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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 14 Jun 2000
• CAMBODIA / THAILAND BORDER Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- Officials from Cambodia and Thailand have signed an agreement (Wednesday) to mark their disputed common border for the first time in decades.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON BORDER Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- An Arab village is threatened with being torn- apart in a tug-of-war over disputed international borders.
• SRI LANKA BOMB Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- In Sri Lanka, a bomb attack on an Air Force vehicle in Wattala about nine kilometres north of Colombo, today (Wednesday), has left five people dead and seven others injured.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- There is more fighting in the Horn of Africa, with Ethiopia's army saying it has pushed farther into Eritrea.

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• SOLOMONS COUP Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- The prime minister of Solomon Islands, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu - kidnapped and then released by rebels last week - has resigned.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER TO SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HAITI United Nations 14 Jun 2000
• Mugabe Following in Footsteps of Africa's Dictators, Critic Says By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 14 June 2000 -- President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is "following in the footsteps" of African dictators who since the end of the colonial era have made a shambles of their nations' political and economic futures by placing their own interests above those of the countries' citizens, says Professor George Ayittey.
• Mugabe May Be Destined to Become "Africa's Ceausescu" By Charles W. Corey Washington File 14 June 2000 -- "Something has cracked, something has gone wrong, something has gone badly off the tracks" in Zimbabwe, says Chester Crocker, a former State Department expert who warned on June 13 that the sub-Saharan African nation may become the continent's "Romania" and that its President Robert Mugabe may become "Africa's Ceausescu" -- a dictator deposed by his own people.
• ZIMBABWE SITUATION Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- International monitors are taking up positions throughout Zimbabwe in preparation for parliamentary elections next week.
• Boeing Identifies Next Delta III Payload Boeing 14 Jun 2000 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] officials announced the next payload carried aboard the company's Delta III rocket will be a simulated payload that closely matches the last satellite carried by the launch vehicle.