News Briefs

News Briefs


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.

February 10, 1998
DAILY BRIEFINGS

News Briefs


ARMY SERGEANT TELLS OF YEARS OF REBUFFING MCKINNEY'S SEXUAL DEMANDS-"One of the first women to serve in the Army's elite Old Guard testified yesterday that the service's top enlisted man repeatedly demanded sex from her, assaulting her in his locked Pentagon office on a Sunday afternoon and later on a public path near the Lincoln Memorial" (The Washington Post).

AIDES URGING RENO TO SEEK COUNSEL PROBE OF BABBITT-"Top Justice Department prosecutors are advising Attorney General Janet Reno to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate whether Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt misled Congress over his handling of a controversial Indian casino license, department officials said yesterday" (The Washington Post).

GOP HITS GORE ON TEMPLE FUNDRAISER-"Vice President Gore "was well aware" that an April 1996 Democratic Party event at a Los Angeles Buddhist temple "was designed to raise money for his party," concludes a final draft of the report by Senate Republicans investigating fund-raising abuses in the last presidential campaign" (The Washington Post).


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