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• Official Launch of New Phase:$3.1 Billion RAH-66 Comanche EMD Contract Signed Boeing 01 Jun 2000 -- Representatives of the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche program and the U.S. Army signed contract documents in a ceremony that officially launched the $3.1 billion engineering and manufacturing development phase for the Comanche program.
• Team ABL Continues Making Progress with Delivery of Two Airborne Laser Steering Mirrors Boeing 01 Jun 2000 -- A team of engineers has delivered two prototype, fast-steering mirrors for the Airborne Laser (ABL) theater-ballistic-missile defense system to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, Calif.
• Boeing to Acquire Autometric, Inc. Boeing 01 Jun 2000 -- The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) today announced it will acquire Autometric, Inc., a leading supplier of software products and services in the geospatial information technology marketplace. Terms were not disclosed.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 01 Jun 2000
• U-N ERITREA REFUGEES Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- United Nations relief officials are struggling to cope with an estimated 150-thousand Eritreans who have fled the fighting between their country and Ethiopia.
• ETHIOPIA/ERITREA REACT Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Eritrea is refusing to accept Ethiopia's declaration that the war between the two East African neighbors is over.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Ethiopia says its border war with Eritrea is over. But Ethiopia says its troops will remain in parts of Eritrea until there is formal cease-fire.
• Demonstrators Call for Greater U.S. Action on Sierra Leone By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 01 June 2000 -- Students, human rights activists, and congressional staff members demonstrated outside the State Department May 31, calling for greater U.S. action to help bring an end to civil conflict in Sierra Leone.
• PHILIPPINES - UNREST Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Hostage-taking and other violence has people on edge throughout the Philippines - not just in the Southern part of the country which is a hotbed of Islamic separatism.
• LEBANON: WHAT NEXT? Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Israel has pulled its troops out of southern Lebanon. But thirty-five thousand Syrian troops remain in Lebanon, along with Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.
• LANKA REBELS Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's deputy defense minister says new weapon systems and a fresh counterattack has prevented the Tamil Tiger rebels from taking control of the northern Jaffna Peninsula.
• ACEH CEASE-FIRE Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- A cease-fire is set to go into effect in Indonesia's northern province of Aceh, but there are still reports of violence between government forces and separatist rebels in the area.

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