UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
For content questions, call 202-898-8291
To fax additions or changes, 202-898-8064
For the UPI News Desk call, 202-898-8111 or 8015
EVENTS ON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, the Korea Press Foundation and the Government Information Agency of Korea hold a conference entitled International Security and Domestic Reforms: Related Problems for South Korea."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Remarks
SAIS Dean, Jessica Einhorn
Executive Director of Korea Press Foundation, Roh, Jeong-Seon
9:15 a.m. - Session 1: The United States and the Two Koreas
How to respond to the changing internal and external security environment?
An Examination of Anti-American sentiment, North Korean issues and the US-ROK, alliance
David Brown (SAIS)
Yoo, Jay-kun (A member of National Assembly)
Park, Jin (A Member of National Assembly)
Daniel Pinkston (Center for Nonproliferation Studies)
Daniel Poneman (former NSC staff)
11 a.m. - Keynote Speaker
Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-NY
Topic: North Korean affairs and the U. S. - ROK relationship
1:30 p.m. - Guest Speaker
Hahn, Hwa kap (Former Chairman of Supreme Council in the Ruling party in ROK)
Topic: The Inter-Koreas relations and Domestic Politics
2:10 p.m. - Session 2: Political Reform in South Korea
Where should political reform head?
Reforms in the ROK domestic political systems
Nathaniel B. Thayer (SAIS)
Kim, Joon-hyung (Handong University)
Kirk Larsen (George Washington University)
Stephen Costello (Atlantic Council)
Discussant: Im, Hyug-baeg (Korea University)
3:50 p.m. - Session 3: Role of Mass Media in South Korea
What should be the role of the mass media in Korean Affairs?
Kent Calder (SAIS)
Donald Oberdorfer (SAIS)
David Steinberg (Georgetown University)
Yeom, Ju-in (Yonhap News Agency)
Chung, Woo-rang (JoongAng Daily)
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND JANE'S present a conference on Companies on the Ground: The Challenges for Business in Rebuilding Iraq.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Kurt Campbell, Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security, CSIS
8:15 a.m. - Ambassador Richard Haass (invited), Director for Policy Planning, Department of State
9:45 a.m. - Key Challenges: Security and the Political Environment
10:30 a.m. - Immediate Priorities
1:30 p.m. - Traditional Private Sector Missions
3:15 p.m. - Non-traditional Private Sector Missions and the European Perspective.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on The Report of the Commission on Human Security.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sadako Ogata, Commission Co-Chair, Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Amartya Sen, Commission Co-Chair, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
David A. Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation
Arthur C. Helton, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Robert P. DeVecchi, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a program on "Palestinian Reform: Behind The Headlines."
WHO: The speakers are:
Nathan Brown, Professor, George Washington University, Author, Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine
Larry Garber, Director, USAID Mission to West Bank and Gaza
Salim Tamari, Visiting Professor, New York University, Director, Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Jerusalem
Amy Hawthorne, Associate, Carnegie Endowment
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AND THE AMERICAN SAVINGS EDUCATION COUNCIL will launch the national Save For Your Future™ campaign to educate Americans about saving and planning for all stages of life, including retirement.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jim Lockhart, The Deputy Commissioner of Social Security
Don M. Blandin, President, American Savings Education Council
Jack W. North, Executive Vice President, State Farm®
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-948-4879
WEB ADDRESS: saveforyourfuture.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss key economic decisions facing Congress in the coming weeks. The congressional tax-writing committees will begin drafting "reconciliation" legislation next week that costs less than the Administration's original $726 billion proposal.
DATE: May 1, 2003
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS: cbpp.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds its annual meeting luncheon program featuring Vice President Dick Cheney.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: The Amphitheatre, The Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: "34 MILLION FRIENDS OF UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND holds a telephone news conference to discuss the U.S. rescinding of $34 million in funding approved by Congress.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jane Roberts, retired French teacher, co-founder, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA
Lois Abraham, lawyer, co-founder, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA
Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA
Timothy Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation (invited)
DATE: May 1, 2003
CONTACT: Nancy Bennett, 1-800-834-1110
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Bert Ely, Ely & Co., discussing "What Could Happen When the Japanese Economy Blows Up."
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: LC, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Anne Keiser, a Club member and formerly a still photographer and picture editor with the National Geographic Society's television division.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH FORUM presents a Congressional briefing examining the latest research on the health effects related to mercury exposure.
AGENDA: Mercury is a toxic heavy metal and a persistent environmental pollutant. Exposure to mercury is associated with serious adverse health and developmental effects, especially in pregnant women, developing fetuses, and young children. Mercury easily crosses the placenta and damages the developing fetal brain. Childhood exposure to mercury can result in learning difficulties, memory impairment, damage to the nervous system, and behavioral problems such as aggressiveness and hyperactivity.
WHO: The speakers are:
George Lucier, PhD, former Director of Environmental Toxicology, Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Kathy Shea, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor, Duke University, Medical Center
Jon Heinrich, Acting Director of the Bureau of Cooperative, Environmental Assistance, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Åase Tuxen, Scientific Affairs Officer, United Nations Environment Programme Chemicals
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 562 Senate Dirksen Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-667-4260
WEB ADDRESS: psr.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION AND USA WEEKEND MAGAZINE hold a program to award students, staff and parents from two Florida schools for their Make A Difference Day volunteer project that paid tribute to Bernard Curtis Brown II, an 11-year-old boy who was lost on September 11, 2001. The ceremony marks the culmination of the Unity in the Spirit of America (USA) initiative, the national program created to conduct volunteer projects in honor those lost in the attacks.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: Mansfield Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Kimberli Meadows, 202–841-4730
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE holds a conference entitled Movement Beyond Borders: A Vision of Racial Justice.
AGENDA: Highlight:
Youth Summit
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 215-241-7255
WEB ADDRESS: movementbeyondborders.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: PARENTS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS holds its Mother's Day Congressional reception honoring 2003 Courageous Mother Leadership Award recipient Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-CA.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: HC-5, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-467-8180
WEB ADDRESS: pflag.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features One of England's most-respected singer/songwriters Allan Taylor, playing selections from his Grand Prix du Disque de Montreaux wining album, The Traveler.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on U.S. Occupation of Japan: Personal Reflections and Lessons for Today.
WHO: The speakers are:
Eleanor Hadley, Author, Memoir of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan
Patricia Hagan Kuwayama, Senior Research Associate, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University Graduate School of Business;
Collaborator, Memoir of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan
Koichi Hamada, Professor of Economics, Yale University; Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Edward Lincoln, Senior Fellow, Asia and Economic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents David Grossman discussing and signing copies of Death As A Way Of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo. Grossman, one of Israel's greatest fiction writers, has been an eloquent spokesman for peace between Israel and Palestine. These essays mark the10th anniversary of Oslo-the battle since then is "not between Israelis and Palestinians, but rather between those who are unwilling to come to terms with despair and those who wish to turn it into a way of life."
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON holds its evening lecture entitled "Some Crafty Ways Cells Protect Themselves From Unwanted Invaders," featuring Andrew Fire, staff member, Department of Embryology.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 16th and P Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: carnegieinstitution.org
