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• NASSCO Delivers the USNS Charlton General Dynamics 23 May 2000 -- National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has delivered the USNS Charlton (T-AKR 314) to the U.S. Navy. The Charlton is the fifth new construction ship built by NASSCO under the U.S. Navy's Strategic Sealift Program.
• Lockheed Martin Wins $13 Million Launcher Contract Lockheed Martin 23 May 2000 -- The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded a competitive $13 million contract to Lockheed Martin Millimeter Wave Technologies of Orlando, Fla. to produce 250 M299 Longbow Hellfire launchers.
• LOCKHEED MARTIN WINS $13 MILLION LAUNCHER CONTRACT Lockheed Martin 23 May 2000 -- The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded a competitive $13 million contract to Lockheed Martin Millimeter Wave Technologies of Orlando, Fla. to produce 250 M299 Longbow Hellfire launchers.
• JASSM Flies Through First Engineering and Manufacturing Development Separation Test Lockheed Martin 23 May 2000 -- Earlier this month, the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) team successfully accomplished its first Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) Separation Test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 23 May 2000
• LIBERIA / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Liberia president Charles Taylor has again called for a cease-fire in Sierra Leone.
• SENATE-SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- The Clinton administration and Congress are at odds again over money for United Nations peacekeeping operations.
• BRITAIN / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Britain says it will begin training Sierra Leone's army as part of an effort to help the government in Freetown restore stability after years of civil war.
• Annan Suggests More Peacekeepers Needed for Sierra Leone By Judy Aita Washington File 23 May 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone be increased to 16,500 in order to help stabilize the peace, which has been threatened by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, and has suggested that more troops might be needed in the future to solidify the peace process.
• Security Council Endorses Plan for South Lebanon By Judy Aita Washington File 23 May 2000 -- With the rapid pullout of Israeli soldiers from southern Lebanon, the United Nations has moved quickly to fulfill its responsibility in the region to verify the pullout and enhance conditions for peace in the area.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak says Israel may complete its withdrawal from south Lebanon within the next few days.
• LEBANON / WITHDRAWAL Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- More Lebanese civilians are returning home to villages recently evacuated by Israel and the Israeli- backed South Lebanon Army militia (S-L-A).
• U-N COUNCIL-LEBANON Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has strongly endorsed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan for a continuing U-N role in Lebanon following the pullout of Israeli troops.
• U-S-ISRAEL-LEBANON Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- The Clinton Administration says it supports Israel's decision to withdraw from Lebanon, and is calling on Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad to prevent Hezbollah guerrillas from harassing Israeli troops as they leave.
• U-N / LEBANON Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council held late night consultations (Monday) to discuss the impending withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon.
• Text: UNSC Endorses Report on Implementing Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon 23 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council May 23 strongly endorsed the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of U.N. resolutions regarding Israel's withdrawal from all Lebanese territories.
• Prime Minister Meles' Briefing to the Diplomatic Community Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -- Office of the Government Spokesperson 23 May 2000 -- First, the war was caused by Eritrean aggression and the surest, quickest way of stopping it is by reversing that aggression. Short of addressing the root causes of the problem, there was no way the war could be stopped by the sanctions.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Ethiopia began its latest offensive last week avoiding the Tsorona front in favor of the far weaker western front where Ethiopia advanced more than 100 kilometers inside Eritrea.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- United Nations aid agencies are speeding up delivery of food and other emergency relief supplies to tens of thousands of people displaced by the Ethiopian-Eritrean war.
• U-N-ERITREA HUNGER Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- The United Nations is expressing growing alarm about humanitarian conditions in Eritrea, where renewed fighting with Ethiopia and a long-running drought are causing widespread hunger.
• WAR RESUMES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- New fighting has broken out in the Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and its neighbor, Eritrea. The object of the renewed conflict is a relatively small area of disputed borderland with apparently little strategic value.
• RUSSIA / AFGHANISTAN Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- A senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of possible air strikes against suspected Chechen rebel bases in Afghanistan.
• AFGHANISTAN-RUSSIA Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Afghanistan's Taleban movement is rejecting Russian allegations that it is providing military help to Chechen guerillas.
• Text: Statement by President of Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal 23 May 2000 -- Claude Jorda, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), discussed the tribunal's current and future challenges in an address May 23 in Brussels to the United Nations Peace Implementation Council for Bosnia.
• LANKA/ PRESIDENT Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga says the country is battling to protect its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and unity.

News Reports

• WEST TIMOR / FLOODS Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- U-N agencies say they are working around the clock to rescue and bring humanitarian assistance to thousands of flood victims in West Timor.