1.   The chairman of the convention platform committee, Rep.

2.   And two members of the national convention credentials committee, which controls who gets seated, are Buchanan chairmen in their states, Alaska and Massachusetts.

3.   Another group, the nonpartisan American Legion, has testified at convention platform committees for years.

4.   A convention site advisory committee will pick finalists, and party leaders will visit sites.

5.   A hurried investigation by a convention committee found Lyons had done nothing wrong and that no convention money was missing.

6.   But a fight did loom over the plan, recommended Saturday by the convention rules committee, to make all national committee members automatic delegates.

7.   But Friday morning Rove passed the word to members of the convention rules committee that the campaign wanted it killed, and the committee duly voted to kill it.

8.   Cullinane envisions convention committees convening online, sharing input with millions of grassroots activists, the party soliciting small-sum donations on line.

9.   More debate and votes could come Friday at the first meeting of the convention rules committee.

10.   Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge spelled out the strategical importance of his region in pitching Philadelphia to the Republican convention site selection committee, former Mayor Rendell recalls.