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• Boeing Delta II Launches Global Positioning Satellite for U.S. Air Force Boeing 16 Jul 2000 -- A Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket successfully placed the 29th Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite into orbit aboard a Delta rocket. Every GPS satellite launched to date has been carried into its nearly 10,900 mile elliptical transfer orbit by Delta rockets (excluding the Block I satellites used during the research and development phase of the GPS program).
• Air Force Successfully Launches Global Positioning System Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin 16 Jul 2000 -- A Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, CA, was successfully launched early this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL.

Other Conflicts

• SPAIN/ETA, Voice of America, 16 July 2000 -- In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA has been blamed for the assassination of a councilman in the southern city of Malaga.
• PHILIPPINES BOMB, Voice of America, 16 July 2000 -- A bomb explosion has ripped through a crowded public market on the main southern Philippine island of Mindanao, killing at least two people and injuring 33.

News Reports

• SPAIN/ETA, Voice of America, 16 July 2000 -- In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA has been blamed for the assassination of a councilman in the southern city of Malaga.