  At the AMANDA South Pole site, four new holes were drilled to depths 2050 m
to 2180 m and instrumented with 86 photomultipliers (PMTs) at depths 1520-2000
m. Of these PMTs 79 are working, with 4-ns timing resolution and noise rates
300 to 600 Hz. Various diagnostic devices were deployed and are working. An
observed factor 60 increase in scattering length and a sharpening of the
distribution of arrival times of laser pulses relative to measurements at
800-1000 m showed that air bubbles are absent below 1500 m. Absorption lengths
are 100 to 150 m at wavelengths in the blue and UV to 337 nm. Muon coincidences
are seen between the SPASE air shower array and the AMANDA PMTs at 800-1000 m
and 1500-1900 m. The muon track rate is 30 Hz for 8-fold triggers and 10 Hz for
10-fold triggers. The present array is the nucleus for a future expanded array.
The potential of AMANDA for SUSY dark matter search through the detection of
high-energy neutrinos from the centre of the Sun or Earth is discussed.
