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• GE Engines Power First Cormorant Search and Rescue Helicopter Flight GE Aviation 07 Mar 2000 -- The Cormorant Search and Rescue helicopter, built for the Canadian Air Forces, made its first flight at Agusta's facility in Vergiate, Italy. The flight was flawless. The aircraft is powered by three GE T700/T6A1 turboshaft engines that each produce 2145 shaft horsepower (shp).
• Fighter Pilots Use Lockheed Martin's Virtual Battlefield Management Center To 'Test Drive' JSF Lockheed Martin 07 Mar 2000 -- Nine military pilots participated in the ultimate 'test-drive' during realistic combat tests showcasing the survivability and lethality of the Lockheed Martin team's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft.

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• PRESS BRIEFING ON UNITED NATIONS PEACE OPERATIONS STUDY United Nations 07 Mar 2000
• U-N PEACEKEEPING STUDY Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today (Tuesday) appointed a special study group which will examine ways to make U-N peacekeeping operations more effective.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY 07.03.2000 -- The Chechen situation hasn't changed greatly since March 6. The main combat operations were still conducted in the vicinity of Komsomolskoye village. A battle still rages there, with the federals mopping up and destroying guerrilla dug-outs and pill-boxes. Paramilitary squads were spotted near Selmentauzen and in the vicinity of Ulus-Kert and Vedeno, where the fighting also continues.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- Russian warplanes and artillery are bombarding hundreds of rebels who captured a strategic Russian-controlled settlement 25 kilometers south of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
• NIGERIA TENSION Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- Ethnic and religious tensions are easing somewhat in southeastern Nigeria -- one week after hundreds of people died in sectarian violence there.
• NIGERIA / SHARIA Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- As sectarian violence continues to claim lives in Nigeria, the governor of Zamfara state is calling for a truce in the debate over Islamic Sharia law.
• SUDAN / U-S Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- In Sudan, hundreds of students from the war-ravaged south have demonstrated in Khartoum, demanding greater autonomy for southern Sudan.
• ISRAEL'S LEBANON PULLOUT Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- For the past 18 years, Israel and its Lebanese Christian militia allies have occupied a strip of southern Lebanon about 14-and-one-half kilometers deep, to protect against guerilla attacks.
• INDONESIA / ACEH / RIGHTS Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- Amnesty International says the Indonesian military is forcing Indonesian human rights investigators to go into hiding in the northern province of Aceh.
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OF MISSION OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA United Nations 07 Mar 2000

News Reports

• POLL REVEALS RISING FEAR OF CRIME Tuesday, March 07, 2000 -- Reuters reported that a poll conducted in Colombia revealed that almost three-quarters of Colombians are frightened to go out at night and most avoid talking to strangers because of a rising wave of violent crime.
• 100th Delta Booster Rolls Out of Boeing Pueblo Facility Boeing 07 Mar 2000 -- The 100th booster built in this southeastern Colorado facility for Boeing Delta rockets is being readied for delivery to Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla.