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• ATK Awarded $13.5 Million Contract to Produce Environmentally Friendly Ammunition ATK 16 Oct 2000 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) (Alliant Techsystems), said it has been awarded a $13.5 million contract from the U.S. Army Operations Support Command, Rock Island, Ill., to produce lead-free 5.56mm training ammunition as part of a U.S. Army initiative to move to 'green ammunition' in the 21st century.
• Lockheed Martin Wires Warfighters to the Web with Electronic Tactical Operations Center Initiative Lockheed Martin 16 Oct 2000 -- Lockheed Martin is working to put a dot.com face on the modern battlefield with its Electronic Tactical Operations Center (eTOC) research and development effort.
• Lockheed Martin's TBMCS Command and Control System for Air Combat Approved For U.S. Forces Lockheed Martin 16 Oct 2000 -- Bringing the power of integrated information technology to air warfare, Lockheed Martin's advanced command and control (C2) system for air dominance, the Theater Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS), is being fielded for training and implementation by all U.S. forces.
• Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile Intercepts Target in White Sands Test Lockheed Martin 16 Oct 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control - Dallas, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Army conducted another successful flight of a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., Saturday morning.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 16 Oct 2000
• Mideast Summit Opens, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- Foreign ministers at the emergency Middle East summit in Egypt are trying to draft a document aimed at ending the violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
• Mideast summit - Monday wrap, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- Leaders at the Middle East summit in Egypt have ended 18 hours of non-stop meetings, saying they will continue efforts Tuesday to end weeks of violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
• Crisis in the Middle East: Is Peace Still Possible Or Is War Inevitable?, Brookings Institute, Washington, DC, 16 October 2000 -- "I think it's fair to say that we're now facing what might be a fundamental transformation in the conflict as we have known it over half a century. I think it is-this is not just another cycle in violence that needs to be stopped, I think there is a-what might be a very dangerous transformation of the conflict."
• Breaking the Cycle of Violence, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 16 October 2000 -- An article by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published in the October 15 Washington Post, in which she says that Israelis and Palestinians have no alternative to living as neighbors
• Clinton's Radio Address on the Middle East & U.S.S. Cole, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 16 October 2000 -- "The violence we've seen...demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the alternative to peace is unacceptable, and that no one will gain from an endless contest of inflicting and absorbing pain."
• Remarks By The President At Opening of Plenary Session, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 16 October 2000 -- "We have to have a balanced, mutual disengagement and we have to restore the security cooperation and have the confidence building measures necessary for people to go about their business and live in peace and begin to rebuild the bonds of trust."
• Press Briefing By P.J. Crowley - Middle East Unrest, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 16 October 2000 -- Q: PJ, can you tell us, in those bilats with Barak and Arafat, what the level of acrimony was regarding the other? What they were basically saying, can you give us any feel for that?
• Sharm Al-Sheikh Summit: 'Opportunity for Peace' After 'Time of Anger'?, Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 16 October 2000 -- Foreign media commentary on the prospects of success for the Israeli-Palestinian summit.
• Mideast summit / mood, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- World leaders are convening an emergency summit today in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, a resort on the Red Sea coast that usually is best known for its beaches and coral reefs.
• Russia / Mideast, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow wants to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, but it now seems clear that Russia will not be taking an active part in efforts to save the peace process.
• Clinton / Mideast, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- President Clinton -- at the emergency Middle East summit in Egypt -- has called on Israel and the Palestinians to move beyond casting blame for the latest turmoil and take specific steps to defuse the crisis.
• Hezbollah-Lebanon, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- The leader of Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah group, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, says the Israeli colonel his group holds was captured on Lebanese soil and not in Switzerland.
• Israel / Palestinians Clashes, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- As world leaders meet in Egypt in an effort to end more than two weeks of violence between Israel and Palestinians, clashes have again erupted across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• Amnesty International / Israel, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- The human rights group Amnesty International is calling on the United Nations to conduct an independent international investigation into what it calls serious human rights abuses in Israel and the occupied territories.
• Annan attends Middle East summit amid mood of "grim determination", UN News, 16 October 2000 -- After conferring with the key players gathered in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the Middle East summit, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today attended the plenary meeting of the latest international effort to bring the crisis under control.
• In Egypt, Annan says failure is not an option for Middle East summit, UN News, 16 October 2000 -- On the eve of the Middle East summit in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, Secretary-General Kofi Annan underscored that the implications of the current crisis were so grave that failure was not an option in the quest to contain the conflict.
• Annan hopes new Belgrade leadership will help restart talks on disputed Prevlaka, UN News, 16 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed hope that recent developments in Belgrade could help re-start talks on the Prevlaka peninsula -- a strategic area disputed by Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• Yugoslavia / Pol, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- Supporters of new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica say they have agreed with allies of ousted leader Slobodan Milosevic to share power in the country's main republic, Serbia.
• OSCE Chair Sends Personal Representative to Montenegro, U.S. Mission to the OSCE, Vienna, 16 October 2000 -- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, is sending her Personal Representative for Southeastern Europe, Ambassador Albert Rohan, to Montenegro on 17 and 18 October to hold talks with Montenegro's leadership as well as leading personalities from the opposition.
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON WEST AFRICA BY SECURITY COUNCIL MISSION HEAD United Nations 16 Oct 2000
• U-N / Sierra Leone, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- A United Nations Security Council delegation that just returned from Sierra Leone says there is increasing regional concern about the conflict in that country.

News Reports

• Spain/Terrorism, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- A doctor, murdered Monday in Seville, is the latest victim of terrorism in Spain.
• Ivory Coast / Pol, Voice of America, 16 October 2000 -- In Ivory Coast, opponents of military ruler General Robert Guei have called for a general strike to protest the government's exclusion of most major political parties from next week's presidential elections.