Friday, April 11, 1997
The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT): ECONOMIC REPORTS
TUESDAY: Commerce Department releases March consumer prices, February business inventories. 8:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY: Commerce releases March housing starts. 8:30 a.m.; Federal Reserve releases March industrial production. 9:15 a.m.
THURSDAY: Labor releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases February international trade. 8:30 a.m.
SUNDAY, April 13:
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sinhalese and Tamil New Year.
Tortola, British Virgin Islands -- Annual meeting of executive committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Through April 19.
Zagreb, Croatia -- Croatia holds municipal elections, including eastern Slavonia, the last bit of Serb-held territory in the country.
San Diego -- American Association for Cancer Research meets.
Los Angeles -- Announcement of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.
San Francisco -- American Chemical Society meeting.
MONDAY, April 14:
Geneva -- The 53-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission enters the final week of its annual session.
Mafikeng, South Africa -- Judicial inquest resumes into violence preceding the fall of the Bophuthatswana black homeland in 1994.
Rome -- Former Nazi Capt. Erich Priebke stands trial.
Rome -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan visits. Through April 15.
Bucharest, Romania -- Start of trial of Miron Cozma, leader of coal miners who stormed the government headquarters in 1991.
Washington -- Supreme Court hears arguments.
Washington -- Congress in session.
Little Rock, Ark. -- Sentencing for Whitewater defendant James McDougal, President Clinton's business partner in Arkansas land developments.
Little Rock, Ark. -- State lawmaker, two others face trial they defrauded state of Arkansas by selling prison system used sprinkler system.
Newark, N.J. -- Gov. Christie Whitman makes five stops in northern New Jersey to announce her re-election bid.
Huntsville, Texas -- Scheduled execution for Billy Joe Woods for the 1975 beating and strangling of a 62-year-old Houston woman.
Dallas -- Conference on airline safety and maintenance.
St. Louis -- Federal court hears arguments on KKK appeal to be part of the Adopt-a-Highway litter program in Missouri.
Hamilton, N.Y. -- Former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev speaks at Colgate University.
Fulton, N.Y. -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. host public meeting on cracking of nuclear shroud inside Nine Mile 1 reactor.
TUESDAY, April 15:
Durban, South Africa -- Court appearance in murder case by former police officer Dirk Coetzee, who exposed police hit squads.
Washington -- Supreme Court hears arguments.
Washington -- Congress in session.
Los Angeles -- Singer Pat Boone tries to redeem himself in a prime-time appearance on the Trinity Christian TV network after viewers forced cancellation of his weekly TBN show because of his new, faux-metal image.
Hampton Roads, Va. -- Southern Governors' Association to hold one-day conference on urban revitalization.
Trenton, N.J. -- Gov. Christie Whitman continues her two-day announcement bus tour with five southern New Jersey stops.
St. Louis -- Clarence Harmon sworn in as mayor.
Rindge, N.H. -- Bobby Gawthrop, founder and executive director of the Generation X Coalition, plans to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
New York -- Auction of Peter Carl Faberge's Pine Cone Egg, estimated value of $3.5 million to $4.5 million. Egg was commissioned by Russian gold mining entrepreneur at turn of century.
New York -- President Clinton and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani speak at Jackie Robinson Commemoration observing 50th anniversary of breaking of the racial barrier in major league baseball.
Los Angeles -- Christopher Reeve gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
WEDNESDAY, April 16:
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Independence Party launches yearlong nationality campaign to commemorate 1898 U.S. invasion.
Washington -- Supreme Court hears arguments.
Washington -- House in session.
Huntsville, Texas -- Scheduled execution for Kenneth Gentry for fatal shooting.
Texas City, Texas -- Daylong remembrances marking 50th anniversary of the ship explosions that killed 576 people.
THURSDAY, April 17:
Toronto -- National day of protest by Canadian aboriginals upset at government inaction.
Washington -- House in session.
Fort Bliss, Texas -- Roving Sands, war games involving some 30,000 troops, gets under way in West Texas and southern New Mexico. Runs through April 30.
St. Louis -- Federal appeals court hears arguments in Arkansas' Jim Guy Tucker and Susan McDougal cases.
Topeka, Kan. -- Kansas Supreme Court hears case in which spurned suitor sued his fiancee to get his ring back after she broke off the engagement.
Cambridge, Mass. -- Court appearance for woman arrested for photographing her nude son for a class at Harvard.
Hempstead, New York -- Opening of Hofstra University's three-day 10th Presidential Conference, "Leading in a New World," focusing on presidency of George Bush. The Bushes and some Bush Cabinet members to attend.
FRIDAY, April 18:
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Trial of three white extremists convicted in 1994 election-eve bombings, on charges of escaping from prison last year.
Oslo, Norway -- Kon-Tiki voyage's 50th anniversary celebration, with Thor Heyerdahl present.
Alexandria, Va. -- Sentencing in federal court for woman who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $144,000 from the National Parent Network on Disabilities, a charity serving disabled children.
Arlington, Va. -- Official opening of Newseum, the Freedom Forum news museum.
Houston -- Daylong annual Houston Conference on AIDS in America.
Los Angeles -- Hearing for Michael Markhasev, accused in the Ennis Cosby murder.
Las Vegas -- Simpson trial figures Christopher Darden and Kimberly Goldman address victims' rights workshops at Federation of American Health Systems convention.
SATURDAY, April 19:
Sofia, Bulgaria -- Bulgaria holds early parliamentary elections, likely to be won by the Union of Democratic Forces and decisively end the rule by Socialists, the former Communists.
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Congressional hearing on status of Puerto Rico and its relationship with the United States.
Waco, Texas -- Fourth anniversary of mass suicide of 80 Branch Davidians and their leader, David Koresh. Also, second anniversary of bombing of Oklahoma City federal building that killed 168 people.
New York -- Commissioning of U.S. Navy ship, a guided missile destroyer named "USS The Sullivans," in honor of the five "Fighting Sullivan" brothers. The five sailors from Waterloo, Iowa, perished together during World War II when their cruiser, USS Juneau, was sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal.