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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 12 Jul 2000
• ATK Selected to Produce Propellant for U.S. Army's Modular Artillery Charge System ATK 12 Jul 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) (NYSE: ATK) said it has been awarded a contract valued at $6 million from the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., to produce propellant for the Army's Modular Artillery Charge System (MACS).
• Navy's Mine Warfare Capability Enhanced Through Lockheed Martin's AMNS Program Successes Lockheed Martin 12 Jul 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems (NE&SS)-Undersea Systems business in Syracuse announced that its Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS) has passed several critical program milestones since April. The program, which brings a new mine warfare capability to the U.S. Navy, has successfully conducted at-sea testing near Panama City, Fla., passed a significant weapons-safety milestone and transferred the first AMNS system to the Navy.
• Lockheed Martin-Darlington, Inc. Team Completes Successful Functional Test on a Wide Area Network Core Communications Node for the Marine Corps Lockheed Martin 12 Jul 2000 -- Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Joint Enhanced Core Communication System (JECCS) Engineering Development Model (EDM) has successfully completed USMC Field Evaluation and Operational Assessment at Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, NC. JECCS provides basic long haul and tactical communications and network management services that meet the connectivity requirements of deployed Marine Corps forces.

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• Yugoslavia: 'Milosevic Forever?' A 'Divorce' For Montenegro?, Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 12 July 2000 - Foreign media commentary on Yugoslav constitutional changes and their impact on Serbia's relations with Montenegro.
• U-N / CYRPUS TALKS, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- U-N-mediated peace talks on the future of Cyprus have broken off with no progress reported on reuniting the divided Mediterranean island.
• LANKAN RIGHTS, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- A group of Sri Lankan Tamil academics has accused the country's Tamil Tiger rebels of forcibly recruiting young children in their fight against government forces for a separate homeland.
• U-S - SIERRA LEONE, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- The United States is rejecting calls for more U-N peacekeeping troops to go to Sierra Leone, on the grounds the existing force has serious problems with its command.
• U-N / SOMALIA, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- he U-N Human Rights investigator for Somalia says she is concerned by reports that people supporting the peace process are being intimidated by regional administrators in northwestern Somaliland and northeastern Puntland.

News Reports

• SPAIN / BOMB, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- A Basque separatist group is being blamed for an explosion that injured eight people in Madrid.
• CHIAPAS CANDIDATE, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- Even as Mexico's ruling party continues a bitter internal debate following its first ever loss in a presidential election on July second, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, faces a new electoral challenge-in the southern state of Chiapas.