11.   Newly installed Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman visits the capital to talk to HUD officials and meet the Nevada delegation.

12.   One aide unabashedly announced that there will be more shopping excursions when she visits foreign capitals.

13.   Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has also named a delegation to visit European capitals and another to travel to Washington.

14.   The security chief of the European Union, Javier Solana, visited the capital, Skopje, Tuesday to back the government.

15.   The Slovenian Ambassador visits the capital to lobby for a greater Slovenian role in NATO.

16.   Two stops are musts for Chinese tourists visiting their capital, said Liu Yingling, a representative of the All China Journalists Association.

17.   When a delegation of Boston hospital executives visited the capital recently, they got a reality check from Donna Shalala, the US secretary of health and human services.

18.   ---- ISRAEL SHEVARDNADZE - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday and invited him to visit his capital of Tbilisi later this year.

19.   A smaller protest was held outside the U.S. Embassy as Defense Secretary William Cohen visited the capital.

20.   Atwood, who visited Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Saturday and central Croatia on Sunday.