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06 March 2000 Military News

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Defense Policy / Programs

Defense Industry

  • Pratt & Whitney Ready to Support JSF Flight Tests Pratt & Whitney 06 Mar 2000 -- Pratt & Whitney Military Engines delivered the JSF119-614 flight test engine that will be used in the Boeing X-32 JSF CTOL Flight Test Program. Meanwhile, its counterpart engine—the JSF119-611 that powers the Lockheed Martin X-35 JSF – has also been delivered and is ready to go.

Other Conflicts

  • 6 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 06 Mar 2000
  • RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 06 March 2000 -- A Chechen rebel unit has reportedly surrendered to Russian troops as both sides battle for control of Chechnya's southern mountains.
  • ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUSSERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY 06.03.2000 -- The main events are taking place in the Argun Gorge, and the situation there has not changed since last Thursday in terms of the site of the main battles. Consequently, all Saturday and Sunday reports about the encirclement and liquidation of a large group of paratroopers surprised us. Several interesting radio intercepts, as well as the testimony of captured fighters, show that the fighters are still planning subversion terrorist acts and attacks on commandants' offices.
  • PRESS BRIEFING ON KOSOVO United Nations 06 Mar 2000
  • PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS IN KOSOVO United Nations 06 Mar 2000
  • ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 06 March 2000 -- Israeli warplanes have bombed guerrilla positions in south Lebanon one day after the Israeli cabinet voted to pull its soldiers out of Lebanon by July.
  • YUGOSLAVIA / WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL Voice of America 06 March 2000 -- A Bosnian Serb man detained Sunday by British peacekeeping forces in Bosnia is in the Netherlands for trial by the Yugoslav war crimes Tribunal.
  • ANGOLAN REFUGEES Voice of America 06 March 2000 -- Twenty-thousand Angolan refugees are being relocated from a flood-threatened region in Zambia by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration.
  • Honduras, Nicaragua Seek to Resolve Maritime Dispute By Eric Green Washington File 06 March 2000 -- The foreign ministers of Honduras and Nicaragua are holding a fourth round of talks March 6-7 aimed at reducing tensions arising from a maritime dispute between the two countries.

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