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• Electric Boat plans to close its Avenel facility by year end General Dynamics 05 May 2000 -- current or projected – to keep the facility operating.'
• DaimlerChrysler MTU and General Dynamics Land Systems Announce Joint Venture Program General Dynamics 05 May 2000 -- DaimlerChrysler's MTU subsidiary (MTU North America, Inc.) and General Dynamics Land Systems announced the formation of a new joint venture, the Performance Diesels Company, L.L.C.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 05 May 2000
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Some of the fifteen hostages rescued on Wednesday say they were tortured by their Muslim rebel captors. They were among 27 captives seized March 20th by a band of Abu Sayyaf rebels.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGE-TAKERS Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- A double hostage crisis, one involving foreign tourists, has focused worldwide attention on the little-known Muslim separatist movement in the Philippines and on a radical group called the Abu Sayyaf.
• LEBANON / ATTACK REACT Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Lebanese government officials reacted angrily, to overnight bombing raids by Israeli warplanes, which knocked out electricity to over one third of the country.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon have fired rockets into northern Israel for the second day, injuring at least one person.
• ZIMBABWE / CONGO Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Zimbabwe's continued military involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a controversial political and economic issue as the country prepares for parliamentary elections.
• U-N CONGO FIGHTING Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Friday) formally condemned the recent outbreak of fighting in Congo-Kinshasa.
• CONGO / RWANDA / UGANDA Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Fresh fighting has broken out in the rebel- held Congolese city of Kisangani between Ugandan and Rwandan forces backing rival rebel factions in their war against Congo-Kinshasa's president, Laurent Kabila.
• TRY TO TAKE AN IMPARTIAL LOOK AT THE NEW SITUATION IN CHECHNYA AND THE RUSSIAN ACTIONS Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov 11.05.2000 -- No normal person can, of course, remain indifferent to the tragic pages of the Chechen crisis. The Russians themselves perceive it still more acutely. For it involves our land and our countrymen.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Russian officials say they are moving ahead with plans to establish direct federal rule in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
• SIERRA LEONE - U-N Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Revolutionary United Front are now believed to be detaining more than 300 other U-N peacekeepers.
• MILF CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCED Friday, May 05, 2000 - Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has declared a unilateral 48-hour ceasefire beginning tomorrow.
• BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA GOVT INSTALLATIONS ATTACKED Friday, May 05, 2000 - Six installations, five of which were government facilities, were subjected to grenade attacks. Five of the incidents took place in the district of Aceh Utara.
• COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, DEMANDS CESSATION OF UGANDAN-RWANDAN HOSTILITIES; CALLS RENEWED KISANGANI CLASHES THREAT TO LUSAKA AGREEMENT Press Release SC/6853 - 5 May 2000
• SRI LANKA - GOVERNMENT MINISTER Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- The Tamil Tiger rebels have recently scored some major military victories in northern Sri Lanka but today (Friday) a Sri Lankan government minister expressed confidence the rebels will not win the country's 17 year ethnic war.
• WFP / ANGOLA Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- The United Nations World Food Program, W-F-P, says it is facing a funding crisis in war-torn Angola.
• AFGHAN / U-N Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- A spokesman for Afghanistan's dominant Taleban faction said today/Friday that the group will not initiate fighting this summer with opposition forces in the country.
• INDONESIA / ACEH Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- One day after the announcement of a breakthrough peace deal between the Indonesian government and separatist rebels in the northern Indonesia province of Aceh, differences in interpretation of the agreement are emerging.

News Reports

• SOUTHERN AFRICA / ZIMBABWE Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- South African President Thabo Mbeki is in Zimbabwe as part of the continuing initiative by Southern Africa leaders to persuade Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to end the continuing political crises in his country.
• ZIMBABWE / ISSUES Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- The head of an organization promoting democratic reform in Africa says the farmland controversy in Zimbabwe is preventing larger, more fundamental issues from being addressed.
• COLOMBIA-DRUGS Voice of America 05 May 2000 -- Clashes between Colombian government troops and leftist and rightist guerrillas are growing more frequent as a result of an expanding crackdown on drug traffickers, who have close ties with the guerillas.