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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2002
Tuesday August 20, 2002
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION AND USAID hold a news conference to announce a nearly $41 million public-private undertaking to provide potable water and sanitation facilities to hundreds of thousands of people in rural Ghana, Mali and Niger.
AGENDA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that nearly 1.2 billion people (20% of the world's population) lack access to clean drinking water, and that twice that number, 2.4 billion, lack access to adequate sanitation services.
WHO: The speakers are:
Steven M. Hilton, President, Conrad Hilton Foundation
Andrew Natsios, Administrator, USAID
Bruce Wilkinson, World Vision Senior Vice President, International
DATE: August 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Portia Palmer, 202-712-4422
WEB ADDRESS: usaid.gov
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA holds a news conference release a new report comprehensively documenting the rising number of ATV-related injuries and deaths _ with particular emphasis on children as victims of this crisis.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rachel Weintraub, Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Federation of
America
Dr. Rebeccah Brown, MD, Assistant Director of Trauma Services,
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Jim Helmkamp, PhD, Epidemiologist, Center for Rural Emergency
Medicine, West Virginia University
Scott Kovarovics, Director, Natural Trails and Waters Coalition
DATE: August 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-737-0766
WEB ADDRESS: cfa.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing with Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development discussing "The Food Crisis in Southern Africa: The Challenge to Sustainability."
DATE: August 20, 2002
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-724-1640
WEB ADDRESS:fpc.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing with Dr. R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers discussing "The State of the U.S. Economy"
DATE: August 20, 2002
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-724-1640
WEB ADDRESS:fpc.gov
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents author Harriet Lerner features The Dance Of
Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate."
DATE: August 20, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
Wednesday August 21, 2002
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION National Air and Space Museum Curator's Choice Lecture presents Tom Dietz, Aeronautics Division, discussing Fokker D.VII, one of the best fighter aircraft of World War I.
DATE: August 21, 2002
LOCATION: National Air and Space Museum, 7th and Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
Thursday August 22, 2002
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES holds a panel discussion on Canada's Asylum System: A Threat?
WHO: The speakers are:
James Bissett, former Canadian Ambassador
William Shepot, Immigration counselor, Canadian Embassy
Peter Morton, National Post
DATE: August 22, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-466-8185
WEB ADDRESS: cis.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA holds a news conference on terror Insurance.
DATE: August 22, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-737-0766
WEB ADDRESS: cfa.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program discussing Time For A Sensible Medicare Drug Benefit.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joseph Antos Ph.D., Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute
Grace-Marie Turner, President, Galen Institute
DATE: August 22, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents author Stanley Hirshson's epic biography, General Patton:
A Soldier's Life which creates a new, multi-faceted portrayal of this complex man, soldier and icon.
DATE: August 22, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
Friday August 23, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring presents Nadia Diuk, Director for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy discussing Eleven Years of Ukrainian Independence: A Watershed?
DATE: August 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov
