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• Israel Agrees to Upgrade 12 Apaches to AH-64D Apache Longbows Boeing 23 Feb 2000 -- The government of Israel has signed a letter of offer and acceptance with the United States Department of Defense calling for 12 of Israel's AH-64A Apaches to be remanufactured into the AH-64D configuration.
• CACI Awarded Subcontract With TRW to Support Air Force Design Engineering Support Program CACI 23 Feb 2000 -- CACI International Inc (NASDAQ: CACI) announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by TRW (NYSE: TRW) of Cleveland, Ohio, on that company's prime contract to support the Air Force Materiel Command's (AFMC) Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah.

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• 23 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 23 Feb 2000
• INTERFET DEPARTS EAST TIMOR Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- The international peacekeeping force in East Timor has lowered its flag for the last time, handing over jurisdiction in the territory to the United Nations.
• NIGERIA / VIOLENCE Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- After three-days of bloody rioting in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, police say the death toll from the violence appears to have soared to at least 100, with an equal number of wounded.
• AFRICA /ISLAM / WEST Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- This week violence broke out in northern Nigeria over the question of whether the Kaduna state government should apply secular law or Islamic law to criminal matters.
• TURKEY / KURDS / MAYORS Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- Turkish leaders are reacting angrily to calls from Western European governments for the release of three ethnic Kurdish mayors detained over the weekend.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- The Ethiopian/Eritrean war is heating up again, with Eritrea accusing Ethiopia of launching an attack along the border.
• U-N-CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- A United Nations relief official said today (Wednesday) that there has been a sharp improvement in living conditions in war-torn parts of Congo- Brazzaville, but that more resources are needed for humanitarian efforts there.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- Russian troops and airplanes are pounding a Chechen rebel stronghold at Shatoi, a gateway to Chechnya's southern mountains 60-kilometers south of Grozny.
• PRESS BRIEFING ON REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 23 February 2000 -- More than 800,000 persons had become displaced in the affected interior in the South during the re-eruption of the country's civil war in December 1998, but most had not benefited from humanitarian assistance during the past year due to a lack of security in the area.
• CLASHES REPORTED February 23, 2000 -- The weekly Serambi (Banda Aceh) reported two recent clashes between Indonesian security forces and AMM (Aceh Merdeka Movement) insurgents. The engagements took place in the districts of Aceh Utara and Bireuen.
• Text: U.S. Welcomes OSCE Monitoring of Russian-Georgian Border USIA 23 February 2000 -- The United States welcomes steps by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to establish a continuous monitoring presence on the Russian-Georgian border with Chechnya, according to State Department Spokesman James Rubin.

News Reports

• HABRE / DICTATORS Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- Earlier this month, a court in Senegal charged the exiled former president of Chad -- Hissene Habre -- with torture and other human-rights abuses.
• INDONESIA / SECURITY Voice of America 23 February 2000 -- Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid warned Wednesday that the capital, Jakarta, was under high alert after authorities received word of plans for large-scale anti-government demonstrations.