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• NASSCO Launches the USNS Watkins (T-AKR 315) General Dynamics 31 Jul 2000 -- National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has joined with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army to launch the USNS Watkins (T-AKR 315), the sixth of eight new strategic sealift ships being built for the Navy by NASSCO.

Other Conflicts

• Security Council Decides To Establish United Nations Mission In Ethiopia And Eritrea, UN Press Release, 31 July 2000 -- The Security Council this morning decided to establish a United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea consisting of up to 100 military observers and the necessary civilian support staff in anticipation of a peacekeeping operation subject to future authorization.
• ETHIOPIA-ERITREA-U-N, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- The U-N Security Council agreed (Monday) to send up to 100 military observers to Ethiopia and Eritrea to prepare for a possible peacekeeping operation along the border between the two countries.
• SULAWESI CONFLICT, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- Violence is plaguing yet another of Indonesia's outlying provinces -- this time on the island of Sulawesi.
• IVORY COAST VIOLENCE, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- Security forces in Ivory Coast have clashed with students trying to demonstrate near the French embassy in Abidjan.
• SRI LANKA/ CABINET, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved a set of reform proposals aimed at ending the country's long ethnic war.
• YUGOSLAVIA/DUTCH ARRESTS, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- The Dutch Ministry of Defense says Yugoslav authorities have arrested four Dutch citizens on suspicion they wanted to assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic.
• MOGADISHU / SHARIA, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- Delegates from Somalia have been meeting at a reconciliation conference in Djibouti since early May to try to end more than a decade of fighting.

News Reports

• International Space Station's First Truss Element Moves Closer to Launch Boeing 31 Jul 2000 -- The Boeing Company International Space Station team officially handed over the ceremonial key to the Boeing-built Z1 truss to the NASA shuttle integration team.