11.   Convention officials in San Antonio and El Paso said they are not actively seeking convention business that might leave California but would welcome the additional business.

12.   Efforts to reach officials with the Bob Dole campaign and convention officials were unsuccessful.

13.   In her statement, Bay Buchanan suggested that convention officials had deliberately leaked details of the telephone conversation before her brother had a chance to respond.

14.   Los Angeles police and convention officials insist they will maintain decorum while respecting the rights of the demonstrators.

15.   National convention officials are concerned, because a similar plan is under consideration next week in North Carolina.

16.   Pataki said convention officials had asked him to speak on immigration but that he had declined the offer.

17.   Republican convention officials released details today of the second half of the four-day event, next Wednesday and Thursday.

18.   The cumulative goal that convention officials are trying to reach here is to build on existing voter sentiment that Democrats are the more caring of the two major parties.

19.   Thousands of conventioneers will also be in the city during part or all of Freaknik weekend, but convention bureau officials and meeting planners expect few problems.

20.   Until Monday, convention officials kept under wraps the name of the person who would nominate Bush, promising only that it would be a rank-and-file delegate.