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• GE's Gear Plant Receives U.S. Navy's Theater Surface Team Award For Excellence For USS Decatur Main Reduction Effort GE Aviation 05 Sep 2000 -- GE Marine Engines' Lynn, Mass. Gear Plant recently received the U.S. Navy's Theater Surface Combatant Team Award for Excellence for the prompt effort performed on the main reduction gear of the USS Decatur DDG 73 destroyer.U.S. Navy CAPT Fred Parker, AEGIS Shipbuilding Program Manager, presented the award to seven GE employees in late July at the Gear Plant.
• Navy Reports Sanders EW Countermeasures System Successful in Key Tests Lockheed Martin 05 Sep 2000 -- The U.S. Navy has reported that Sanders' Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) Radio Frequency Countermeasures (RFCM) program successfully completed its Operational Assessment (OA).

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• PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT HEADQUARTERS, PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT HEADQUARTERS, 05 September 2000 -- Mr. Secretary-General, the Brahimi report advocates extremely severe measures. If you apply them, many Member States could be far from pleased. How do you plan to deal with this?
• SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF SIERRA LEONE MISSION UNTIL 20 SEPTEMBER, UN Press Release, 05 September 2000 -- The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) until 20 September by unanimously adopting resolution 1317
• UN/Indonesia arrangement on border committee approved in East Timor, UN News, 05 September 2000 -- The Cabinet of the East Timor Transitional Administration has approved an arrangement reached by the United Nations peacekeeping mission and the Government of Indonesia on the establishment of a committee to deal with border issues between East and West Timor.
• UN refugee agency notes "sharp" increase in exodus of Angolans to Zambia, UN News, 05 September 2000 -- According to UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski, who briefed reporters at the agency's Headquarters in Geneva, more than a thousand people went through five transit centres last week alone, marking a fourfold increase.

News Reports

• Secretary-General says Lebanon's elections testify to progress in south, UN News, 05 September 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated the Government of Lebanon on its recent parliamentary elections, which for the first time in 20 years included the southern part of the country.