1.   Dobson and other conservatives said they will not accept any changes to the party platform on abortion.

2.   Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.

3.   Many said they would rather devote their energies to defeating Clinton than quarreling over the wording in the party platform.

4.   Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions.

5.   Pete Wilson, to re-examine the anti-abortion plank of the party platform.

6.   The reality is that party platforms are considerably more complex, with choices between desirable ends deliberately obscured.

7.   An assessment of the party platform.

8.   And the party platform opposes affirmative action and civil rights for homosexuals and calls for limiting assistance to legal immigrants.

9.   And the party platform pledges to help the poor with tax cuts and reduced regulations intended to spur economic growth.

10.   At a news conference in Austin, Texas, Bush said he does not favor removing the anti-abortion language from the party platform.