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• ATK Awarded $3.6 Million Contract to Develop Next-Generation Tank Ammunition Training Cartridge ATK 15 Oct 2000 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) (Alliant Techsystems), said it has been awarded a $3.6 million contract from the U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., for the first phase of development of a new 120mm tank ammunition training cartridge for use by the U.S. Army's M1A1/A2 main battle tank.
• ATK Awarded $1.3 Million Contract to Deliver Fighting Position Excavator Systems to Royal Netherlands Army ATK 15 Oct 2000 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) (Alliant Techsystems), said it has been awarded a 12-month contract valued at $1.3 million from the Royal Netherlands Army to deliver M300 Fighting Position Excavators (FPE) and system reload kits and trainers. The contract represents the first international sale of the FPE system.

Other Conflicts

• Berger Interview on Mideast Peace, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 15 October 2000 -- National Security Advisor Sandy Berger said the immediate objective of the United States in the Middle East is to stop the violence so that negotiations can resume eventually in an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press".
• ISRAEL-HIZBOLLAH, Voice of America, 15 October 2000 -- The Israeli Defense Ministry confirms that an Israeli reserve officer has been kidnapped.
• PREPARING FOR SUMMIT, Voice of America, 15 October 2000 -- On the Sunday American television news shows, top Israeli and Palestinian officials angrily blamed each other for the violence that broke off the peace talks, but cautiously added that Monday's summit meeting could revive them - under the right circumstances.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS, Voice of America, 15 October 2000 -- Israeli and Palestinian officials say they have low expectations that a summit opening Monday in Egypt will lead to any major progress in the Middle East peace process.
• RUSSIA / MIDEAST, RUSSIA / MIDEAST, 15 October 2000 -- Russia says it is ready to take part in the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
• Excerpts of an interview with Special Middle East Coordinator Dennis Ross on "Fox News Sunday", U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 15 October 2000 -- QUESTION: Let me ask you what you may now have learned, that you didn't fully understand before about Yasser...starting with his spurning of the extraordinary - I think everyone would agree - concessions offered him by Ehud Barak at Camp David.
• Albright on Middle East Peace, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 15 October 2000 -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have the luxury of choosing whom they will negotiate with in the Middle East peace process in remarks on a television news program (ABC's This Week).
• ANGOLA / SIEGE, Voice of America, 15 October 2000 -- The United Nations says that in the past 10-days, more than six-thousand people have fled to the central Angolan city of Kuito to escape fighting between the government and UNITA rebels.

News Reports

• Zanzibar Election, Voice of America, 13 October 2000 -- Human-rights groups say police in Zanzibar are torturing opposition supporters ahead of the presidential election later this month. But authorities on the Indian Ocean island say there has been no intimidation, and everyone is campaigning freely.