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• Boeing Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System Gains Approval for Low-Rate Initial Production Boeing 27 Jul 2000 -- The Boeing Company recently received U.S. Navy approval for its Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System, or JHMCS, to proceed into low-rate initial production.
• Lockheed Martin Contacts Team Receives Award for Cycle Time Reduction Lockheed Martin 27 Jul 2000 -- The LANTIRN Foreign Military Sale (FMS) Contracts Team at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control-Orlando partnered with Precision Attack Development Systems Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base received a Cycle Time Reduction Award at the 3rd Annual Celebration of Teams Awards Ceremony at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 27 Jul 2000
• Security Council explores ways to protect children in armed conflict, UN News, 26 July 2000 -- For the second time this year, the Security Council today took up the issue of children in war, in an extensive debate to explore measures to better protect young people from the irreparable damage of armed conflict.
• Security Council renews mandate of UN operation in southern Lebanon, UN News, 27 July 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today extended for six months the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and called on the Government of Lebanon to ensure the return of its authority in the south and proceed with the deployment of its armed forces "as soon as possible".
• UN officials re-check for violations of withdrawal line in southern Lebanon, UN News, 26 July 2000 -- An envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today again toured southern Lebanon to check for any violations of the "Line of Withdrawal" agreed to by both Lebanon and Israel, a UN spokesman said in New York.
• Angola sanctions yielding "desired results," Security Council told, UN News, 27 July 2000 -- The sanctions imposed by the international community on Angola's rebel army are working, the United Nations Security Council heard today as it met for a day-long debate on the situation in that war-torn country.
• Security Council Holds Meeting On Situation In Angola, UN Press Release, 27 July 2000 -- Angola's mineral and human wealth had the potential to eradicate poverty in a relatively short time, make it a prosperous country and promote the well-being of all its people, given the political will to make peace a reality, Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa, told the Security Council today during its open meeting on Angola.
• U-N-ANGOLA, Voice of America, 27 July 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Thursday) held an open discussion of the crisis in Angola with a consensus that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi remains the main obstacle to peace.
• Small groups of Sierra Leone rebels come forward to disarm: UN mission, UN News, 27 July 2000 -- The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) reported today that in the wake of its "Operation Thunderbolt" -- a successful preemptive strike against a rebel group on Monday -- small groups of Sierra Leonean rebels have started to come forward to disarm.
• SIERRA LEONE-WAR CRIMES, Voice of America, 27 July 2000 -- The United States has introduced a U-N Security Council resolution that would establish a special court that could try a top rebel leader in Sierra Leone for war crimes.
• UN opens second liaison office in Horn of Africa, UN News, 27 July 2000 -- The United Nations took another step in its efforts to maintain the impetus of a ceasefire accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea as it opened today its liaison office in the Eritrean capital of Asmara.
• UN officials en route to Lusaka meeting on DR of Congo, UN News, 27 July 2000 -- Senior officials from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) were en route to Lusaka today to attend a meeting of defence and foreign ministers of the signatories of the Lusaka peace accord, a UN spokesman said in New York.
• YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES / KRSTIC, Voice of America, 27 July 2000 -- Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal are expected to finish presenting their case [EDS: by Friday, but could continue until early next week; watch CN wire for details] against General Radislav Krstic.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGE RELEASE, Voice of America, 27 July 2000 -- In the southern Philippines, gunmen from the Islamic extremist Abu Sayyaf group have released another captive, a German journalist.

News Reports

• Boeing, Khrunichev Propose Commercial Space Module Boeing 27 Jul 2000 -- The Boeing Company and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center announced a cooperative planning effort to market a commercial space module (CSM) that could attach to the International Space Station (ISS).