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...Silverdome will lose $275,000 for every missed game. The city of Miami had the foresight to purchase a $300,000 strike-insurance policy in July (premiums: $12,000). That should about cover a season's losses in parking fees and concession sales. In San Francisco, Mayor Dianne Feinstein said, "We lose a lot more [than money] in terms of the momentum of pride and sup port for the team." James Trutko of the Cleveland Growth Association mourned the lost opportunity to "show Cleveland off to the nation Monday night," when the Browns would have hosted the Cincinnati Bengals...
Could this be the year when the gun-control tide finally began to turn? First peaceful Morton Grove, Ill, enacted a ban on handguns, then Chicago passed a handgun freeze prohibiting new registrations. Last week San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed an ordinance making it illegal to carry or even keep a handgun at home. Handgun owners (the military and armored-vehicle drivers, among others, are exempted) have until the end of October to either get their weapons out of the city or store them permanently at a licensed shooting range. The maximum sentence: six months in jail...
Mayor Dianne Feinstein. "I find it unbelievable." Mayor Lee Alexander of Syracuse charged that the document "draws a battle line between mayors of cities and the White House." New York Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, who had helped save his city from bankruptcy, insisted that " 'drop dead' in draft form is no better than 'drop dead' in final form." Said Mayor Young of the draft: "It scares the hell out of me and should frighten every mayor...
Proud of her city's "richness and diversity of people and life-styles," Feinstein takes particular delight in the fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...
...Feinstein, a Democrat who supported Jimmy Carter to the bitter end, fears that federal cutbacks will hamper future efforts to improve city services, including a plan to refurbish San Francisco's dilapidated trademark, cable cars. Says she: "We have significantly less purchasing power than in past years, but so far the impact has only been on the surface...