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• General Dynamics to Purchase Saco Defense Corp. General Dynamics 12 May 2000 -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and New Colt Holding Corp. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for General Dynamics to acquire Saco Defense Corp., a subsidiary of New Colt Holding Corp., for an undisclosed amount of cash.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 12 May 2000
• SOUTH ASIA - CHILD SOLDIERS Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- A group of international non-governmental organizations says Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka are among the militant groups in South Asia using hundreds of child soldiers.
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON PROFIT AGENDA IN CIVIL CONFLICTS 12 May 2000 - Civil wars and internal conflicts were not just about human suffering and costs, but were also about profit and gain for certain parties, Mats Berdal, director of studies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, told journalists at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters today.
• INDONESIA CEASEFIRE Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels have signed a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending 25 years of fighting in the northwestern Indonesian province of Aceh.
• ACEH CEASEFIRE ANTICIPATION Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- Police in Indonesia's insurgent Aceh province have vowed to cease activities targetting separatist rebels, as the rebels and the Indonesian government prepare to sign an historic peace accord in Switzerland.
• ACEH Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- Indonesia has signed its first ever peace accord with separatist rebels from its northernmost province of Aceh.
• U.S. Special Envoy Jesse Jackson Prepares for Mission to Sierra Leone By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 12 May 2000 -- Just days before he departs on a special diplomatic mission to western Africa, the Reverend Jesse Jackson on May 12 made a "moral appeal" to the elusive Sierra Leonian rebel leader Foday Sankoh to show himself, to release U.N. peacekeepers detained by his rebel forces, and to stop "military advances on Freetown."
• Africa: Sierra Leone Poses 'Seminal Event' For UN Peacekeeping Issue Focus - Foreign Media Reaction 12 May 2000 -- As the week-long crisis in Sierra Leone threatens to push it once again into civil war, and similar scenarios unfold in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the Horn of Africa, editorialists around the world mused about what can be done for, and about, Africa. Many determined that "just as Somalia is etched in the collective memory of U.S. policymakers, Sierra Leone is likely to prove a seminal event for the UN."
• SIERRA LEONE - U-N Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for additional U-N peacekeeping troops to be sent to Sierra Leone, perhaps exceeding the more than 11-thousand soldiers already mandated by the U-N Security Council.
• SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- The speakers blamed Mr. Sankoh for much of the death and destruction that has gripped this country since 1991, when Mr. Sankoh, a former Army corporal, launched his civil war against Sierra Leone's central government.
• CLINTON - SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- The Clinton administration is warning rebels in Sierra Leone that the world community is serious about strengthening a U-N peacekeeping force to stabilize the situation in the West African country.
• Text: U.S. Calls on Ethiopia/Eritrea to Resume Peace Talks 12 May 2000 -- State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher on May 12 deplored new reports of heavy fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea. He called on both nations to cease hostilities and to resume peace talks immediately, without preconditions.
• ERITREA / ETHIOPIA FIGHTING Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- Ethiopian troops attacked soon after midnight along the left and right flanks of the highly contested Badame front. By morning the battle had spread, with intense shelling in Zalembessa, 250 kilometers to the East.
• U-N / ETHIOPIA-ERITREA Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has passed a unanimous resolution (Friday night) strongly condemning renewed fighting between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- Ethiopia's army opened a series of new offensives against Eritrean positions in the west, near Sudan; in the east, near Djibouti; and in the center of its border with Eritrea, around the town of Zalambessa.
• IN UNANIMOUS RESOLUTION, COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE END TO ERITREAN-ETHIOPIAN HOSTILITIES Press Release SC/6861 - 12 May 2000 -- Stressing that renewed hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea constituted a threat to peace and security and an even greater threat to the stability, security and economic development of the subregion, the Security Council tonight demanded that the two countries immediately cease all military actions and refrain from further use of force.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- Talks between government negotiators and Islamic rebels holding 21 hostages in the southern Philippines appear to have stalled.
• SRI LANKA SOLDIERS Voice of America 12 May 2000 -- Heavy fighting for control of the northern city of Jaffna continues as Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urged government soldiers to wipe out the menace of Tamil Tiger rebel terrorism.

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