[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 18 (Monday, May 4, 1998)]
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Weekly Compilation of

Presidential

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Monday, May 4, 1998

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Volume 34--Number 18
Pages 711-754

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Contents

Addresses and Remarks

    Democratic National Committee dinner--717
    Israel, 50th anniversary reception--720
    New York, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee dinner in New 
        York City--729
    Olympic and Paralympic teams, reception--732
    Radio address--711
    ``Ragtime,'' premiere--716
    Social Security and Medicare Trustees' report--725
    Tobacco use among minority groups, Surgeon General's report--723
    White House Correspondents' Association dinner--713

Communications to Congress

    Brazil-U.S. treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters 
        and documentation, message transmitting--728
    Bribery of foreign public officials in international business 
        transactions, message transmitting convention combating--751
    Chemical Weapons Convention, message--734
    Narcotic traffickers of the Cali Cartel, message reporting--718

Communications to Congress--Continued

    Supplemental appropriations conference, letter on funding 
        considerations--729

Communications to Federal Agencies

    Agency use of alternate means of dispute resolution and negotiated 
        rulemaking, memorandum--749
    Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area, memorandum--
        725
    Prison inmates inappropriately receiving Federal benefits, 
        memorandum on prevention--712
    Ukraine-U.S. cooperation on peaceful uses of nuclear energy, 
        memorandum--728

Executive Orders

    Amendment to Executive Order No. 13038, Advisory Committee on Public 
        Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters--748

Interviews With the News Media

    Exchange with reporters in the Rose Garden--725
    News conference, April 30 (No. 157)--735
  
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Editor's Note: The President was in San Jose, CA, on May 1, the closing 
date of this issue. Releases and announcements issued by the Office of 
the Press Secretary but not received in time for inclusion in this issue 
will be printed next week.





              WEEKLY COMPILATION OF
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Contents--Continued

Letters and Messages

    Armenian Remembrance Day, message--711

Proclamations

    Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month--748
    Law Day, U.S.A.--750
    Loyalty Day--751
    National Day of Prayer--734

Statements by the President

    Drug use by prison inmates--716

Statements by the President--Continued

    Patients' Bill of Rights, bipartisan support--733
    Senate approval of NATO enlargement--748

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--754
    Checklist of White House press releases--754
    Digest of other White House announcements--752
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--753

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