Friday, February 14, 1997
The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT): ECONOMIC REPORTS
WEDNESDAY: Labor Department releases January consumer prices. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department releases December international trade. 8:30 a.m.
THURSDAY: Commerce releases January housing starts. 8:30 a.m.; Labor releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.
SUNDAY, Feb. 16:
Rome - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits, departs for Bonn, Germany, for visit through Feb. 17.
Vitrolles, France - Amid planned protests, the inauguration of far-right National Front mayor in the fourth City Hall won by the party.
Cairo, Egypt - Verdict expected in case involving Egyptians accused of stealing antiquities for sale abroad.
Cairo, Egypt - Egypt begins assigning identification numbers to its 60 million people.
London - Laurence Olivier awards for theater.
New York - Orthodox Jewish women hold first world conference on religious and feminist issues.
Vandenberg AFB, Calif. - Ashes of Timothy Leary, Gene Roddenberry and other late visionaries to begin their journey into space aboard a Pegasus rocket.
Los Angeles - AFL-CIO holds its annual winter meeting.
Los Angeles - 65th birthday bash for Elizabeth Taylor.
Dallas - Former Texas first lady Nellie Connally discusses the notes she took immediately after President Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Mrs. Connally's husband, Gov. John Connally, also was wounded.
MONDAY, Feb. 17:
Washington's Birthday holiday.
Cape Town, South Africa - U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki hold meeting of binational commission between United States and South Africa.
Cairo, Egypt - Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia visit Egypt, along with 45 Spanish businessmen and investors. Through Feb. 20.
Brussels, Belgium - European Union finance ministers hold regular monthly meeting. EU agriculture ministers hold regular monthly meeting, discuss plans to monitor cattle in connection with mad cow disease.
Strasbourg, France - European Parliament starts regular monthly session. Through Feb. 21.
Washington - Senate in recess until Feb. 23.
Washington - House of Representatives in recess until Feb. 25.
Pasadena, Calif. - Tribute to astronomer Carl Sagan, organized by the Planetary Society.
TUESDAY, Feb. 18:
New Delhi, India - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of slain Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, marries businessman Robert Wadhera.
Port Elizabeth, South Africa - Resumption of extradition hearing of Australian Phillip Bell, accused of sexually abusing boys.
Damascus, Syria - Syria hosts meeting of Arab parliament members to discuss water issues.
Duesseldorf, Germany - Markus Wolf trial continues.
Brussels, Belgium - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits EU Commission, attends meeting with other NATO foreign ministers.
Washington - President Clinton travels to New York City, where he is scheduled to deliver keynote address at awards ceremony of The Business Enterprise Trust. He will stay overnight in Boston.
Washington - Supreme Court returns from recess, hears arguments.
Las Vegas - Children's Trade Expo.
New York - Former U.S. Education Commissioner William Bennett and former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratten issue second report of the Manhattan Institute's Council on Crime in America - "Preventing Crime, Saving Children: Monitoring, Mentoring and Ministering."
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19:
Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia Finance Exposition. Through Feb. 23.
Moscow - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits. Through Feb. 20.
Agra, India - International Conference on Travel and Tourism.
Mafikeng, South Africa - Tebbutt Commission of inquiry into the 1994 violence in former Bophuthatswana homeland continues. Possible testimony from former homeland leader Lucas Mangope.
Potchefstroom, South Africa - Trial continues of white extremist leader Eugene TerreBlanche on attempted murder and assault charges.
Paris - Auction billed as the first to include real-time bidding on the Internet.
Strasbourg, France - European Parliament to vote on report critical of EU handling of mad cow scare. European Court of Human rules in test case for rights of sado-masochists.
Washington - Supreme Court hears arguments.
Carlsbad, N.M. - Hearing to receive testimony on the Department of Energy's Compliance Certification Application for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
THURSDAY, Feb. 20:
Singapore - 7,700 Japanese lingerie saleswomen on visit. Through March 3.
Cairo, Egypt - Ministers responsible for water resources in countries along the Nile River meet to discuss developing river resources. Through Feb. 22.
Baghdad, Iraq - Rolf Ekeus, head of the U.N. Special Commission charged with overseeing the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, to arrive for talks on missiles.
Oklahoma City - Astronaut Shannon Lucid returns to Oklahoma for an appearance before Legislature, dedication of new science wing at Bethany High School in her hometown.
Beverly Hills, Calif. - American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award is presented to filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
Cincinnati - Hearing before U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith, who is to approve or reject proposed settlement of lawsuits by families of participants in 1960s cancer radiation treatment program run by University of Cincinnati researchers.
New York - Samuel R. Berger, President Clinton's assistant for national security affairs, and four former American secretaries of State, Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, William P. Rogers and Cyrus Vance, and Li Daoyu, ambassador of the People's Republic of China, speak at observance of 25th anniversary of the Shanghai Communique. The communique marked the opening of relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
FRIDAY, Feb. 21:
Arles, France - 122nd birthday of Jeanne Calment, believed world's oldest person.
Trondheim, Norway - Norway's King Harald V turns 60.
Kuwait - Prince Charles visits Kuwait, then Bahrain and Qatar before going on to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Brussels, Belgium - Polish Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz visits NATO.
Greensboro, N.C. - Deadline for ABC to file motion to set aside the Food Lion verdict.
Santa Ana, Calif. - Closing arguments in trial to overturn 1972 murder conviction of former Black Panther Party leader Geronimo Pratt.
Cincinnati - Sentencing scheduled for Sylvia Stayton, convicted of obstructing official business after she put up a fight when a policeman arrested her for putting coins in parking meters to help strangers.
Point Lookout, Mo. - Margaret Thatcher speaks at the College of the Ozarks.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Scheduled landing in Florida for space shuttle.
Bridgeton, N.J. - Sentencing of Hartley Felmey, who was convicted of stalking children and had his $75,000 bail posted by a stranger.
SATURDAY, Feb. 22:
Cairo, Egypt - Arab Chambers of Commerce to meet to discuss establishment of Arab free trade zone.
Santa Monica, Calif. - Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Milwaukee - First certified African-American owned and controlled local telephone company in U.S. history to announce official launching of services.
SUNDAY, Feb. 23:
Brussels, Belgium - Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov visits NATO.
Los Angeles - American Society of Cinematographers outstanding achievement awards.
Topeka, Kan. - Kansas Democrats hold their annual Washington Day dinner with Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone featured.
Kansas City, Mo. - Missouri Republicans hold their annual Lincoln Day celebration, with luncheon speeches by newly elected GOP members of Congress from Missouri and a banquet speech by Sen. Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas.