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After 74 days and 1,000 deaths, the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands ended in a formal British victory, right? Wrong. While the British did defeat the Argentines in battle, no cease-fire was ever signed between the two belligerents, so technically the war goes...
...lifelong Mormon, Schloer worked as amissionary in Rosario, Argentina for two years,and graduated magna cum laude from Brigham YoungUniversity in 1983. He is survived by his wife,Diana, and two daughters, Lindsey, 1, andJacquelin...
...told, 3,717 Chileans have been banned from their country since 1973, but many of them continue fighting the regime from abroad. In an attempt to draw attention to last week's 13th anniversary of the Pinochet coup, a group of 29 exiles arrived by plane in Santiago from Argentina. They were not permitted to leave the aircraft, and after four hours were flown back to Buenos Aires. Later in the week Pinochet announced that a plan to permit about a third of the exiles to return to Chile had been postponed...
...just love Argentina...
...floppy tail is unknown, but its widely recorded debut came in 1893, when it was worn by polo players at the swank Hurlingham Club, near Buenos Aires. Compared with traditional British polo wear of the era, the new tops were cooler and less restrictive. In 1920 one of Argentina's polo stars, Lewis Lacey, opened a sports shop in Buenos Aires, where he sold the shirt embossed with the logo of a player astride a pony. Within a few years moneyed gentry began donning custom-made polo shirts as leisure wear on the French Riviera and at other international watering...