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• Snecma and P&W Sign MOU to Develop New Upper Stage Rocket Engine Pratt & Whitney 18 Feb 2000 -- Pratt & Whitney's (P&W) space propulsion operations and Snecma Moteurs' (Snecma) rocket engine division announced that the two companies have agreed to jointly develop a new, high technology upper stage rocket engine.

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• 18 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 18 Feb 2000
• U-N-H-C-R / CHECHNYA Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, reports thousands of Chechens are crossing into the neighboring republic of Ingushetia amid persistent reports of human rights violations in Chechnya.
• RUSSIA - HUMAN RIGHTS Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- Russia is denying reports that Chechen men are being rounded up and tortured in a detention camp in the embattled southern republic of Chechnya.
• U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, has sent two U-S health experts to West Timor to investigate reports that hundreds of East Timorese refugees are dying from various diseases.
• U-N - EAST TIMOR Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has left East Timor after seeing firsthand the devastation wrought by last year's violence by pro-Indonesian militias.
• NORTHERN IRELAND - WEAPONS Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- "Decommissioning" is shorthand for the hand-over, or verified disposal of weapons held by paramilitary groups. Once again, politicians are grappling with that issue which has proven to be the main obstacle to a lasting peace in Northern Ireland.
• UNHCR / CONGO-BRAZAVILLE Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says thousands of refugees have fled fighting between government and rebel troops in Congo-Kinshasa.
• U-N-CONGO Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council was moving closer today/Friday to establishing an international military observer force for Congo-Kinshasa.
• MANDELA / BURUNDI Voice of America 18 February 2000 -- One of the biggest challenges is deciding who gives and who gets amnesty for the deaths of more than 200-thousand people, mostly civilians, in Burundi.

News Reports

• AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION; APPROVES REPORT Press Release L/2946 - 18 February 2000 -- Several delegations supported the convening of the conference on terrorism, while some expressed doubt about its practical benefits.
• AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM APPROVES INTRODUCTORY SEGMENT OF DRAFT REPORT Press Release L/2945 - 18 February 2000 -- Several representatives called for further mention in the report of a distinction between acts of liberation and terrorism. The representative of the United States said he regretted the reintroduction of the long disputed notion that an act of terrorism was not terrorism if parties one supported had committed it.