National & World Events
Here is the Associated Press list
of national and foreign events for this week.
Please note that many events, especially court appearances,
are subject to change at the last minute.

Friday, October 25, 1996



ECONOMIC REPORTS

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

TUESDAY: Labor Department releases 2nd-quarter employment cost index. 8:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department releases 3rd-quarter gross domestic product. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases September new home sales. 10 a.m.; Federal Reserve releases the beige book of regional economic activity. Noon.

THURSDAY: Commerce releases September personal income-spending. 8:30 a.m.; Labor releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; National Association of Realtors releases 3rd-quarter housing affordability, time to be announced.

FRIDAY: Labor releases October employment report. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases September factory orders. 10 a.m.


SUNDAY, Oct. 27:

Santiago, Chile - Nationwide municipal elections.

New Delhi, India - World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian Industry host Indian economic summit. Through Oct. 29.

Sofia, Bulgaria - Presidential elections.

Budapest, Hungary - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen addresses rally in front of Hungarian Parliament, on invitation from Hungarian extreme right winger Istvan Csurka.

Washington - President Clinton travels to northern Virginia, Nashville, Tenn., and St. Louis.



MONDAY, Oct. 28:

Oslo, Norway - PLO Leader Yasser Arafat begins two-day visit.

Canberra, Australia - Parliament debates bill to overturn local law in the Northern Territory that legalized medically assisted voluntary euthanasia.

Bangkok, Thailand - Visit of British Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Through Nov. 1.

Jakarta, Indonesia - Trial of 64 supporters of former opposition leader for rioting.

Washington - Supreme Court in recess until Nov. 4; Congress in recess until January.

Washington - President Clinton travels to St. Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio.

Beloit, Wis. - Preliminary hearing for self-professed Indian medicine man 63-year-old John W. Sharlow who is accused of inappropriately touching four women and a girl during a pipe/healing ceremony.

Madison, Wis. - Federal court appearance for seven indicted in theft of combat vehicles from Fort McCoy.

Blacksburg, Va. - Ross Perot speaks at rally at Virginia Tech.

Fairfax, Va. - Trial of Jason Garrison, teen-ager accused of participating in killing of a neighborhood boy.

Philadelphia - Liberty Bell rally demanding extradition of Pennsylvania resident whom protesters say was a Nazi war criminal.

Rochester, N.Y. - Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader speaks at University of Rochester.



TUESDAY, Oct. 29:

New Delhi, India - High Court arraignment hearing on charges that former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao bribed members of parliament to support him in a no-confidence vote in 1993.

Cairo, Egypt - 40th anniversary of the start of the 1956 Middle East war.

Vienna, Austria - Benefit auction of art works, coins and other objects stolen by Nazis from Jewish homes in Austria during Holocaust. Through Oct. 30.

Ljubljana, Slovenia - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel visits.

Johannesburg, South Africa - Former police Gen. Johan le Roux appears under subpoena before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Washington - President Clinton travels to Philadelphia. President and Mrs. Clinton unveil painting by African-American artist which will be part of White House permanent collection.

Las Vegas - Sentencing of James Meegan, convicted of killing his toddler daughter and then burning her body in the Arizona desert.

Los Angeles - Screening of recently found print of oldest feature film ever made, Shakespeare's "Richard III."

Page, Ariz. - Six condors released to holding pen in northern Arizona, to get them acclimated before they are rleased in December.

Sioux Falls, S.D. - New trial scheduled for Russell Hawkins, former Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribal chairman accused of conspiracy in case involving reselling of government surplus equipment.



WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30:

New Delhi, India - Bail hearing scheduled in forgery case against former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.

Cairo, Egypt - Military court to issue verdicts in case of 16 suspected Muslim extremists accused of anti-government attacks in 1993 and 1994. Two others earlier convicted and sentenced to death.

Szeged, Hungary - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born "father of the H-bomb," receives honorary doctorate at university.

Paris - Dalai Lama visits French National Assembly.

Cape Town, South Africa - Former Police Commissioner Gen. Johan Coetzee appears under subpoena before the investigative unit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Helsinki, Finland - NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana visits. Through Oct. 31.

Washington - President Clinton travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., Denver and Phoenix.

Manassas, Va. - Sentencing of teen-agers convicted of shooting pellet gun at black family.

Boydton, Va. - Sentencing of two children, ages 11 and 13, for beating a 3-year-old girl so badly doctors had to remove part of her damaged brain.

Philadelphia - Ross Perot speaks at University of Pennsylvania.

Booneville, Ky. - Hearing scheduled in Woody Harrelson hemp case on whether the state's marijuana law is constitutional.



THURSDAY, Oct. 31:

Sydney, Australia - Britain's Princess Diana attends charity fund-raiser at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Four-party opposition campaign rally led by Vuk Draskovic.

New Delhi, India - British Labor Party politician Robin Cook begins four-day tour of India that will include a visit to Jammu-Kashmir state, where two Britons are among four Westerner kidnapped last year by separatists.

Arusha, Tanzania - Trial begins at International Criminal Tribunal of the first defendant accused of genocide in Rwanda.

Baton Rouge, La. - Ten thousand readers of romance novels expected for national Romantic Times Booklovers Convention. Thru Nov. 3.



FRIDAY, Nov. 1:

Vatican City - Pope celebrates 50th anniversary as priest.

Vukovar, Croatia - Joint Croatian-Serb border posts formed in eastern Croatia, separating Serb-controlled region from Serbia proper and moving one step closer to handing over the region to Croatian control.

Bergen, Norway - Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor joins 10th anniversary celebrations of the Rafto human rights foundation. Through Nov. 2.

Los Angeles - Pandering retrial of Heidi Fleiss.



SATURDAY, Nov. 2:

Paris - Public opening of new national library. The Bibliotheque de France, four buildings shaped like books along the Seine, was the last of Francois Mitterrand's "Grand Projects."



SUNDAY, Nov. 3:

Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Federal elections.

Bucharest, Romania - Parliamentary and presidential elections.




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