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.
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GINGRICH WOULD DISTRIBUTE BUDGET SURPLUS TO TAXPAYERS-"House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said yesterday he favors giving each working American a piece of any federal budget surplus to save and invest for retirement" (The Washington Post).
MILLENNIUM BUG BATTLE A CASE OF TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE-"Y2K = $50 billion for USG. That is the latest expert estimate of what it will cost the federal government to defuse the millennium computer bomb" (The Washington Times).
LAB TO MAKE MORE TRIGGERS FOR H-BOMBS-"Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the atomic bomb, for the first time in almost 40 years is preparing to produce plutonium triggers, key components of hydrogen bombs, as a way to keep warheads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile reliable and to prepare a reserve supply if additional weapons are built in the future" (The Washington Post).
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