[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 10 (Monday, March 9, 1998)]
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Weekly Compilation of

Presidential

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Monday, March 9, 1998

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Volume 34--Number 10
Pages 351-388

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Contents

Addresses and Remarks

    California
        Arrival in Los Angeles--352
        Dinner for Senator Boxer in Los Angeles--352
    Drinking and driving, signing memorandum on standards to prevent--
        365
    ``Earth to the Moon'' film screening--383
    First woman space mission commander--380
    Food safety legislation--374
    John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation dinner--363
    Medicare Commission--381
    Mortgage Bankers Association of America--356
    National economy--384
    New York City, 75th anniversary celebration of Time magazine--370
    Radio address--351

Communications to Congress

    Bosnia-Herzegovina, message reporting--373
    Cuba, message reporting on payments--379
    Housing and Urban Development Department, message transmitting 
        report--370
    Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, message transmitting 
        report--370
    International agreements, letter transmitting report--356
    Iran, message transmitting notice--378

Communications to Congress--Continued

    Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, letter 
        transmitting report--379
    National Drug Control Strategy, message transmitting--369
    Trade agreements program, message transmitting report--356

Communications to Federal Agencies

    Conducting ``Conversations With America'' to further improve 
        customer service, memorandum--368
    President's Community Empowerment Board, memorandum--373
    Standards to prevent drinking and driving, memorandum--366
    Vietnamese cooperation in accounting for U.S. prisoners of war and 
        missing in action, memorandum--377

Interviews With the News Media

    Exchange with reporters in the Cabinet Room--381

Notices

    Continuation of Iran Emergency--378

Proclamations

    National Older Workers Employment Week--384
    Women's History Month--362
 
(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)

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              WEEKLY COMPILATION OF
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Contents--Continued

Statements by the President

    Death of Fred Friendly--376
    House Banking Committee vote on funding for the International 
        Monetary Fund--382
    House of Representatives action on the political status of the 
        Commonwealth of Puerto Rico--376
    New railroad station for New York City--377
    Representative Esteban Torres, decision not to seek reelection--367
    Senate action to continue Disadvantaged Business Enterprise 
        initiative--385

Statements by the President--Continued

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee support for NATO enlargement--367
    United Nations Security Council vote on Iraq--363

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--388
    Checklist of White House press releases--387
    Digest of other White House announcements--386
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--387

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