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Stories for April 2nd 2002

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine: Special ceremonies.

  At the stroke of midnight ceremonies began in Buenos Aires and Ushuaia remembering the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of hostilities in the 1982 South Atlantic War.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine press gives mixed coverage to the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of 1982 South Atlantic

  While the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the South Atlantic has certainly not been forgotten by the Argentine press, the coverage by local television has ranged from decidedly lukewarm to highly critical, mainly of the motivations behind the decision to try to resolve the Malvinas dispute by force.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands 20th anniversary.

  The 20th anniversary of the Falklands invasion has been overshadowed in the United Kingdom by the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, aged 101, which has dominated the newspapers and caused television and radio broadcasts to be comprehensively re-scheduled with hours and hours of coverage.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Duhalde vindicates Malvinas claim in low-keyed address to Malvinas veterans.

  President Eduardo Duhalde told thousands of South Atlantic War veterans meeting in the southern city of Ushuaia that “Argentina will recover the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands - not with war - but with work, effort and perseverance through diplomatic means.”

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Leftwing activists burn Union Jack and throw paint bombs at British Embassy

  A group of around one hundred leftwing activists belonging to student, trade union and social movement groups last night burnt Union Jacks and threw paint bombs at the walls of the British Embassy in Buenos Aires while chanting “death to the English” and anti imperialist slogans.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Still not good enough

  Faced with a new IMF delegation that insists on fiscal and foreign exchange discipline, the Argentine government imposed export duties, ranging between 10 and 20%, on agricultural commodities exports.