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• ATK and Rheinmetall DeTec Will Team to Develop Next-Generation Large-Caliber Ammunition ATK 17 Oct 2000 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) (Alliant Techsystems), Hopkins, Minn., and Rheinmetall DeTec AG, Ratingen, Germany, said they have signed a teaming agreement under which the companies will jointly develop next-generation large-caliber ammunition for use by future armored vehicles and current main battle tanks.
• ORBITAL SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTS SUBORBITAL ROCKET LAUNCH FOR U.S. ARMY Orbital Sciences Corp. 17 Oct 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that it successfully launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) High Energy Transient Explorer-2 (HETE-2) satellite into its targeted orbit aboard the company's Pegasus(r) rocket on Monday, October 9.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 17 Oct 2000
• UN - Mideast Violence, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- An emergency session of the U-N Human Rights Commission has opened in Geneva with calls for an international inquiry into the Israeli-Palestinian clashes in Israel and the Occupied Territories.
• Clinton-Mideast Accord, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- The emergency Middle East summit in Egypt has ended with an agreement by Israel and the Palestinians to seek an immediate end to their nearly three weeks of violence and to seek a way back to negotiations on a final peace agreement.
• Israel / Palestinian Clashes, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- Two Palestinians are dead and an Israeli policeman critically wounded in violence in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and near Jerusalem.
• Albright Interview on ABC'S Good Morning America - Middle East Summit, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 17 October 2000 -- MR. CHARLES GIBSON: Madame Secretary, what turned this around? Pessimistic last night; all of a sudden an agreement this morning.
• Albright Interview on CNN - Middle East Summit, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 17 October 2000 -- MR. JOHN KING: Madame Secretary, first, you can put words on paper, but we have seen in the past 18 days raw anger, bitterness, bloodshed, death. How fast will there be a cease-fire in the Middle East?
• State Department Spokesman on Mideast Summit Stakes, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 17 October 2000 -- QUESTION: Secretary Boucher, how big are the stakes at a summit such as this?
• U.S. Opposes General Assembly Session on Mideast Violence, USIS Washington File, 17 October 2000 -- The United States is opposed to a scheduled emergency General Assembly session on the violence between Palestinians and Israelis, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said October 17.
• Background Briefing By A Senior Administration Official On The Middle East Peace Summit, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 17 October 2000 -- Q: Can you shed any light on the sequence with which this agreement is going to be implemented?
• Remarks By The President And President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt In Delivery Of Joint Statements At The Conclusion Of The Middle East Peace Summit, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 17 October 2000 -- "Our primary objective has been to end the current violence so we can begin again to resume our efforts towards peace."
• PRESS BACKGROUND BRIEFING BY SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL - Middle East Summit, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 17 October 2000 -- Q: So where did you wind up, as opposed to where you wanted to get? Did you get what you wanted?
• Secretary-General Kofi Annan Expresses Relief At Outcome of Sharm El-Sheikh Summit On Recent Middle East Turmoil, UN Press Release, 17 October 2000 -- "I am relieved and thankful that here today, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Israeli and Palestinian leaders, under the tireless chairmanship of Presidents Mubarak and Clinton, have stepped back from the abyss and renewed their commitment to resolve their differences by peaceful means."
• Second Committee Discusses Development Aspects of Situation In Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including Jerusalem, UN Press Release, 17 October 2000 -- The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning took up the question of the permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.
• Under-Secretary General Expresses Grave Concern At Impact On Children of Middle East Violence, Urges Restraint, UN Press Release, 17 October 2000 -- "Children suffer most from the impact of armed conflict; I appeal to the political leaders to do all within their powers to end the violence as promised at Sharm El-Sheikh."
• Relieved at Middle East summit outcome, Annan says "we must move forward", UN News, 17 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed relief at the results of the just-concluded Middle East summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and urged all concerned to help foster calm so that peace talks could resume.
