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• Canadian Forces Purchase More Boeing Bushmaster Cannons Boeing 22 Mar 2000 -- The Canadian government has opted to purchase an additional 181 Boeing 25mm M242 Bushmaster automatic cannons for the Canadian Army's Light Armored Vehicle project.

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• 22 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 22 Mar 2000
• U-N-CONGO WARNING Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- The U-N Security Council is warning that increased fighting in Congo-Kinshasa threatens the deployment of a 55-hundred member international observer force.
• U.N. Warns That DRC Peacekeeping Deployment Is Jeopardized By Judy Aita Washington File 22 March 2000 -- The Security Council and U.N. peacekeeping officials March 22 warned the parties involved in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that if the unrest there continues it could threaten the long-awaited deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - aide to the RF Acting President -- 22 March 2000 -- The operational situation in the republic remains very complicated and hardly changed in the past 24 hours. Fourteen fighters were killed and six surrendered yesterday and last night during an attempt to break out of Komsomolskoye.
• CAMBODIA / U-N Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- A team of United Nations negotiators left Cambodia empty-handed, Wednesday, after failure of talks on setting up a tribunal for leaders of the bloody Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970's.
• COLOMBIA WAR Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- Colombia's guerrilla conflict directly affected millions of Colombians Tuesday when they were left without electricity following a series of rebel attacks against the power system.
• BOSNIA BRIEFING Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council heard today (Wednesday) that progress is being made in building a multi-ethnic society in Bosnia, but the progress is slow.

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• ISRAEL / SYRIA Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- The Israeli Minister said this might not be the last chance to negotiate an agreement. But, he said it was a very important chance. He noted the next six months would be crucial.
• U-S - LIBYA Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- A delegation of U-S officials is heading to Libya this week to determine if a U-S travel ban should remain in place.
• AFRICA: TWO YEARS AFTER CLINTON'S VISIT-PART-II Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- Ethiopia and Eritrea are of course at war with each other. Uganda is deeply involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So they have disappointed the Clinton Administration.
• AFRICA: TWO YEARS AFTER CLINTON'S VISIT PART-I Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- Professor Mazrui says Africa lacks a strong constituency in the United States -- a view shared by many Africans. He calls for a formation of a large pro-Africa constituency that can put pressure on Congress, adding that U-S lawmakers respond to the wider public.
• Boeing to Launch NASA's IMAGE Observatory on March 25 Boeing 22 Mar 2000 -- A Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket is poised to lift a NASA imaging satellite into orbit to help scientists understand the sun's activity and its effect on satellites and astronauts in orbit and communications and power systems on Earth.