1.   Dole urged fellow Republicans to back his plan to freeze state spending and cut taxes.

2.   Lord Tebbit, former Tory party chairman and right-hand man to Baroness Thatcher, is backing the plan.

3.   Leaders of the G-seven leading industrial nations have backed plans to use United Nations force to transport emergency supplies to Sarajevo.

4.   NEWRY and Mourne Council has backed unanimously plans for a public inquiry into the thermal-oxide-reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria.

5.   But councillors have yet to decide which airport plan to back.

6.   Minister for Merseyside Robin Squire backed the plans.

7.   News that the region has backed plans to create purchasing consortiums has been criticized by the British Medical Association.

8.   The chief executive of Merseytravel, which operates the service, emerged from a crisis meeting and conceded a crippling financial burden was forcing it to back closure plans.

9.   Among the Republican presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain of Arizona backs a plan similar to what Clinton proposed.