1.   And Salt Lake City bid committee officials say they were just as straightforward about their campaign when talking to people in the Olympic family.

2.   Atlanta Olympic committee officials required the backing, which has also been mandatory for other cities hosting Olympic satellite soccer, including Birmingham, Washington and Miami.

3.   Bid committee officials also had detailed personal information on their IOC targets, from the dossiers prepared by previous bid cities such as Sydney, Australia.

4.   A committee official, Michael Moran, said a new training center is the last thing it needs.

5.   ACOG spokesman Bob Brennan and bid committee official Horace Sibley, a lawyer with the firm of King and Spalding, are sorting through the boxes of paperwork.

6.   After all, the first witness in the Watergate hearings, Robert C. Odle Jr., a Nixon re-election committee official, was hardly memorable.

7.   But committee officials would not say how much they intended to raise or spend.

8.   But House Republican committee officials, who are expected to release their own fund-raising figures next week, said they were unimpressed.

9.   But one committee official voiced confidence this week that revenues would meet expenditures.

10.   But McAuliffe has been noncommittal about assuming an official leadership role, committee officials say.