ECONOMIC REPORTS

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

MONDAY: Commerce Department releases February personal income-spending. 8:30 a.m.

TUESDAY: Commerce releases February construction spending. 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Commerce releases February factory orders. 10 a.m.

THURSDAY: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.

FRIDAY: Labor releases March employment. 8:30 a.m.

SUNDAY, March 30:

Easter.

New Delhi, India -- Second national convention dealing with child laborers. Through April 1.

MONDAY, March 31:

Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya -- EgyptAir begins flying Libyan pilgrims to hajj in Saudi Arabia. Through April 11.

Washington -- House of Representatives in recess until April 7.

Washington -- Senate in recess until April 8.

Washington -- Supreme Court issues orders.

Denver -- Jury selection in murder and conspiracy trial of Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City bombing of federal building.

Los Angeles -- Winner announced in the 17th Annual International (imitation) Hemingway Competition.

Winston-Salem, N.C. -- Judge holds hearing on tobacco industry's temporary restraining order which barred Liggett Group from turning over sensitive documents.

Madison, Wis. -- Jury selection and trial in federal court of Hooters sexual harassment suit.

TUESDAY, April 1:

Paris -- Court to rule whether to hear Saddam Hussein's defamation suit against leftist magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.

George Town, Cayman Islands -- Extradition hearing set to begin for Peter Krueger, wanted in Switzerland to face charges he swindled creditors of more than $200 million.

France -- Fusion of Air France and its domestic wing, Air France Europe.

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea -- Sandline International mercenary company chief Tim Spicer to testify in an inquiry into the government's $36 million contract with Sandline to quash nine-year rebellion.

Washington -- Supreme Court in recess until April 14.

Los Angeles -- David Carradine gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Santa Ana, Calif. -- Insurance fraud trial in federal court of Dr. Sergio Stone, one of three physicians caught up in the fertility scandal at the now-defunct Center for Reproductive Health at UC Irvine.

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Tommy Lee Jones and Shannon Dougherty appear for municipal court hearings in unrelated disorderly conduct cases.

St. Louis -- Mayoral election, other municipal elections in Missouri and Kansas.

Milwaukee -- General election for head of Department of Public Instruction, Supreme Court justice, three appeals court seats.

Albany, N.Y. -- A new fiscal year begins in New York state, the 13th consecutive in which a permanent state budget will not be in place.

Albany, N.Y. -- Date on which New York state has threatened to begin collecting state taxes on Indian sales to non-Indians of cigarettes and gasoline.

Cleveland -- Cleveland Indians pitcher Jose Mesa goes on trial on rape charges.

Hillsboro, Ore. -- Trial for 12-year-old boy accused of setting an apartment fire that killed eight people.

WEDNESDAY, April 2:

Kingston, Jamaica -- Third trial set to begin for Jamaican Elvis Martin, charged with murdering Chicago scriptwriter Terrence Runte.

Prague, Czech Republic -- French President Jacques Chirac arrives for two-day official visit.

Ankara, Turkey -- Bulgarian Foreign Minister Stoyan Stalev visits. Through April 4.

Huntsville, Texas -- Scheduled execution for David Lee Herman for a 1989 shooting death during a robbery at an Arlington topless club.

THURSDAY, April 3:

Paradise Island, Bahamas -- First Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference.

San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Gov. Pedro Rossello to testify before Congressional committee about anti-drug efforts in the U.S. territory.

Huntsville, Texas -- Scheduled execution for David Spence for the 1982 mutilation and stabbing deaths of two teen-agers in Waco.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Space shuttle Columbia scheduled to blast off on a 16-day laboratory-research mission.

Boulder, Colo. -- Weekly news conference in JonBenet Ramsey slaying.

FRIDAY, April 4:

Roanoke, Va. -- Javier Cruz, informant credited with helping U.S. authorities launder $47 million for Colombia's Cali drug cartel, is arraigned on original drug charges in federal court.

Little Rock, Ark. -- Sentencing for county sheriff on money laundering charges.

Memphis, Tenn. -- 29th anniversary of assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Frankfort, Ky. -- Hearing on DLX Inc. suit seeking money for state's refusal to allow mining under one of the state's last old-growth forests.

Los Angeles -- NAACP Non-Violence Day rally.

Raleigh, N.C. -- Scheduled execution of Phillip Edward Wilkinson, a former Fort Bragg soldier, for the murders of a woman, her teen-age daughter and son. ll

SATURDAY, April 5:

Paris -- Park Asterix, theme park outside the capital, inaugurates its new rollercoaster "Tonnerre de Zeus" (Zeus's Thunder), to boost its competition with Disneyland Paris.

Las Vegas -- National Association of Broadcasters convention.

San Diego -- American Planning Association holds national conference.

SUNDAY, April 6:

Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- Key elections for some senate and local council seats.