Stories for October 5th 2004

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

HMS Leeds Castle rededicates Ardent Antelope cross.

HMS Leeds Castle, in one of her last acts before departing the Falkland Islands, rededicated the Ardent-Antelope Cross on a typically blustery September day.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Costa Rica demands OAS Secretary General resignation.

Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco called Monday for the resignation of Organization of American States Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez following strong allegations he was involved in corrupt practices in his homeland.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Peron's plans to dominate South America.

A retired Brazilian diplomat who during the forties was a spy in Argentina claims that former Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron was planning to annex several neighbouring countries if the Nazis had won the Second World War, reports the Brazilian magazine “Veja” in its latest edition.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Bielsa: “a blessing Argentina is not a US priority”

Argentine Foreign Affairs Secretary Rafael Bielsa candidly admitted that Argentina does not figure among United States priorities, which he described as “a blessing”, because when the country had Washington's attention in the nineties the administrations “overacted that priority” to the extreme of ending in the December 2001 crisis.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Chile attempts to soothe Argentina.

In the midst of the latest Chilean-Argentine diplomatic incident involving the incoming Chilean Foreign Affairs minister, the Chilean government revealed that three servicemen caught red-handed spying when last year they broke into the Argentine consulate in Punta Arenas had been forced to retire.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Uruguay expects 70,000 cruise visitors.

Next November 3 with the arrival in the Atlantic resort of Punta del Este of “Saga Pearl” which the following day will call in Montevideo, the cruise season officially begins in Uruguay.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

APEC's growing importance for Magallanes.

The coming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, APEC, to be held in Chile, and the tourism chapter scheduled in Punta Arenas have highlighted the importance of the Pacific rim for Magallanes Region, according to Marcos Leal regional director of ProChile, the organization which promotes the country overseas.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

China applies for IDB membership.

China has officially requested to become a member of the Interamerican Development Bank, IDB, --the region's main multilateral organization--, with the purpose of increasing “our already significant financial relations” with the region's countries.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Brazil considers reducing IMF dependency.

Brazilian Central Bank president Henrique Meirelles confirmed that Brazil is planning to abandon stand-by agreements with the International Monetary Fund. This will probably happen next March when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially announces the non renovation of the current agreement.

Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Million Prize with Flight.

The world's first privately funded manned spacecraft soared through the blue fringe of Earth's atmosphere to the blackened frontiers of space on Monday for the second time within a week to win a $10 million prize designed to spur commercial space travel.