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• Lockheed Martin's Towed Array Team Wins Special Recognition from U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin 12 Oct 2000 -- Lockheed Martin announced that the U.S. Navy has awarded members of the towed array team a special Certificate of Excellence for Acquisition Reform. The certificate, signed by Dr. H. Lee Buchanan, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, was presented in a ceremony at Lockheed Martin's towed array production facility in Syracuse.
• Sanders' ATIRCM/CMWS Successful in Sled Testing; Contractor Flight Tests Near Completion Lockheed Martin 12 Oct 2000 -- Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, successfully concluded contractor 'sled testing' on its Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures/Common Missile Warning System (ATIRCM/CMWS), at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., in late August, and is nearing completion of the Contractor Flight Testing phase of the program.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 12 Oct 2000
• SRI LANKA VOTE RESULT, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- After two days of vote counting and controversy over election irregularities, Sri Lanka's ruling Peoples Alliance coalition has emerged as the winner of Tuesdays parliamentary elections.
• Central Asia Security, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- This week (October 11) in Bishkek, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Armenia and the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan agreed to create a new system of regional security in Central Asia to stem the flow of religious extremism and drug trafficking. They also called for an international solution to the civil war in Afghanistan which could destabilize neighboring countries.
• HEZBOLLAH / ISRAELI SOLDIERS, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Diplomats intensified efforts Thursday to secure the release of three Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas Saturday, and defuse the current crisis between Lebanon and Israel.
• Press Briefing By Jake Siewert - Middle East Unrest, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Q: Jake, the President canceled his appearances tonight in Washington. What about the trip that's supposed to begin tomorrow morning?
• Daily Press Briefing - Middle East Unrest, source, 12 October 2000 -- Q: More broadly, President Clinton suggested this morning that Secretary Albright might be returning to the region in his stead. Is there any word on possible travel to the region, to Rome, a new symmetry?
• U.S. Opposes Any Security Council Action on Mideast Crisis, USIS Washington File, 12 October 2000 -- The United States will oppose any efforts to involve the Security Council in the new outbreak of violence in the West Bank and Gaza October 12, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said.
• Cohen Press Conference After NATO Informal Ministerial, U.S. Department of Defense, 12 October 2000 -- Q: I want to ask you about the Middle East and I think a lot of other people would like to as well. What are your thoughts are, specifically, regarding on what the problem is or could spread beyond the bounds of what is happening at the moment? And whether you are going to get involved with diplomacy over the next few days trying to find a resolution.
• White House Backgrounder on Middle East Situation, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- We have had a very long day of discussions on the phone. The last three days have been days that had been characterized by increasing calm; what increasingly looked like we were beginning to turn the corner. And today was obviously a bad day.
• Remarks By The President - Middle East Unrest, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Q: Mr. President, did your peace plan for the Middle East ever contemplate sovereignty for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem?
• Statement By The President On Middle East Situation And Incident On Uss Cole In Yemen, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Now is the time to stop the bloodshed, to restore calm, to return to dialogue, and ultimately to the negotiating table. The alternative to the peace process is now no longer merely hypothetical. It is unfolding today before our very eyes.
• In wake of new attacks, Annan rushes back to Israel and Gaza, calls for restraint, UN News, 12 October 2000 -- Cutting short his visit to Lebanon to return to Israel and Gaza today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned that the present crisis could destabilize the region and urged all parties to exercise restraint.
• Concerned at Middle East attacks, Security Council members back Annan's efforts, UN News, 12 October 2000 -- Members of the Security Council today expressed "grave concern" about the ongoing violence in the Middle East and voiced their full backing to the peace-making efforts of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, according to the Council's President.
• Press Briefing By Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright - Middle East Unrest, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 12 October 2000 -- SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: ...I also wanted to say how deeply distressed the United States is at the murder this morning of Israeli soldiers in Ramallah. I express my condolences to their families and to the loved ones of all, both Palestinian and Israeli, who have been victimized by the terrible violence that has occurred in recent days, and especially the children whose hopes for peace, so recently raised, have been dashed.
• ISRAEL-POLITICS, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has formally invited the right-wing Opposition leader Ariel Sharon to join him in a "national emergency government". Mr Barak made the offer after launching a series of rocket attacks against Palestinian Authority targets.
• Clinton-Mideast, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- President Clinton is mounting an extraordinary effort by telephone to try to prevent Thursday's Middle East violence from ending hopes for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. An emergency peace summit hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has become a renewed focus of discussion.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- There was a surge of violence Thursday between Israelis and Palestinians.
• U-N Mideast Update, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council decided Thursday not to hold an immediate meeting to discuss the violence in the Middle East despite a demand from the Palestinian representative at the United Nations for the meeting and a resolution calling for an end to the violence.
• CLINTON / MIDEAST, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- President Clinton is urging Israel and the Palestinians to declare a cease-fire and condemn all acts of violence, in order to prevent years of work on Middle East peace from unraveling.
• CLINTON-MIDEAST, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- President Clinton is again engaged in telephone diplomacy in an effort to prevent a further escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Israeli helicopters have fired rockets at targets in the West Bank and near Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters in the Gaza Strip.
• Ramallah Situation, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- A transcript is from a phoner by VOA Reporter Sonja Pace, who traveled to Ramallah today to get a sense of the situation in the West Bank city where two Israeli soldiers were killed and Israeli helicopters responded With rocket attacks against Palestinian facilities.
