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• Gauntlets Put Hussein Regime Assets in 'HARM's Way' Navy NewStand 03 May 2003 -- The "Gauntlets" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 136 aircrew returned to USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) after a successful combat mission that included firing their High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) in defense of coalition forces.
• Echo Company's Return to Tortuga As Good As It Gets Navy NewStand 03 May 2003 -- Homecoming scenes are simply unforgettable. Family members and friends line the piers, patriotic music blasts over speakers, and decorations line the streets as loved ones pull up to the pier, home from a long deployment. This may be the typical scene most people picture when they hear the term 'homecoming,' but not the crew of dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) or the Marines of Echo Company, part of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Defense Policy / Programs

• U.S. Joins Albania, Croatia, Macedonia in Adriatic Charter Washington File 03 May 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell joined Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula, and Macedonian Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva May 2 in Tirana, Albania, to sign the U.S.-Adriatic Charter.
• U.S., Albania Sign International Criminal Court Article 98 Agreement Washington File 03 May 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell and Albania's Prime Minister Fatos Nano joined May 2 in Tirana in signing an Article 98 agreement between the two countries, relating to provisions of the International Criminal Court.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

• POWELL / MIDEAST VOA 04 May 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell held talks with leaders of Syria and Lebanon Saturday before returning to Washington as he began a period of intensive diplomacy in support of the international "roadmap" for Middle East peace. He goes back to the region in a few days for a more extensive mission including talks with the new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
• ISRAEL SHOOTING VOA 03 May 2003 -- A British freelance journalist working in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip has been shot and killed by Israeli troops. James Miller was filming Israeli forces demolishing houses in the camp when he was hit.

• IVORY COAST / CEASE-FIRE VOA 03 May 2003 -- Fighting has broken out in western Ivory Coast, just hours before a new cease-fire is to take effect for the entire country. Rebels say areas under their control have been attacked. Government officials blamed rebels for initiating the fighting. The rebels say they believe the cease-fire can still hold and that peace can return after seven months of conflict.

News Reports

• POWELL-SYRIA-LEBANON VOA 03 May 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on the first of what will be two trips to the region in the span of a week aimed at early progress on the international "roadmap" for Middle East peace. He was to stop in Lebanon later Saturday and return to the Middle East for a more extensive visit and talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders next week.
• ZIMBABWE / MEDIA ( VOA 03 May 2003 -- As journalists around the globe observe World Press Freedom Day, Zimbabwe is no longer on the Committee to Protect Journalists' list of the 10 worst countries in which to be a journalist. But a regional media watchdog group says conditions remain difficult for reporters in Zimbabwe.
• RED CROSS / TURKEY QUAKE VOA 03 May 2003 -- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for nearly two-million dollars to help victims of the earthquake that shook the southeastern Turkish province of Bingol.
• NIGERIA/OIL/POLITICS VOA 03 May 2003 -- In Nigeria, workers who were held captive for two weeks on oil rigs by about 100 workers on strike are being freed. Nigeria now faces more violence in southern oil-producing regions, as local elections take place today
• ASIA/SARS WRAP VOA 03 May 2003 -- In a surprise reversal of its usual policy, Beijing has approved a visit by World Health Organization officials to Taiwan, to study the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome there.
• TOGO: Olympio barred from presidential elections IRIN 03 May 2003 -- Togo's best known opposition leader, Gilchrist Olympio, has been declared ineligible to contest presidential elections on 1 June because of technical ommissions in his candidacy papers.