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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: FOOD AND FRIENDS holds its 6th annual "Dining Out For Life" fundraiser.

AGENDA: It's easy: Eat at any participating restaurant on Thursday, March 14th, and a donation that equal to 25% - 100% of your food bill, will be donated to Food & Friends®.

DATE: March 14, 2002

CONTACT: John Butler, 202-887-0500

WEB ADDRESS: foodandfriends.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES holds an ecumenical conference on welfare reauthorization themed "TANF Action Days in Washington." In 2002 the U.S. Congress must reauthorize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Food Stamp Program, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant, three crucial programs addressing domestic poverty. The programs will end if they are not reauthorized.

AGENDA: Highlight:

12:30 p.m. - Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) will speak first, on the Poor People's Caucus, followed by an overview on the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act and panel presentation on key issues. The afternoon will be spent in visits with senators and representatives, 2226 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC

DATE: March 14, 2002

CONTACT: 202-544-2350

WEB ADDRESS: ncccusa.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on "NATO and the Baltic States: Three Countries, One Voice."

AGENDA: Highlights:

Sven Mikser, Minister of Defense, Estonia

Girts Valdis Kristovskis, Minister of Defense, Republic of Latvia

Linas Linkevicius, Minister of Defense, Republic of Lithuania

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: LOCKHEED MARTIN holds a news conference and demonstration on the biomailsolutions detection system for mail processing.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: Washington Convention Center, 900 9th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 212-375-0021

WEB ADDRESS: lmco.com

TIME: 9:15 a.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Contemporary Arab Studies presents breakfast with the Ambassador featuring Ambassador to the U.S. from Syria Dr. Rostom Al Zoubi

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-678-6215

WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: PEACE THROUGH LAW EDUCATION FUND holds a news conference to discuss the release of "A Force for Peace and Security: U.S. and Allied Commanders' Views of the Military's Role in Peace Operations and the Impact on Terrorism of States in Conflict," an 80-plus page report based on interviews with more than 30 senior U.S. and allied military commanders

WHO: The speakers are:

General William Nash (USA-ret.)

Colonel Richard Roan (USMC-ret.)

Beth C. DeGrasse, Executive Director

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-686-4600

WEB ADDRESS: ptlef.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds a briefing on "Health and Security."

WHO: The speakers are:

Ken Bernard, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service

Kathleen Vogel, PH.D, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Public Policy, University of New Mexico

Jonathan B. Tucker, PH.D., Director, Chemical & Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Washington DC Office

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-429-3832

WEB ADDRESS:usip.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discussing critical need for increased attention to developing renewable energy technologies that reduce America's vulnerability from disruption to our energy supply, whatever the source: terrorism, economic or political pressure, or natural disaster.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss problems with state unemployment insurance systems and ways to fix them.

WHO: The speakers are:

Jeff Wenger, Economist, Economic Policy Institute

Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security, CBPP

Maurice Emsellem, Policy Director, National Employment Law Project

DATE: March 14, 2002

CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.

WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on "Ten Myths about School Choice: Answering the Campaign against School Vouchers."

WHO: The speakers are:

Kaleem Caire, Black Alliance for Educational Options

Quentin Lawson, National Alliance of Black School Educators; and Casey Lartigue, Cato Institute.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program with Bradford Dillman, MEI's newest scholar-in-residence, examining the tensions between economic reform and political stability in the Maghreb region, with a special emphasis on Algeria and Morocco.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-785-1141

WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program features Javier Hamann, Policy Development and Review, International Monetary Fund, on exchange rate regimes.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: Hudson Institute, 3rd floor, 1015 18th St., NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703-739-9404

WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE features Washington Bureau chief of Egypt's Al-Ahram Newspaper Mohamed El Sayed Said.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-338-1290

WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents author Jackie Bong-Wright discussing and signing copies of Vietnam From the Inside Looking Out. Just before the fall of Saigon, she and her children fled the country with the help of friends at the U.S. Embassy. They landed in the U.S. after spending two months in three refugee camps.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE holds a panel discussion on"The Future of U.S.-Venezuela Relations."

WHO: The speakers are:

Alfonso Marquina - Acción Democrática

Jose Luis Mejías - Primero Justicia

Julio Castillo - Proyecto Venezuela

Cesar Pérez Vivas - COPEI

Felipe Mujica - Movimiento al Socialismo

Manuel Cova - CTV

Carlos Fernández - FEDECAMARAS

Alexandra Belandia Ruizpineda - Mujeres Democráticas Unidas

Leonardo Carvajal - Asamblea Nacional de Educación

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1225 I St., NW Suite 700, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-408-9450

WEB ADDRESS: iri.org

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Joseph Marino Writer Series featuring Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-selling novelist, discussing The East, the West, and the Novels.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: Intercultural Center Auditorium,37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents "2002 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital," featuring the Washington premiere of "The Hospital at the End of the Earth," a CBC Television production about the town of Muynak on the Aral Sea, once a popular Soviet tourist destination with a thriving fishery. But since the Aral Sea disappeared, the busiest place in town is the tuberculosis dispensary.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on "The Caribbean Diaspora: Economic, Social, Political Impacts."

AGENDA: Highlights:

Leonel Fernández Reyna, cochair, U.S.-Caribbean Executives Club

Amb. Charles T. Manatt, cochair, U.S.-Caribbean Executives Club

Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-NC), chair, House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs

Del. Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá (D-PR)

Del. Donna M. Christian-Christensen (D-VI)

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents editor Jay Carr who is the film critic for The Boston Globe, Carrie Rickey for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Michael Sragow for The Baltimore Sun discussing and signing copies of "The A LIST: The National Society of Film Critics' 100." Essential Films.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com

TIME: 8 p.m.

EVENT: EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA presents Anika Vavic in a panio concert.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Ct. NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-895-6775

WEB ADDRESS: austria.org