ATLANTA. Aug 7: Olympic documents points toward possible scholarship and travel abuses during Atlanta's bid for the 1996 Summer Games. The Associated Press learned Fri-

Sources familiar with a congressional committee's investigation of the city's bid said the documents contained "several references to scholarship" lor relatives of International Olympic Committee members and non-Olympic travel for some members.

According to the sources, the documents mention gifts worth well over 1.000 dollars that weren't previously acknowledged by the local organizers. The sources said many gifts involved corporations, and therefore did not turn up on the ledgers of the Georgia Amateur Athletic Foundation or the Atlanta Organizing Committee.

For months. Atlanta organizers said they may have bent some IOC regulations, but never took part in outright vote-buying on the scale that occurred in Salt Lake City. Organizers there gave cash, college scholarships and other gifts to IOC members and their families to win the 2002 Winter Games.

The sources, who would not give specific details of the Atlanta evidence, spoke on condition of anonymity.

The documents are filled with possible violations not previously disclosed, one of the sources said. The sources said references to scholarships went well beyond previously disclosed memos from Atlanta Olympics chief Billy Payne, who said the memos contained ideas that never acted upon.

The documents are included in eight boxes that were not made public when Atlanta Olympic officials opened 6.500 boxes of records pertaining to their bid and organising the games.

In June. Atlanta organizers filed a report to the House Commerce Committee outlining 38 violations of the IOC's dlrs 200 limit on gifts and some travel violations. On Thursday, the House committee, saying the report had not been "totally' accurate or complete." gave them a chance to revise it.

Former Attorney General Griffin Bell, a partner in the law firm representing the Olympic organizers, asked for the opportunity to change the report. A spokeswoman at Bell's office said he would not Comment on the investigation.