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• U.S. Army, Boeing Sign $15 Million Long-Lead Apache Contract Boeing 30 Mar 2000 -- The U.S. Army and The Boeing Company have signed a $15 million contract for long-lead materials to be used on a proposed multi-year procurement of AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters.

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• 30 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 30 Mar 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPUTY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR United Nations 30 Mar 2000
• Text: U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Delivers Statement on Chechnya 30 March 2000 -- U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) David T. Johnson said March 30 that the U.S. government regrets that "security conditions make it impossible to deploy the AG [the OSCE's Assistance Group] in Grozny in the near future."
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- A Russian army colonel has been charged with raping and killing a young Chechen woman. The case was filed days before the Council of Europe is due to take up the issue of alleged human rights abuses in Chechnya.
• ISRAEL / SYRIA ANALYSIS Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- Although the news media labeled the meeting in Geneva between President Clinton and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad a failure, many observers in the Middle East viewed it in less negative terms.
• SRI LANKA FIGHTING Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- At least 80 soldiers and five officers have been killed in more than five days of heavy fighting in Northern Sri Lanka.
• CONGO-KINSHASA / RIGHTS Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- A U-N report on the human rights situation in Congo-Kinshasa says the presence of foreign armed forces and other armed groups in the country is creating a climate of violence and extreme insecurity.
• BURUNDI / RIGHTS Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- A U-N special investigator says the human- rights situation in Burundi has worsened during the past year.
• U-N ANGOLA RELIEF Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- A United Nations official who recently returned from Angola said today (Thursday) that security and access remain major problems in delivering relief services there.

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• TORTURE REPORTING HANDBOOK Voice of America 30 March 2000 -- The British government has published a "Torture Reporting Handbook," the first government-sponsored manual to help human-rights groups collect evidence of abuse that help bring the violators to justice.