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• Guidance System Production Ramps Up At Lockheed Martin To Replenish Tomahawk Cruise Missile Inventory Lockheed Martin 04 Apr 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems, Akron, has been awarded a contract valued at $62 million from Raytheon Company's Missile Systems business unit, Tucson, Ariz., to supply 644 new and remanufactured Digital Scene Matching Area Correlators and other components for Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of the U.S. military's requirement to renew its supply of weapons.
• Lockheed Martin NE&SS-Balimore Signs MK 41 VLS Contract With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Lockheed Martin 04 Apr 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems (NE&SS)-Baltimore has signed a follow-on, direct commercial sale contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for licensed production and test of MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS). The follow-on portion of the Phase I contract includes production of four eight-cell modules and is valued at approximately $21 million.

Other Conflicts

• 4 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 04 Apr 2000
• SENATE-CHECHNYA Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- The Clinton administration has joined in demanding an investigation of human-rights abuses in Chechnya, but stopped short of calling them war crimes.
• ANNAN - CHECHNYA Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- The United Nations secretary-general backs a call by the top U-N human rights official for an independent investigation into alleged abuses by Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
• U-N / ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- Israel's foreign minister says the United Nations is ready to cooperate with Israel's plan to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon in July.
• RUSSIA / ROBINSON Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- Russian officials are denouncing what they call western interference in Chechnya and have labeled her trip a propaganda offensive.
• THAI-BURMA FIGHTING Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- Fighting has again flared between Burmese government troops and ethnic rebels along the Thai-Burmese border.

News Reports

• AFGHAN DRUGS Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- Afghanistan's Taleban movement is stepping up a campaign to reduce the country's production of opium, which reached a record 46-hundred metric tons last year.