
Friday, April 4, 1997
The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT): ECONOMIC REPORTS
MONDAY: Federal Reserve releases February consumer credit. 3 p.m.
TUESDAY: National Assocation of Home Builders releases new and existing home prices by metro area for fourth quarter. 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.
FRIDAY: Labor releases March producer prices. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department releases March retail sales. 8:30 a.m.
SUNDAY, April 6:
Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- Key elections for some senate and local council seats.
Halsskov, Denmark -- The bridge-and-tunnel road-and-rail link between Zealand and Funen opens.
Noordwijk, Netherlands -- European Union foreign ministers meet to discuss reworking of EU treaty.
Paris -- Paris Marathon.
Louisville, Ky. -- FloodFest '97 concert to raise money for flood victims. Louisville working short story.
Rochester, Minn. -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and King Hussein expected to meet at the Mayo Clinic where the Jordanian monarch is undergoing prostate treatment.
MONDAY, April 7:
Vatican City -- Pope to meet Polish president.
Strasbourg, France -- European Parliament holds regular monthly session. Through April 11.
New Delhi, India -- Foreign ministers of nations of the Nonaligned Movement meet for regular consultations to decide agenda of next summit.
Noordwijk, Netherlands -- European Union foriegn ministers meet counterparts from Rio Group of Latin American nations. Through April 8.
Frankfurt, Germany -- Lufthansa unions and airline meet to settle wage contract conflict.
Washington -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Clinton meet to talk about how to rescue the faltering Mideast peace process.
Washington -- Senate returns.
Washington -- Supreme Court in recess until April 14.
Cambridge, Mass. -- Louise Woodward, British au pair charged with killing an infant in her care, due in court for pretrial conference.
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Sixth International World Wide Web conference. Through April 11.
Sacramento, Calif. -- Scheduled start of trial of sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former intern against former assemblyman.
New York -- Announcement of Pulitzer Prizes by Columbia University.
Arlington, Va. -- Media preview for opening later this month of Newseum, the Freedom Forum museum of news.
El Paso, Texas -- Testimony expected to continue in wrongful death suit filed against Juarez maquila. This case is unusual because it's being tried in a U.S. court while the killing that prompted the suit was in Mexico.
Los Angeles -- Trial in lawsuit by Ricardo Montalban against Columbia Pictures involving participation in the profits of the "Fantasy Island" TV series.
TUESDAY, April 8:
Zagreb, Croatia -- Czech foreign minister arrives for visit. Through April 9.
Paris -- Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov visits as NATO countries and Russia debate NATO enlargement. Through April 9.
Washington -- House of Representatives returns.
New York -- Auction of legendary 1804 U.S. silver dollar, one of only 15 known and described by collectors as "the king of American coins." From estate of Baltimore banker, only person known to have a complete collection of U.S. coins.
Notasulga, Ala. -- Survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a notorious federal government experiment in which black men were denied treatment for the disease, gather to demand a formal apology from the government.
Harrisonburg, Va. -- Capital murder trial of Jamie Raymond, who is accused of killing a former university professor who involved her and others in prostitution.
Billings, Mont. -- Pretrial conferences begin in Freemen criminal trials. Through April 10.
Los Angeles -- Mayoral election.
WEDNESDAY, April 9:
Paris -- Chile President Eduardo Frei visits. Through April 13.
Paris -- Delacroix exhibition opens at Paris' Grand Palais.
Marietta, Ga. -- Lockheed Martin rolls out its new F-22 fighter jet for the Air Force.
Eau Claire, Wis. -- Third annual Hmong National Conference.
THURSDAY, April 10:
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Conference on problems and impact of Dominican migration, mostly illegal, to Puerto Rico.
Los Angeles -- Los Angeles Urban League's 24th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Award Dinner honoring Denzel Washington.
Los Angeles -- Rod Steiger gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
FRIDAY, April 11:
Berlin -- Third colloquium on planned Holocaust memorial in Germany.
Boston -- King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will be guests of Sen. Edward Kennedy and his wife at dinner at Kennedy Library.
San Francisco -- Bonnie & Clyde memorabilia goes on the auction block.
Sacramento, Calif. -- Hearing on defense's appeal of order requiring Ted Kaczuynski to provide handwriting samples to the prosecution.
Herkimer, N.Y. -- Sentencing for Lewis Lent Jr. for the kidnapping-murder of Sara Anne Wood.
SATURDAY, April 12:
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Pope John Paul II arrives for 24-hour visit.
Marne-la-Vallee, France -- After years of losses, a booming Disneyland Paris fetes a profitable fifth anniversary.
Warm Springs, Ga. -- Anne Roosevelt is host of a tribute to her grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the anniversary of his death.
Montgomery, Ala. -- A national "Save The Ten Commandments Rally" will be held on the steps of the Alabama Capitol in support of a judge who has been ordered to remove or alter a carved display of the Ten Commandments from behind his bench.
Green Bay, Wis. -- 1997 Pro-Life Conference.
San Antonio -- Runoff election to fill congressional seat of late Frank Tejeda.
San Antonio -- National Association of Elementary School Principals convention.
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 -- Voters cast ballots in municipal elections.
Worcester, Mass. -- Reunion of shoeshine boys who worked during 1940s and 1950s at the Vernon Hill American Legion Post.
Charlottesville, Va. -- Wreath-laying ceremony at Thomas Jefferson's gravesite on the 254th anniversary of his birth.
San Diego -- American Association for Cancer Research meets.