[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 12 (Monday, March 23, 1998)]
[Pages 476-477]
[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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March 15

    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton returned to 
Washington, DC, from Camp David, MD.

March 16

    In the morning, the President traveled to Silver Spring, MD, and in 
the afternoon, he returned to Washington, DC.
    In an evening ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received 
diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Petrit Bushati of Albania, Bruno 
Nongoma Zidouemba of Burkina Faso, Samson K. Chemai of Kenya, Marcelo 
Perez Monasterios of Bolivia, Michael Arneaud of Trinidad and Tobago, 
Rachel Gbenyon Diggs of Liberia, Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson of Iceland, 
Eloy Alfaro de Alba of Panama, Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti of Indonesia, 
Nicholas J.O. Liverpool of Dominica, Li Zhaoxing of China, and Claude 
Sylvestre Anthony Morel of Seychelles.
    Later, the President met with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness of 
Sinn Fein in the Oval Office.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Curtis A. Prins to 
serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Christopher Columbus 
Fellowship Foundation.

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March 17

    In the afternoon, the President attended a St. Patrick's Day 
luncheon in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill.
    In the evening, the President held separate meetings in the Oval 
Office with the leadership of four Irish political parties: David 
Trimble and John Taylor of the Ulster Unionist Party; John Hume and 
Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labor Party; Gary McMichael 
and David Adams of the Ulster Democratic Party; and Lord John Alderdice 
and Niall Johnston of the Alliance Party.

March 18

    In the morning, the President traveled to Las Vegas, NV. In the 
evening, he returned to Washington, DC, arriving after midnight.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Ruth Mandel as Vice 
Chair of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
    The White House announced that the President invited Prime Minister 
Romano Prodi of Italy for an official visit to the United States, May 5-
8.

March 19

    In the afternoon, the President met with King Hussein I of Jordan in 
the Oval Office.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Steven Pennoyer as 
U.S. Commissioner of the International Pacific Halibut Commission.
    The President announced his intention to appoint James Pipkin as 
U.S. Federal Commissioner of the Pacific Salmon Commission.

March 20

    The President declared a major disaster in the Republic of the 
Marshall Islands and ordered Federal aid to supplement recovery efforts 
in the area struck by severe drought beginning January 17.
    The White House announced that the President will attend the 23d 
annual meeting of the heads of state of the world's leading 
industrialized democracies in Birmingham, United Kingdom, May 15-17, and 
the semiannual U.S.-European Union summit on May 18 in London. The 
President will visit Germany prior to his visit to the United Kingdom.