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• U.S. servicemembers training Senegalese on peacekeeping , Stars and Stripes, 02 November 2000 -- About 40 U.S. servicemembers are this week concluding the largest African Crisis Response Initiative mission since the program began by training Senegalese soldiers how to run peacekeeping and humanitarian aid operations.
• Fiji uprising, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Authorities in Fiji say the army has regained control of barracks overrun earlier by rebel soldiers loyal to coup leader George Speight.

Defense Industry

• ATK Awarded $4.5 Million Contract to Produce Special Operations Munitions ATK 02 Nov 2000 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) (Alliant Techsystems) said it has been awarded an 18-month contract valued at $4.5 million from the U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., to continue production of the Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition (SLAM).
• Sanders and Space Electronics-led Team Study Satellite Servicing in Space Lockheed Martin 02 Nov 2000 -- Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, has received a 14-month, $6 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct an Advanced Technology Demonstration for a new Space Operations Architecture called 'Orbital Express.
• ATK Awarded Contract to Produce Composite Aeroskirts for New Delta IV Launch Vehicles ATK 02 Nov 2000 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) (Alliant Techsystems) said it has been awarded a contract from The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, Calif., to manufacture composite aeroskirts for the new Boeing Delta IV family of space launch vehicles. Deliveries under the contract will continue through 2003.
• Boeing Delta II Rocket Poised to Place U.S. Air Force Satellite into Orbit Boeing 02 Nov 2000 -- A Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket is poised at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Fla. to place a Global Positioning System satellite into orbit.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 02 Nov 2000
• Amb. Betty King's UNGA Remarks on Causes of Conflict in Africa, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 02 November 2000 -- Questioning the thesis that so-called ancient ethnic hatreds or poverty are the root cause of the fighting in many African nations, U.S. Ambassador Betty King said November 1 that "perhaps the true cause of conflict in Africa is unaccountable governance."
• Angola-US-Oil, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- A senior State Department official has rejected charges that current U-S policy towards Angola is driven solely by American interest in acquiring Angolan oil.
• Namibia - Angola - Mines, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- The 30-year-old civil war in Angola is spilling over the country's borders into neighboring Zambia and Namibia.
• ANGOLA: UNITA says war continues, Integrated Regional Information Network, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 02 November 2000 -- A spokesman for the Angolan rebel group UNITA told IRIN on Thursday that the war against the Angolan government would continue, following rejection by the authorities of an offer to negotiate a peace settlement.
• Senior U.S. Official Calls for Renewed Talks on Kashmir, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 02 November 2000 -- Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Karl Inderfurth called for "a resumption of dialogue" between New Delhi and Islamabad regarding their differences in Kashmir.
• Ivory Coast, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Political and religious leaders in Ivory Coast are working for reconciliation following clashes that killed hundreds of people after the October 22nd elections.
• UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea set to begin final phase of deployment, UN News, 02 November 2000 -- With some 100 United Nations military observers now on the ground in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the UN mission overseeing a peace agreement between the two countries has completed the second phase of its deployment, a UN spokesman announced today.
• International Group Seeks to Build Peace Between Ecuador, Peru, USIS Washington File, 02 November 2000 -- The United States has joined with other countries and multi-national organizations on a plan to put a permanent end to a long-standing border dispute between Peru and Ecuador.
• Immigration: East Timor/Returning Refugees, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Life for East Timorese refugees may start to get easier now, more than a year after they fled the violence-soaked vote for independence from Indonesia.
• Bosnia / War Crimes, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Prosecutors at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal have finished questioning Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic about the role he may have played in the 1995 massacres at Srebrenica.
• Russian Defense Ministers Denies Rumors of Troop Withdrawal From Chechnya, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 4, No. 213, Part I, 2 November 2000 -- Igor Sergeev told journalists at the Russian base at Khankala, near Grozny, on 1 November that media reports of an impending withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya are untrue, Russian agencies reported.
• Un/Israel, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Israeli Foreign Minister Schlomo Ben-Ami says today's (Thursday's) bombing in Jerusalem confirms Israel's contention that by its actions the Palestinian Authority has encouraged terrorism.
• Israel Ceasefire, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were due to make public statements agreeing to a truce to end five weeks of bloodshed.
• Clinton / Mideast, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- President Clinton is urging Israelis and Palestinians not to allow the deadly bomb blast in Jerusalem to derail a truce agreement reached overnight.
• Mideast Violence / React, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- The latest violence in the Middle East comes as Palestinian and Israeli leaders were preparing to announce a ceasefire aimed at ending more than a month of clashes.
• Israel Bomb, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Two people are dead and at least nine injured after a powerful car bomb exploded near a popular market in the center of West Jerusalem.
• Israel/Palestinians, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Israel is pulling back tanks and troops from flash points in the Palestinian territories following the announcement of an agreement to end five weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
• Attacks by peace foes must not block efforts to resume Middle East talks: Annan, UN News, 02 November 2000 -- Reacting to the bomb attack earlier today in Jerusalem, Secretary-General Kofi Annan vigorously condemned acts of terror but stressed that the opponents of peace should not be allowed to block the quest for a negotiated settlement.
• Secretary-General Meets With Foreign Minister of Israel, UN Press Release, 02 November 2000 -- The Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shlomo Ben-Ami, met this morning and reviewed the Middle East peace process.
• Afghan / U-S, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- U-S and Taleban officials have held talks in Pakistan amid unconfirmed local reports that the United States is preparing to carry out a military strike against Afghanistan.
• Lanka Meeting, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- A Norwegian peace envoy in Sri Lanka has met with the leader of the Tamil separatist guerrillas.
• Sri Lanka sea clash, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Tamil Tiger rebels have commandeered a Russian merchant ship in an attempt to escape the Sri Lankan navy after a sea battle off the island's east coast.

News Reports

• Tanzania elections, Voice of America, 02 November 2000 -- Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa is meeting with senior members of his party in Zanzibar today (Thursday) about the political crisis in the country's Indian Ocean islands.
• Holbrooke UNGA Remarks on Yugoslavia's U.N. Membership, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 02 November 2000 -- United Nations - Welcoming the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a member of the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke November 1 pledged the United States' "strong commitment to working with Yugoslavia in the United Nations, in the spirit of the historic friendship between us...to address the problems remaining in the Balkans and the global challenges of the future."
• Serbian Press Hails UN Entry, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 4, No. 213, Part II, 2 November 2000 -- Reaction in newspapers in Serbia hailed Yugoslavia's entry into the UN on 2 November.
• Serbian Ministers Warn of Hyperinflation, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 4, No. 213, Part II, 2 November 2000 -- Boris Milacic, a co-finance minister in Serbia's transitional government, said on 1 November that Belgrade must act quickly to prevent its high inflation rate from turning into hyperinflation, Reuters reported.
• Djindjic Says Agreement Made On Serbia-Montenegro 'Association', RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 4, No. 213, Part II, 2 November 2000 -- Zoran Djindjic, a leader of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia bloc and a senior aide to Yugoslav President Kostunica, said on 1 November that an agreement has been reached with Montenegrin officials on a new relationship between Montenegro and Serbia
• Montenegro To Establish Own Central Bank, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 4, No. 213, Part II, 2 November 2000 -- The Montenegrin parliament voted on 1 November to set up its own central bank, AP reported.