21.   After a spirited rally with Buffalo Democrats, President Clinton on Thursday locked himself away for three days of practice for the first nationally televised debate of the campaign.

22.   After agonizing in public over the approach he would take in the final debate of the season, Dole made his decision clear in the opening moments.

23.   Albright made an end-run around foreign missions here, and talked directly to high-level officials who have been in New York for the opening debate of the General Assembly.

24.   Buchanan may jump to the Reform Party, complaining that the Republican presidential primary is not open to a debate of ideas this year.

25.   Bush has been criticized by Democrats and activist groups for remaining on the sidelines during the weeklong debate of the hate crimes bill.

26.   But if Tuesday night was a preview of the first debate of the campaign, the President won hands down.

27.   But it has set off a debate of a peculiar and insular local variety.

28.   But no whiff of controversy can diminish the exhilarating, freewheeling way in which Smith kicks up a religious debate of equal interest to theologians and surfers.

29.   But recent polls indicate that the public has grown annoyed at what they see as a lack of debate of the issues in the run-up to the elections.

30.   But Riggs said he has pulled back on his position after listening to the debate of the past three days.