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• Australian Contract Wins Further Global Expansion of Boeing Military Aerospace Support Business Boeing 21 Aug 2000 -- The selection of Boeing Australia Limited to provide up to $300 million of support and upgrade services to Australia's F-111 aircraft is a significant step in the global growth of the Boeing Military Aerospace Support business, the company said.
• Lockheed Martin's GCCS-A Implemented As C2 'System of Record' for Army Pacific Command Lockheed Martin 21 Aug 2000 -- Lockheed Martin's Global Command and Control System - Army (GCCS-A), a prime component of the Army's Battle Command System (ABCS), has been implemented as the command and control (C2) system of record for U.S. Army Pacific Theater forces. GCCS-A is the key C2 system for military operations that require mobilization-demobilization, deployment and sustainment of theater forces.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 21 Aug 2000
• Ending strife in DR of Congo to top agenda of UN envoy's talks in region, UN News, 21 August 2000
• Chechnya Elections, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 21 August 2000 -- The United States believes that elections in Chechnya can help bring about reconciliation and the strengthening of democratic institutions...
• Angolan Politicians Cite Need for Dialogue Over Armed Force, USIS Washington File, 21 August 2000 -- Jonas Savimbi is wrong to believe Angola's devastating civil war can be settled by arms rather than dialogue, say two of his former colleagues in the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the movement the rebel leader established 25 years ago.
• TURKEY / GOVERNMENT, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit accused the country's president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, of hindering Turkey's fight against radical Islam.
• TIMOR / FIRST PARTY CONGRESS, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- East Timor has taken another step toward becoming a fully independent nation by opening its first multi-party political congress.
• ELECTIONS-CHIAPAS, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- The defeat of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Sunday's gubernatorial race in Chiapas could speed up the peace process in the southern Mexican state.

News Reports

• INDONESIA - POWER SHIFT, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has agreed on how he will share more power with his deputy, as demanded by the country's lawmakers, to help rid the government of cabinet in-fighting paralyzing the administration.
• PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY PERMANENT MISSION OF ALBANIA United Nations 21 Aug 2000