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Washington Agenda-General

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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2002

TIME: All day

EVENT: UNITED STATES ENERGY ASSOCIATION holds its energy industry summit.

AGENDA: The summit meeting will honor the voluntary contributions of executives from Eurasia and U.S. investor-owned utilities, regulatory commissions, and trade associations that conducted, on a pro-bono basis, over 800 exchange visits, seminars, internships and training courses for their partners in the nations of the former Soviet Union since 1992.

WHO: The speakers are:

9a.m. -- Concurrent Sessions:

Improving Commercial Operations and Best Practices

Energy Based Civil Society: Consumer Outreach Public Affairs and NGO Developments

Promoting Efficiency, Renewables and Independent Power Projects

11 a.m. - Plenary Session: Breakout Review by Co-Moderators (Location: Rotunda Room)

12 noon - Linda Breathitt, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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2 p.m. - Panel Session: Measuring Progress, Assessing Challenges

William Taylor, Coordinator for U.S. Assistance for Europe and Eurasia, U.S. State Department

4 p.m. - panel Session: Future Direction

Linda Morse, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development

Barry K. Worthington, Executive Director, U.S. Energy Association

Dr. Robert F. Ichord, Jr. Chief, Office of Energy and Infrastructure, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development

Yaroslav Shpak, Chairman of the Supervisory Council, Lvivoblenergo

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-312-1243

WEB ADDRESS: usea.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS holds its health braintrust Themed The Voice for Global Understanding

AGENDA: Highlight:

10 a.m. -- Real Promises to Keep: Meeting the Needs of African Americans with Disabilities, Member Room, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, DC

4 p.m. -- Mobilizing for the Health Movement - Activism, Advocacy and the Role of Civil Disobedience, B-338 Rayburn Office Building

DATE: September 10, 2002

CONTACT: 202-225-1790

TIME: 7:30 a.m.

EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL E-Business Morning Forum featuring David R. Barkley, Director of eCommerce Relations for Freddie Mac.

DATE: September 10, 2002

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LOCATION: SAIC Conference Center, 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA

CONTACT: 703-904-7878

WEB ADDRESS:nvtc.org

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: 9:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds its 40th anniversary conference on America's Role In The World.

AGENDA: Highlights:

9:30 a.m. -- 9:40 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

John Hamre, CSIS President and CEO

9:40 a.m. -- Panel, "The Grand Chessboard"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, CSIS Counselor and Trustee

Anthony Cordesman, Burke Chair

Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies

Teresita Schaffer, Director, South Asia Program

Simon Serfaty, Director, Europe Program

Celeste Wallander, Director, Russia/Eurasia Program

11:45 a.m. -- "America's Role in the World"

Brent Scowcroft CSIS Counselor and Trustee

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Richard Armitage, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

1:15 p.m. -- "Biotechnology Challenges for the Future"

Charles Sanders, CSIS Trustee

Eric Lander, Director, Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research

2 p.m. -- "U.S. Leadership in a Stable

Global Financial System"

Richard Fairbanks, CSIS Counselor and Trustee Remarks

Kenneth Dam, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

3 p.m. -- Closing Remarks

Zbigniew Brzezinski, CSIS Counselor and Trustee

John Hamre, CSIS President and CEO

7:30 p.m. -- Anniversary Gala featuring Vice President Dick Cheney

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Atrium Ballroom, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL FUND holds a wreath laying ceremony.

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: Judiciary Square, E Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-737-3400

WEB ADDRESS: nleomf.com

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Leadership Forum featuring Yashwant Sinha, External Affairs Minister of India discussing "India and the United States: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Together."

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-797-6105

WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu

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TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Foreign Minister Cimoszewicz dedicating a statue memorializing the late Georgetown Professor Jan Karski and delivering an address on the Polish perspective on transatlantic relations. AGENDA: Highlighted speakers:

Provost James O'Donnell, Georgetown University

Dean Robert Gallucci, Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Dean Emeritus Peter Krogh, Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

DATE: September 10, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 10:30 a.m.

EVENT: COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS holds a community interfaith vigil to mark the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

AGENDA: The event, called "A Night of Remembrance and Reflection," will include a

candle-light vigil, a children's choir, poetry readings, and speeches from

local community and religious leaders.

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: Capitol Reflecting Pool (Westside), Washington, DC

CONTACT: Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726

WEB ADDRESS: cair-net.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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Lee Hamilton, Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center discussing the direction of current U.S. foreign policy as well as addressing the issues of homeland security.

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.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: 1 p.m.

EVENT: MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH, GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL, PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION, AND WORLD BANK hold a seminar on working to improve health care in developing countries entitled Managing in a New Context: Public Sector as Steward.

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WHO: The speakers are:

Karen Cavanaugh, is a Senior Health Economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development

Hector Colindres, M.D. , management, organizational development, and leadership consultant in Latin America, where he works for MSH as a Principal Program Associate

Eduardo Levcovitz, M.P.H., M.D., Ph.D, Division of Health Systems and Services Development at the Pan American Health Organization

Judith Seltzer, M.P.H., M.B.A., is a Principal Program Associate with MSH

DATE:

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

CONTACT: 617-524-7799

WEB ADDRESS: msh.org/seminars

TIME: 2:30 p.m.

EVENT: FREEDOM HOUSE holds a briefing on the second convening of the Community of Democracies conference.

WHO: The speakers are:

Poland's Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz,

Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky

Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister for Policy Planning and International

Organizations, Chang-beom Cho

Freedom House Vice-Chairman Mark Palmer, will also participate.

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: Freedom House, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Madeline Lohman, 202-296-5101 X135

WEB ADDRESS: freedomhouse.org

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE a seminar on Social Security and young Americans.

AGENDA: Highlights:

4:30 p.m. - Young Workers' Unique Stake in Social Security Reform

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Richard Thau, Executive Director, Third Millennium

Meredith Bagby, Board Member, Third Millennium

Matthew Moore, Policy Analyst, National Center for Policy Analysis

Shaun O'Brien, Assistant Director, Public Policy Department, AFL-CIO

Sarah Harding, Policy Analyst, Economic Policy Institute

Tom Ivancie, President, America's Future Foundation

Who's Cutting What? Comparing Costs and Benefits in the Social Security Reform Debate

Andrew G. Biggs, Social Security Analyst, Cato Institute

DATE: September 10, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

TIME: 5 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum on The War Against The Terror Masters.

WHO: The speakers are:

Michael A. Ledeen, AEI

Duane Clarridge, Central Intelligence Agency

Gen. Wayne Downing, former commander of U.S. Special Forces

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE NEW THEATRICAL WORKS presents Stanislavsky Theater Studio featuring Chicha the Fox.

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.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.

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DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries series, returns with another hilarious and often poignant foray into a world turned upside-down in "All American Girl."

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919.

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com

TIME: 7:30 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies host a panel discussion titled, "The Impact of September 11th on American Politics."

WHO: The speakers are:

Judge William Sessions, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; partner, Holland & Knight

Rep. Brian Baird, D-WA and Author of the Congressional Continuity Amendment

Rep. Ray LaHood, R-IL

Donna Brazile, Democratic National Committee; campaign manager

DATE: September 10, 2002

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

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