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• U-S - INDONESIA Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- The United States has praised Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's decision to suspend the country's former military chief from the cabinet.
• INDONESIA-WIRANTO Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has suspended former armed forces chief General Wiranto from his Cabinet, reversing a decision he had made less than 24 hours before.

Defense Industry

• Boeing Super Hornet Wins Prestigious Collier Aviation Award Boeing 14 Feb 2000 -- The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter has been named the winner of the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy. The National Aeronautic Association announced the award Friday. The award honors the Super Hornet as the top aeronautical achievement of 1999.
• General Dynamics NMCI Team Combines Strengths of Defense and Commercial IT-Industry Leaders General Dynamics 14 Feb 2000 -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced it has submitted a bid for one of the largest information-technology initiatives in Navy and Marine Corps history. The five-year program, worth an estimated $10 billion, is for the development of a Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI).
• Boeing Rocketdyne and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Partner To Develop New Upper-Stage Rocket Engine Boeing 14 Feb 2000 -- The Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business of The Boeing Company and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have announced a long-term joint effort to design and develop a new liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper-stage engine to address the worldwide need for new, higher performing propulsion systems for the next-generation of expendable launch vehicles.

Other Conflicts

• 14 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 14 Feb 2000
• UNIFORM CRITERIA FOR UN INVOLVEMENT IN CONFLICTS AND CRISIS SITUATIONS MUST BE ESTABLISHED, SPECIAL PEACEKEEPING COMMITTEE TOLD Press Release GA/PK/165 - 14 February 2000 -- Speakers in today's debate stressed the need for international political will and sufficient funding, which were essential for timely and effective international involvement. Speakers also emphasized the importance of such fundamental principles as the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, as well as non-use of force, except in self-defence.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - assistant to the Russian President on the coordination of the information and analytical work of the federal executive authorities involved in the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus 14.02.2000 -- The bandit warlords are still fighting hard to keep the Argun gorge. The bandit groups deployed in the mountain regions are trying to stop the advance of the joint group of federal forces. They are overhauling their positions, restoring communication systems, and trying to replenish their weapons, munitions and food stocks. They are reinforcing their groups with the fighters, who had escaped from the flat parts of Chechnya, and 14-16-year-old residents of mountain villages. Mobile bandit groups, consisting mostly of the Daghestani Wahhabis and mercenaries, are concentrating in the vicinity of Khatun, Kirov-Yurt, Makhketa and Agishta. What you call "vacuum" bombs the military call "air-fuel explosives." I may be mistaken but my impression is that such bombs have not been used up to now. I will specify this matter additionally. If I am mistaken, I will correct my mistake.
• CHECHNYA - REFUGEES Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- As the focus of the war in Chechnya shifts from the heavily populated lowlands to the mountains, Russian officials are encouraging refugees who fled at the height of fighting to return home. But for many, there may be no home to return to.
• TURKEY / ISLAMISTS Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- At least five Turkish policemen have been killed in a shootout with Islamic militants in the largely Kurdish southeastern province of Van.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- Israel is considering pulling its forces out of southern Lebanon sooner than the July deadline originally set by Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
• AFGHAN HOSTAGES / RETURN Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- Seventy-three former hostages have returned to Afghanistan - eight days after the plane on which they were travelling was hijacked to London.
• UNHCR / CONGO REFUGEES Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H-C-R, says refugees have been fleeing into Kigoma, Tanzania to escape renewed fighting between rebels and pro-government Maimai soldiers in the Congo.

News Reports

• GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM BEGINS FOURTH SESSION Press Release L/2940 - 14 February 2000 -- Committee is expected to consider the outstanding issues relating to the draft anti-nuclear terrorism instrument, and the question of convening a high-level United Nations conference to formulate an organized response by the international community to terrorism.
• MEXICO UNIVERSITY Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- More than 200-thousand students returned to classrooms on Monday at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as UNAM.
• AFRICA / U-S MEDIA Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- How well is Africa covered by the U-S media? Are there enough stories? Are there hidden biases? These are just a few of the questions discussed by a panel of American and African journalists.