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• Boeing Demonstrates JSF Avionics Multi-Sensor Fusion Boeing 09 May 2000 -- Boeing has successfully demonstrated multi-sensor fusion of its Joint Strike Fighter avionics aboard the company's 737 Avionics Flying Laboratory.
• Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Battlefield Ministry Tracking System For U.S. Army Lockheed Martin 09 May 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Owego has developed and successfully demonstrated a portable wireless Battlefield Ministration Tracking and Information System (BMTS) for the U.S. Army. The system was designed to meet the needs of chaplains and notification officers who provide emergency pastoral services to soldiers on battlefields, in field hospitals and on support bases.
• Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems Demonstrates Ultra High Resolution Reconnaissance Sensor On F-16 Lockheed Martin 09 May 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems has successfully demonstrated in flight tests a new Ultra High Resolution Framing Camera that offers significant improvements in image clarity even while the aircraft is moving at high speeds.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 09 May 2000
• The Architecture of Peace in Africa and the World Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State, 2000 Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 9, 2000 -- First, borders must not be changed by force, whether through aggression or violent secessionism. Political boundaries cannot and must not be redefined along ethnographic lines. To redraw the map in that way is to risk soaking an entire continent in blood. Europe, like Africa, has learned that lesson the hard way.
• SECURITY COUNCIL HEARS BRIEFING ON SITUATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BY HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS Press Release SC/6854 - 9 May 2000 - Progress in the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords was as slow and painful as ever -- but it was working
• PRESS BRIEFING BY HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS 9 May 2000 - Four and a half years after the Dayton Peace Accords, their implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a success.
• U-N / BOSNIA Voice of America 09 May 2000 -- In New York Tuesday, the diplomat in charge of implementing the peace agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, said the Dayton Accord is working.
• Africa's Diamonds: Precious, Perilous Too? Howard F. Jeter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa - Washington, DC, May 9, 2000 I want to reaffirm emphatically at the outset that we will take no action in regard to trade in diamonds that puts at risk the national interests and economic welfare of Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.
• U.S. Official Outlines Position on Illicit Diamond Trade in Africa 09 May 2000 -- By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File -- Commenting on the flood of illegal diamonds fueling conflicts in Sierra Leone, Angola, and elsewhere, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Howard Jeter told House Africa Subcommittee members May 9 that the Clinton administration will take no action that "puts at risk the national interests and economic welfare of Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia."
• Efforts Intensify to Stabilize Sierra Leone By Judy Aita Washington File 09 May 2000 -- Calling the situation in Freetown "unstable and very tense," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement May 8 that he and other U.N. officials were extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Sierra Leone amid reports of continuing military movements by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
• U.N. Trying to Save Sierra Leone Peace Process By Judy Aita Washington File 09 May 2000 -- Coordinating wide-ranging peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts in the region, the United Nations has declared that it is not going to abandon Sierra Leone to new attacks by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and its leader, Foday Sankoh.

News Reports

• AssureSat and Sea Launch Partner to Mitigate Launch Risk Boeing 09 May 2000 -- AssureSatTM, Inc., announced it has signed an agreement, through Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, for two launches on Sea Launch.
• International Space Station: Teaming Agreement Signed between Boeing and Alenia Spazio Boeing 09 May 2000 -- Representatives of The Boeing Company and Alenia Spazio signed a teaming agreement to reinforce their ongoing commitment to the future of the International Space Station (ISS).