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• Boeing Delivers First C-17 to United Kingdom Royal Air Force Boeing 17 May 2000 -- The Boeing Company delivered the first of four C-17 Globemaster III military cargo aircraft to the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) during ceremonies at the company's assembly facility here.
• General Dynamics Awarded Fox Upgrade Contract Modification General Dynamics 17 May 2000 -- General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $17.3 million contract modification by the U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM), Edgewood, Maryland, to upgrade 24 Fox Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance System (NBCRS) vehicles to the M93A1 configuration.e

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 17 May 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING ON SMALL ARMS STUDY United Nations 17 May 2000
• Report to the UN Security Council on Special UNSC Mission to Africa Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, Permanent Representative of the U.S. to the United Nations New York City, New York, May 17, 2000 -- First, we must use all of our collective influence to keep all the signatories firmly within the Lusaka Agreement. It is the only way forward. If one party is allowed to violate it, others will also violate it. Second, we must strengthen the regional and international consensus for peace based on Lusaka.
• Holbrooke Calls Sankoh Capture "Positive" By Judy Aita Washington File 17 May 2000 -- U. S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke May 17 called the capture of Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh "a positive development."
• SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- Sierra Leone's rebel leader Foday Sankoh, the target of a nine-day nationwide manhunt, has been captured at his own house in the capital, Freetown.
• JACKSON/SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- President Clinton's special envoy for Africa, Jesse Jackson, is preparing to visit west Africa in an effort to help resolve the crisis in Sierra Leone.
• BRITAIN / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- The British government says its soldiers in Sierra Leone came under attack early Wednesday from rebels of the Revolutionary United Front.
• U-N-CONGO Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- The United Nations today (Wednesday) seemed to move a step closer toward deployment of so-called "phase two" of its peacekeeping mission in Congo- Kinshasa.
• Security Council Mission Reports Longing for Peace in DRC By Judy Aita Washington File 17 May 2000 -- U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said May 17 that the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) overwhelming want peace, and he stressed that the international community's support for the peace process there must not be undermined by events in Sierra Leone.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- As the hostage crisis on the southern Philippine island of Jolo drags through a fourth-week, Philippine authorities are hopeful talks with Islamic rebels can begin Thursday.
• CHINA-PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- The Philippine Foreign Secretary has accused the news media of worsening the hostage crisis in the Philippines.
• CHIAPAS TENSIONS Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- Armed rebels remain camped out in the mountains of the southern Mexican state, Chiapas, more than six years after indigenous Zapatista rebels staged an armed uprising.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- The Israeli cabinet has approved a 400- million-dollar proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Barak to strengthen security and economic conditions for communities along Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
• LANKA/WAR Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- Police in eastern Sri Lanka say 18-people have been killed and several more wounded by a bomb. Meanwhile, heavy fighting is raging in the country's northern Jaffna region.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- Ethiopian forces say they have made new gains in their drive to capture a key town that controls the main supply route for Eritrea's western army.
• AFGHANISTAN / WARNING Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- International aid donors have warned warring factions in Afghanistan that an outbreak of fighting could threaten assistance to the war-ravaged country.
• INDONESIA / ACEH Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- An Indonesian court has found 24 soldiers and one civilian guilty of massacring 57 people in the restive northern province, Aceh, last July.

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