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JONESING FOR A SALE: COWBOYS OWNER WANTS SKINS BID APPROVED

          Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones said Wednesday that "he knows
     of no issues that would prevent" prospective Redskins Owners
     Howard Milstein and Daniel Snyder from being approved to buy
     the team, according to Leonard Shapiro of the WASHINGTON
     POST.  Jones noted the NFL's hiring of DC-based Terry
     Lenzner's Investigative Group to conduct a background check
     on the bidders, and "pointed out" that Milstein was pre-
     approved by a committee of several NFL owners during his
     unsuccessful bid last year for the Browns.  Jones: "Most of
     the owners I talk to say that anyone who has that kind of
     money and also got approved by the league in Cleveland, it
     shouldn't be an issue.  We knew there weren't any issues in
     Cleveland.  Why should there be any now."  Vikings Owner Red
     McCombs also stressed that Milstein's participation in the
     Browns sale "should have covered many of the issues" the
     league is examining.  The NFL has stated that the pre-
     approval process for potential owners of the Browns "was not
     as thorough as the in-depth financial review it is
     conducting now" (WASHINGTON POST, 2/25).  Also in DC, Eric
     Fisher reports that the NFL's hiring of Lenzner's Group 
     "has fueled criticism that the league is unduly prolonging"
     the $800M sale.  One Milstein supporter, who said the group
     has nothing to hide: "Whatever it is, the league should just
     come out with it" (WASHINGTON TIMES, 2/25).
          INSPECTOR LENZNER: USA TODAY's Larry Weisman reports
     that the NFL asked Patriots Owner/Finance Committee Chair
     Robert Kraft "not to comment on Lenzner," who once was hired
     by President Clinton's private attorneys. Republican
     National Committee Press Secretary Mike Collins: "You don't
     hire Terry Lenzner to look at somebody's books.  You hire
     him to look at somebody's garbage" (USA TODAY, 2/25).

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