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• Lockheed Martin Awarded Simulator Training Contract Worth Up To $300 Million Lockheed Martin 24 Mar 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Information Systems (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a Marine Corps Simulator Master Plan contract worth up to $300 million to provide aircrew training, including simulator operations and maintenance, for all U. S. Marine Corps aircraft.
• Sanders To Provide U.A.E. F-16 Support Equipment Lockheed Martin 24 Mar 2000 -- Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, as a teammate to Lockheed Martin Information Systems, Fla., has been selected to design and develop flight line test equipment to support 80 United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) F-16 fighter aircraft being produced by the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Ft. Worth, Texas.

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• 24 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 24 Mar 2000
• U.S. Presses for Change in U.N. Peacekeeping AssessmentsBy Judy Aita Washington File 24 March 2000 -- Warning that the United Nations faces "a coming train wreck over the peacekeeping budget," U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said March 23 that the UN member states must restructure the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the system of financing peacekeeping operations.
• Text: U.S. Condemns Military Offensives in DROC 24 March 2000 -- The United States "condemns" the reported military offensives launched in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC) by the RCD-Goma rebel group and Rwandan forces, and in the Katanga province by Congolese government troops, and calls on these parties to "halt these operations immediately."
• Text: Rubin on International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 24 March 2000 -- "It is the role of the ICTR, not the United States, to adjudicate the guilt or innocence of Elizaphan Ntakirutimana" -- who is in detention in Arusha, Tanzania.
• LEBANON / SYRIA Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- The 1989 accord that put an end to the Lebanese civil war called for a gradual redeployment and withdrawal of Syrian troops, but most never departed.
• NORTHERN IRELAND SHOWDOWN Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- In Northern Ireland, the leader of the party that favors continued ties with Britain faces a challenge to his leadership, which could undermine efforts to get the peace process back on track.
• ERITREA / U-S FOOD AID Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- The United States has pledged 20-million dollars worth of food aid for Eritrea, the first U-S donation since war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998, despite the nearly one half-million people displaced in Eritrea by the conflict.
• COLOMBIA-VIOLENCE, PT II Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- Colombia is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists to work. Colombia's ongoing violence affects people of all walks of life.
• BURUNDI REFUGEES Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H- C-R, says the government of Burundi has mined its border with Tanzania, thus preventing refugees from fleeing the fighting between government and rebel forces.
• YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- Judges at the U-N War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia have added four-and-a-half years to the sentence of a commander in the Bosnian Croat armyconvicted of mistreating Muslim prisoners under his care in 1993.
• INDONESIA - ACEH Voice of America 24 March 2000 -- Legislators in Indonesia are proposing the province of Aceh - where indpendence sentiment is strong -- be given a new name, and far-reaching autonomy.

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