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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S. ARMY Aviation Symposium and Exhibition themed "Army Aviation - A Firm Foundation, Forging the Future."
AGENDA: Highlight:
8:30 a.m. - Army Aviation In Transformation Industry Perspectives
Patrick Shanahan, Vice President & General Manager Army Programs -- Military Rotocraft
The Boeing Company
Dean C. Borgman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
John R. Murphey, President, Bell Helicopter Textron
Christopher Bernhardt, President and General Manager, ITT Industries, Avionics Division
Joseph G. Thomas, Vice President of Unmanned Air Vehicle Programs, AAI Corporation
Dr. William H. Forster, Vice President, Land Combat System Northrop Grumman Corporation
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: Fairview Park Marriott - 3111 Fairview Park Dr. Falls Church, VA
CONTACT: 703-907-2687
WEB ADDRESS: ausa.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY holds a news conference to release and discuss a first web-based international student, scholar, and faculty tracking system.
WHO: The speakers are:
Fanta Aw, director of International Student Services, American University
Paul Langhan, e-operations special projects team leader
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on agriculture trade policy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles Stenholm, United States Representative (D-TX), Ranking Member, House Committee on Agriculture
John Wood, Ambassador to the United States, New Zealand
Jim Murphy, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, for Agricultural Affairs
Gerard Kiely, Counselor for Agriculture, EU Mission to the United States
Audrae Erickson, President, Corn Refiners Association
Sherman Katz, CSIS Scholl Chair in International Business
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. JACK REED, D-RI, holds a news conference to discuss full funding of the heating assistance program.
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: Senate Swamp, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-3326
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing on aspects of President Bush's new stimulus proposal other than eliminating taxes on dividends, including acceleration of various provisions of the 2001 tax cut and the proposal for personal re-employment accounts. The briefing will assess impacts on the economy, the budget, state
Governments and taxpayers at different income levels.
WHO: The speakers are:
William Gale, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Iris Lav, Deputy Director, CBPP
Joel Friedman, Senior Fellow, CBPP
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, CBPP
DATE: January 8, 2003
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 11:15 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW, D-MI, holds a rally to repeal this special interest provision of the Homeland Security bill.
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: Upper Senate Park, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-4822
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL A.N.S.W.E.R. ACT NOW TO STOP WAR & END RACISM holds a news conference with Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to announce plans for the January 18, 2003, march on Washington: The Movement's Last Chance to Stop the War with Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Partnership for Civil Justice--LDEF
Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
Brian Becker, International Action Center
Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
Peta Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth and Student Coordinator, Howard University student
Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church
Sarah Sloan, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth and Student Organizer
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tony Murphy or Sarah Sloan, 212-633-6646 or 917-653-4185
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on the Spillover Effect: Aftershocks in Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia with Peter H. Liotta, Jerome E. Levy Professor of Economic Geography and National Security, U.S. Naval War College, PA.
DATE: January 8, 2003
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: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on Department of Energy's Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Uncertain Vision, Troubled Program with Milton Russell, University of Tennessee.
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring General James L. Jones, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program to discuss Global Attitudes: How Are We Perceived Abroad?
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Kohut, Director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Hafez Al-Mirazi, Washington Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera TV
Ruediger Lentz, General Manager, German TV, North America;
Former Bureau Chief, Deutsche Welle
Paulo Sotero, Washington Correspondent, O Estado de Sao Paulo
Martin Walker, Chief International Correspondent, United Press International
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Wally Garner Quartet, featuring Wally Garner (clarinet), Bob Smith (piano), Tommy Cecil (bass), and Chuck Redd (drums) performs jazz standards in the tradition of Benny Goodman.
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents curator Wendy Wick Reaves discussing Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, mixing portraits by fine artists with the best commercial artists and caricaturists.
DATE: January 8, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com