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• U.S. Navy Says Boeing Super Hornet is Operationally Effective and Suitable Boeing 15 Feb 2000 -- The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet garnered the highest possible rating coming out of operational evaluation when it was declared operationally effective and operationally suitable. That was the official finding of the U.S. Navy's Operational Test and Evaluation Force announced by the Navy.
• Boeing Demonstrates Low Cost Avionics Upgrade Technique Boeing 15 Feb 2000 -- Boeing has demonstrated a new, low cost technology for upgrading avionics systems without altering the existing software.
• Navy Announces $492 Million Contract Option to Avondale Alliance for LPD 19, the First of Four Amphibious Ships Planned for Construction at Bath Iron Works General Dynamics 15 Feb 2000 -- the program's third and fourth production ships – was requested in the fiscal year 2000 budget, and fully authorized and appropriated by Congress last year. The value of the contract to Bath Iron Works is approximately $440 million.

Other Conflicts

• 15 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 15 Feb 2000
• SPECIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON ALL ASPECTS OF PEACEKEEPING Press Release GA/PK/167 15 February 2000 -- The United Nations must react promptly, regardless of the source of conflicts, to avoid the recurrence of massacres, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations was told this morning as it concluded its general debate on all aspects of peacekeeping.
• MIDDLE EAST: BETWEEN 'WAR AND PEACE' Foreign Media Reaction 15 February 2000 -- Editorials throughout the Arab world strongly criticized the U.S. stance blaming the Hezbollah guerrillas for the cycle of violence on the Israeli-Lebanese border. But in Lebanon, journalists tried to analyze a perceived shift in the American position on South Lebanon. Noting Assistant Secretary Walker's remarks, Beirut's moderate An-Nahar determined that the U.S. had modified its "tone," particularly with respect to the "Israeli assault against the Lebanese infrastructure" in an effort to encourage the UN Israel Lebanon Monitoring Group to meet.
• COHEN - AFRICA PEACEKEEPING Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- South Africa's minister of defense says it's time for more vigor in efforts to end the web of wars ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighbors.
• Text: Amb. Holbrooke Testifies on Peacekeeping in Congo USIA 15 February 2000 -- U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on February 15 urged lawmakers to support U.N. peacekeeping efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, asserting that "without strong U.N. leadership in addressing this situation" now there is a near certainty "of a catastrophic political and humanitarian disaster in Central Africa."
• Peacekeeping in Congo Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, House Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, February 15, 2000 -- The time has come for the UN to take the next steps for peace in Congo. The time has come for the parties to the conflict to realize the full potential of the Lusaka Agreement. And the time has come for the US to lend its support.
• CONGRESS-CONGO PEACEKEEPING Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- The Clinton Administration is trying to convince Congress to back U-N plans to send 55-hundred observers and troops to Congo-Kinshasa.
• SUDAN CIVIL WAR Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- Human rights activists and Sudanese exiles are urging the U-S government to help stop what they call genocide and religious persecution in Sudan.
• SERBIA ON THE BRINK Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- The recent assassination of two men close to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has dramatized what seems to be a climate of increasing anarchy and murder in Serbia today.
• U-N/INDONESIA Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- Justice in East Timor would have been a crucial topic of Kofi Annan's visit to Indonesia, even without the suspension of security minister and former armed forces chief General Wiranto from the Cabinet.
• U-N-CYPRUS Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Tuesday) issued an encouraging statement regarding talks on the future of Cyprus.
• U-N - CONGO-KINSHASA RIGHTS Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- A special United Nations investigator condemns recent executions and the general deterioration of the human rights situation in Congo-Kinshasa.
• BURUNDI DISPLACED Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- Fighting between government troops and Hutu rebels in Burundi has displaced thousands of civilians in the east of the country since the beginning of the year.
• CLINTON-AZERBAIJAN Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- Though fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ended with a cease-fire five-years ago, the two governments have failed to make much headway in efforts to resolve their dispute over the Armenian enclave located inside Azerbaijan.
• ALGERIA VIOLENCE Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- At least 16 people have died and 20 have been injured in an attack in western Algeria -- in the latest flare-up of violence to hit the North African country.

News Reports

• NATIONAL SUMMIT ON AFRICA Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- An unprecedented nationwide effort to guide U-S relations with Africa is to be launched this week (Feb. 16 -20) at The National Summit on Africa.
• GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM DISCUSSES POSSIBLE HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE Press Release L/2942 - 15 February 2000 -- The United States was skeptical about the practical benefits and the likelihood of concrete results from the envisaged international conference on terrorism, its representative told the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee on terrorism this morning.
• ISLAMIC FACTOR AND RUSSIA Russian Information Centre 15 February 2000 -- At present the main orientation of the US anti-Russian policy is to separate Russia from its immediate neighbourhood. Caspian oil is an important though not the main factor of Western expansion carried out in this region with the involvement of Islamic nations. The developments of the past few years prove that there are forces in the international arena, which are striving to realise a scenario of Russia's weakening by turning it into a confederation, if not of its complete disintegration. The North Caucasus is a rather vulnerable link in this respect, especially after the Chechen war. The US is using the Islamic factor to weaken Russia and assert its own domination in Eurasia. That is why Russian politicians should not forget who is behind the events in Chechnya or Tajikistan and with which forces it is really necessary to wage a war or to hold negotiations
• ALIYEV AND CASPIAN OIL Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev gave a buoyant, optimistic appraisal of his country and its energy prospects. But he made allowance for continuing problems with Russia and Armenia.