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Federal Webmaster Institute Leadership Training Courses

GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy is holding a series of training courses for federal webmasters, program managers and specialists. The trainings will assist in developing an awareness of policy and technical issues, trends and problems related to the implementation of the Internet and related techologies within the federal government. The two-day course is offered on Aug. 20-21 and again on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 1997. To register or for additional course information, call the LEADS Corporation at (703) 769-5650 or e-mail to registrar@leadscorp.com.

DTIC Annual Conference

The Defense Technical Information Center is presenting its Annual Users Meeting and Training Conference on Nov. 3-6, 1997 at the DoubleTree Hotel, National Airport, Arlington, Va. The conference theme is Information in the New Millenium. Contact Ms. Julia Foscue at 703-767-8236 or by e-mail at jfoscue@dtic.mil.

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.

THE FEDERAL DIARY--Today's column talks about recent legislation to change the formula for calculating the government's share of the FEHBP premium in 1998 and the future (The Washington Post).

RELIGION--"President Clinton plans to issue new executive guidelines today intended to protect religious expression in the federal workplace as long as it does not diminish job efficiency or appear to be government endorsement of a particular faith, White House officials said yesterday" (The Washington Post).

OF INTEREST--The current drive to move people from welfare to work is getting a big boost from fast-growing small companies, a survey showed (The Wall Street Journal)...Is it time to retire Social Security? (The Washington Times).