Friday, June 7, 1996
TUESDAY: Labor Department releases May producer prices. 8:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY: Labor releases May consumer prices. 8:30 a.m.
THURSDAY: Labor releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department releases May retail sales. 8:30 a.m.
FRIDAY: Federal Reserve releases May industrial production. 9:15 a.m.; Commerce Department releases April business inventories. 10 a.m.
Bangkok, Thailand - 50th anniversary of the king's accession to the throne.
Washington - President Clinton departs for trips to Nevada, California and New Mexico.
Miami - Continuation of The 100 Black Men of America 10th Anniversary National Convention with more than 2,500 business, civic and community leaders, and government officals attending.
Milwaukee - Harley-Davidson riders kick off 16-day motorcycle ride along Route 66.
New York - Mary Tyler Moore is 1996 homecoming queen for the 14th annual Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival.
Durban, South Africa - Trial resumes against former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and other apartheid-era leaders accused of planning political murders.
Kimberley, South Africa - Truth and Reconciliation Commission resumes hearings on apartheid-era human rights abuses.
New Delhi, India - Parliament recovenes to consider a motion of confidence on India's new coalition government.
Shanghai, China - Greenpeace is sending a peace ship to China to protest Chinese plans to conduct nuclear weapons tests.
Luxembourg - European Union foreign ministers hold regular monthly meeting. Mad cow crisis expected to dominate. Through June 11.
Luxembourg - Slovenia becomes first former Yugoslav republic to sign association accord with EU.
Washington - Supreme Court meets to issue orders.
Washington - Congress in session all week.
Fort Bragg, N.C. - Military trial begins for Sgt. William J. Kreutzer, who is accused of killing one soldier and wounding 18 others in a pre-dawn shooting spree on a Fort Bragg exercise field.
Denver - Deadline for government to respond to defense motions to suppress evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
Philadelphia - Arguments in federal appeals court on New Jersey welfare law that prohibits more money for any additional babies born to women already receiving welfare.
Roanoke, Va. - Federal court hearing on motions to dismiss a Virginia Tech campus rape case against three football players.
San Jose, Calif. - Polly Klaas trial scheduled to resume.
New York - New York University presents honorary doctorate to Jordan's King Hussein.
Paris - UNICEF releases annual report on state of world's children.
Geneva - French president Jacques Chirac addresses International Labor Organization annual conference.
Washington - President Clinton returns from trip.
Washington - Bob Dole resigns from U.S. Senate.
New Orleans - Southern Baptists hold annual meeting. Through June 13.
Oshkosh, Wis. - Jury trial for man accused of not telling his sex partners he has AIDS virus.
North Dakota - Statewide primary.
South Dakota - Statewide primary.
South Carolina - Statewide primary for U.S. Senate and state offices.
Maine - Statewide primary, including U.S. Senate primary for both parties and House primary for Democrats.
Virginia - Republican primaries for U.S. Senate between three-term incumbent John Warner and challenger James C. Miller III and between 1st District Rep. Herb Bateman and challenger David Caprara.
Arkansas - Primary runoff election. Democrats in a runoff for U.S. Senate. Democrats and Republicans in runoff for Congress in the 2nd District; Democrats in runoff for Congress in the 1st District.
Newport News, Va. - Federal trial of two anti-abortion activists accused of torching abortion clinics in Norfolk and Newport News.
Amarillo, Texas - Bishop Leroy Matthiesen turns 75, the age at which bishops are required to submit their resignations to the Vatican. He made national headlines during the '80s calling for Christians to quit their jobs making bombs at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant.
New York - America's Smithsonian, a traveling exhibit that includes Judy Garland's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" and the $25,000 check Charles Lindbergh won for the first solo, non-stop flight from New York to Paris, opens a run at the New York Coliseum.
Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladesh goes to polls to elect a new parliament.
Geneva - International Labor Organization meeting on child labor.
Potosi, Mo. - Execution of Richard Oxford scheduled at 12:01 a.m.
Florence, Italy - Two-day Bosnia summit.
Paris - Court to decide whether former doctor of late French President Francois Mitterrand violated professional secrecy by publishing book on Mitterrand's prostate cancer. Through June 14.
Stockholm, Sweden - International Peace Research Institute releases annual security report.
Brussels, Belgium - NATO defense ministers meet for twice-yearly talks.
Washington - Supreme Court issues decisions.
Dallas - Pre-trial motions in Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin's drug possession case.
Pietersburg, South Africa - Conference on witchcraft following series of attacks on women accused of sorcery.
Germiston, South Africa - Pre-trial hearing in case of transvestite accused of serial killings.
Dallas - Grand opening for Dallas Area Rapit Transit's light rail system.
Portage, Wis. - Hearing on the of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's estate, including his "instruments of death."
Yuma, Ariz. - Pretrial hearing for Jack Hudson, man accused of killing two fellow drug task force agents.
Camden, N.J. - Sentencing scheduled for leader of notorious street gang and two associates. Leader pleaded guilty to running drug distribution ring; his lieutenants admitted their role in two killings.
London - Official birthday celebration for Queen Elizabeth II; birthday honors list published.
Chicago - American Booksellers Association holds annual convention. Through June 17.
Omaha, Neb. - Hundreds of soda jerks will create "The World's Longest Soda Fountain" at a National Association of Soda Jerks national convention event.
Moscow - Russia's presidential election.
Verdun, France - Train-bound exposition of World War I arrives on its journey across northern France. Arrives in Paris June 25.
Cairo - Court considers libel case against editor of leading opposition newspaper and reporter.