[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 1 (Monday, January 6, 1997)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Digest of Other White House Announcements

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The following list includes the President's public schedule and other 
items of general interest announced by the Office of the Press Secretary 
and not included elsewhere in this issue.

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December 30

    In the morning, the President and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton 
traveled to Hilton Head, SC, where they attended the annual Renaissance 
Weekend. In the evening, the President attended a dinner honoring 
retired Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., at the Hilton hotel.

January 1

    In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with 
Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority to express 
condolences on the attack on civilians by an off-duty Israeli soldier in 
Hebron, West Bank.
    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton 
traveled to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for a vacation.

January 2

    The President named the winners of the 1996 National Medal of Arts 
and the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities. He and the First Lady 
will present the awards on January 9 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, 
in Washington, DC.
    The recipients of the National Medal of Arts are: Edward Albee, 
Sarah Caldwell, Harry Callahan, Zelda Fichandler, Eduardo (Lalo) 
Guerrero, Lionel Hampton, Bella Lewitzky, Vera List, Robert Redford, 
Maurice Sendak, Stephen J. Sondheim, and the Boys Choir of Harlem.
    The recipients of the Frankel Prize in the Humanities are: Rita 
Dove, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Daniel Kemmis, Arturo Madrid, and Bill 
Moyers.

Released January 3

    The President declared a major disaster in Nevada and ordered 
Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area 
struck by severe storms, flooding, mud and land slides beginning on 
December 20, 1996, and continuing.