1.   After all, the main focus of party conventions is the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

2.   Each team will include first lady wannabes Laura Bush and Tipper Gore and vice presidential candidates Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman.

3.   Only the five factions in the Assembly have the authority to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates.

4.   Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman told The Associated Press he thought the ticket would win, but was prepared either way.

5.   Higuchi, whose divorce from Fujimori was bitter and highly publicized, had been touted in recent weeks as a possible presidential or vice presidential candidate.

6.   Ichlasul said the political organizations contesting the general election should have unveiled their respective presidential and vice presidential candidates during the election rallies.

7.   The PDI may make its formal stance next month when its leaders convene to deliberate its presidential and vice presidential candidates.

8.   Yunus also insisted that the Armed Forces faction would name its presidential and vice presidential candidates only during the MPR general assembly in March.