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• Team ABL Begins Fabrication Of Airborne Laser Turret Boeing 07 Apr 2000 -- Team Airborne Laser (ABL) has begun fabrication of the ABL's revolutionary, high-energy laser weapon system turret assembly at Lockheed Martin Space Systems' Sunnyvale, Calif., facility.
• ORBIMAGE'S ORBVIEW-1 IMAGING SATELLITE CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY IN ORBIT Orbital Sciences Corp. 07 Apr 2000 -- Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE), an affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) and a leading global provider of satellite-delivered Earth imagery products and services, announced that its OrbView-1 atmospheric imaging satellite has successfully completed its fifth year in space.

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• 7 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 07 Apr 2000
• U-N AFGHANISTAN Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Friday) strongly condemned human rights violations by the Taleban rulers in Afghanistan.
• SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, REITERATES GRAVE CONCERN AT AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT, CONDEMNS TALIBAN FOR NEW OFFENSIVES Press Release SC/6841 - 7 April 2000 -- e Security Council this afternoon strongly condemned the Taliban for the launching of new offensives and expressed concern at reported preparations for renewed large- scale fighting.
• NO REASON FOR OPTIMISM ABOUT EARLY CEASEFIRE IN AFGHANISTAN SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD DURING OPEN BRIEFING Press Release SC/6840 - 7 April 2000 -- While severe weather and the observance of the holy month of Ramadan had forced both sides to reduce the intensity of the fighting, it had not come to a halt. In fact, there was every indication that the parties were preparing for a full-scale offensive in the spring.
• MIDDLE EAST: QUEST FOR PEACE CONTINUES ON ALL FRONTS Issue Focus - Foreign Media Reaction 07 April 2000 -- With Israel's support on Tuesday for the deployment of UN forces in South Lebanon as Israel ends its occupation there and the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks in Washington on Thursday, Middle East watchers this week focused on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's efforts to bring peace to Israel's borders. The Israeli press, left and right, criticized Mr. Barak's actions on the Palestinian track.
• TIMOR REFUGEES Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- More than 140 thousand East Timorese refugees remain in camps in the Indonesian province of West Timor.
• RWANDA / GENOCIDE Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- The central African nation of Rwanda commemorated the sixth anniversary Friday of the country's genocide, which left an estimated 800-thousand people dead in 1994.
• UNICEF / ETHIOPIA DROUGHT Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says critical, life-saving health and nutrition programs planned for children and women must not be ignored in the effort to get food aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia.
• UNHCR / ERITREA / SUDAN Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it concluded an agreement Friday with Eritrea and Sudan to repatriate an estimated 160 thousand refugees now in Sudan.
• ERITREA - PRESIDENT Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki says peace negotiations with Ethiopia have gone "back to square one" after proximity talks between the two nations were postponed last month.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA / EUROPE Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- A delegation from the European Union visiting Moscow says Russia wants to improve relations with Europe despite its increasing anti-western statements.
• BOSNIA WAR CRIMES Voice of America 07 April 2000 -- In his first appearance before the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, former Bosnian Serb political leader Momcilo Krajisnik pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.

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