71.   Since their service was cut off, Clippers officials have been calling prospective candidates from pay phones.

72.   Some prospective candidates, like Quayle, have done little to build fund-raising operations.

73.   Spokesman Ari Fleischer declined to identify prospective candidates who visited Bush at his suite at the downtown Madison Hotel, just several blocks north of the White House.

74.   Still, many prospective presidential candidates are in touch with everyone from Shaheen to local party officials.

75.   The announcement by Dole, who is now the majority leader in the Senate, was the latest effort by prospective presidential candidates to signal their intentions.

76.   That would give Schaefer, Rawlings and others more time to lobby Mfume, who says he shares their concerns about the current prospective candidates.

77.   The conventional wisdom is that Kerrey, once a prospective presidential candidate, is now finished.

78.   The competition and the cost have scared away one prospective candidate, state Treasurer Dave Heineman.

79.   The demands of fund raising and organization means a prospective candidate must begin running as much as six years in advance.

80.   The Dole camp doubtless hopes that the agreement on Wednesday night puts an end to a somewhat embarrassing set of circumstances for the prospective candidate.