National & World Events
Here is the Associated Press list
of national and foreign events for this week.

Monday, July 1, 1996



Economic Reports

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

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

TUESDAY: Commerce releases May new home sales. 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department releases May factory orders. 10 a.m.

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

SUNDAY, June 30:

Lyon, France - President Clinton departs for trips to Elgin and Patrick Air Force bases in Florida.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Second round of presidential election.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - U.N. mandate in Haiti expires.

Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina - First postwar elections in still-divided Muslim-Croat city.

Los Angeles - Vice President Gore gives keynote address at ShowBiz Expo.

San Antonio - Education Commission of the States convention begins.

Albuquerque, N.M. - 208th General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (USA). Through July 6.

New York - Gay & Lesbian Pride March.



MONDAY, July 1:

Northern Territory, Australia - World's first law permitting euthanasia for the terminally ill takes effect.

Dublin, Ireland - Ireland takes over 6-month presidency of European Union.

Tirana, Albania - Newly elected Albanian parliament meets for first time.

Bucharest, Romania - Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives for one-day visit, as part of her two-week tour of Central and East European countries.

Washington - Congress in recess until July 8.

Washington - Supreme Court meets to issue orders and decisions.

Washington - Surface Transportation Board, successor to Interstate Commerce Commission, hears arguments in proposed Union Pacific-Southern Pacific railroad merger.

San Antonio - Gov. George W. Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson hold news conference for Education Commission of the States.

Boulder, Colo. - Unmarried couples, including homosexuals, can begin registering their commitment to one another for $25.

Kirksville, Mo. - Northeast Missouri State University officially changes its name to Truman State.

Norfolk, Va. - First day for new telephone area code 757.

New York - Court TV marks its fifth anniversary.

New York - Last change of command ceremony for the Coast Guard cutter Dallas at Governors Island; after its next patrol it will head to its new home port in Charleston, S.C.



TUESDAY, July 2:

Durban, South Africa - Trial in attack on a wife and daughter of King Goodwill Zwelithini.

Budapest and Taszar, Hungary - Defense Secretary William Perry arrives for talks with Hungarian leaders and to visit U.S. troops at IFOR base.

Helsingoer, Denmark - International Conference on Mine Clearance Technology.

Warsaw, Poland - Lady Margaret Thatcher on a visit. Also in Poznan. Through July 4.

Krakow, Poland - Hillary Rodham Clinton on a visit. Also in Auschwitz and Warsaw. Through July 3.

Washington - President Clinton to visit Chicago.

Washington - Federal Open Market Committee meets. Through July 3.

Los Angeles - Sentencing in Menendez brothers parental murder retrial.

Las Vegas, Nev. - Ross Perot to give keynote speech at Optimist International convention.

Matagorda Island, Texas - More than a dozen northern aplomado falcons released to help replenish the world's population.

Pueblo, Colo. - 29th reunion of crew of the USS Pueblo, which was seized on Jan. 23, 1968, by North Korean warships.

Stafford, Va. - Scheduled vote on the Wal-Mart at George Washington's farm.

New York - Press preview of "City of Ambition: Artists & New York, 1900-1960" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

New York - Scheduled federal bankruptcy hearing to ascertain assets of subway gunman Bernard Goetz.



WEDNESDAY, July 3:

Moscow - Presidential runoff election between Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov.

Prague, Czech Republic - Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Czech Republic.

Washington - Surface Transportation Board to rule on merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.

Dallas - Custody hearing for 8-month-old son of woman accused on killing her 6- and 7-year-old sons while they slept.

Houston - 1996 national convention for Mensa, the international high IQ society.

Denver - Immigration hearing for Jorg Peter Schmitz, charged in the hit-and-run death of Rocky Mountain News columnist Greg Lopez.

Newport News, Va. - City welcomes delegation from sister city of Neyagawa, Japan.



THURSDAY, July 4:

Independence Day holiday.

Bridgetown, Barbados - Heads of Government Conference for 14-nation Caribbean Community.

Rebild, Denmark - Largest Fourth of July celebrations outside United States.

New York - Financial markets closed.

Luckenbach, Texas - Willie Nelson's annual 4th of July picnic.

El Paso, Texas - 4,000 people are naturalized in Independence Day ceremony.

St. Louis - Start of Fair St. Louis.

New York - 92nd Street Y sponsors annual "all night" candlelight walking tour of Revolutionary War sites.

New York - Macy's 20th annual Fourth of July fireworks spectacular.



FRIDAY, July 5:

Belene, Bulgaria - Joint military exercise with participation of the United States, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Malta under the Partnership for Peace program near this Danube river town.

Copenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Charlotte, N.C. - National NAACP convention. Through July 11.

Columbus, Ohio - Grand re-opening ceremony for renovated Ohio Statehouse.

Smithville, Tenn. - 25th Annual Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree. Competition for amateur bluegrass musicians that draws contestants from many states.



SATURDAY, July 6:

Sofia, Bulgaria - Meeting of foreign ministers from southeastern Europe.

Budapest, Hungary - Hillary Rodham Clinton visits.

New York - "Equity on the Information Superhighway" is the theme of the American Library Association's 115th annual conference. Through July 10.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Shuttle Columbia is scheduled to return to Earth, but mission may be extended one day.



SUNDAY, July 7:

Vancouver, British Columbia - International conference on AIDS. Through July 12.

Kielce, Poland - The 1946 Jewish Pogrom anniversary to be observed.




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