    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 17 (Monday, May 3, 1999)]
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    Weekly Compilation of

    Presidential

    Documents

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    Monday, May 3, 1999

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    Volume 35--Number 17
    Pages 705-771

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    Contents

    Addresses and Remarks

        See also Bill Signings; Meetings With Foreign Leaders
        Balkans, situation in--759
        Gun control legislation, proposed--746
        Maryland, Democratic National Committee dinner in Chevy Chase--756
        National Medals of Science and Technology, presentation--750
        NATO 50th Anniversary Summit
            Close--735
            Commemorative ceremony--710
            Departure--708
            Dinner--715
            Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
                Dinner--733
                Opening session--734
            NATO-Ukraine Commission--732
            North Atlantic Council
                Meeting on Kosovo--709
                Meeting with the frontline states--733
                Opening session--716
        School violence, measures to address--767
        Radio address--717
        ``The Third Way: Progressive Governance for the 21st Century,''
            discussion--736
        Union of American Hebrew Congregations dinner honoring Rabbi David
            Saperstein--742

    Bill Signings

        Education Flexibility Act of 1999, remarks--761

    Communications to Congress

        Nuclear weapons stockpile, letter transmitting report on
            certification--741
        Ordering Reserves to active duty to support military action in
            Kosovo, message transmitting Executive order--754

    Communications to Federal Agencies

        Establishment of the Interagency Commission on Crime and Security in
            U.S. Seaports, memorandum--755
        Kosovo
            Assistance to refugees fleeing, memorandum--767
            Emergency refugee admissions consultations relating to Kosovars,
                memorandum --769
        Renewing the Federal Government-University Research Partnership for
            the 21st Century, memorandum--753

    Executive Orders

        Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve
            Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty--754

    Interviews With the News Media

        Exchanges with reporters
            Rose Garden--705, 759
            South Lawn--708
        Interview with Katie Couric of the National Broadcasting
            Corporation--763
        News conference, April 24 (No. 173)--728

    (Continued on the inside of the back cover.)

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    Contents--Continued

    Joint Statements

        Kosovo--711
        Washington Declaration--713
        Washington Summit Communique--718

    Meetings With Foreign Leaders

        NATO leaders--705, 709-711, 713, 715, 716, 718, 732-736

    Proclamations

        National Crime Victims' Rights Week--707
        National Science and Technology Week--715

    Statements by the President

        Congressional inaction on legislation to strengthen Social
            Security--714
        Economy, national--769

    Statements by the President--Continued

        Ordering Reserves to active duty to support military action in
            Kosovo, Executive order calling--753
        Tobacco
            Legislation to waive the Federal Government's claim to tobacco
                settlement funds--763
            Supreme Court's decision to consider Food and Drug
                Administration regulation of tobacco products--741
        Working Group on Financial Markets report--763

    Supplementary Materials

        Acts approved by the President--771
        Checklist of White House press releases--770
        Digest of other White House announcements--770
        Nominations submitted to the Senate--770

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