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• ATK Awarded Contract From Hellenic Arms Industry for Ammunition Hardware And Assembly Technology ATK 03 Oct 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems, NYSE: ATK) said it has received a contract valued at approximately $1 million from Hellenic Arms Industry (EBO), Athens, Greece, to provide hardware and assembly technology for lightweight 30mm (LW30mm) high-explosive dual-purpose (HEDP) tactical and training ammunition.
• ATK Awarded $2 Million Contract to Demonstrate Tactical Barrier System To Replace Mixed Mine Systems ATK 03 Oct 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) (NYSE: ATK), said it has been awarded a contract valued at $2 million from the U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., to develop a prototype tactical barrier system concept that could eventually replace current systems that contain a mix of anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines.
• Israel Aircraft Industries' MLM Division Signed Contract Worth over 25$ Million to Supply 'EHUD' Autonomous Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation System Israel Aerospace Industries 03 Oct 2000 -- Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) / MLM Division recently signed a contract to supply 'EHUD' Autonomous Air Combat Manuevering Instrumentation (AACMI) System to a foreign customer. The contract is worth approximately 25$ Million.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 03 Oct 2000
• Ambassador Holbrooke on UN Peacekeeping Assessments, dos, 03 October 2000 -- U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke appeared before the UN General Assembly's Budget Committee for the second day in a row October 3 to discuss U.S. efforts to change the way peacekeeping operations are financed.
• Press Briefing By Under-Secretary-General For Peacekeeping, UN Press Briefing, 03 October 2000 -- One of the major challenges for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations was simultaneously addressing day-to-day issues, while keeping an eye on the global picture and attempting structural changes, correspondents were told Monday afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
• CENTCOM Commander Franks Press Conference in Uzbekistan, U.S. Central Command, 03 October 2000 -- Franks answered reporters' questions about incursions into Uzbekistan by the IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the State Department; Afghanistan, particularly the Taliban; Russian military support in the region, and other issues.
• CENTCOM Commander Franks Press Conference in Uzbekistan, U.S. Central Command, 03 October 2000 -- Q: Given what you have said about your concern about stability and security in the Central Asian region, when you meet with President Karimov and the Defense Minister, will you be raising Afghanistan, and what in particular is your view of what has been happening near the Tajik border?
• PALESTINIANS / LEBANON, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- Tens-of-thousands of Palestinian refugees demonstrated (Tuesday) in Beirut and several refugee-camp strongholds in southern Lebanon in a show of solidarity with fellow Palestinians in the occupied territories.
• Security Council meets on recent violence in Middle East ahead of Paris talks, UN News, 03 October 2000 -- The Security Council held a formal meeting today to discuss the recent wave of violence in the Middle East amid calls for a resumption of the peace process, with talks between the parties scheduled to be held tomorrow in Paris.
• Albright, Iceland's Asgrimsson Press Conference - Arab/Israeli Fighting, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 03 October 2000 -- QUESTION: I have a two-part question, the first one about Yugoslavia. Do you believe that the Contact Group could or should move in the coming days? Second question is about the Middle East. There are clashes still going on today in Jerusalem and parts of the occupied territories. Don't you believe this violence could harm or even compromise the whole peace process in the region?
• U-S / MUSLIMS / ISRAELIS, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- A group of U-S based Islamic organizations is blaming Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon for provoking the latest violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
• U-N-Mideast Violence Debate, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council held an open debate today (Tuesday) on the violence involving Israel and the Palestinians, with most speakers strongly condemning Israel for what they termed an excessive use of force.
• ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Paris Wednesday in an effort to end the outbreak of violence that has left at least 55 people dead since it erupted last week. Jenny Badner reports from Jerusalem.
• ISRAEL / ARABS VIOLENCE, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, is gambling that his appeal for peace to Israeli Arab leaders will end the violence that has gripped their towns and villages.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- More violence has erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• U-N-Mideast Violence, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council held several hours of closed-door talks Monday night on the violence between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.
• State Department Regular Briefing - Yugoslav Elections, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 03 October 2000 -- Q: What did you think of the Russian proposal inviting Milosevic and Kostunica to come and sort it out in Moscow between themselves? Do you think this is a positive proposal, a probably productive proposal?
• Albright, Iceland's Asgrimsson Press Conference - Yugoslav Elections, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 03 October 2000 -- QUESTION: You mentioned that you discussed the need for the world to recognize the opposition's victory in the Yugoslav elections. I'm wondering how you interpret then reportedly President Putin's decision to send Foreign Minister Ivanov to Belgrade?
• YUGOSLAV PROTESTS / U-S REACT, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- The Clinton Administration is not confident protests and acts of civil disobedience by Serbs across Yugoslavia will succeed in forcing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to give up power.
• YUGOSLAVIA / ELECTION, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- Yugoslavia is in its second day of opposition strikes aimed at forcing President Slobodan Milosevic to accept an opposition victory in the September 24th presidential election.
• U-N-H-C-R / GUINEA, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says about four-thousand refugees, most of them from Sierra Leone, have abandoned their camp in southeastern Guinea following new attacks by rebels last weekend.
• Renewed rebel attacks cause thousands to flee south-eastern Guinea: UNHCR, UN News, 03 October 2000 -- Nearly 4,000 people fled a refugee camp in south-eastern Guinea following attacks by rebels over the weekend, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced today.
• East Timor: two UN peacekeepers die in helicopter crash, UN News, 03 October 2000 -- Two United Nations peacekeepers - both from Portugal - were killed today in a helicopter crash south-west of East Timor's capital Dili, according to the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
• State Department Regular Briefing - Philippine Hostages, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 03 October 2000 -- Q: This assault by Philippine military on Jolo, have you got anything in your book about that that you'd like to say? I understand three hostages have been released by the pursuit of the Philippine military, but is this a safe approach?
• COLOMBIA MINES, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- A report issued by the United Nations (UNICEF) indicates that civilians as well as military personnel in Colombia are threatened by a proliferation of land mines throughout that South American nation.
• UNHCR / ERITREA, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- The United Nations says the level of destruction in Eritrean border towns from the recent war between Eritrea and Ethiopia will slow the return of refugees to homes they abandoned during the war.

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