National & World Events
Here is the Associated Press list
of national and foreign events for this week.

Friday, June 21, 1996



Economic Reports

The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT):

TUESDAY: National Association of Realtors releases May existing home sales. 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department releases May durable goods orders. 8:30 a.m.; Home Builders release 1st-quarter Housing Opportunity Index. Time to be announced.

THURSDAY: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; Corporation for Enterprise Development releases its 1996 Development Report Card for the States. Time to be announced.

FRIDAY: Commerce releases first-quarter GDP (final). 8:30 a.m.


SUNDAY, June 23

Cairo, Egypt - Arab leaders summit to unify position on Middle East Peace process. From June 22.

Cairo, Egypt - Trial of 18 suspected Muslim militants charged with killing police general and others in southern Egypt in 1993.

Cape Town, South Africa - Farewell service for retiring Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Oslo, Norway - World Congress of Medical Laboratories. Through May 28.

Omaha, Neb. - Western Governors' Association annual meeting, through June 24. Governors will discuss state and regional policy issues focusing on the recent federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.



MONDAY, June 24

Metz, France - Western European Union establishes operational headquarters.

Washington - President Clinton visits Tennessee, New York.

Washington - Congress in session all week.

Washington - Supreme Court issues orders and decisions.

Seattle - Hillary Clinton keynote speaker at a luncheon for Mothers Against Violence in America.

Phoenix - Federal bankruptcy judge holds hearing on motion by one of Gov. Fife Symington's creditors, Citicorp, to keep some documents confidential.

Lincoln, Neb. - Three state pro-choice Republicans, including a delegate to the 1996 Republican National Convention, will present petition asking that party platform be stripped of its anti-abortion language.

Topeka, Kan. - Filing deadline for candidates seeking the Senate seat of Bob Dole.

Los Angeles - Trial begins in suit filed by Jaime Scott Enyart, who is trying to get back film he shot of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination.



TUESDAY, June 25

Lyon, France - French labor labor unions stage demonstration ahead of G-7 summit.

Prague, Czech Republic - Newly elected Czech parliament convenes at its first session.

Columbia, S.C. - State legislative runoff elections.

Dallas - Start of drug possession trial for Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin.

Milwaukee - 1996 International Alternative Fuels Conference and Exhibition. Hyatt Regency. Through June 28.

Portsmouth, Va. - Woodrow Wilson High School track coach John Crute scheduled for trial on a dozen felony charges alleging that he secretly videotaped female students as they undressed in a locker room.

Louisville, Ky. - Vice President Al Gore is expected to speak to the annual A.M.E. Church convention.

Los Angeles - Procedural hearing in wrongful death suit against O.J. Simpson.

Frontera, Calif. - Parole hearing for former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins.



WEDNESDAY, June 26

Port Elizabeth, South Africa - Dirk Coetzee scheduled to be the first former security force member to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's human rights committee.

Lyon, France - Alternative G-7 summit of Nongovernmental Organizations. Agenda includes aid, development and the effect of embargos. Through June 28.

Washington - President Clinton leaves for Lyon.

Phoenix - Pretrial conference for woman accused of leaving her infant son floating in a plastic bag in a septic tank at a lakeside bathroom.

Tucson, Ariz. - Hearing to determine whether 15-year-old girl accused of strangling her newborn son and leaving his body in a trash bin should be tried as an adult.

Omaha, Neb. - Arraignment set for Edwin Kokes, 61, of Grand Island, who allegedly has been posing as a doctor since 1989 and prescribing sulfuric acid to his patients.



THURSDAY, June 27

Lyon, France - G-7 summit of leading industrialized nations. President Clinton meets with foreign leaders.

Oslo, Norway - China's President Jiang Zemin begins official visit. Through June 29.

Singapore - Asia conference on trade and the environment. Through June 28.

Milwaukee - Tentative date for group of civic leaders to destroy property of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Richmond, Va. - National General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a group of Baptists disenchanted with the new conservative leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through June 29.

Pasadena, Calif. - Galileo makes flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.



FRIDAY, June 28

Lyon, France - President Clinton attends G-7 meetings, reception and fireworks display for G-7 leaders.

Lincoln, Neb. - Confessed child-killer John Joubert, 32, is scheduled to die in the electric chair. Joubert was convicted of murdering Danny Joe Eberle, 13, and Christopher Walden, 12, in Sarpy County in 1984.

Los Angeles - "Showbiz Summit" of Hollywood leaders on the economics of entertainment.



SATURDAY, June 29

Paris - U.S. President Bill Clinton makes a post-summit visit to Paris for talks with French President Jacques Chirac. Through June 30.

Reykjavik, Iceland - Presidential election.

Bucharest, Romania - Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrives for three-day official visit to underscore relations between the two countries.

Milan, Italy - Men's fashion shows. Through July 3.

Denver - House Speaker Newt Gingrich will be guest speaker at fund-raiser for Republican Joe Rogers, who is seeking retiring Congresswoman Pat Schroeder's seat.

Los Angeles - 8th birthday celebration, including limousine ride to Disneyland, for girl who couldn't smile now smiling because of pioneering surgery.

Vandenberg AFB, Calif. - Launch of TRW's TOMS missile, on hold since Pegasus blowup in 1994, to measure ozone for two years.



SUNDAY, June 30

Paris - President Clinton departs for Washington.

Los Angeles - Directors Guild contract expires with major studios.

Nice, France - First annual International Television Films Festival.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Second round of presidential election.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - U.N. mandate in Haiti expires.

Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Local elections in tense city divided between Croats and Muslims.




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