• Commission on Human Rights opens special session on Middle East, UN News, 17 October 2000 -- The key to a peaceful and stable future in the Middle East lies in developing a culture of human rights and tolerance, Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the Commission on Human Rights today as it opened its special session on the situation in the Middle East.
• Serbia To Have A Government, RFE/RL Newsline, 17 October 2000 -- In Belgrade on 16 October, representatives of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) reached agreement with officials of former President Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) on the composition of a transitional government for Serbia until the 23 December elections.
• Serbia's Milosevic To Go To Jail For Fraud?, RFE/RL Newsline, 17 October 2000 -- DOS leader Zarko Korac said that Milosevic is likely to be tried in Serbia for fraud.
• Yugo / Montenegro, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- Yugoslavia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, has failed in his attempt to persuade the leader of the country's smaller republic, Montenegro, to take part in the federal government.
• Situation In Yugoslavia: Warnings Against 'Easy Optimism', Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 17 October 2000 -- Foreign media commentary on the power-sharing deal between Yugoslavia's new President Vojislav Kostunica and supporters of former President Milosevic
• East Timor / Leadership, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- A profile of the men who are likely to lead East Timor after its first presidential elections, which United Nations officials hope will take place in July or August.
• UNHCR-Timor, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says several hundred East Timorese refugees have succeeded in returning home from West Timor despite continued intimidation from militia groups opposed to East Timor's independence from Indonesia.
• Militia in East Timor returning to Indonesia, UN mission says, UN News, 17 October 2000 -- The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today reported that the number of militia members currently in the territory stood at no more than 100, after the recent return of at least 30 militia to West Timor.
• UNHCR - UNITA Refugees, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- The U-N Refugee Agency and the Zambian government have agreed to move soldiers who once belonged to the UNITA rebel group to a new camp in the east of the country.
• Angola / Saurimo, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- A report on conditions in the town of Saurimo, known as the diamond capital of Angola.
• UN food agency gets $10.5 million from EU for emergency aid in Angola, UN News, 17 October 2000 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a donation of $10.5 million from the European Union for the people in need of relief assistance in war-ravaged Angola.
• U.N. Mission Sets Military, Aid Strategy to Help Sierra Leone, USIS Washington File, 17 October 2000 -- A special Security Council mission to Sierra Leone is recommending a two-pronged approach to ending renewed fighting there that includes better coordination of international aid already going to the country and U.N. peacekeepers' putting more military pressure on the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
• Press Conference On West Africa By Security Council Mission Head, UN Press Briefing, 17 October 2000 -- President Charles Taylor of Liberia vigorously denied that he was involved in diamonds and arms trafficking in Sierra Leone, but others who spoke to the Security Council mission were not convinced, Sir Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), head of the 11-member Security Council mission to West Africa, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
• After African trip, Security Council team urges stronger UN mission in Sierra Leone, UN News, 17 October 2000 -- Returning from a five-nation visit to West Africa, a Security Council delegation has recommended that the United Nations bolster its peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone, whose conflict is having an "increasingly alarming" impact on the region.
• Nigeria / Clashes, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- Ethnic clashes continued Tuesday in Nigeria's main city, Lagos. At least 30 people have died since fighting began Sunday between members of the Hausa and Yoruba ethnic groups.
• UNHCR reports relative calm in Guinea refugee camps, UN News, 17 October 2000 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today reported that the situation in six refugee camps for Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees in Guinea was "relatively calm," although people there expressed the wish to go home.
• Moscow Denies Heavy Troop Losses In Tsa-Vedeno, RFE/RL Newsline, 17 October 2000 -- Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembskii denied on 16 October a report on a Chechen website that some 50 Russian servicemen were killed in a battle with Chechen fighters in the village of Tsa-Vedeno, 50 kilometers southeast of Grozny.

News Reports

• Zimbabwe-Riots, Voice of America, 17 October 2000 -- In Zimbabwe, protests over rising prices of food and transport in the capital, Harare, have now spread to all the city's working class suburbs. Police have fired tear gas to break up angry crowds who were stoning buses and setting up barricades on the main roads into the capital.