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Stories for December 22nd 2002

  • Sunday, December 22nd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Falklands new Governor anxious to ensure “Good Governance”.

    The Falklands newly appointed Governor, Howard Pearce CVO, has no plans to visit Argentina during his 3 years term in office. Mr. Pearce, who spent several years working in the British Embassy in Buenos Aires during the 1970's, said, ?I would want to be sensitive to local concerns and I sense that people here would not be particularly enthusiastic about the Governor visiting Argentina'.

  • Sunday, December 22nd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Venezuela tanker delivers oil shipment

    Oil workers and a crew loyal to the government of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, began unloading fuel on Sunday from the Pilín León, a strike-bound tanker containing 280,000 barrels of gasoline, at a distribution terminal near the western city of Maracaibo.