Democrats · and Republicans Prepare for Super Tuesday

earlier that Wake Forest's. propOsal and site visit .. WcUce Forest University signed a contractwith were the best of the applicantS. the Commission on Presidential Debates this The commission, which · was fonned in week, but wliversity offici$ will not know for February. ·1987, is a bipartisan non-profit at least a week whether or not the commission · . organiza!ion fina~ced by the Nation.al wilt sponsor a presidential debate here, said Democratic and Republican Parties to sponsor Sandra C; Connor, the ··director of the Office three general election presidential debates and of Public -Information. · 09e vice presidential debate. The dates for the . "We're just waiting [for the commission to four debates are Sept.l4, Sept. 25, OCt. 11 and The contract Wake Forest signed was. for a specific debate date that Connor would not release. The contract did not specify whether · Wake Forest 'IWUld host a presidential or vice presidential debate if selected, she said. · legal counsel for the commission, visited 'Wake Forest" and Winston-Salem Dec. 7, they told the university that nine of the original 23 applicants were still being considered. Brown woul.d·not release the names of those applicants who were Janet Brown, the executive director of the commission, said that Wake Forest was one of several sites who received contracts. She told · Connor this week that more than four contracts wei:e distnbuted. Not all the contracts have been sent contracts. .