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• ATK Awarded Contracts Worth $205 Million for Munitions Production and International Technology Transfer ATK 18 Apr 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) (NYSE: ATK), the nation's largest supplier of military conventional ammunition, said it has received contracts worth $205 million for production of small and medium-caliber ammunition and rocket system propellant and warhead components, and the transfer of medium-caliber ammunition production technology to a NATO allied nation.
• Boeing Unveils First T-45C in U.S. Marine Corps Markings Boeing 18 Apr 2000 -- The first T-45C Goshawk with U.S. Marine Corps markings arrived March 31 at Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss. Thirty-one Goshawks at NAS Meridian are painted with traditional U.S. Navy markings.
• Boeing Validates JSF Design With High-Fidelity Stealth Model Boeing 18 Apr 2000 -- The Boeing Joint Strike Fighter One Team has begun validating the radar, antenna and stealth performance of its concept for the operational Joint Strike Fighter using a high-fidelity, full-scale aircraft model. The JSF model also will be used to fully validate proprietary technologies in stealth supportability and maintainability.
• Lockheed Martin Highlights Navy Partnership At Sea-Air-Space 2000 Lockheed Martin 18 Apr 2000 -- Advanced systems and technology solutions to the complex naval warfare requirements of the 21st Century will be highlighted by Lockheed Martin Corporation during the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space 2000 Exposition April 18-20 in Washington, DC.
• Lockheed Martin Awarded $142 Million U.S. Navy Automated Test Equipment Support Contract Lockheed Martin 18 Apr 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Information Systems (NYSE: LMT) has reached an agreement with the U.S. Navy worth an estimated $142 million to support logistics operations for its worldwide Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) assets.

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• 18 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 18 Apr 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR 18 April 2000 -- Carolyn McAskie, Emergency Relief Coordinator, a.i., briefed correspondents at Headquarters today on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
• SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES TO TIGHTEN SANCTIONS AGAINST UNITA, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1295 (2000) Press Release SC/6846 - 18 April 2000 - Security Council this afternoon unanimously voted to tighten its sanctions against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and undertook to consider additional measures -- use of armed force not included -- to make them more effective.
• UNITA Sanctions in Angola Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council April 18, 2000 -- UNITA's sanctions-busting activities, aided and abetted by the parties identified in the report of the Experts' Panel, allowed it to pursue a military option that has brought death and destruction to a long suffering nation.
• Text: Holbrooke's Remarks on UNITA Sanctions to the UN Security Council 18 April 2000 -- The United States favors taking additional action to stop UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi's sanctions-busting activities in Angola, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said.
• U-N-UNITA SANCTIONS Voice of America 18 April 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Tuesday) has approved a resolution designed to put pressure on governments that violate sanctions against UNITA.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUSSERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - assistant to the Russian Acting President 18.04.2000 -- Let us read carefully what Ivanov said. He said that the military operation in Chechnya is completed and there are no large-scale hostilities. The Russian leaders understand that the Chechen "problem" cannot be solved by military means. But it is impossible to solve it by political means without a military stage, either.
• Transcript: Inderfurth Voice of America Interview on Afghanistan 18 April 2000 -- Afghans are under the impression that the U.S., which provided all kinds of aid to the people of Afghanistan during the years of Jihad, for which they are extremely grateful, does not care about Afghanistan or its people anymore.
• U-N / RIGHTS / YUGOSLAVIA Voice of America 18 April 2000 -- The United Nations Human Rights Commission has overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning what it says are serious human rights violations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• SIERRA LEONE / SECURITY Voice of America 18 April 2000 -- Security ministers from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea-Conakry have agreed to form a joint committee to monitor their shared borders.
• LEBANON ATTACKS / ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL Voice of America 18 April 2000 -- In Lebanon, a Syrian construction worker has been killed and three people severely wounded by shelling near the southern Lebanese buffer zone occupied by Israel.
• INDONESIA / ACEH Voice of America 18 April 2000 -- A police chief who headed the crackdown on separatist rebels in the northern province of Aceh, has been removed from his post for alleged human rights violations.

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• U-N / RIGHTS / AFRICA Voice of America 18 April 2000 -- The United Nations Human Rights Commission has condemned six African countries for what it calls gross violations of human rights.