1.   Associates of Gingrich say he is leery of halting race-based preference programs until Republicans have developed alternative strategies for the advancement of minorities.

2.   Biden said the court did not outlaw racial preference programs, but only made them harder to justify.

3.   Both have criticized minority preference programs, and Dole has called for a review of all laws and federal programs that provide such preferences.

4.   A lawyer who until recently practiced in a San Francisco firm, Jones says preference programs create a stigma.

5.   Affirmative action has moved to the forefront of public debate in recent months with a proposed California ballot initiative that would end many race-based preference programs.

6.   Aides to Clinton said his speech before the convention would contain some references to the volatile issue of race- and sex-based preference programs.

7.   But Macedonians said the opposite, saying local preference programs unfairly give jobs and university admission slots to Albanians who do not deserve them.

8.   Clinton ordered the review last winter, after congressional Republicans vowed to scale back preference programs.

9.   Connerly believes the Civil Rights Act never intended preference programs.

10.   During his abortive run for president this year, he repeatedly called for abolition of all preference programs.