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,February 7, 1997



ECONOMIC REPORTS

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

TUESDAY: Labor Department releases 4th-quarter productivity. 10 a.m.

THURSDAY: Commerce Department releases January retail sales. 8:30 a.m.; Labor releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.

FRIDAY: Labor releases January producer prices. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases December business inventories. 8:30 a.m.; Federal Reserve releases January industrial production. 9:15 a.m.

SUNDAY, Feb. 9:

Vitrolles, France - In runoff election, the far-right National Front seeks to win the mayoralty in a fourth French city.

Rio Grande, Puerto Rico - Ambassador Mickey Kantor, former U.S. trade representative and commerce secretary, talks about trading partners and profits in globalization at Forbes CFO conference.

Jakarta, Indonesia/Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/Singapore - Hari Raya Puasa holiday marking end of Muslim fasting month. Through Feb. 10.

Vandenberg AFB, Calif. - Ashes of Timothy Leary, Gene Roddenberry and other visionaries will begin their journey into space aboard a Pegasus rocket. The actual launch of the Pegasus is tentatively set for March 11 over the Canary Islands.

Los Angeles - 11th annual American Comedy Awards.

MONDAY, Feb. 10:

Washington - President Clinton travels to Annapolis, Md., to address the state legislature.

Washington - Supreme Court in recess through February 18.

Washington - Senate scheduled to debate the balanced budget amendment.

Houston - Forum on energy strategies for the 21st century. Speakers include CEOs from Texaco, Conoco, Amoco and Phillips.

Los Angeles - Superior Court retrial for Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss on state pandering and drug charges.

Norfolk, Va. - Sentencing for Jennifer Patterson Sperle, 23, abortion-rights activist convicted of conspiring to set fire to women's clinics at Newport News and Norfolk.

Greensboro, N.C. - Federal judge hears oral arguments on lawsuit filed by the tobacco and advertising industries challenging the new Food and Drug Administration anti-tobacco rules.

New York - American International Toy Fair opens.

Huntsville, Texas - Scheduled execution for Richard Brimage for 1987 slaying of college student.

TUESDAY, Feb. 11:

Duesseldorf, Germany - Retrial continues for former East German spymaster Markus Wolf on charges including bribery, kidnapping and coercion. Through Feb. 12.

Olveston, Montserrat - Prince Andrew visits the British colony where the threat of a volcanic explosion has disrupted thousands of lives for nearly two years.

New Orleans - Mardi Gras celebration.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Scheduled launch from Florida of space shuttle on 10-day flight to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Phoenix - Arizona Supreme Court hears arguments in special action Indian gaming case, in which media groups including The Associated Press are trying to have Indian gaming records made public.

Beverly Hills, Calif. - 69th Annual Academy Awards nominations.

Liberal, Kan. - International Pancake Race between the women of Liberal and Olney, England.

Trenton, N.J. - Edison College holds party, ceremony and panel discussion to commemorate 150th anniversary of Thomas Edison's birth.

Bend, Ore. - County commissioners consider fate of dogs sentenced to death for chasing sheep.

New York - African-American Institute's 13th annual awards dinner to honor President Clinton, Senators Nancy Kassebaum and Paul Simon and Rep. Charles Rangel.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12:

Grozny, Russia - Inauguration of Aslan Maskhadov as Chechnya's president.

Singapore - British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind lectures on Britain's relations with Southeast Asia.

Singapore - Gathering of foreign ministers from European Union and Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Through Feb. 15.

Washington - House of Representatives scheduled to vote on term limits.

Houston - Interactive Newspapers Conference .

Boulder, Colo. - Boulder County coroner will ask a district judge to seal the autopsy report in the JonBenet Ramsey case.

THURSDAY, Feb. 13:

Berlin - International Film Festival. Through Feb. 24.

Washington - House of Representatives scheduled to vote on international funding.

Cambridge, Mass. - Julia Roberts receives Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of Year award.

Tucson, Ariz. - Annual gem show opens four-day run.

Columbus, Ohio - State appeals court hears arguments on a program that uses state money to send kids to private schools.

FRIDAY, Feb. 14:

Berlin - Second colloquium on Holocaust memorial. Theme: "The location, its historical and political context, and its future integration with the city's image and reconstruction."

Portland, Ore. - Hearing resumes for Oregon Supreme Court justice accused of sexual harassment.

Miami - Yoko Ono opens exhibit of artwork from her late husband and former Beatle John Lennon as part of Coconut Grove Art Fair.

New York - Thirty-four couples are married on Valentine's Day atop the Empire State Building.

Austin, Texas - LBJ Presidential Library releasing 47 more tapes of phone conversations held by President Johnson from April 1-June 30, 1964.

Los Angeles - Michael Jackson's baby due.

SATURDAY, Feb. 15:

New Delhi, India - Deadline for release of findings by High Court Judge R.C. Lahoti, who is investigating the Nov. 12 collision over New Delhi's airport that killed 349 people.

Washington - 12:01 a.m. deadline in American Airlines and Allied Pilots Association cooling-off period. Pilots free to strike if no agreement reached.

Laconia, N.H. - Lamar Alexander to speak at county GOP dinner.

New York - Kweisi Mfume, president and CEO of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Myrlie Evers-Williams, chairman of the board of directors, hold news conference during annual national board meeting.

Greensboro, N.C. - Sit-In Movement Inc., nonprofit organization that's turning the site of the Feb. 1, 1960, sit-in into a civil rights museum, is presenting the Rev. Jesse Jackson with the Alston/Jones International Civil and Human Rights Award.

Beverly Hills, Calif. - Show business women pay tribute to Annette Funicello.

Los Angeles - First Americans in the Arts Awards honoring Indian performers.

SUNDAY, Feb. 16:

Rome - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits.

Columbus, Ohio - Aryan Nation plans rally at Ohio Statehouse.

Los Angeles - AFL-CIO holds its annual winter meeting.

Los Angeles - 65th birthday party for Elizabeth Taylor.




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