11.   As executive director of the Christian Coalition, he is part of the movement that put the rigid pro-life plank in the Republican platform.

12.   Barbour will have a major role in shaping the Republican platform this year.

13.   Both the Dole plan and the Republican platform planks call for balancing the federal budget while slashing income taxes, providing small business incentives and reducing government regulation.

14.   Bob Dole said in San Diego that he had not read the Republican platform and did not feel obliged to follow it.

15.   A successful convention is one where there is a lot of media coverage and the people get the message of what the Republican platform is.

16.   Abortion figured heavily in coverage of the Republican platform in the days before the convention and when the platform was adopted on the first day.

17.   Both Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in pre-convention interviews, said they had not read the draft Republican platform and would not be bound by it.

18.   Bush and the Republican platform both promise to end soft-money donations from corporations and labor unions.

19.   Bush supports the Republican platform opposing abortion.

20.   But beyond expecting to address the convention, Buchanan has a long list of positions he wants in the Republican platform.