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• Boeing Technology to Keep Apache Longbow a Generation Ahead Boeing 22 Feb 2000 -- To keep the AH-64D Apache Longbow the most effective multi-role combat helicopter in the world, The Boeing Company is developing new technologies to ensure that the aircraft stays in front of its competitors and its enemies.
• Boeing Selected for Navy's FY2000 Training Contract Boeing 22 Feb 2000 -- A team led by The Boeing Company has been selected to support U.S. Navy aviation training systems under the FY2000 Navy Training Systems Contract valued at up to $325 million.
• Boeing Technology to Keep Apache Longbow a Generation Ahead Boeing 22 Feb 2000 -- To keep the AH-64D Apache Longbow the most effective multi-role combat helicopter in the world, The Boeing Company is developing new technologies to ensure that the aircraft stays in front of its competitors and its enemies.
• Lockheed Martin Awarded $43.8 Million Contract To Support Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service Lockheed Martin 22 Feb 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Federal Systems has received an order valued at $43.8 million over three years to deploy, operate and sustain the modern Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) for the Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service (CPMS).

Other Conflicts

• 22 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 22 Feb 2000
• BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT United Nations 22 Feb 2000
• Transcript: White House Briefing on Burundi Peace Talks USIA 22 February 2000 -- The United States has long been engaged in trying to achieve peace in Burundi and throughout the Great Lakes region and is working with former South African President Nelson Mandela to focus the world's attention on the peace talks in Arusha, Tanzania, say Gayle Smith, Senior Director for African Affairs on the National Security Council staff, and Howard Wolpe, U.S. Special Envoy to the Great Lakes.
• Transcript: U.S. Cares About Peace Process in Burundi, Clinton Says USIA 22 February 2000 -- "America cares about the peace process in Burundi," but all Burundians themselves must work hard to attain that peace, President Clinton on February 22 told those attending the second round of peace talks on Burundi.
• Museveni Optimistic: Says Arusha Talks on Track By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA 22 February 2000 -- The chairman of the second round of Burundi Peace Talks, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, said February 22 that while not all rebel groups have joined the negotiations, regional stability demands that the process continue anyway.
• President Mandela Opens Burundi Peace Talks in Arusha By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA 22 February 2000 -- Mandela is pursuing more of a policy of inclusion than his predecessor, having met already with a succession of Burundian officials, non-government leaders as well as representatives of rebel groups even before the February 21-23 talks began.
• Fact Sheet: Background to the Burundi Peace Process USIA 22 February 2000 -- Burundi's recent history has been marked by a destructive struggle between the Tutsi minority and the disenfranchised Hutu majority that has been excluded from political and economic opportunities.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- Russian commanders are predicting rapid victory in Chechnya as they press ahead with their fight against rebels in the republic's southern mountains.
• MANDELA - BURUNDI Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- This latest round of violence began when paratroopers killed Burundi's first democratically elected president in 1993. Since then, it's estimated that more than 200-thousand people have died in ethnic violence.
• CLINTON - BURUNDI Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- President Clinton is urging the parties to Burundi's civil war to put down their arms and join talks aimed at ending the conflict.
• U-N-H-C-R / AFGHAN REFUGEES Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- The government of Iran and the United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, have agreed on ways to repatriate an estimated one-point-four-million Afghan refugees still living in Iran.
• White House Official Links Arusha Talks to Congo Crisis By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA 22 February 2000 -- While the U.S. government has had a long-standing interest in the Burundi peace process, the second round of talks being held in Tanzania from February 21-23 is especially significant because of the worsening Congo/Kinshasa crisis, says a senior White House official.
• U-N-H-C-R - TIMOR Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it may be forced to end its assistance program to East Timorese refugees in West Timor -- if militiamen in the camps continue to intimidate and harass refugees and aid workers.
• RWANDA / TRIBUNAL Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- The U-N's Rwanda war crimes tribunal is being asked to reconsider the controversial release of a suspect in the Rwanda genocide.
• NIGERIA VIOLENCE Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- In northern Nigeria, an indefinite curfew has been imposed on the city of Kaduna after violent rioting claimed dozens of lives.
• TURKEY / KURDS Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- Tensions are rising in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast region following the detention of three Kurdish mayors accused of links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P-K-K.

News Reports

• INDONESIA / ECON Voice of America 22 February 2000 -- The Indonesian government is putting forward two controversial proposals aimed at bailing the country out of its economic crisis -- while maintaining political stability.