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• Oshkosh Truck To Field HEMTT-LHS Units For Initial Brigade Combat Team at Fort Lewis; Oshkosh Trucks To Support Army Transformation Initiative Oshkosh 08 Sep 2000 -- Oshkosh Truck Corporation [NASDAQ:OTRKB] announced that it will field its Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) - Load Handling Systems (LHS) to Fort Lewis, just outside Tacoma, Wash. A total of 56 units will be deployed to the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division stationed at Fort Lewis within 12 months.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 08 Sep 2000
• U-S/INDONESIA, Voice of America, 08 September 2000 -- U-S Defense Secretary William Cohen will convey to Indonesian leaders what is being described as a "strong message" about ongoing insecurity in East and West Timor.
• INDONESIA / TIMOR / U-N, Voice of America, 08 September 2000 -- The United Nations has evacuated more than 390 staff and other humanitarian workers from West Timor following the murder of three U-N workers on Wednesday.
• INDONESIA / TIMOR, Voice of America, 08 September 2000 -- United Nations officials say they have received reports of a massacre in the Indonesian province of West Timor - days after three U-N Aid workers were murdered and the U-N evacuated its staff.
• Security Council condemns militia attacks in West Timor, UN News, 08 September 2000 -- Condemning the recent wave of militia attacks in West Timor, in which three United Nations relief workers were killed, the Security Council today insisted that Indonesia take "immediate additional steps" to disarm and disband the militias, restore law and order, ensure the safety of refugees and humanitarian workers, and prevent incursions into East Timor.
• Militia attacks continue in West Timor in wake of murder of UN relief workers, UN News, 08 September 2000 -- Against the background of wide international condemnation of the murder of three United Nations workers in West Timor, the situation in the area continued to be very volatile, with militia members attacking civilians and terrorizing aid staff, UN officials said today.
• Council Condemns 'Outrageous And Contemptible' Killing of Three Un Staff In West Timor; Insists Indonesia Disarm, Disband Militia, UN Press Release, 08 September 2000 -- Appalled by "the brutal murder" of three United Nations personnel on 6 September by a militia-led mob, the Security Council this evening insisted that Indonesia "take immediate additional steps to disarm and disband the militia immediately, restore law and order in the affected areas in West Timor, ensure safety and security in the refugee camps and for humanitarian workers, and prevent cross-border incursions into East Timor".
• U-S-MONTENEGRO, Voice of America, 08 September 2000 -- The Clinton administration is implicitly warning Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic not to contemplate action against Montenegro -- or its President Milo Djukanovic -- out of a mistaken notion that U-S authorities are distracted by the American presidential election.
• Background Briefing - Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen's upcoming trip to Asia, U.S. Department of Defense, 08 September 2000 -- Secretary Cohen will take a strong message to the leaders of Indonesia. Indonesia's failure to protect an American citizen and other international aid workers, and more general failure of the Indonesian army to provide security for the international relief operations, threatens to destroy the international goodwill towards Indonesia at a time when it needs it most. And we have asked for meetings, of course, with the top leadership in Indonesia and the top military leaders.
• U-N SUMMIT-AFRICA, Voice of America, 08 September 2000 -- The summit of world leaders features a strong representation from Africa. But Congo-Kinshasa President Laurent Kabila decided not to attend, meaning there could be no real progress in attempts to resolve the problems related to deployment of a U-N peacekeeping force in Congo.
• U-N CONGO SPEECH, Voice of America, 08 September 2000 -- Congo-Kinshasa's foreign minister, Yerodia Ndombasi, said today (Friday) that his nation has no intention of entering the new century as an occupied country.
• Press Conference By Foreign Minister of Burundi, UN Press Briefing, 08 September 2000 -- The Burundi Government's main concern was to reach agreement with the armed opposition to end the civil war between the army and rebel forces by 20 September, Séverin Ntahomvukiye, that country's Minister for External Relations and Cooperation, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

News Reports

• PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF GAMBIA United Nations 08 Sep 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF BURUNDI United Nations 08 Sep 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY United Nations 08 Sep 2000