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• Ordnance Exercise a Huge Success Navy NewStand 19 Apr 2003 -- Atlantic Ordnance Command (LANTORDCOM) recently completed a comprehensive ordnance exercise (ORDEX-03) at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Va. More than 100 Naval Reservists from Naval Reserve Centers in Avoca and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bronx, N.Y.; Charleston, S.C.; Earle, N.J.; and Yorktown, Va., participated.

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• INDIA/PAK/KASHMIR VOA 19 Apr 2003 -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee says New Delhi is prepared to hold a dialogue with Pakistan, but only if Islamabad ends support for Islamic rebel groups waging a separatist insurgency in Kashmir. The Indian leader made the comments at the end of a rare two-day visit to Indian Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar.
• U.S. Condemns Attacks on Civilians in Burundi Washington File 19 Apr 2003 -- The Department of State issued the following press statement on April 18, condemning the shelling of civilian areas of Bujumbura and other locations in Burundi

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• NIGERIA ELECTION VOA 19 Apr 2003 -- Vote counting is under way in Nigeria, where voters went to the polls Saturday in a landmark presidential election. It is the first time in 20 years that a civilian government has been able to hold an election. The country's election commission appealed to voters to accept the results of the ballot for 36 governorships and the presidency "in the name of democracy and peace."
• ASIA / SARS VOA 19 Apr 2003 -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the mysterious new disease that has sickened over 34-hundred people around the world, has now claimed 12 lives in Hong Kong in a single day. Doctors are searching for new treatments in an effort to save hundreds of critical patients.
• NIGERIA / ELECTION VOA 19 Apr 2003 -- Voters in Nigeria have gone to the polls to choose a new president. The landmark poll is the second since the end of military rule four years ago and marks a new phase in Nigeria's democratic evolution.