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• JSF-F120 Engine Team Prepares To Run Full Core Engine Test GE Aviation 24 Jul 2000 -- With the successful completion of several component rig tests, the JSF-F120 Engine Team is preparing to run a core engine test later this summer.
• Roadmap for F414 and F404 Engines Ensure Longterm Success GE Aviation 24 Jul 2000 -- Having amassed 31,000 hours of ground and flight testing, the F414-GE-400 engine is now in production and operational on U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornets.
• Development Of GE F110 Growth Engine Enhances Market Position GE Aviation 24 Jul 2000 -- Development of the F110-GE-132 engine, the highest-thrust fighter engine for F-16C/D aircraft, is progressing on schedule with the first qualification engine slated for testing later this year.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 24 Jul 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT United Nations 24 Jul 2000
• U-N TROOPS-LEBANON, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today (Monday) that border violations in south Lebanon have ended and U-N peacekeepers will soon move into the area.
• "Blue line" violations cleared, UN troops set to deploy on Israeli/Lebanese border, UN News, 24 July 2000 -- Confirming that all the violations had now been cleared along the "blue line" of withdrawal between Lebanon and Israel, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said he expected to see UN troops on the border "in the next few days."
• U-N-H-C-R / ERITREANS, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it plans to begin repatriating Eritrean refugees from camps in Sudan.
• U-N PEACEKEEPERS-SIERRA LEONE, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan says (Monday) the weekend attack by United Nations peacekeepers on a rebel faction in Sierra Leone should serve as a warning that U-N troops will defend themselves.
• ASEAN / EAST TIMOR, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- East Timor says it wants to begin early talks on joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
• INDONESIA / PEACEKEEPER KILLED, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- A firefight in East Timor, between United Nations peacekeepers and suspected members of a pro- Indonesia militia group, has killed a young soldier from New Zealand.
• U-N-H-C-R / CHECHNYA, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says between 100 and 200 Chechen refugees are fleeing into the neighboring republic of Ingushetia every day.
• Annan recommends six-month extension of UN operation in Abkhazia, Georgia, UN News, 24 July 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended the extension of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for another six months, stressing that, despite the slow progress of the peace process, the UN operation continues to play an "essential role" in the search for a solution to the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict.
• Security concerns prompt UN refugee agency to close office in West Timor town, UN News, 24 July 2000 -- Following a series of security incidents in West Timor over the past few weeks, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has shut down its office in the border town of Betun and withdrawn its three international staff there, a spokesman for the agency said today in Geneva.
• Thousands of refugees in DR of Congo cut off from aid, UNHCR warns, UN News, 21 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency said today that its staff in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had received "alarming" reports of large numbers of refugees gathered along the banks of the Ubangui River, in an area cut off from humanitarian assistance due to insecurity.
• Diamond industry's move on "conflict" stones welcomed at UN, source, 21 July 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today expressed its appreciation to diamond industry leaders for their prompt reaction to its proposals on curbing illicit trade in precious stones used to finance armed conflict, according to the Council President, Ambassador Patricia Durrant of Jamaica.

News Reports

• Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion Enters The Electronic Propulsion Market Pratt & Whitney 24 Jul 2000 -- Whitney (P&W) Space Propulsion, a unit of United Technologies Corporation, announced its acquisition of Space Power Incorporated (SPI) in a move which will expand P&W's product line within the space propulsion market.