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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers at the Casbah, simulated live sex at El Cid, and female...
Yuppies and Yussies. For the convention's cosmopolites, there should be a shuttle service between the Moscone Convention Center and a five-block stretch of Union Street at the foot of Pacific Heights. Once a teeming singles scene, Union Street and its environs now offer a wide variety of trendy, late-night dining spots. The growing clientele of Yuppie couples at neighborhood drinking hangouts has muted the action, but Yussies (young unescorted singles) are not quite an extinct species. Perry's, which brought the singles to Union Street 15 years ago, is still worth a scan, and Rocker...
...Francisco in March, he chose to stay in the $1,500-a-day presidential suite of the Hotel Meridien because it is owned by a French consortium. Walter Mondale had other reasons for picking the same digs as his headquarters during the Democratic Convention, starting with its location one block from Moscone Center. By contrast, the other two Democratic presidential candidates will be staying a traffic-clogged half-mile away on Union Square - Gary Hart at the venerable Westin St. Francis and Jesse Jackson at the high-rise Hyatt...
Krim's four-story East Side residence was so mobbed by newsmen and TV technicians during the breakfast that police were forced to close the block to automobile traffic. As the closed meeting wore on, the mood outside grew slightly surreal; the two candidates' press secretaries, Maxine Isaacs and Kathy Bushkin, appeared on a second floor balcony at one point and tossed flowers to the crowd below. When Mondale and Hart finally emerged, they tried hard to convince their audience that the hatchet burying ritual had indeed been genuine. Said Hart, carefully using Mondale's nickname: "Fritz...
Last May, when the U.S.S.R. pulled out of the Games, ironically citing inadequate security - and 16 countries followed suit, Olympic planners became more nervous, not less. "It is just a fact of life that terrorist countries are influenced by the Soviets," says Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block. "And if terrorists do make an attack, the Soviets can point to it as a case of 'See, we told...