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EVENTS ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2002
February 12, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program with six former U.S. trade representatives discussing trade policy challenges facing the Bush administration.
WHO: The speakers are:
9:15 a.m. - Implementing the Doha WTO Agenda
Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative, 1985-1988
9:45 a.m. - Implications of China/Taiwan membership in WTO
Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, 1997-2001
10:15 a.m. - U.S.-EU Trade Policy Relations
Mickey Kantor, U.S. Trade Representative, 1993-1996
11 a.m. - Post-Argentina Crisis, FTAA with U.S.-Brazilian Chairmanship
Carla Hills, U.S. Trade Representative 1989-1993
11:30 a.m. - Fast Track: Lessons from the House, Prospects in the Senate
William Brock, U.S. Trade Representative, 1981-1985
12 noon - Policy Choices on Steel and Lumber; U.S.-EU Trade Relations
William Eberle, U.S. Trade Representative, 1971-1975
DATE: February 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a news conference launching a major effort to seek solutions to the problem of the uninsured.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
John J. Castellani, President, The Business Roundtable
Andrew Stern, President, Service Employees International Union
Yank D. Coble Jr., MD, President-Elect, American Medical Association
Mary E. Foley, MS, RN, President, American Nurses Association
Donald Young, MD, President, Health Insurance Association of America
Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA
Sister Mary Roch Rocklage, RSM, Chairperson of the Board, American Hospital Association
Charles N. Kahn III, President, Federation of American Hospitals
Michael Collins, MD, FACP, Chair of the Board, Catholic Health Association of the United States
TBD, AARP
Steven A. Schroeder, MD, President and CEO, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, Senior Vice President and Director, Health Care Group, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mary Lou Harvey, Binghamton, NY, will speak about her uninsured daughter who died of cancer
DATE: February 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Fighting Terrorism In A Democratic Society with John Reid, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
DATE: February 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Salvatore Sodano, Chairman and CEO, The American Stock Exchange discussing "Challenges Facing the Capital Markets as a Result of September 11th and Enron."
DATE: February 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
February 13, 2002
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Rear Admiral Richard D. West discussing "Oceanography Playing A Unique Role In The War On Terrorism."
DATE: February 13, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Educational Reform in Ukraine: Transition from Soviet to Democratic Education with Dr. Mykhaylo Z. Zgurovsky, Rector of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute," Director of the Institute for Applied System Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
DATE: February 13, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Trade War or Tax Reform?: The WTO Ruling on Tax Breaks for U.S. Exporters.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Phil Crane, R-IL, Committee on Ways and Means
William Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council
John Meagher, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Chris Edwards, Cato Institute
DATE: February 13, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Expansion Of Free Trade In America: The Extension Of NAFTA To Chile" with Paul Fekete, senior vice president of Samuels International Associates, Inc.
DATE: February 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
February 14, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program featuring Michael Hoyt, Former Foreign Service Officer discussing "Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return To The Heart Of Darkness."
DATE: February 13, 2002
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 President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf discussing "Pakistan's Future: Challenges and Opportunities."
DATE: February 14, 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: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum on "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living among Us," with Steven Emerson detailing the origins and activities of militant terrorist groups in the United States, including when and why they first came to America.
DATE: February 14, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
February 15, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Global Landmine Elimination and the Ottawa Convention: Canadian Foreign Policy at Work," with Christopher Kirkey, Professor of Canadian Studies and Political Science at Bridgewater State College and Canadian Mine Action Scholar-in-Residence.
DATE: February 13, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES Friday Film presents *In Black and White: Black Cinema, 1992. In 1916, the first "all colored" film, The Birth of a Race, was made as a protest against D.W. Griffith's controversial Birth of a Nation. As a result, the black independent cinema of Harlem was born.
DATE: February 15, 2002
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Dwarfs In Ancient Egypt" with Chahira Kozma, a professor from Georgetown University.
DATE: February 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org