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Then there was California. In mid-August, Joe Dimas, a controller at the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fremont, watched his radar screen go blank. Then the backup failed. And his radio died. "This was the scariest thing I've ever seen," says Dimas, who with his colleagues was guiding 295 planes. A 20-year-old generator and its replacement had blown. During the 35-min. blackout, a United Airlines Boeing 757 nearly collided with an Alaska Airlines MD-80. Hundreds of flights were grounded...
Indeed, the luxury box--or sky box, club suite, call it what you will--is such a primary temptation that both National Football League franchises in the Los Angeles area, the Raiders and the Rams, are leaving the second-largest TV market. Raiders' owner Al Davis, who abandoned Oakland, California, in 1982 after the Los Angeles Coliseum promised sky boxes but never delivered them, will be returning to the Bay Area now that the Oakland Coliseum is increasing its luxury-suite total from 58 to 175. With the Raiders getting 100% of the revenue from the sale of those suites...
...OAKLAND Al Davis says he's moving the Raiders back from...
Thirteen years after he successfully sued the NFL to let his team leave Oakland, Al Davis is bringing the Raiders home. The move comes only a few months after the Los Angeles Rams left for St. Louis, and leaves the country's second largest city without a pro football team. Davis, who had been unhappy with the decrepit condition of the Los Angeles Coliseum, become more concerned after the structure was damaged in the 1993 earthquake. In stepped Davis' former landlord, the Oakland Coliseum, with a $85 million stadium modernization to sweeten the pot. Fans can only hope that...
...into submission. Spiritual values and beliefs have no place in the affairs of the Republic. Attempts to legislate religion-based issues have perpetrated more evil than anything else in the history of humankind. The progress of civilization requires as a minimum the separation of church and state. ANNABELLE REEVE Oakland, California...