MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2001
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Wednesday, May 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
FIBS Direct News.
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Wednesday, May 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Holidays to forget blackouts
Legal controversies about the implementation of energy rationing has convinced the Brazilian government to seriously consider a proposal by distributors to declare Mondays national holiday, thereby increasing electricity savings.
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Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Founder of HMS Sheffield Falklands Fund Dies
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Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Menem marries Saturday.
Chilean television star Cecilia Bolocco, a former 1987 Miss Universe, and former Argentine president Carlos Menem will be marrying “next Saturday” according to Veronica Bolocco, the bride's sister.
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Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
South America Breaking News.
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Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Oceanographer's Antarctic Search for Shackleton's Endurance.
One of the world's most experienced underwater explorers, the United States Oceanographer, Dr Robert Ballard, who has discovered several famous wrecks, including the liner Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck, is preparing to embark on his toughest challenge yet -- a mission to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance. She sank in 1915 and has remained undetected ever since beneath the Antarctic pack ice.
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Monday, May 21st 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Aerolineas Argentines, “The Ghost of VIASA?”
The Aerolineas strike, which began on the last Tuesday, grounding all of Aerolineas and AUSTRAL's flights, continue at press time with no immediate sign of a solution
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Monday, May 21st 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine War Cemetery Memorial in Falklands ? No Progress.
It is now 18 months since the Argentine Government last communicated with the Falkland Islands Government over a proposed permanent War Memorial that is to be sighted in the Argentine War Cemetery at Darwin, some 60 miles from the capital Port Stanley
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Sunday, May 20th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Of garden gnomes and penguins
Back in 1983, when I was the FT's Buenos Aires correspondent, I wrote about my 14,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands, two ways across the Atlantic, via the RAF base of Brize Norton in Oxfordshire via Dakar, Ascension Island, and an unscheduled emergency landing in southern Brazil.
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Saturday, May 19th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Governor Mr. Donald Lamont back in the Islands.
