Good morning.

Here are a few Washington events of note for Friday, March 30, 2007 as collected by the Associated Press.

President Bush is visiting the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

A whiskey distillery is opening at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. 10:30 a.m.

PERUVIAN DEFENSE MINISTER ALLAN WAGNER TIZON
8:30 a.m. Speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies about regional defense cooperation reforms. 4th floor conference room, 1800 K St. NW.

March 25 - 31. MOOT COURT COMPETITION — Law students from around the world compete for the Shearman & Sterling Jessup Cup in the 2007 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Location: Fairmont Washington Hotel, 2401 M St. NW.

March 27 - 30. NEWSPAPER EDITORS — The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) holds its 2007 convention.
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Closing luncheon: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” featuring an interview with Spike Lee and New Orleans residents: Gralen Banks, Fred Johnson and Phyliss Montana LeBlanc, sponsored by King Features. Introducer: Jim Amoss, editor, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans.
Location: JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

March 28 - 31. INTERNATIONAL LAW — The American Society of International Law holds its 101st Annual Meeting, and will include a series of events examining international trade and economic issues.
4:30 a.m. - 5:45 a.m. Plenary Corporate Counsel Forum on The Impact of International Law on Multinational Corporations, co-sponsored by George Washington University Law School and featuring general counsel panelists Thomas Gottschalk of General Motors, Paul Wright of ExxonMobil, and Alberto Mora of Wal-Mart.
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session on What Future for the Doha Development Agenda and the Multilateral Negotiating Regime?, including panelist Dorothy Dwoskin, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session on Toward International Order in Migration and Trade?
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Session on Divergence and Harmonization in Private International Law, moderated by David P. Stewart, U.S. Department of State.
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Roundtable on the News Media and International Law, including panelist Jim Landers, international business correspondent for the Dallas Morning News.
1 p.m. - 2:39 p.m. Session on International Economic Law Research, Teaching & Practice: Report of the International Economic Law Interest Group Bretton Woods Conference.
2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Session on The Future of Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts: Distinct Field or Footnote?
2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Session on The Future of International Labor Law.
Location: Fairmont Hotel, 2401 M St. NW.

March 29 - 30. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION — Meeting of the Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisorry Committee.
Discussion of guidance that provides a less burdensome parth to market for cord blood products.
Location: Hilton Gaithersburg, 620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg.

March 29 - 30. U.S.-CHINA — The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission holds a public hearing on China’s military modernization and its impact on the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region.
8:30 a.m. Session on information warfare, missile warfare, with Ehsan Ahrari of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, others.
10 a.m. Panel on the PLA’s objectives in space, with Michael Pillsbury of DoD; Eric Hagt of the Center for Defense Information, others.
Location: Room 562, Dirksen.

March 29 - 31. CIVIL RIGHTS — The NAACP holds its 35th annual Region VII Civil Rights Advocacy Training Institute.
12 p.m. Nicole Lee, Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum.
Location: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Sts. NW.

March 29 - 31. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — The Howard University School of Law holds the State of Environmental Justice in America 2007 Conference.
9 a.m. James Connaughton, Chairman, President’s Council on Enviornmental Quality.
Location: At the law school, 2900 Van Ness St. NW.

March 29 - 30. 7:30 a.m. EPILEPSY — The National Institutes of Health holds a scientific conference to evaluate and explore the latest research on epilepsy.
Location: Natcher Conference Center, NIH, Bethesda.

March 30 - 31. REPUBLICAN WOMEN — The National Federation of Republican Women holds its board of directors meeting.
12:35 p.m. Rich Galen, publisher of Mullings.com.
Location: Washington Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th St. NW.

March 30 - April 1. FRANCHISES — The International Franchise Association holds the 16th annual International Franchise Expo.
Location: Washington Convention Center, Mt. Vernon Square.

8 a.m. LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE — George Washington University holds its Women’s Leadership Conference.
9 a.m. Keynote speaker - Francine Zorn Trachtenberg.
12:45 p.m. Luncheon speaker - author Judy Norsigian.
Location: Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Rd. NW.

8:30 a.m. REPUBLICAN LAWYERS — The Republican National Lawyers Association holds its 8th annual policy conference.
Location: National Press Club.

9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EAST ASIA — The U.S. Institute of Peace holds a conference, “Confronting the Legacy of the Past: Promoting Justice and Reconciliation in East Asia.”
Location: 2nd floor conference room, 1200 17th St. NW.

9 a.m. KOSOVO — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty holds a briefing with Sabine Frezier of International Crisis Group on Kosovo.
Location: 4th floor conference room, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW.

9:30 a.m. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT — Former Justice Department officials J. Gerald Hebert and Joe Rich, others, discuss the dismissal of 8 U.S. attorneys, voter fraud cases, enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, and other matters.
Location: National Press Club.

10 a.m. MILITARY COMMISSIONS — The American Society of International Law holds a briefing on the Military Commissions Act and international law.
Location: National Press Club.

11 a.m. KIDNEY DISEASE — The PKD Foundation holds a briefing on Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Location: Room 1105, Longworth.

11 a.m. PET FOOD — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals holds a news conference to call on the FDA to immediately expand its recall of pet food to include all varieties that have been the subject of complaints, and to call for an investigation into whether Iams may have known about pet illnesses several weeks before a recall of contaminated food was announced.
Location: National Press Club.

12 p.m. INCOME INEQUALITY — The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities holds a conference call briefing to discuss new research by two economists widely regarded as leading experts on income inequality trends in the United States. They are economist Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty.

12:30 p.m. BERNANKE — Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses the Federal Reserve System Community Affairs Conference.
Location: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Sts. NW.

12:30 p.m. NATIONAL SECURITY — The Center for American Progress, others, host an address by Rep. Jane Harman on the importance of national security information to Congress and efforts by the administration to resist providing it. Panel discussion follows her remarks, with Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, former DoD IG Eleanor Hill, others.
Location: 10th floor, 1333 H St. NW.

3 p.m. CHINA — Amanesty International holds a rally to urge Chinese action concerning Darfur.
Location: Chinese Embassy, 2300 Connecticut Ave. NW.

7 p.m. CHAO-CHINA — Secretary of Labor Chao will keynote the 30th annual conference of the Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA
Location: Sky Room, Hotel Washington, 515 15th St. NW

All times local in Washington.