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• World - Arms, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies has issued its annual review of the world's military balances. The report finds that sub-Saharan Africa accounts for most of the world's deaths in armed conflict and criticizes U-N peacekeeping operations as inadequate and unfocussed.

Defense Industry

• Navy Awards Electric Boat Submarine Work Worth $48 Million General Dynamics 19 Oct 2000 -- The U. S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat submarine engineering and life-cycle support work worth $48 million.
• U.S. Army Selects Lockheed Martin-Boeing Team for $78.4 Million Apache Sensor Modernization Lockheed Martin 19 Oct 2000 -- The U. S. Army has selected Team Apache Systems, led by Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company, for its Apache sensor helicopter modernization program valued at approximately $1 billion long term, beginning with's announcement of the approximately $80 million for the development (EMD) phase.
• Michelin Aircraft Tire Corp. Wins $70 Million Contract To Provide Naval Aircraft Tires Lockheed Martin 19 Oct 2000 -- Michelin Aircraft Tire Corp. (Michelin) has been awarded a five-year, $70 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide around-the-clock, worldwide, on-time delivery of 23 types of naval aviation tires.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 19 Oct 2000
• Sri Lanka child soldiers, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- The war between Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese-dominated government has left an estimated 60-thousand people dead. Caught up in the conflict are tens of thousands of children whose lives have been severely disrupted by the fighting.
• Sri Lanka Bomb Update, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- In Sri Lanka a suicide bomber has set off an explosion, killing himself and two others and injuring more than 20 people, including at least two U-S citizens, as Sri Lanka's new cabinet was being sworn in.
• Special Session of Commission On Human Rights Establishes Inquiry Commission Into Israeli 'Abuses' In Occupied Palestinian Territories, UN Press Release, 19 October 2000 -- A special session of the Commission on Human Rights condemned this evening by a margin of three roll-call votes what it said were "grave and massive violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people by Israel", and decided to establish a "human rights inquiry commission" to gather information with the aim of preventing similar occurrences.
• State Department Noon Briefing, Friday - Middle East Unrest, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- Q: Events in the Middle East. How does this building see what's going on as the agreement begins to take shape or not take shape, depending on --
• Israel - Palestinians - Ramallah, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- A self-imposed 48-hour deadline is winding down for Israelis and Palestinians to halt three-weeks of clashes.
• Israel / Activists, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- Since the eruption of violence in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip three weeks ago, there has been a growing feeling among many people in Israel that the peace movement is dead.
• UN-Commission-Palestine, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- The United Nations Human Rights Commission has narrowly approved a resolution condemning Israel for what it calls widespread, systematic and gross violations of human rights.
• Israel-Palestinian, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- A serious gun battle pitting Palestinians against Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces raged for hours Thursday near the West Bank town of Nablus.
• Albright on Mideast Peace Process, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- ...What has happened is that both sides have issued statements as a result of Sharm and the Israelis have in fact begun to redeploy...
• Annan Calls for End to the Language of Violence on Mideast, USIS Washington File, 19 October 2000 -- Secretary General Kofi Annan October 19 again appealed to Palestinians, Israelis, and the international community to use restraint in talking about the violence in the Middle East.
• U.S. Criticizes UN Vote on Middle East, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- "We opposed the session because we feared that it would not contribute to and would, in fact, undermine international efforts underway to halt the violence in the Middle East and return the parties to the path of peace."
• State Department Noon Briefing - Middle East Unrest, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 18 October 2000 -- Q: It looks like Sharm el-Sheikh summit didn't have a great effect on stopping the violence. Can you tell us what diplomatic moves you are planning next to hold the leaders to the agreements they made in Sharm el-Sheikh?
• Press Briefing By Jake Siewert - Middle East Unrest, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 19 October 2000 -- Q What's the President sense of compliance by each party with the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, and is he in touch with any of them?
• Secretary-General renews call for restraint to calm Middle East tensions, UN News, 19 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reiterated his call for restraint by all parties in the Middle East and elsewhere to help reduce tensions in the region and to pave the wave for a resumption of peace talks.
• Yugoslavia - West, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has invited Yugoslavia back into the body.
• U.S. Would Welcome Yugoslav Bid for OSCE Membership, U.S. Mission to the OSCE, Vienna, 19 October 2000 -- "We welcome the recent democratic changes in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The OSCE has an important role to play in supporting those changes, in welcoming the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into the family of democratic states, and in facilitating its integration into Europe and appropriate Euro-Atlantic fora. "
• State Department Noon Briefing - Bosnia and Herzegovina, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- Q: The last one. Do you have anything on Bosnia? There are some tensions in Brcko today and some fighting between Serbs and Muslims, and the local police and US peacekeepers are --
• Serbian Youths Continue Protests In Bosnian Town, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 203, Part II, 19 October 2000 -- Up to 2,000 ethnic Serbian teenagers threw eggs at NATO troops and damaged Muslim property in Brcko on 18 October for the second day in a row.
• Clinton Op-Ed on Northern Ireland Peace Process, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- An op-ed article by President Clinton on the Northern Ireland peace process, written for The Belfast Telegraph for publication October 19.
• Nobel Peace Laureate takes over foreign affairs portfolio in East Timor, UN News, 19 October 2000 -- Jose Ramos-Horta, an East Timorese Nobel Peace Laureate, was sworn in today as the newest member of the East Timor Transitional Cabinet, taking over day-to-day foreign affairs functions of the newly independent territory, as well as the setting up of the future Foreign Ministry and Diplomatic Corps.
• West Papua tense, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- Indonesian security forces have backed down from a threat to pull down flags belonging to West Papua's independence movement, avoiding another possible outbreak of violence.
• Nigeria / Violence, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- Nigerian police are looking for leaders of a banned separatist group blamed for ethnic violence this week in the commercial capital, Lagos.
• U.S. "Deeply Concerned" About Human Rights Workers in Congo, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- "The United States is deeply concerned by reports of violence against human rights workers in the rebel-controlled and Rwandan-occupied area of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo."

News Reports

• State Department Noon Briefing - Ivory Coast Elections, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 October 2000 -- Q: Over the weekend, you managed to infuriate the Belarusian Government with your condemnatory comments about its election, and I'm wondering if you would like to do the same thing for Ivory Coast, which is about to have its election on Sunday.
• Kenya Politics, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- Street riots erupted in western Kenya after an opposition member of Parliament had his three-year jail term annulled.
• Sea Launch Delays Thuraya Satellite Launch Boeing 19 Oct 2000 -- Sea Launch has rescheduled the launch of the Thuraya-1 satellite to Friday, Oct. 20. The 45-minute launch window will open at 10:52 p.m. PDT.