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• Lockheed Martin Awarded Third Navy Common Cockpit Production Contract Lockheed Martin 27 Mar 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Federal Systems has been awarded a $26 million Lot III production contract by the U.S. Navy for 13 Common Cockpit kits to be installed in the CH-60S Vertical Replenishment helicopters.

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• 27 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 27 Mar 2000
• U-N RAPID PEACEKEEPING FORCE Voice of America 27 March 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called today (Monday) for swifter response and adequate forces in U-N peacekeeping operations.
• ISRAEL / SYRIA Voice of America 27 March 2000 -- U-S Middle East envoy Dennis Ross says the United States will continue efforts to restart peace talks between Israel and Syria.
• CLINTON-ASSAD SUMMIT: DESPITE 'FAILURE,' U.S. IS STILL MIDEAST'S 'SAFETY VALVE' Issue Focus - Foreign Media Reaction 27 March 2000 -- Middle Eastern and European commentators regretted the "failure" of the summit meeting between President Clinton and Syrian President Assad in Geneva yesterday. Nevertheless, most judged that region-wide "peace is near," not because of altruism or war weariness, but because "Syria is alone" in its opposition to Israel.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - aide to the RF Acting President -- 27 March 2000 -- Strikes were delivered at the Surkhlam strategic height, also in the Cheberloi district. An air defence system, six emplacements with large-calibre machine-guns and camouflaged stationary base were destroyed there. In the past 24 hours, a group of fighters was blockaded on an area of 12-15 km in the vicinity of Tsentoroi, 15 km outside Nozhai-Yurt. I cannot tell you now how many fighters were in the group, but artillery and aviation were used against them.
• INDONESIA / HUMAN RIGHTS Voice of America 27 March 2000 -- A delegation of Indonesian lawyers and human rights groups are on its way to Geneva, to urge the United Nations to set up an international tribunal for those responsible for atrocities last year in East Timor.
• RWANDA / KAGAME Voice of America 27 March 2000 -- Rwanda's army has always been the power, now it has the presidency. Defense Minister Paul Kagame is the acting head of state following the resignation of the man he made president six-years ago.

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• Lockheed Martin Space Systems IMAGE spacecraft launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Lockheed Martin 27 Mar 2000 -- NASA's Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft, built at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, under subcontract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of San Antonio, Texas, was launched Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California.