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• General Dynamics Communication Systems Wins Army Tactical Message System Contract, Worth Up to $77 Million General Dynamics 20 Jul 2000 -- General Dynamics Communication Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a contract for the Tactical Message System (TMS) program by the U.S. Army's Communications Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, N.J. The initial TMS contract value is nearly $11 million.
• ORBITAL WINS $26 MILLION CONTRACT TO SUPPLY AVIONICS SYSTEMS FOR UNITED ARAB EMIRATES F-16 AIRCRAFT Orbital Sciences Corp. 20 Jul 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that its Fairchild Defense division recently won a contract from Lockheed Martin Corporation, valued in excess of $26 million, to provide an advanced version of its mass memory and data transfer equipment for the F-16 Block 60 fighter aircraft that were recently approved for sale by the U.S. to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
• ORBITAL SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES MINOTAUR ROCKET FOR U.S. AIR FORCE Orbital Sciences Corp. 20 Jul 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that it successfully launched a Minotaur rocket for the U.S. Air Force in a mission that took place late yesterday afternoon from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 20 Jul 2000
• Secretary-General Says Conflict Prevention Should Be Cornerstone of Collective Security In Twenty-First Century, UN Press Release, 20 July 2000 -- The text of the address delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the open meeting of the Security Council on conflict prevention
• Security Council underscores importance of conflict prevention, UN News, 20 July 2000 -- After a day-long debate on ways to improve United Nations capacity to avert conflict, the Security Council today unanimously adopted a presidential statement that called for the creation of a "culture of prevention" and mandated Secretary-General Kofi Annan to submit to the Council by next May his recommendations on best strategies to reach that goal.
• Addressing root causes of conflict key to effective prevention: Annan, UN News, 20 July 2000 -- To be effective, international efforts to prevent conflicts must address the structural faults that predispose society to crises, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the United Nations Security Council today as it opened a day-long meeting on conflict prevention.
• U-N-CONFLICT PREVENTION, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today (Thursday) that the world organization must become more involved in preventing armed conflicts rather than just responding to them.
• U-S / AFGHANISTAN, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- The Clinton administration predicts the ruling Taleban of Afghanistan will not achieve their objective of taking complete control of the country.
• AFGHAN/U-N, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- A senior U-N official says no progress has been made in talks aimed at persuading Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement to lift a ban on Afghan women working for international aid agencies.
• UN refugee agency appeals for $8.4 million to aid Angola, UN News, 20 July 2000 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today issued an appeal for $8.4 million for its emergency assistance programme for 300,000 people forced from their homes by civil strife in Angola.
• MANDELA / BURUNDI, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela is mediating another round of Burundi peace talks in Arusha, Tanzania.
• IVORY COAST REFERENDUM, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- Ivory Coast citizens will vote Sunday in a referendum on the nation's constitution.
• SRI LANKA AMNESTY, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- The human rights group, Amnesty International, has criticized the Sri Lankan government for high incidents of human rights abuses in the country.
• U-N / WESTERN SAHARA, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- Experts on the Western Sahara have begun a two-day meeting at United Nations headquarters in Geneva.
• A SERBIAN SHADOW GOVERNMENT?, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- One of President Clinton's goals during his last six months at the White House is to see Slobodan Milosevic removed as president of Yugoslavia. U-S officials are examining several scenarios to make that happen, including one floated last month to grant Mr. Milosevic immunity from prosecution for war crimes if he gives up power and goes into exile.

News Reports

• PRESS BRIEFING ON LAUNCH OF 'HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY' United Nations 20 Jul 2000
• FIJI'S TROUBLED FUTURE, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- For almost two-months, a discredited businessman and a small group of elite soldiers held the Prime Minister of Fiji, and much of its cabinet, hostage in that South Pacific island nation's parliament building.
• FIJI POL, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- Fiji's eight-week long political crisis could result in the Pacific island nation being ruled by two rival ethnic governments.