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DATE: FRIDAY, August 27, 1993                   TAG: 9308270043
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

GOVERNMENT'S RULING ANGERS VETERANS' GROUP

Federal workers who set aside $500,000 from their paychecks to be donated to a Vietnam veterans' group will find the government is sending their money instead to a different charity.

At issue is the Office of Personnel Management's decision to drop the organization from the government's list of approved charities after the donations already had been collected.

"We're mystified. It doesn't make any sense to us," said Bill Crandell of the Vietnam Veterans of America, whose social service wing, the Vietnam Veterans Assistance Fund, was given - and then lost - the right to receive funds from a federal worker charity drive.

The group, with congressional support, is seeking a Justice Department review of the Office of Personnel Management's ruling that barred the fund from the 1992 Combined Federal Campaign. - Associated Press 


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