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• Deliveries Begin on Boeing C-17 Composite Horizontal Tail Boeing 28 Jan 1999 -- A new C-17 composite horizontal stabilizer torque box which weighs about 20 percent less than the aluminum one now in use has successfully completed structural testing at Northrop Grumman in Dallas, where the horizontal tail is produced.
• Lockheed Martin Awarded $53 Million Contract for New Targeting Pods Lockheed Martin 28 Jan 1999 -- Lockheed Martin will build an additional 26 LANTIRN targeting pods for the U.S. Navy's fleet of F-14 Tomcat strike fighters under a contract option modification worth $53 million.

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• 28 January 1999 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 28 Jan 1999
• EAST TIMOR Voice of America 28 January 1999 -- THE SKETCHY NATURE OF THE NEW INDONESIAN OFFER ON EAST TIMOR HAS RAISED MIXED REACTION, RANGING FROM CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM TO OUTRIGHT SCORN.
• INDONESIA / EAST TIMOR Voice of America 28 January 1999 -- EAST TIMORESE WERE DIVIDED THURSDAY OVER JAKARTA'S OFFER THAT IT WILL CONSIDER INDEPENDENCE FOR THE TERRITORY.
• U-N / TIMOR TALKS Voice of America 28 January 1999 -- UNITED NATIONS-SPONSORED TALKS ON THE FORMER PORTUGUESE COLONY OF EAST TIMOR GOT UNDER WAY TODAY (THURSDAY) IN NEW YORK.
• SIERRA LEONE / REBELS Voice of America 28 January 1999 -- THROUGHOUT SIERRA LEONE'S EIGHT-YEAR-LONG CIVIL WAR, REBEL SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF KILLING, MUTILATING, RAPING AND KIDNAPPING CIVILIANS. MANY OBSERVERS SAY THE REBELS ALSO LACK A COHERENT POLITICAL AGENDA.

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