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• 9 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 09 Mar 2000
• ISRAEL - LEBANON PULLOUT Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- Israel has maintained the zone for 18 years, to head off rocket and other attacks into Northern Israel, by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah.
• COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA-DISPUTE Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- Colombia has sharply criticized Venezuela for revealing its plans to hold secret talks in Caracas with a representative of a Colombian rebel group.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- Russia's military says it is trying to block rebels from infiltrating into the Russian-occupied lowlands of Chechnya.
• CAMBODIA / U-S Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- The United States has been quietly lobbying Cambodia and the United Nations to reach agreement on jointly running trials for atrocities that took place under the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s.
• ALBRIGHT REFUGEES Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- Croatia and the Bosnian Serbs have signed a declaration that would allow thousands of war-time refugees to return home.
• U.N. Security Council Discusses Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance By Judy Aita Washington File 09 March 2000 United Nations -- The relationship between peacekeeping and providing humanitarian assistance to war-affected civilians was the topic of a day-long debate in the Security Council March 9.
• INDONESIA - MALAYSIA Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- says Malaysia has already begun to play the role of a mediator between the Indonesian government and separatists from the northern province of Aceh.

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• AFRICA / LOBBYING Voice of America 09 March 2000 -- The countries of Africa could advance their interests even further if they became more adept at influencing, or lobbying, U-S policymakers.
• ORBITAL RESCHEDULES LAUNCH OF TAURUS ROCKET FOR MARCH 12 Orbital Sciences Corp. 09 Mar 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that it has rescheduled the launch of its Taurus rocket, which is carrying the U.S. Department of Energy's Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite, for Sunday, March 12, during a launch window that extends from 1:21 a.m. to 1:49 a.m. (PST).