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• The Second Chechen War: The Information Component by Emil Pain, Former Russian Ethno-national Relations Advisor, Military Review July-August 2000
• Grozny 2000: Urban Combat Lessons Learned by Mr. Timothy L. Thomas - Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Military Review July-August 2000

• SIERRA LEONE AMBUSH Voice of America 01 July 2000 -- Gunmen in Sierra Leone have attacked a convoy of United Nations peacekeepers, killing at least one soldier and wounding four others.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 01 July 2000 -- Concern is rising over the 10 foreign tourists held on the southern Philippine island of Jolo for nearly ten weeks.
• COLOMBIA - FARC - DRUGS Voice of America 01 July 2000 -- In Colombia, diplomats from 21 embassies, most of them European, completed a two-day meeting Friday in the demilitarized zone, controlled by the left-wing FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrilla group.
• AFGHAN-FIGHTING Voice of America 01 July 2000 -- Taleban and opposition forces have been exchanging heavy artillery and mortar fire near Bagram, about 50 kilometers north of the capital, Kabul.

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• Sea Launch - Summary of Investigation and Return-to-Flight Preparations - July 2000 Boeing 01 Jul 2000 -- Sea Launch began its third mission on March 12, 2000, at 6:49 am PST, with the launch of its Zenit-3SL rocket that was to place the ICO F-1 communications satellite into orbit. As a result of an anomaly in the operations of the second stage of the 3-stage vehicle, the spacecraft failed to reach orbit.