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• 15 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 15 Mar 2000
• U-N ANGOLA SANCTIONS DEBATE Voice of America 15 March 2000 -- The report was remarkable in that it named nations and heads of state who allegedly violated U-N sanctions against UNITA, which has been fighting a guerilla war in Angola for more than 20 years.
• CHAIRMAN OF SECURITY COUNCIL'S ANGOLA SANCTIONS COMMITTEEE BRIEFS COUNCIL ON EXPERT PANEL REPORT INVESTIGATING SANCTIONS VIOLATIONS Press Release SC/6825 - 15 March 2000 -- Unless continued vigilance focused the world's attention on sanctions violations, the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Jonas Savimbi, would soon find willing, cut-rate suppliers who would "re-emerge from under the rocks once the spotlight shifted elsewhere", the Security Council was told today.
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON EXPERT PANEL REPORT ON SANCTIONS AGAINST UNITA 15 March 2000 - Not one of the report's 39 recommendations was unreasonable. Some were clearly more ambitious and more demanding of the Security Council than others, but all were within the realm of the possible.
• Text: U.S. Statement on Angola Sanctions Report 15 March 2000 -- A new U.N. report on Angola sanctions busting demonstrates that the Security Council should undertake new measures to strengthen the sanctions, U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham said.
• U.N. Panel Reports on Angolan Sanctions Busters By Judy Aita Washington File 15 March 2000 -- Reporting on the efforts of UNITA rebels to buy weapons to wage war against the Angolan government, U.N. investigators named the former Zaire, Burkina Faso, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, and Togo as sanctions busters.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 15 March 2000 -- Israeli warplanes have attacked suspected guerrilla positions in southern Lebanon after rockets and mortars were fired at Israeli military outposts.
• SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT Voice of America 15 March 2000 -- Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga says her government will go ahead with peace talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels, despite last week's bombing, which killed at east 30 people and wounded more than 60 others.
• UNICEF / CONGO-KINSHASA Voice of America 15 March 2000 -- The United Nations says the civil war in Congo-Kinshasa is taking a heavy toll on the health and well being of the country's women and children.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 15 March 2000 -- Russia has banned journalists from broadcasting interviews with senior Chechen rebel leaders, including President Aslan Maskhadov.

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• ATK Solid Rocket Motors Help Orbital's Taurus Rocket Successfully Launch Satellite for U.S. Department of Energy ATK 15 Mar 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) (NYSE: ATK) said three solid propulsion rocket motors manufactured by Alliant Aerospace Propulsion Company, Magna, Utah, helped an Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus® rocket successfully boost the U.S. Department of Energy's Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite into its targeted orbit on March 12.
• General Dynamics Selected by SpaceData as Prime Contractor for Deployment of SeismicStar Satellite Communication Systems General Dynamics 15 Mar 2000 -- General Dynamics Worldwide Telecommunication Systems, a subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was selected by SpaceData International LLC as the prime contractor for its SeismicStar program.