The speech, scheduled for Thursday night, was canceled for security reasons, Hamilton officials said.

The forum is scheduled to last three hours, with 10 minutes of speeches scheduled for each of the 18 representative countries.

President Mugabe was expected to address the issue in a speech scheduled for today.

Bill asked the Vice President to deliver a speech scheduled for Milwaukee that afternoon so he could go to Arkansas right away.

He was also canceling a speech scheduled for Friday morning in New Hampshire, his aides said.

His spokesman, David Wade, told reporters on Saturday that the candidate would not give a speech scheduled for Monday because of protests at the conference.

Mr. McGrath said that he would describe one way to accomplish that in a speech scheduled for this morning.

"Baker has two speeches scheduled this week in California; he speaks all the time."

Qualcomm and Intel both have keynote speeches scheduled for tomorrow.

He has a speech scheduled for Friday in Iowa, where he may or may not announce his decision.