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• Air Force Postpones Boeing Delta II Launch Attempt of Global Positioning Satellite Boeing 21 Apr 2000 -- U.S. Air Force officials scrubbed tonight's launch attempt of a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket carrying a Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning System (GPS) IIR-4 spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force.

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• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- Russia's President-elect Vladimir Putin says Moscow has been in contact with Chechnya's leader to exchange peace proposals.
• CHECHNYA-RUSSIA Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- Ilyas Akhmadov is the chief aide to Chechnya's leader, Aslan Maskhadov. In an interview with V-O-A's Russian language service, Mr. Akhmadov dismisses recent Russian peace proposals for the province as ploys designed to fend off international criticism.
• EAST TIMOR RIGHTS Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- Indonesian authorities say they are confident that they will have enough evidence to bring to trial six top generals accused of involvement in last September's campaign of terror.
• KAGAME / RWANDA Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- Paul Kagame, the rebel leader credited with ending Rwanda's 1994 genocide, was overwhelmingly elected president on Monday during a special joint session of parliament and the cabinet.
• SRI LANKA ARMY Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- In Sri Lanka a highly decorated army officer has been put in charge of halting a Tamil Rebel offensive in the northern Jaffna peninsula.

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• MUGABRE LEADS ZIMBABWE ASTRAY Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- For weeks, black settlers, including men and women who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence, have been occupying the nation's large, commercial farms, owned by the country's tiny white minority.
• HOLLYWOOD'S YEMEN Voice of America 21 April 2000 -- Muslims and others are now demonstrating in various American cities against a Hollywood film called "Rules of Engagement." They say it makes Arabs look like bloodthirsty fanatics, with not a good Arab in sight.