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Digest of Other White House Announcements

February 16, 1979

The following listing includes the President's public schedule and other items of general interest announced by the White House Press Office and not included elsewhere in this issue.

February 11

The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

February 12

The President met at the White House with:

—Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;

—Frank B. Moore, Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison;

—a group of civic and community leaders, to discuss his trip to Mexico.

The White House announced that the President received, on Friday evening, February 9, the report of the Emergency Board to investigate the dispute between Wien Air Alaska and the Air Line Pilots Association.

The President announced the persons who will represent the United States at the independence celebrations of Saint Lucia on February 22. The Honorable Frank V. Ortiz, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, will head the U.S. Delegation, attending as personal representative of the President with the rank of Special Ambassador. Mrs. Ortiz will accompany the Ambassador. The representatives of the President, also with the rank of Special Ambassador, will be:

JASON BERMAN of Washington, D.C.;

CHARLES LOMAX of Chicago, Ill.;

I. I. OZAR of Kansas City, Mo.;

GERALD M. TABENKEN of Veazie, Maine;

RUTH K. WATANABE of Los Angeles, Calif.

The President will be represented at the funeral services for the late Edvard Kardelj in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, by W. Averell Harriman, who will head the U.S. Delegation. Other members of the delegation are:

MRS. W. AVERELL HARRIMAN;

SENATOR JOSEPH R. BIDEN of Delaware;

REPRESENTATIVE JAMES L. OBERSTAR Of Minnesota;

JOHN BLATNIK, former 'U.S. Representative from Minnesota;

DR. MICHAEL MUFTIC national committeeman from Colorado, Democratic National Committee;

ANDREW VALUCHEK, special assistant to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

The President declared a major disaster for the Marshall Islands District as a result of Typhoon Alice, beginning about January 3, which caused extensive public and private property damage.

February 13

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mr. Moore;

—Senators Jennings Randolph and Robert C. Byrd and Representative Harley O. Staggers of West Virginia;

—Representatives Charles B. Rangel of New York and Henry A. Waxman of California;

—Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, Hamilton Jordan, Assistant to the President, and Dr. Brzezinski;

—Elie Wiesel, Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust.

February 14

The President met at the White House with Dr. Brzezinski.

The President left the White House for a visit to Mexico.

February 16

Following his return to the White House from Mexico, the President met with Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, Dr. Brzezinski, Mr. Turner, and other administration officials to discuss developments in the Middle East and Asia. He then left for a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

Jimmy Carter, Digest of Other White House Announcements Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248765

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