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• Boeing Consolidates Manufacturing Operations, Keeps Significant Space And Defense Work In Puget Sound Boeing 18 Aug 2000 -- In an effort to further streamline its operations, The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) announced consolidation plans for several manufacturing areas in Puget Sound and told employees of key defense and space programs that much of their work will remain in the region.
• Lockheed Martin Wins UK MoD Electronic Warfare Contract Lockheed Martin 18 Aug 2000 -- Lockheed Martin has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) following an extensive competitive source selection process to undertake an Assessment Phase contract for the Soothsayer Electronic Warfare (EW) system for the British Army and Royal Marines. Soothsayer is a next-generation EW system that will provide integrated Electronic Support Measures and electronic countermeasures capability for UK land forces with potential extension to airborne platforms.
• ATK Solid Rocket Boosters Successfully Launch U.S. Air Force Satellite Aboard Titan IV B Rocket ATK 18 Aug 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) (NYSE: ATK) said a Lockheed Martin Titan IV B rocket powered by two Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) boosters designed and manufactured by ATK Aerospace Propulsion Company, Magna, Utah, successfully launched a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. yesterday.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 18 Aug 2000
• UN Special Envoy appointed to Congo, DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, 18 August 2000 -- The Secretary-General has decided to appoint General Abdulsalami Abubakar of Nigeria as a Special Envoy dealing with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• U-N-CONGO ENVOY, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- The United Nations has named the former President of Nigeria, Abdulsalami Abubakar, as special envoy to Congo-Kinshasa, who will attempt to convince the Congo government to cooperate with the United Nations.
• Bosnia Land Mine Fatalities, DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL , 18 August 2000 -- Yesterday in Bosnia and Herzegovina, two deminers who worked for the Mine Action Centre and a local Serb police officer were killed when an antipersonnel mine exploded in Rogatica, about 70 kilometres east of Sarajevo.
• INDIA - KASHMIR, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- India says separatist militants have killed six Hindu civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir.
• Kashmir: Aborted Cease-Fire Provides Fodder For Indo-Pak Media War, U.S. Department of State Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 18 August 2000 -- Commentary from around the world on the recent increase in violence in Kashmir.
• UN human rights expert urges India and Pakistan to investigate Kashmir violence, UN News, 18 August 2000
• KASHMIR CUSTODIAL KILLINGS, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- Over the past decade, an estimated 30-thousand people have died as a result of the separatist insurgency in India's state of Jammu and Kashmir, among which have been many innocent victims killed by both Indian security forces and militant separatists.

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