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• GE Marine Engines To Supply IHI with Six LM500 Aeroderivative Gas Turbines for Japanese Patrol Boats GE Marine 28 Apr 2000 -- GE Marine Engines announced it would supply Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (IHI) with six LM500 aeroderivative gas turbines. The gas turbines will be used to power two 11PG high-speed patrol boats being built for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).
• General Dynamics Receives $22 Million Reactive Armor Order General Dynamics 28 Apr 2000 -- and thus protecting its crew. These munitions include shoulder fired, rocket propelled grenades, which are in abundant supply in many of's regional conflicts.

Other Conflicts

• 28 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 28 Apr 2000
• ROBERT FOWLER, OUTGOING SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA, HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE AT HEADQUARTERS United Nations 28 Apr 2000
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Rebels holding 21 hostages in the southern Philippines are demanding direct negotiations with governments around the world before they will consider releasing their captives.
• PHILIPPINES / HOSTAGES Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Philippine troops launched a major assault on Friday in a bid to rescue 27 Filipino hostages held by Muslim rebels for nearly six weeks.
• UNHCR / TIMOR Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H- C-R, has welcomed a decision by Indonesian authorities to remove East Timorese soldiers loyal to the government from refugee camps in West Timor.
• SOUTH LEBANON FIGHTING Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Hezbollah guerrillas attacked an encampment of the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army Friday, leaving an undetermined number of casualties.
• LEBANON / PALESTINIANS Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- The Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon has brought a period of uncertainty to the region. There is uncertainty about whether Israeli forces will withdraw completely from Lebanon.
• SRI LANKA - U-N Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Sri Lanka's main opposition party has called for an overhaul of the armed forces after the recent military defeats near Elephant Pass.
• CAMBODIA / TRIBUNAL Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- U-S Senator John Kerry arrived in Phnom Penh on Friday to help broker a deal between the United Nations and Cambodia on genocide trials for the Khmer Rouge.
• HORN OF AFRICA FAMINE Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Ethiopia's bitter and costly border war with Eritrea is making the job of aid agencies significantly more difficult than in past disasters.
• COLOMBIA / PEACE / U-S Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- The situation in Colombia - where armed insurgencies of the right and left are growing stronger - appears to have reached a critical point. Leftist rebel attacks against the Colombian army and police are on the rise, while rightwing paramilitary groups terrorize civilians suspected of supporting the guerrillas.
• UNHCR / CHECHNYA Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H- C-R, and its partners are distributing food and other relief supplies to tens of thousands of needy people in Chechnya.
• MANDELA / BURUNDI Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela was in Burundi Friday on a peace mission to end that country's ethnic violence.

News Reports

• INDONESIA / POLITICS Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- A cabinet minister fired by Indonesian President Wahid has rejected the president's allegations that he engaged in corruption.
• ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Political Islam is a scare word for many people. It suggests turbaned zealots rioting in the streets.
• ZIMBABWE / ARREST Voice of America 28 April 2000 -- Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a journalist working for the Associated Press and charged him in connection with a bomb blast last Saturday near an opposition newspaper, The Daily News.
• Brazil and Boeing continue logistics and engineering work for International Space Station Boeing 28 Apr 2000 -- The Boeing Company recently signed a contract change with the National Institute of Space Research (INPE), the executing agency of the Brazilian Government for space-related activities.