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.
DAILY BRIEFINGS
News Briefs
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IN IMPEACHMENT LIGHT-"Few Americans today may be able to identify anyone who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, but its members' names are likely to become household words if the panel is called upon to begin the impeachment of President Clinton" (The Washington Post).
RISING ABUSE OF WORKERS REPORTED ON U.S. ISLAND TERRITORY-"An Interior Department-sponsored team working undercover has documented worsening labor and human rights abuses against foreign workers on a U.S. island territory, including coercion of garment factory employees to undergo abortions and the trafficking of Russian and Chinese women for prostitution in a burgeoning sex-tourism industry" (The Washington Post).
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM A HOT ISSUE ON CAPITOL HILL-"Suddenly, the hottest idea in the country is privatizing Social Security, which could become the biggest political issue of the 1998 elections" (The Washington Times).
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