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• News Release March 28, 2000 Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAE SYSTEMS and Raytheon to Create B2B Exchange for the Aerospace and Defense Industry Boeing 28 Mar 2000 -- An aerospace and defense industry group including The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), BAE SYSTEMS, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTNA, RTNB) and B2B e-commerce solutions leader Commerce One (NASDQ: CMRC) announced the creation of an independent enterprise that will develop an Internet trading exchange for the global aerospace and defense industry. This open aerospace and defense exchange, based on the Commerce One MarketSite Portal Solution, powered by Microsoft, will be a secure, electronic marketplace where buyers and sellers around the world can conduct business.
• Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAE SYSTEMS and Raytheon to Create B2B Exchange for the Aerospace and Defense Industry Lockheed Martin 28 Mar 2000 -- An aerospace and defense industry group including The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), BAE SYSTEMS, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTNA, RTNB) and B2B e-commerce solutions leader Commerce One (NASDQ: CMRC) announced the creation of an independent enterprise that will develop an Internet trading exchange for the global aerospace and defense industry.
• New Laser Portends Breakthrough In Directable IRCM Systems Lockheed Martin 28 Mar 2000 -- An aerospace and defense industry group including The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), BAE SYSTEMS, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTNA, RTNB) and B2B e-commerce solutions leader Commerce One (NASDQ: CMRC) announced the creation of an independent enterprise that will develop an Internet trading exchange for the global aerospace and defense industry.
• ATK Successfully Test Fires Titan IV Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade Booster With New Nozzle Material ATK 28 Mar 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) (NYSE: ATK), said it successfully test fired a Titan IV Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) booster using a new nozzle material on March 19 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

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• 28 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 28 Mar 2000
• UNHCR / CHECHNYA Voice of America 28 March 2000 -- The U-N Refugee Agency says civilians are continuing to flee fighting in southern Chechnya for the neighboring Russian Republic of Ingushetia.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - aide to the RF Acting President -- 28 March 2000 -- I would like to refute several Interfax reports. One gets the impression that there are active hostilities, scaled conflicts in Chechnya. This is not true. Thus, one report says the federal aviation made over 120 sorties to bomb bandit formations in the past 24 hours. In actual fact, the front-line aviation made 28 sorties to deliver blows at groups of bandits.
• LANKAN STRIFE Voice of America 28 March 2000 -- Heavy fighting in northern Sri Lanka has reulted in the deaths of at least 32 government soldiers and an officer.
• TURKEY / RIGHTS Voice of America 28 March 2000 -- One of Turkey's most prominent human-rights defenders has returned to prison to finish his punishment for calling for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey.
• ERITREAN DISPLACEMENT CAMPS Voice of America 28 March 2000 -- Nearly one-half-million people have been displaced in Eritrea since fighting broke out with neighboring Ethiopia two-years ago.
• COLOMBIA-REBEL ZONE Voice of America 28 March 2000 -- San Vicente del Caguan - with some 14-thousand people - has been under FARC control since late 1998, when government troops withdrew from the area as part of an agreement creating a huge demilitarized zone in southern Colombia. Removing troops from this zone - which is about the size of Switzerland - was a FARC precondition for opening peace talks with the government of President Andres Pastrana.

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