1.   Earlier, House Speaker Newt Gingrich had in effect urged platform committee members to answer any media questions about the intra-party abortion debate by changing the subject.

2.   She said she would try to round up support for a minority report, which would require the signatures of one-fourth of the platform members.

3.   The Dole plan, however, was popular with GOP platform committee members.

4.   The group of platform committee members chosen to take up the issue in pre-convention meetings Friday is led and dominated by anti-abortion Republicans.

5.   Platform committee members received the draft late Thursday and are expected to make mostly cosmetic changes.