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• Boeing C-40A Airlifter for U.S. Navy Makes First Flight Boeing 17 Apr 2000 -- The first Boeing C-40A airlifter for the U.S. Navy made its initial flight April 14. The plane, a 737-700C (Convertible) model, took off from Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Wash., at 3:27 p.m. and landed 2 hours and 15 minutes later at Boeing Field. For the next five months, the aircraft will remain at Boeing Field for flight testing, upgrades and final checkout.
• General Dynamics-Built Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) Completes its First High-Speed Water Test General Dynamics 17 Apr 2000 -- The U.S. Marine Corps has completed the first high-speed water test of its new Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV), designed and built by General Dynamics Land Systems. The test took place at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.

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• 17 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 17 Apr 2000
• SPEAKERS CALL FOR CLEARER DEFINITION, TIGHTER TARGETING OF UN SANCTIONS AS COUNCIL DRAWS ON 'LESSONS LEARNED' TO REFINE SANCTIONS REGIMES Press Release SC/6845 - 17 April 2000 -- Acknowledging that the case for sanctions remained compelling, a number of speakers in the Security Council tonight called for their refinement and improvements in their effectiveness.
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON SANCTIONS BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT 17 April 2000 -- A legal framework was necessary to clarify ambiguity in terms of legal standards and norms in considering sanctions.
• U-N SANCTIONS DEBATE Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council is taking a hard look at the effectiveness of international sanctions.
• An American Diplomat's Perspectives On Kurds in the Global Arena Francis J. Ricciardone, Special Coordinator for Transition in Iraq Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Remarks at the American University, Center for Global Peace Washington, DC, April 17, 2000
• RWANDA POLITICS Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- The government of Rwanda has named acting president Paul Kagame as the central-African country's new head of state.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON PRISONERS Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- Israel's Supreme Court has refused to block the release of 13 Lebanese prisoners being held as bargaining chips for Israeli soldiers missing in action in Lebanon.
• U-N ISRAEL-LEBANON WITHDRAWAL Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- The Israeli government has notified the United Nations that it will withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon by early July.
• LANKA/MSF Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- Doctors Without Borders has urged the Sri Lankan government to allow the re-supply of urgently needed medicine to the country's north.
• U-N ETHIOPIA DEMONSTRATION Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- Several dozen people today (Monday) demonstrated outside United Nations headquarters to protest what they call discrimination by the government of Ethiopia against the Oromia region of that country.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA RIGHTS Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- A group of prominent Russian politicians is forming a non-governmental commission to investigate complaints about human-rights abuses in Chechnya.
• ANGOLA / NAMIBIA / REFUGEES Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- : International aid workers and local human-rights activists say the rights of Angolan refugees in Namibia are being violated.

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• ERITREA / DROUGHT Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- A U-N special envoy has been meeting with Eritrean officials in Asmara - the latest stop on her tour of the Horn of Africa.
• CONGO EXPLOSION Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- The death toll from Friday's explosion at Kinshasa's international airport, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has risen to more than one- hundred.