21.   The Republican National Convention will be the first political convention broadcast on the Internet and the largest Internet broadcast of a live event.

22.   The selection of a running mate is a highly personal decision for the candidates and one they keep private until the first party convention of the year.

23.   The rose-tinted version of this continent was recently paraded in Ghana at the first convention of the Nation of Islam held outside the United States.

24.   To gain admission at his first Star Trek convention, Gene Roddenberry took a trivia test, which, by his own admission, he most likely failed.

25.   Two years later, he went to his first convention.

26.   Platform held its first convention in Gdansk, where Lech Walesa founded the Solidarity trade union, because of its potent symbolism.

27.   And Charles Thone, fresh from Hartington, Neb., was an ambitious young Republican driving up to his very first national convention.

28.   APTV will cover the first convention leading up to the vote.

29.   In that year, the first convention on the international importance of wetlands, especially as waterfowl habitat, was held in Ramsar, Irian Jaya.

30.   Newly allied French conservatives announced plans Tuesday to hold their first convention in November to define a political program for the next elections.