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Defense Policy / Programs

• Lockheed Martin Uprgrades First of Six Tethered Aerostat Radar Sites and Receives Go-Ahead on Second Site Lockheed Martin 09 Oct 2000 -- The U.S. Air Force has brought online the first of six Tethered Aerostat Radar System sites scheduled for electronics equipment upgrade and aerostat replacement.

Defense Industry

• General Dynamics Awarded $10.3 Million Contract Modification For Abrams Systems Technical Support General Dynamics 09 Oct 2000 -- The United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $10.3 million contract modification to exercise its option to continue Systems Technical Support (STS) for the Abrams tank program through 31 July 2001. The original sole source contract was awarded in May 1996.
• General Dynamics Joint Venture Awarded Fort Knox Base Operations Support Contract General Dynamics 09 Oct 2000 -- The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), has awarded Armor Center Support Services (ACSS), a joint venture between General Dynamics Land Systems Customer Service and Support Company (CSSC) and Brown and Root Services Company (BRSC), a $104 million contract to perform logistics and public works services for the Fort Knox installation.
• Lockheed Martin Selected For USAF Satellite Control Center Contract Lockheed Martin 09 Oct 2000 -- The U.S. Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin to sustain and upgrade its ground control centers that operate mission critical research satellites. The five-year, $31 million contract, awarded by the Air Force's Space Test and Evaluation Program Office, is for engineering, development and sustainment activity, and could grow in value if additional tasks are assigned.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 09 Oct 2000
• LEBANON / SITUATION, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- U-N representative to Lebanon Rolf Knutsson met with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud and Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah before heading to Israel to meet U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov also arrived in Beirut to help resolve the crisis between Israel and Hezbollah, which holds three Israeli soldiers captive.
• CLINTON-MIDEAST, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- President Clinton is continuing telephone diplomacy to try to end the Middle East crisis. Aides say he has offered to take part in an emergency summit in the region aimed at ending Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed and getting the parties back to negotiations.
• ARAFAT / CAIRO, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have been discussing ways to end the violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
• Security Council deplores "provocation" at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem, condemns subsequent violence, UN News, 07 October 2000 -- Following intensive negotiations over recent days that often lasted until the early morning hours, the Security Council has passed a resolution deploring the recent provocation in Jerusalem and the resulting violence which left over 80 Palestinians dead.
• Secretary-General Travels To Middle East, UN Press Release, 09 October 2000 -- In view of the increasingly precarious situation in the Middle East, which carries the risk of a major conflagration, the Secretary-General has decided to travel immediately to the region.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is arriving (has arrived) in Israel in an effort to end more than a week of violent protests that have left nearly 90 people dead, mostly Palestinians.
• Albright Appears on ABC's Good Morning America - Middle East Violence, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 09 October 2000 -- Q: Will there, in fact, be a summit meeting including President Clinton in an effort to stop the violence and restart the peace process?
• YUGOSLAVIA POLITICS, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- Yugoslavia's new government is locked in a behind-the-scenes power struggle with supporters of ousted President Slobodan Milosevic still holding key government positions.
• SERBIA / GOVERNMENT RESIGNS, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- Yugoslavia's prime minister has resigned, and opposition supporters in Serbia's legislature say they have agreed to new elections - signs that the new President Vojislav Kostunica is consolidating his power.
• Secretary-General congratulates President Kostunica on his inauguration, UN News, 09 October 2000 -- Congratulating the new President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on his inauguration, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that the election of Dr. Vojislav Kostunica marked "an important step towards the restoration of peace and stability" in the country and throughout the region.
• E-U/YUGOSLAVIA, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- European Union foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg have announced the lifting of most sanctions on Serbia in the wake of the election victory by President Vojislav Kostunica.
• Cohen Press Conference with Defense Ministers in Greece - Yugoslavia, U.S. Department of Defense, 09 October 2000 -- Q: Can Yugoslavia become a member of a body such as this when there are indicted war criminals running around Serbia? And it's not just Slobodan Milosevic...
• UN Mission in East Timor opens talks with Australia on marine resources, UN News, 09 October 2000 -- Negotiations began today between East Timor and Australia on the body of water between them, with the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) representing the newly independent Territory.
• INDO / IRIAN JAYA, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- Officials in the remote Indonesian province of West Papua -- formerly known as Irian Jaya -- say thousands of people remain at police and military posts after Friday's separatist violence left at least 30 people dead.
• In Guinea, Security Council members briefed on poor conditions facing refugees, UN News, 09 October 2000 -- Deteriorating security conditions facing hundreds of thousands of refugees living along Guinea's border with Liberia and Sierra Leone topped the agenda of meetings held today in Conakry between Security Council members and representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

News Reports

• ZIMBABWE / OPPOSITION, Voice of America, 09 October 2000 -- Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has returned to his homeland, and he says he is willing to face arrest for calling on President Robert Mugabe to resign.