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• PRESS CONFERENCE ON ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE CONVENTION United Nations 01 Mar 2000

Defense Industry

• General Dynamics Electric Boat is Awarded Work Worth Up to $55 Million General Dynamics 01 Mar 2000 -- will provide for design, engineering, material and logistics support for the Trident program. The award also supports work at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to backfit older Trident submarines to accommodate D-5 missiles, and missile-tube maintenance at Kings Bay, Georgia.
• Lockheed Martin Wins Automated Test System Contracts Worth Up To $287 Million Lockheed Martin 01 Mar 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Information Systems, a business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), has been awarded a contract for continued production of the Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS), the U.S. Navy's standard avionics testing system.

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• 1 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 01 Mar 2000
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- Russian police are preparing to take over the lead role in the conflict in Chechnya from the army, following the capture of the last rebel stronghold.
• RUSSIA / BABITSKY Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- Lawyers representing Radio Liberty news reporter Andrei Babitsky say he requires hospitalization following his mistreatment by Russian authorities in Chechnya.
• RUSSIA: 'WAR CRIMES' ALLEGATIONS DISPUTED BY RUSSIAN MEDIA; OTHERS 'HORRIFIED' March 1, 2000 -- As Russia declared an end to its full-scale offensive in Chechnya, overseas media remained focused on events in the restive republic. In copious comment, analysts outside of Russia reacted with alarm to allegations, leveled by some human rights groups, of "atrocities" and "war crimes" committed by Russian troops against Chechens. Coinciding with reports of abuse in military "filtration" camps and Moscow's restriction of outside access to the war zone, a German television station's release of a videotape purportedly showing a mass grave of Chechen fighters drew sharply different reactions from commentators in Russia, on the one hand, and those elsewhere.
• NIGERIA / OBASANJO Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for restraint and dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
• NIGERIA VIOLENCE Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- In southeastern Nigeria, the death toll from this week's sectarian violence has climbed over 400. Most of the victims are reported to be Muslims from the Hausa ethnic group.
• BRITAIN/AFGHAN REFUGEES Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- Britain's home ecretary, Jack Straw, has decided to grant refugee status to only eight of the 170 Afghan nationals who arrived in London last month aboard a hijacked Afghan airliner.
• AFGHAN FIGHING Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- Reports say fresh hostilities have broken out in Afghanistan, where forces of the ruling Taleban movement and the opposition alliance are locked in heavy fighting north of the capital, Kabul.
• SUDAN REBEL AID Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- The international aid effort to Sudan is in crisis (Wednesday) as the deadline passes for relief officials to agree to new rebel demands.
• INDONESIA / WAHID Voice of America 01 March 2000 -- After four months in office, Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid has earned a reputation for dropping bomb-shell policy statements that he retracts or amends in a matter of days.

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