21.   While ferocious lobbying has been going on behind the scenes in Albany, this real debate has been concealed from the general public.

22.   With Chafee planning hearings soon, the lobbying is sure to intensify.

23.   But he insisted such lobbying is unlikely to succeed today.

24.   Coates said there had been international lobbying for sporting authorities to fall in line with IOC penalties.

25.   Officials in Taiwan have not said there was any lobbying by the White House.

26.   The lobbying was intense.

27.   The Times quoted Murdoch as saying there had been no lobbying of any kind in his contacts with Blair.

28.   There also was some lobbying from teammates Al Leiter, Dennis Cook and Glendon Rusch, all left-handers like Franco, all close friends.

29.   There had been no lobbying.

30.   Coates also said there had been international lobbying for ruling sporting authorities to fall in line with IOC penalties.