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• Gulfstream Aerospace Receives $74.3 Million Contract to Provide Two GIV-SPs for Egyptian Air Force General Dynamics 08 Feb 2000 -- Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to supply two Gulfstream IV-SPs to the Arab Republic of Egypt Air Force. The aircraft will provide worldwide airlift for Egyptian government officials.

Other Conflicts

• 8 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 08 Feb 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS LEGAL COUNSEL United Nations 08 Feb 2000
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Russian forces are continuing their offensive against Chechen rebels in the southern part of the breakaway republic, after the Chechen withdrawal from the capital Grozny.
• CHECHNYA UPDATE Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Russian forces are attacking Chechen rebels in the Caucasus Mountains south of the devastated capital city of Grozny.
• W-F-P / UGANDA Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- The United Nations World Food Program, W-F-P, says tens of thousands of people in northern Uganda have been fleeing from violent attacks by rebels of the so-called Lord's Resistance Army.
• U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- The United Nations is urging Indonesia to halt a new upsurge in violence against refugees and aid workers in West Timor.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon have killed another Israeli soldier, just hours after Israeli warplanes launched massive air strikes in retaliation for earlier guerrilla attacks.
• NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Britain's House of Commons is pushing through legislation that would suspend Northern Ireland's power-sharing assembly at the end of the week. The threat comes after a deadlock on paramilitary disarmament.
• NORTHERN IRELAND - I-R-A WEAPONS Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- The British government has introduced legislation to suspend local government authority in Northern Ireland if the Irish Republican Army does not begin a process of handing over its weapons.
• INDONESIA POL Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- The struggle between President Wahid and General Wiranto, which has been conducted long distance across continents, is a test of whether the Indonesia's civilian government can gain authority over the powerful military establishment.
• HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Special British negotiating teams are in non-stop talks with hijackers holding about 150 hostages aboard an Afghan airliner outside London.
• EGYPT / ISLAMIST CEASE-FIRE Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Leaders of Egypt's most violent Islamic group are calling for a cease-fire, saying their organization should pursue its goals through peaceful means.
• CYPRUS TALKS Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Peace talks for Cyprus are failing to make progress on efforts to reunify the divided island.
• ANGOLA / WARNING Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- South Africa is expressing growing concern about the threat posed to regional stability by the ongoing conflict in Angola.
• MEDELLIN-BOGOTA HIGHWAY UNDER GUERRILLA CONTROL Tuesday, February 08, 2000 -- The ELN blockaded the road Friday afternoon, claiming that the Army abandoned control of the area in order to allow illegal paramilitary units to operate freely.
• WAHID STATEMENT ON ACEH Tuesday, February 08, 2000 -- The government of the Republic of Indonesia is committed to alleviate any further suffering of the people in Aceh. To this end, the government has decided from 1st February 2000 [to begin] a six-month period during which the government will concretely address humanitarian and human rights problems in Aceh.
• VLADIMIR PUTIN'S "ALBATROSSES" Russia&America, No. 8 -- 08.02.2000 -- Moscow regularly subsidised the economy of the republic - without receiving a single figure from it in the way of financial accounts. Moscow felt compelled to act only when Shamil Basayev began putting into practice his publicly proclaimed plan of founding an "Islamic Republic extending from the Volga to the Don".

News Reports

• BRAZIL-DRUGS-ANGOLA Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a major operation to crack down on drug-related violence in a large slum area of the city, and to investigate reports that Angolan mercenaries are training drug dealers in military tactics.
• ECUADOR INDIANS Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- As Indian leaders work to capitalize on their achievement, some observers believe the Indian movement may have lost more than it gained.
• ECUADOR INDIANS Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Ecuador's Indian movement scored an important victory when its protests late last month triggered the overthrow of an unpopular president.
• BRITAIN / HIJACK Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Hijackers holding some 150 people hostage on an Afghan airliner at a London airport have released a 45-year-old man while negotiations to end the hostage crisis continue non-stop.
• AFGHAN PLANE Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- The Taleban's supreme leader in Afghanistan has criticized what he calls international silence over the hijacking of an Afghan airliner.
• MEXICO - UNIVERSITY Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- In Mexico City, judicial officials have released 579 of the 745 students who were detained Sunday when federal police entered the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
• Globalstar Launch Aboard Boeing Delta II Achieves Operational Milestone Boeing 08 Feb 2000 -- A Boeing Delta II rocket delivered four Globalstar satellites to orbit, completing a 52-satellite launch program for the global-mobile telecommunications company Globalstar L.P.