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• New Boeing Rocket Engine Assembly Facility Opens At Stennis Boeing 17 Mar 2000 -- The latest in rocket propulsion from The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will roll off the assembly line in Hancock County, Miss., following's opening of the SSC Engine Assembly Facility. Dignitaries from Boeing, the Army, NASA, and local, state and federal government dedicated a facility that eventually could produce as many as 40 RS-68 rocket engines each year.

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• 17 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 17 Mar 2000
• MEXICO GUERRILLAS Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- A small leftist group in Mexico has claimed responsibility for an attempted mortar attack against federal police Wednesday that injured two children.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- The Israeli Army has reportedly presented Prime Minister Ehud Barak with its plans to withdraw from southern Lebanon by July of this year.
• CAMBODIA / KHMER ROUGE Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- U-N and Cambodian negotiators have reported progress (Friday) in their opening round of talks on setting up a special court to try leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s.
• RUSSIA POLITICS Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- Acting President Putin got a thinly-veiled endorsement Friday from Russia's top commander in Chechnya, Major General Gennady Troshev.
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY MISSION OF RWANDA 17 March 2000 -- Allegations of Rwandan collaboration with the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) were merely hearsay generated by those interested in distorting the facts for their own reasons, Rwanda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations said.
• SAF / ANGOLA Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- One of the mysteries in this week's controversial United Nations report on Angola sanctions violations involves a visit to South Africa last year by a top leader of the UNITA rebel movement.
• RWANDA-UNITA SANCTIONS Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- Rwanda's ambassador to the United Nations today (Friday) categorically denied allegations that his government has been violating U-N sanctions against UNITA.

News Reports

• SUDAN OPPOSITION Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- The crisis in the Sudanese opposition alliance began last May, when leaders of Umma held private talks with the then-speaker of Sudan's parliament, Hasan al Turabi. Umma again broke ranks in November and held talks with Sudanese President Omar el Bashir.