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  New Commandant General for Royal Marines

  Britain's Royal Marine Corps, who played a leading part in the original settlement of the Falkland Islands and their recapture from Argentine military occupation in 1982, have a new Commandant General, Major General R.A. Fry, MBE, who recently returned to the United Kingdom from active service in Kosovo.

• Thursday, March 29th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Adsteam Marine acquires Howard Smith Towage.

  The Falkland Islands tug boat fleet of the Howard Smith Group has become part of the largest harbour towage company in the world.

• Thursday, March 29th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine “private” flight to Falklands causes confusion.

  There appears to be some confusion in the Falklands with respect to the arrival on Thursday afternoon of an Argentine businessman Matias Suarez Anzorena, a wool buyer from the city of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego.