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• New Advanced Boeing Test Unit Aids Apache Longbow Operators Boeing 07 Feb 2000 -- The first advanced mission avionics test and development system for AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters is making it easier for operators to understand just how Apache Longbows will perform in combat.
• U.S. Army TACOM Awards General Dynamics Contract for 100 M1A1 Hardware Kits for Egypt General Dynamics 07 Feb 2000 -- The U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $156 million firm fixed price contract for 100 M1A1 Abrams tank hardware kits for the Egyptian tank co-production program.

Other Conflicts

• 7 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 07 Feb 2000
• HUMANITARIAN COOPERATION Mikhail Margelov, head of the Russian Information Centre (Speech at the Wilton Park Conference "Humanitarian Principles: Engaging with Non-State Actors") 07.02.2000 -- Was financing insufficient? But it is insufficient throughout Russia. The main factor was different: our partners embezzled everything and immediately. For example, as distinct from the rest of Russia, the funds allocated for employees of budget-financed sphere in Chechnya were dispatched regularly and in full. However, not a single pensioner, teacher or doctor in the republic has seen them in the past three years.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - assistant to the President of the Russian Federation - 07.02.2000 -- The units of the Joint Grouping of federal forces, acting jointly with the Chechen militia, held repeated special operations to expose bandits in the Zavodskoi district and the Aldy and Chernorechye suburbs of Grozny. Up to 300 bandits were killed during the operation held to liquidate the bandits, who escaped from Grozny to the settlements of Katyr-Yurt and Shani-Yurt.
• Journalists' Group Concerned Over Russian Reporter in Chechnya USIA 7 February 2000 -- The world's largest organization of journalists has called on Russia to "come clean" over the fate of Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky, who disappeared January 15 while covering the war in Chechnya.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA RIGHTS Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- The group Human Rights Watch says it has documented a pattern of atrocities by Russian troops in the Chechen capital, Grozny, during the past several weeks.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA SITREP Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Russian officials say federal troops have killed hundreds of rebel fighters trying to flee to the mountains of southern Chechnya as government forces consolidate control of the capital, Grozny.
• U.N. Expands Sierra Leone Peacekeeping Force By Judy Aita USIA 7 February 2000 -- Emphasizing that helping the government and people of Sierra Leone consolidate peace is a "high priority" for the United States, U.S. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg voted with the rest of the Security Council February 7 to dramatically increase the U.N. peacekeeping force in that country.
• SIERRA LEONE/DISARMAMENT Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- The war in Sierra Leone may have ended but parts of the country remain too dangerous even for armed United Nations peace keepers.
• U-N / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council voted Monday to almost double the size of the U-N peacekeeping force in the west African nation of Sierra Leone.
• SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFED ON SITUATION IN SIERRA LEONE BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING Press Release SC/6800 - 7 February 2000 -- Observing that there had been several incidents last month in which the troops of the UNITED Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) had been confronted by rebel troops and had not responded satisfactorily, he stressed the need to apply UNAMSIL's rules of engagement strictly.
• SECURITY COUNCIL EXPANDS MANDATE, NUMBERS OF SIERRA LEONE FORCE, ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1289 (2000) UNANIMOUSLY Press Release SC/6801 - 7 February 2000 -- The Security Council this afternoon to expanded the military component of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) to a maximum of 11,100, including the 260 military observers already deployed, and extended UNAMSIL's mandate for a further six months from today.
• YUGOSLAV DEFENSE MINISTER Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Police officials and independent media say Yugoslavia's Defense Minister (Pavle Bulatovic) has been shot to death in Belgrade.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called his security cabinet into special session as he faces growing domestic pressure to launch military strikes against Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
• HYDERABAD BOMB BLAST AND FURTHER BOMB SCARES IN KARACHI Monday, February 07, 2000 -- Yet another bomb detonated in the Consulate General Karachi District and once again in the city of Hyderabad, approximately 150 kilometer east of Karachi.
• NORTHERN IRELAND - SUSPENSION Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Nine-weeks after a bit of self-rule was given to Northern Ireland, the British government has introduced legislation suspending governing institutions in the British province.
• U-N-H-C-R / BURUNDI REFUGEES Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- The United Nations says refugees from Burundi continue to flee to neighboring Tanzania to escape fighting between government and rebel forces.
• AFRICAN CONFLICTS Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Africa continues to be torn by warfare as the new century begins. Among the most violent and destructive conflicts are the civil war in the mineral-rich Congo, the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which appears ready to explode again, and the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Burundi.

News Reports

• AFGHAN PLANE / TALEBAN Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Taleban Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammed Omar blames the military commander of the opposition Northern Alliance - Amad Shah Masood - for the incident.
• BRITAIN / HIJACK Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- More hostages have been released from a hijacked Afghan airliner sitting at a London airport since early in the day.