News Briefs

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The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.

IN A CRUNCH, BAN ON WOMEN BENDS-"When the Army needed military intelligence officers to help infantry and armor units confiscate weapons and identify trouble spots in Bosnia, commanders in Germany sent three women to do the jobs, even though Army policy bars women from working alongside combat troops" (The Washington Post).

PREGNANCY OFTEN CAUSES TENSION IN ARMY RANKS-"At 6:30 a.m. three days a week, about 70 soldiers sweat through a workout in the field house at Fort Campbell, Ky. They share standard Army T-shirts and the fact that each is pregnant.The mandatory exercise program is the 101st Airborne Division's way of trying to get women back to work as soon as possible after 42-day maternity leaves. It's one of the few Army programs to address workplace issues raised by pregnancy, an awkward and sometimes volatile subject in the military" (The Washington Post).

THURMOND HOSPITALIZED IN GEORGIA-"Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), at 95 the oldest man ever to serve in Congress, was hospitalized today with a respiratory infection, a spokesman at Eisenhower Medical Center said" (The Washington Post).

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