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• GE Marine Engines Honors U.S. Navy During 1,000th LM2500 Marine Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Ceremony GE Marine 25 May 2000 -- General Dynamics Communication Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been named an accredited vendor to supply digital certificates to Department of Defense contractors through a program that expands the DoD's use of electronic commerce.
• P&W Successfully Completes Testing for JSF119 Engine Flight Clearance Pratt & Whitney 25 May 2000 -- Pratt & Whitney has successfully completed the flight clearance testing of JSF119 engines for both the Boeing and Lockheed Martin conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) and carrier (CV) variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 25 May 2000
• JOURNALISTS SLAIN Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- Two journalists renowned for covering some of the world's most dangerous conflicts have been killed in a rebel ambush in Sierra Leone.
• THE AGONY OF SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- Almost ten years of fighting between the government and Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front have ruined Sierra Leone.
• CLINTON-SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- President Clinton is promising vigorous U-S support for United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Sierra Leone after the death of two foreign journalists -- including a university acquaintance of Mr. Clinton -- in a rebel ambush Wednesday.
• SRI LANKA - MORTARS Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels say they are ready for the final assault on Jaffna city and have given the estimated 40-thousand government troops, defending the city, a deadline of Friday to surrender.
• SRI LANKA / TAMIL TIGERS Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- Tamil Tiger rebels have set a Friday deadline for Sri Lankan troops in the northern Jaffna peninsula to surrender or face a bloodbath.
• ETHIOPIA FAMINE Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- An Ethiopian human rights activist predicts the number of people affected by famine in that country - currently estimated at more than eight million - will double next year.
• Eritrea Q&A Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- Eritrean troops redeployed from the disputed areas of Zalambessa Alitena. These are the two fronts where Ethiopia has been shelling. There has been heavy fighting over the last couple of days.
• ETHIOPIA - ERITREA Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- Ethiopia says it has recaptured the key border town of Zalambessa, destroying what it says is an Eritrean army on the verge of collapse.
• MEPP: After Israel's Withdrawal From Lebanon, 'A New Uncertainty' Issue Focus 25 May 2000 -- Almost everywhere, observers judged that South Lebanon remains "a very dangerous place" and that absent an agreement with Lebanon's powerbroker, Syria, Israel must "deal with the root of the problem" and address the Palestinian track of the peace process. Most analysts believed that Israel's chances of bringing Syria to the negotiating table were still thin.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- There is a new reality in the Middle East now that Israel has withdrawn its soldiers from southern Lebanon after more than two decades of occupation.
• U-N TIMOR REPORT Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council was told today (Thursday) that progress toward independence in East Timor is slow but steady.
• ANGOLA / RUSSIA Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- A Russian diplomat in Zambia say there is still no confirmation that Angola's UNITA rebel group has released five Russians pilots held for the past year.
• HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY YUGOSLAV MISSION 25 May 2000 -- Following its "forced removal as a legitimate member" of the Peace Implementation Council on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yugoslavia would not consider itself bound by any decisions taken by the Council.

News Reports

• SAF / ZIMBABWE Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- South Africa's ruling African National Congress party has denied there are any differences within its ranks over the prospects for free and fair elections in neighboring Zimbabwe.