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• General Dynamics Awarded $39 Million M2 Machine Gun Contract General Dynamics 13 Jul 2000 -- General Dynamics Weapon Systems, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Armament Systems, has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with an estimated maximum potential value of $39 million for the production of M2HB .50 cal machine guns, gun bolts and gun barrels for the U.S. Army and foreign military users.
• Microsoft Federal Systems Joins Lockheed Martin CVN 77 Integrated Warfare Systems Team Lockheed Martin 13 Jul 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems (NE&SS) announced that Microsoft Federal Systems is joining the Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS) Team supporting the design and development of the CVN 77, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Newport News Shipbuilding is providing to the U.S. Navy.
• BAE SYSTEMS North America to Acquire Aerospace Electronics Systems Business from Lockheed Martin for $1.67 Billion Cash Lockheed Martin 13 Jul 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) and BAE SYSTEMS North America, Inc. announced that they have reached a definitive agreement under which BAE SYSTEMS North America will acquire Lockheed Martin's Aerospace Electronics Systems business for $1.67 billion in cash. BAE SYSTEMS North America, a Delaware corporation, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BAE SYSTEMS plc, Farnborough, England.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 13 Jul 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL AND ADVISER TO SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS IN AFRICA United Nations 13 Jul 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR LEGALS AFFAIRS AND UNITED NATIONS LEGAL COUNSEL United Nations 13 Jul 2000
• Security Council extends UN peacekeeping mission in Prevlaka peninsula, UN News, 13 July 2000 -- The Security Council today authorized the United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP) to continue monitoring the demilitarization of the strategically important peninsula for six more months, until 15 January 2001.
• East Timor establishes new "National Council": UN, UN News, 13 July 2000 -- Following yesterday's groundbreaking approval of a transitional cabinet for East Timor, the territory's main decision-making body today approved the establishment of a "National Council" consisting of representatives from political, religious and private sectors, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) announced in Dili.
• Press Briefing By Under-Secretary-General And Adviser To Secretary-General For Special Assignments In Africa, UN Press Briefing, 13 July 2000 -- An entire generation of Angolans had not known peace since the country had gained its independence in 1976, Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-General and the Adviser to the Secretary-General for Special Assignments in Africa, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
• U-N / HORN OF AFRICA, Voice of America, 13 July 2000 -- The U-N Refugee Agency says it is facing a crisis in the Horn of Africa, where hundreds-of- thousands of refugees and internally displaced people are in urgent need of assistance.

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