1.   Andrew Young pledged his support to the bid effort and was chairman of the foundation while he was mayor of Atlanta.

2.   Billy Payne, president of the Atlanta bid committee, still contended Friday that the bid effort was free of bribery and corruption.

3.   I took no pay from the bid effort.

4.   Payne had quit his job when he launched his bid effort and had secured a personal loan from a private source to cover his expenses.

5.   The Dallas bid effort, in addition to operating costs, has several big infrastructure needs.

6.   The House committee, which started its investigation of the Atlanta bid effort in early May, intends to conduct interviews and possibly hearings in early August.

7.   The law firm served as pro bono legal counsel for the Olympic bid effort and paid counsel for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.

8.   Welch, who led the bid effort and launched the organizing committee, and Johnson, his top lieutenant, are no longer involved with the Olympics.

9.   Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who ran the successful bid effort, has been in London for the past week.

10.   Blair, who left for Israel, the fourth leg of his tour, is visiting the region in a bid torevive efforts to push the peace process forward.