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Stories for March 20th 2002

• Wednesday, March 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Navy Chief faced dismissal.

  More revelations of the conduct of the 1982 Falklands Conflict are contained in a book by the British Secretary of State for Defence at the time, Sir John Nott. He gives his version for the first time of the tensions in the War Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, of his feud with the head of the Royal Navy, of how British agents denied supplies of the feared Exocet missile to Argentina, and how France advised how to counter the missiles.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands War photos

  The only professional photographer visiting the Falkland Islands at the time of the 1982 invasion, Rafael Wollman, has re-visited Stanley and taken photographs of people he photographed 20 years ago.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Media boost for Falklands tourism.

  Falkland Islands tourism has had a double boost of positive publicity on the BBC Holiday programme watched by millions of viewers and in the London Times Travel Supplement read by hundreds of thousands.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands battle stress evidence.

  The Royal Navy surgeon who saved both British and Argentine lives in the Falklands Conflict, Dr Rick Jolly, has told a High Court action brought by veterans in London that many of the 29,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen in the British Task Force were not mentally prepared for battle.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil blasts IMF

  Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso accused the International Monetary Fund of “using questionable methods for accounting countries debts” and made an appeal to strengthen regional economies, particularly the Mercosur block.