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• Air Force Officials Delay Launch of GPS Satellite Aboard Boeing Delta II Boeing 22 Apr 2000 -- Tonight's launch of a U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite aboard a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket has been scrubbed in order to gather data on the spacecraft's solar array deployment mechanism.

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• NATO/ARREST Voice of America 22 April 2000 -- NATO officials say a Bosnian Serb, the first war crimes suspect indicted by a United Nations tribunal, has been arrested for alleged atrocities committed during the Bosnian conflict.
• Text: NATO Secretary General's Statement on Arrest of Dragan Nikolic 22 April 2000 -- NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson praised the actions of the Bosnia Peace Stabilization Force (SFOR) in detaining accused war criminal Dragan Nikolic.
• Text: Bosnia Peace Force Detains Accused War Criminal 22 April 2000 -- Soldiers of the NATO-lead Peace Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina arrested accused war criminal Dragan Nikolic April 22. Nikolic was transferred to The Hague to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
• RUSSIA PEACE MOVES Voice of America 22 April 2000 -- Russian officials have confirmed that they received a peace plan from the leader of Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov. But President-elect Vladimir Putin says that the chances are slim that the bloody war in Chechnya will end anytime soon.
• ACEH TRIAL Voice of America 22 April 2000 -- Defense attorneys for 24 Indonesian soldiers accused of taking part in a massacre in northern Aceh province have called for the case to be dismissed.

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• ISLAMIC OPPOSITION Voice of America 22 April 2000 -- The Islamic opposition groups have similar traits, says Michael Rubin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For instance, their hatred of the West. But they are not really unified.