21.   A national committee wants to pass legislation allowing workers to refuse to join a union.

22.   A national NASD committee overturned a local NASD panel that found that an analyst told clients about a potential merger without enough facts to support his statements.

23.   All three national Democratic committees took in more soft money than hard during the first three months of the year, according to their reports.

24.   Burikhon Jobirov, president of the national Olympic committee of Tajikistan, also became ill during the ceremony and was taken to Georgia Baptist Medical Center.

25.   Burns said accredited officials with the national Olympic committees of the participating countries also would receive visas.

26.   But a fight did loom over the plan, recommended Saturday by the convention rules committee, to make all national committee members automatic delegates.

27.   But both chambers make exceptions for food and entertainment offered at legitimate political events, including PAC, campaign, and national party committee fund-raisers.

28.   But Benjamin L. Ginsberg, a lawyer who represents the Republican national political committees, offered a much different view.

29.   But few got tickets to the events they wanted, in part because so many had been set aside for sponsors, national Olympic committees and other VIPs.

30.   But Giuliani could pass on the money to a state or national Republican Party committee, which in turn could spend it on behalf of another candidate.