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, May 30, 1997



ECONOMIC REPORTS

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

MONDAY: Commerce Department releases personal income-spending. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases April construction spending. 10 a.m.

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

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

FRIDAY: Labor releases May employment report. 8:30 a.m.; Federal Reserve releases April consumer credit. 3 p.m.

SUNDAY, June 1:

Paris -- Second round of French parliamentary elections.

Korsoer, Denmark -- Queen Margrethe officially opens tunnel-and-bridge link across the Storebaelt strait for passenger train traffic.

Singapore -- Festival of Asian Performing Arts. Through June 27.

Bakony, Hungary -- "Delta-97" military exercise begins. Through June 27.

Kansas City, Mo. -- Former Sears catalog warehouse building, a landmark along Interstate 70, is scheduled to be imploded.

Houston -- Israeli Minister of Industry and Trade Natan Sharansky speaks at the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University.

Houston -- Former Houston police chief and Clinton administration drug czar Lee Brown announces his candidacy for Houston mayor.

San Marcos, Calif. -- White Aryan Resistance leader Tom Metzger may give lecture at Cal State San Marcos on the history of racism.

New York -- Tony awards presented.

MONDAY, June 2:

Amsterdam, Netherlands -- The World Newspaper Congress holds its 50th annual international forum for newspaper editors. Through June 4.

Constanta, Romania -- Romania and Ukraine sign a friendship treaty.

Ottawa -- Canadian federal election.

Singapore -- Parliament in session. Through June 4.

Washington -- Supreme Court issues orders and decisions.

Washington -- Congress returns from recess.

Cleveland -- Hearing scheduled in Sam Reese Sheppard's wrongful imprisonment suit for his father's case.

San Francisco -- 2nd World Congress on Family Law and the Rights of Children and Youth. Through June 8.

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Sentencing in federal court for Harry S. Pack and H. Thomas Swartz, two former banking executives convicted of a bank fraud scheme that led to 1993 failure of Jefferson National Bank.

Madison, Wis. -- Trial to begin for five men accused in $13 million Fort McCoy theft.

Huntsville, Texas -- Execution of Patrick Rogers, convicted of the January 1986 shooting death of a police officer.

Portland, Ore. -- Judge hears arguments about scientists' request to examine the 9,300-year-old skeleton known as the Kennewick Man.

Santa Ana, Calif. -- Opening statements in the political corruption trial of Rhonda Carmony, campaign manager and fiancee of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, charged with conspiracy to file fraudulent nomination papers for a Democratic spoiler candidate in a key GOP state legislative election.

Los Angeles -- Hearing likely on whether to retry 1960s Black Panther figure Geronimo Pratt, who was given a new murder trial in a May 29 decision.

TUESDAY, June 3:

Kingstown, St. Vincent -- Arraignment of James and Penella Fletcher of Huntington, W. Va., charged with murdering boat taxi driver.

Phoenix -- Trial scheduled for accused Viper Militia member Charles Knight.

Phoenix -- Testimony resumes in federal fraud trial of Gov. Fife Symington. Government also scheduled to file reply in Symington's bankruptcy case.

Cincinnati -- Les Wilson, a weekly newspaper editor for more than 20 years, to be sentenced on a felony charge that he stole from the Christmas fund he started about 25 years ago.

Wichita, Kan. -- Start of four-day School of Rural Banking Conference.

Huntsville, Texas -- Execution of Kenneth Harris, convicted of the June 1986 rape-slaying of a Houston woman.

Dallas -- Start of federal trial for Evelyn McLaren, wife of Republic of Texas leader Richard McLaren. Mrs. McLaren faces fraud charges.

Ventura, Calif. -- State Supreme Court reviews possible juror misconduct in the case of Ellie Nesler, convicted of the fatal courtroom shooting of a man accused of molesting her son.

Los Angeles -- Divorce hearing for Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton, accused by his wife of spousal abuse and death threats.

Los Angeles County -- Local elections.

WEDNESDAY, June 4:

Paris, France -- Auction of 8,000 bottles of wine from Maxim's restaurant.

Hong Kong -- Hong Kong's last commemoration under British rule of the victims of the Chinese military crackdown on protesters at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.

Memphis, Tenn. -- Hearing regarding James Earl Ray about his request to leave state for medical test. It also may involve results from recent rifle firings to determine whether gun was one used to kill Martin Luther King.

Huntsville, Texas -- Execution of Dorsie Johnson, convicted of the March 1986 shooting death of a convenience store clerk during a robbery.

Huntsville, Texas -- Execution of Davis Losada, convicted of the December 1984 rape-slaying of a 15-year-old girl.

Salem, Ore. -- State regulators decide whether to approve merger between Houston-based Enron Corp. and Portland General Corp.

Richmond, Va. -- Allen administration to review overpayments and underpayments mistakenly made to some of the 5,400 state employees who received benefits or cash buyouts to leave in a plan to shrink state government.

THURSDAY, June 5:

Malmoe, Sweden -- Meeting of Europe's social democrat heads of government opens. Through June 7.

Medellin, Colombia -- International Art Festival begins including artists from the United States, Austria, France, Germany, Argentina, and Uruguay. Through July 5.

Rome -- Former Nazi officer Erich Priebke trial continues.

Algiers, Algeria -- First legislative elections since Muslim insurgency began in 1992.

St. Helena, Calif. -- 17th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction. Through June 8.

Dayton, Ohio -- Trial for U.S. Air Force recruiter Technical Sgt. Robert Dean Hayden, accused of 10 counts of having sex with female recruits.

Alexandria, Va. -- Sentencing in federal court for Harold Nicholson, former CIA agent who pleaded guilty to spying.

Los Angeles -- Civil trial against the UC Board of Regents, UCLA psychiatrists and others, in which families of two schizophrenics enrolled in a UCLA study claim they were never properly warned about the risks and probable relapses involved in the program.

Pasadena, Calif. -- Galileo briefing on the atmosphere of Jupiter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Los Angeles -- Dalai Lama begins two-day visit.

FRIDAY, June 6:

Dublin, Ireland -- National election.

Houston -- Sentencing for Aaron LeBaron, leader of a polygamist cult, for directing 1988 slayings of three former sect members and young girl.

Atmore, Ala. -- Former Ku Klux Klansman Henry Francis Hayes, convicted in the 1981 killing of a black teen-ager whose body was hanged from a tree in Mobile, scheduled for execution at Holman Prison.

Los Angeles -- Spousal abuse trial for actor Harry Morgan.

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Arraignment for fugitive romance novelist Barbara Joslyn.

SATURDAY, June 7:

Playa Grande, Vieques -- Demonstrators plan to enter restricted area of Playa Grande to protest U.S. Navy presence, radar installation.

El Paso, Texas -- Beaumont Army Medical Center begins testing an electronic system that tells managers whether or not food services employees are washing their hands.

Los Angeles -- Christie's sale of film, TV memorabilia, featuring items from Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert.

SUNDAY, June 8:

San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Regional conference promises to put price tags on the price of damaging the environment. Government and private agencies from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean expected. Through June 12.

Vinkovci, Croatia -- President Franjo Tudjman to visit last Serb-held enclave of Croatia.

Overland Park, Kan. -- Opening of two-day Midwest Governors Conference.

Mobile, Ala. -- Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright scheduled to give commencement address at University of South Alabama.




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