MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2002
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Friday, April 26th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Pengin News Friday Update
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Thursday, April 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
More time for Duhalde
More exhausted than convinced Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde announced that the long overnight talks with the provincial governors had resulted in a fourteen points program to be implemented in the next three months.
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Thursday, April 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
UK must resist Argentine sovereignty claim. Sir Rex Hunt's
The sacrifice of British lives in liberating the Falkland Islands in 1982 and British money and effort since will have been in vain if ever sovereignty is conceded to Argentina, declares former Governor Sir Rex Hunt in his updated book, “My Falkland Days”.
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Thursday, April 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands hero heads Royal Navy
A hero of the Falklands war, Admiral Sir Alan West, whose frigate HMS Ardent was bombed and sunk by Argentine aircraft, has been appointed to head the Royal Navy as First Sea Lord. He takes over in September from Admiral Sir Nigel Essenhigh.
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Wednesday, April 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Artists' exhibition on Falklands Conflict
An imaginative artistic exhibition commemorating the Falklands Conflict in a new light is attracting the interest of visitors to London's famous Imperial War Museum. It is one of a series of exhibitions marking the 20th anniversary.
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Wednesday, April 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Dramatic hours
With Congress divided on the crucial issue of converting frozen bank deposits into Government bonds, and with the IMF still refusing to grant an aid package, Argentina's Minister of Economy Jorge Remes Lenicov resigned plunging the country into a political crisis of unpredictable consequences.
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Wednesday, April 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
British banks Argentine watch
British newspapers are carrying increasingly concerned reports of Argentina's worsening economic crisis.
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Tuesday, April 23rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Armed Forces support democracy
Argentine Army Commander in Chief General Ricardo Brinzoni said that a military intervention to reestablish order in the face of a social outburst can't be discarded, but it will be done in the “framework of the Constitution and the rule of the law”.
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Tuesday, April 23rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Duhalde ready to resign
With barely a hundred days in office and a meager 14% public opinion support, while 49% of Argentines presumably want new elections, according to private polls, Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde said he was willing to move aside if Congress requested him.
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Tuesday, April 23rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Chile: “We can manage”
In spite of a strong reaction in Santiago's currency markets to Argentina's decision to close banks and ban financial activities for the rest of the week, Chile “can live with the situation, if things don't get worse”, according to Mr. Carlos Massad, president of Chile's Central Bank.
