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Washington Agenda-Weekahead

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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2002

Tuesday September 10, 2002

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Potential for a Nonviolent Intifada: A New Possibility for the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict."

WHO: The speakers are:

John Marks, president of Search for Common Ground

Susan Collin Marks, SFCG executive vice-president

Steve Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes and professor of public affairs at the University of Maryland

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss a new report projecting that by the end of September, 1.5 million unemployed workers will exhaust federal emergency unemployment insurance benefits enacted by Congress in March without finding work.

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WHO: The speakers are:

Robert Greenstein, Executive Director

Wendell Primus, Director, Income Security

DATE: September 10, 2002

CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.

WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Terrorism Insurance.

WHO: The speakers are:

Hank Greenberg, Chairman and CEO, AIG

Rep. Michael Oxley, R-OH

Carlos Bonilla, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, National Economic Council

Harold Skipper, Professor, College of Business Administration, Georgia State University

Steven Wechsler, Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT)

Laurence Meyer, CSIS Distinguished Scholar

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The End of NATO" featuring Anatol Lieven, senior associate for foreign and security policy at the Russia and Eurasia Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

Wednesday September 11, 2002

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features R. James Woolsey, Booz Allen Hamilton and formerly, director of Central Intelligence discussing "World War IV and Energy Security."

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DATE: September 11, 2002

LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-328-5000

WEB ADDRESS: rff.org

TIME: 2 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY College of Law will host a discussion on the legal implications of the terrorist attacks of September 11. "The Global Human Community: Challenge and Promise."

WHO: The speakers are:

Dean Claudio Grossman

Professors Jamin Raskin, Angela J. Davis and Muneer Ahmad will discuss domestic issues

Professors Bob Goldman and Diane Orentlicher will discuss international issues including

DATE: September 11, 2002

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

Thursday September 12, 2002

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE special briefing on the release of a report entitled "Iraq: A New Approach." The panelists will detail a plan for "coercive inspections" proposed in the new Carnegie report, in which a multinational military force created by the UN Security Council would enable international inspections teams to operate effectively in Iraq. It is a middle ground between the two existing approaches to Iraq: continue to do nothing, or pursue an overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

WHO: The speakers are:

Ambassador Rolf Ekeus -- Chairman, Stockholm International Peace Institute & Former Executive Chairman, UNSCOM

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Jessica T. Mathews -- President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Charles G. Boyd (General, U.S. Air Force, Ret.) -- Kissinger Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security

Patrick Clawson -- Deputy Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Joseph Cirincione, Director, Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project

DATE: September 12, 2002

LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-483-7600

WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a briefing on China's WTO Compliance Record.

WHO: The speakers are:

Greg Lebedev, U.S. Chamber Chief Operating Officer

Myron Brilliant, U.S. Chamber Vice President for Asia

Richard Holwill, Asia Task Force Co-Chair, and Director of International

Affairs, Alticor Inc.

Sandra Kristoff, Asia Task Force Co-Chair, and Senior Vice President,

International Government Affairs, New York Life International

DATE: September 12, 2002

LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-463-5682

WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com

TIME: 12:15 p.m.

EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a luncheon briefing on Today's Challenges and Future Directions for the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

WHO: The speakers are:

Tom Scully, administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Cindy Mann of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy at Georgetown University

Edwin Park from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Texas'

Jason Cooke, co-director of the National Alliance of State CHIP Directors

Senator Jay Rockefeller, Alliance chairman

Warren A. Jones, MD, president of The American Academy of Family Physicians

DATE: September 12, 2002

LOCATION: Columbus Club, Union Station, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-2300

WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Sen. Conrad Burns, R-MT, discussing "Post 911 American Energy Policy: Importing Russian/Caspian Crude in the Age of Terrorist Oil."

DATE: September 12, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 2 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, Ulrik Federspiel, discussing "Europe's Global Responsibility."

DATE: September 12, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

Friday September 13, 2002

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Turkey in Crisis: Implications for Washington with Henri Barkey, Department Chair of International Relations, Lehigh University.

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DATE:

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring General Richard Meyers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff .

DATE: September 13, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on From Homeland Defense to Nation Building: A Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic.

WHO: The speakers are:

Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute

Doug Bandow, Cato Institute

DATE: September 13, 2002

LOCATION: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Portuguese Legacy in Asia with Howard J. Wiarda, Senior Scholar, Wilson Center, and Professor of International Politics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

DATE: September 13, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

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