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• Two Aegis-Equipped Cruisers Successfully Complete Test Of Baseline 6 Phase 1 System In Prep For CEC Evaluations Lockheed Martin 26 May 2000 -- Two U.S. Navy Aegis-equipped cruisers this past week successfully detected and engaged five 'hostile' test targets, verifying the performance of the ships' upgraded Aegis weapon system - designated Baseline 6 Phase 1 by the U.S. Navy and the system's manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Moorestown.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 26 May 2000
• ULSTER / MAGINNIS Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- In Northern Ireland, the largely-Protestant Ulster Unionist Party is facing the difficult choice of whether to accept an Irish Republican Army offer of disarmament.
• NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- Northern Ireland Protestant leader David Trimble has called on his Ulster Unionist Party to agree on plans to restore a power-sharing government to the province.
• SOUTH LEBANON SITREP Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- The leader of the Hezbollah resistance movement has held his first rally in southern Lebanon since the withdrawal by Israeli forces earlier this week.
• LEBANON / U-N Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- U-N Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larsen is continuing his mission to strengthen and re-deploy U-N peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon.
• ISRAEL / NORTHERN BORDER Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- Israeli troops are adapting to a new reality along the country's northern border following their withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
• Ethiopian Defense Forces consolidate their positions Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -- Office of the Government Spokesperson 26 May 2000 -- The heroic Ethiopian defense forces have today consolidated their positions at Forte and Senafe which they captured last night. On the Bure front there has been exchange of heavy artillery fire. Fighting has, however, subsided at the Zalambessa - Egala front.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- Ethiopia has agreed to attend peace talks over its border war with neighboring Eritrea. But Ethiopia says this does not mean fighting will stop.
• ZIMBABWE / SOUTHERN AFRICA Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has urged landless Namibians to follow his country's example and forcibly seize land if white farmers are not prepared to share it.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- Abu Sayyaf rebels postponed the talks (Friday) because of troop movements near the site of the planned meeting.
• U-N-H-C-R / SRI LANKA Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, is voicing continued concern about the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula.
• INDONESIA-AMBON Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- Fresh sectarian violence has erupted in Indonesia's troubled Molucca Islands. At least 33 people are reported to have been killed in clashes between Christians and Muslims.
• YUGO WAR CRIMES Voice of America 26 May 2000 -- War crimes prosecutors in The Hague have finished their sixth week of presenting evidence in the case against Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic.

News Reports

• Text: U.S., Angola Issue Joint Communiqué, Reeker Says 26 May 2000 -- U.S. and Angola government officials issued a joint communiqué summarizing bilateral talks they held May 25-26 in Luanda, Angola.