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• General Dynamics Completes Acquisition of Saco Defense Corp. General Dynamics 30 Jun 2000 -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has completed its acquisition of Saco Defense Corporation from the New Colt Holding Corp. for an undisclosed amount of cash.
• ORBITAL WINS $34 MILLION U.S. NAVY CONTRACT FOR SUPERSONIC SEA-SKIMMING TARGET MISSILE Orbital Sciences Corp. 30 Jun 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that the United States Naval Air Systems Command has awarded the company an Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract for the Supersonic Sea- Skimming Target (SSST) system.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 30 Jun 2000
• U-N-H-C-R / CHECHNYA Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says Russian authorities are pressuring Chechen refugees in Ingushetia to return home, despite continuing fighting and instability in the breakaway republic.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Russia's commander in Chechnya says Russian forces have won a five-day battle with rebels at the base of the Caucasus mountains in southern Chechnya.
• U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it hopes to wrap up the repatriation of an estimated 100-thousand East Timorese refugees from camps in West Timor by the end of this year.
• REBUILDING EAST TIMOR Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- International donors have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to help rebuild East Timor's economy. But Timorese and aid workers agree the benefits of those pledges have been too slow in materializing.
• SRI LANKA PEACE PLAN Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Tamil Tiger Rebels fighting for a separate homeland in Sri Lanka have rejected a government proposal aimed at ending the 17-year conflict.
• SRI LANKA CENSORSHIP Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled Friday the government's censorship of news illegal, and ordered the reopening of a newspaper shut down under emergency regulations.
• RWANDA / UGANDA Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The presidents of Uganda and Rwanda are scheduled to meet Saturday to discuss repeated fighting between their armies in the Democratic Republic of Congo-Kinshasa.
• TURKEY / HADEP Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Turkish authorities recently have stepped up pressure on Turkey's largest legal pro-Kurdish party, Hadep.
• ERITREA / HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Scattered throughout the mountains of Eritrea's central highlands are thousands of displaced people. They camp under rocky overhangs, huddle in caves, or live out in the open.
• AFGHAN REFUGEES / PAKISTAN Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- About one-thousand Afghan refugees have left Pakistan to return home after more than 20 years in exile.

News Reports

• SOLOMONS POL Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The Solomon Islands has elected a new Prime Minister (Friday), in the hopes he will bring stability to the strife-torn South Pacific nation.
• International Launch Services and Lockheed Martin Provide Mission Success for NASA Satellite Launch Lockheed Martin 30 Jun 2000 -- A Lockheed Martin Atlas IIA rocket lifted off from Complex 36 Pad A this morning, successfully placing the first of the next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) into geosynchronous transfer orbit for NASA. Liftoff occurred at 8:56 a.m. EDT followed by successful spacecraft separation just under 30 minutes later.