• UNICEF chief says failure of Middle East talks could put more children at risk, UN News, 12 October 2000 -- The Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) today called on adults in the Middle East to do everything in their power to protect minors and reach a negotiated end to the violence.
• Secretary-General Says News of West Bank Violence 'Chilling'; Calls For Renunciation of Violence, Return To Discourse, UN Press Release, 12 October 2000 -- The news of the West Bank violence this morning was chilling. It comes on top of two weeks of tragedy, during which over 100 people were killed and 1,000 wounded -- mostly Palestinians, but also Israelis. We are at risk of seeing a dangerous situation escalate to a crisis that could destabilize an entire region.
• Press Briefing By Jake Siewert - Yugoslav Sanctions, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Q: On Yugoslavia and the sanctions, my understanding is that one set of sanctions that remains in place is the bar on IMF lending to Yugoslavia. What would Yugoslavia need to do to get the United States to remove its objection to renewed IMF lending?
• YUGOSLAVIA / U-S, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- President Clinton's chief envoy to the Balkans has met with Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica.
• CLINTON / YUGO SANCTIONS, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- President Clinton -- following the lead of the European Union -- is ending a number of U-S sanctions against Yugoslavia in response to the change of government there.
• Daily Press Briefing - Yugoslavia, source, 12 October 2000 -- Q: Can you give us an update on Jim O'Brien's travel and Ambassador Montgomery's travel?
• U.S. Mission to OSCE on New, Democratic Serbia, U.S. Mission to the OSCE, Vienna, 12 October 2000 -- ...we remain encouraged by President Kostunica's efforts to consolidate control and purge Milosevic's cronies from positions of power. We fully support these efforts, and urge that the people of Serbia make clear to the remaining supporters of the old regime that corruption, fear and repression have no place in the new democratic Serbia.
• Cohen Press Conference After NATO Informal Ministerial, U.S. Department of Defense, 12 October 2000 -- Although many problems remain in the Balkans, it is now possible to imagine a future zone of stability from the Atlantic to the Urals. In the meantime, NATO must continue its work for peace as Bosnia and Kosovo prepare for elections this fall.
• Statement By The President - Serbian Sanctions, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Today I have directed the Department of the Treasury and the Department of State to take immediate steps to begin lifting the trade and financial sanctions imposed against Serbia in 1998, except those targeted against members of the former regime. This includes lifting the oil embargo and flight ban, which will be effective immediately.
• Uncertainty In Yugoslavia: 'Milosevic's Last Trick'?, Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 12 October 2000 -- Foreign press commentary on the post-election efforts of Milosevic's allies to retain power in Yugoslavia.
• CHECHNYA / BLAST, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- A jeep filled with explosives has blown up in the Chechen capital, Grozny, and reports say at least five people are dead and 11 others 11 injured. The blast (today/Thursday) comes just a day after the Russian military suggested it might re-establish administrative offices in the war-ravaged city.
• INDO GUTERRES EXTRADITION, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Indonesia has declined to hand over militia leader Eurico Guterres to the United Nations for questioning for his part in two alleged massacres in East Timor last year.
• EAST TIMOR / MILITIAS HISTORY, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Militias in Timor have had a long history of violence against their own people.
• U-N/East Timor Update, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- The foreign minister of Indonesia Alwi Shihab met in New York Thursday with the United Nations Security Council, then confirmed that a Security Council delegation will visit Indonesia next month to evaluate the situation in the West Timor refugee camps.
• Indonesia Must Do More in West Timor, USIS Washington File, 12 October 2000 -- The United States remains deeply concerned about the situation in West Timor refugee camps and the failure to disarm anti-independence militia, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said October 12.
• UN mission receives Elie Wiesel Ethics Award for role in holding East Timor popular vote, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- The United Nations mission, which facilitated last year's popular consultation on East Timor's independence, received the Elie Wiesel Ethics Award today at a ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York.
• Top U.S. Official Voices Continued Support for Sierra Leone, USIS Washington File, 12 October 2000 -- When questioned by Congress about America's commitment to Sierra Leone, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice said on October 11 that the U.S. role in seeking peace in the West Africa nation has been "hands-on and continuous."
• In Sierra Leone, Security Council team pledges support for robust UN operation, UN News, 12 October 2000 -- The Security Council delegation visiting Sierra Leone and its neighbours in a bid to promote stability in the region said today it would return to New York with a "renewed, two-fold commitment" to the Sierra Leonean people in rebuilding their future, and to United Nations peacekeeping.
• Daily Press Briefing - Liberian Sanctions, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 12 October 2000 -- BOUCHER: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are going to be putting out a travel advisory on Liberia.
• Annan Fears Political, Military Impasse in Angola, USIS Washington File, 12 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council October 12 that he fears that Angola is falling into "a new phase of political and military impasse," which could exacerbate security and humanitarian problems in Namibia and Zambia.

News Reports

• Press Briefing By Jake Siewert - Ecuador Hostages, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Q: Are there American hostages in Ecuador?
• ECUADOR KIDNAPPING, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Vice President of Ecuador Pedro Pinto says a Colombian guerilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is claiming responsibility for the abduction of 10 foreign petroleum workers in Ecuador's northeast Amazon region.
• IVORY COAST / POL, Voice of America, 12 October 2000 -- Ivory Coast's main political party is calling for a boycott of the October 22nd presidential elections that are supposed to return the West African country to civilian rule.