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Washington Agenda - General News Events

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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2001

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: GLOBAL BUSINESS DIALOGUE AND NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL hold a program on Doha Ministerial and the Future of the World Trade Organization.

WHO: The speakers are:

Nau Matsukata, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Christopher Padilla, Kodak

Jean Francois Bottin, French Embassy (invited)

Gary Horkick, O'Melveny & Meyers

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-463-5075

WEB ADDRESS:gbdinc.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: ROBERT F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION presents its 18th annual RFK Human Rights Award to Darci Frigo, an attorney and human rights advocate with the Pastoral Land Commission, an ecumenical arm of the social ministry of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops.

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AGENDA: The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award is presented annually to individuals who, at great risk, stand up to oppression in the non-violent pursuit of respect for human rights.

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: Senate Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-463-7575 ext. 241

WEB ADDRESS: rfkmemorial.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL holds a news conference releasing the 2001/2002 Winter Assessment.

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

WEB ADDRESS: nerc.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: US PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP holds a news conference releasing a report on potential hazards to young children posed by toys.

WHO: The speakers are:

Rachel Weibtraub, attorney, US PIRG

Dr. Ben Gitterman, director of Ambulatory and Community Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-546-9707

WEB ADDRESS:uspirg

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: REP. PATRICK KENNEDY, D-RI, REP. GEORGE RADANOVICH, R-CA, AND CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS hold a briefing on human rights and 2002 Elections in Laos.

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-543-1444

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Anna Polikovskaya, war correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta and author of "Chechnya, A Dirty War", who has fled Russia after alleged threats from the military.

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 11:45 a.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The War in Chechnya: Perspectives of a Russian Journalist" with Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's most noted war correspondents in Chechnya.

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY BMW Center for German and European Studies presents a seminar entitled Crossing Europe: The Party Politics of Euroscepticism in EU Member and Candidate States with Paul Taggart who is visiting Georgetown while he is on leave from his position as Senior Lecturer in Politics and Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer at the Sussex European Institute in the UK.

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

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TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Left Transformed: Social Democrats and Neo-Leninists in Post-Communist Societies with Jane Curry, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Santa Clara University, CA.

DATE: November 20, 2001

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: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION The High-Tech Bubble Seems to Have Burst--or has it? A Historical Perspective with Debra Spar, Author, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos and Wealth from Buccaneers to Bill Gates

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901

WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Colonel Malcolm Bruce Westcott Deputy Chief, Army Reserve, Office of the Chief, Army Reserve, discussing The Role of the U.S. Army Reserve in the Current Crisis.

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Cooperating on Counter-Terrorism: What Price for Southeast Asia?

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with Catharine Dalpino, a fellow and deputy director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN holds a news conference to protest Bristol-Myers Squibb's attempts to obtain three years of additional patent life on the blockbuster diabetes drug, Glucophage.

WHO: The speakers are:

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA

Frank Clemente, Director, Public Citizen's Congress Watch

Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 2203 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-454-5155

WEB ADDRESS:citizen.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its " Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring Hussein Ibish, Communications Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee discussing condition of the Arab-American community in the post-Sept. 11 environment, and patterns of hate crimes and discrimination during this period.

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY AND Carnegie Commission on Ethics and International Affairs, Search for Common Ground hold a program on Negotiating Peace in Macedonia

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WHO: The speakers are:

Ambassador Pardew served as Deputy Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Democracy in the Balkans during the conflict in Kosovo and subsequent peace implementation from 1999-2001

Victor Comras, who served for 35 years with the State Department as an attorney and Senior Foreign Service Officer

DATE: November 20, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: POTOMAC INSTITUTE CENTER FOR TERRORISM STUDIES holds a program on "The New War Challenges: From Aviation TO Nuclear Terrorism?"

WHO: The speakers are:

Stuart Kerr, director, International Law Institute

Professor Yonah Alexander, Senior Fellow and Director, ICTS, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Professor Edgar Brenner, Co-Director, Inter-University Center for Legal Studies

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: International Law Institute, 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703-525-0770

WEB ADDRESS: potomacinstitite.com

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Modern Theory who are an innovative flute and marimba duo dedicated to expanding the performance experience of current music as well as music of the past.

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

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TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER presents a seminar entitled International Understanding: Turmoil in Afghanistan: Regional Implications.

AGENDA: Highlight:

WHO: The speakers are:

Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor-at-Large, UPI and The Washington Times; Director, Global Organized Crime Project, CSIS

Charles William Maynes, President, Eurasia Foundation; former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations

S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia Institute; Johns Hopkins University/SAIS; former President, Oberlin College

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 1630 Crescent Place NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-939-5525

WEB ADDRESS:meridian.org

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features author Johanna Fiedler discussing and signing copies of Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera.

DATE: November 20, 2001

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com

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