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05 February 2000 Military News

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  • PAC-3 Missile Intercepts Tactical Ballistic Missile Lockheed Martin 05 Feb 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control - Dallas, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Army conducted another successful flight of a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., this morning. The PAC-3 Missile intercepted and destroyed an incoming tactical ballistic missile.

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  • SUDAN/PLANE Voice of America 05 February 2000 -- Sudanese militiamen are holding a plane chartered by the United Nations World Food Program in southern Sudan.
  • CHECHEN FIGHTING Voice of America 05 February 2000 -- Russian forces are consolidating their hold on Grozny, where some rebels continue to shoot at the troops from ruined buildings.
  • BURUNDI/CAMPS Voice of America 05 February 2000 -- Authorities in the central African nation of Burundi have announced they will begin closing some of the more than 50 so-called "regroupment camps" in hills around the capital.

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