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The central question addressed is how the Hopf and solitary wave (homoclinic orbit in a moving frame) bifurcation curves interact in these \u201cCU systems.\u201d A variety of possible codimension-two mechanisms is reviewed through which such Hopf and homoclinic bifurcation curves can interact. These include Shil'nikov\u2013Hopf bifurcations and the local birth of homoclinic chaos from a saddle-node\/Hopf (Gavrilov\u2013Guckenheimer) point. Alternatively, there may be barriers in phase space that prevent the homoclinic curve from reaching the Hopf bifurcation. For example, the homoclinic orbit may bump into another equilibrium at a so-called T-point, or it may terminate by forming a heteroclinic cycle with a periodic orbit. This paper presents the results of detailed numerical continuation results on different CU systems, thereby illustrating various mechanisms by which Hopf and homoclinic curves interact in CU systems. 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