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FINAL EV THE AlMMA lETOMLIC Copyright 1990, The Arizona Republic i Wednesday, March 14, 1990 ":TJ.i.. Phoenix, Arizona 100th year, No. 300 LIFE LEISURES Valley Super Bowl 1 SUPER 3 (OV BOWL oJ 1, Could lose it, too, without King Day ANDY RODNEY Economic bonanza is touted By Betty Beard and Jean Novotny The Arizona Republic The Phoenix area will get a $200 million supershot to its economy when the Super Bowl comes to the Valley in 1993. Hotels, restaurants and other businesses that cater to visitors will receive most of the economic benefit. But the game also will give the Valley invaluable international television exposure and will bring hundreds of influential corporate executives and politicians to Phoenix, according to ecstatic business, tourism and travel officials.

"We're a Super Bowl city," said Jack Henry, a member of the Phoenix '93 Super Bowl Committee and chairman of the Phoenix Economic Growth a private-public economic-development group. Having the game in the Valley puts the area in a different class of cities in the minds of people worldwide, he said. Businesses that sell lodging and food to visitors during the wecklong Super Bowl festivities will reap millions of dollars, said Larry Hilliard, vice president of the Phoenix Valley of the Sun Visitors Convention Bureau. Visitors also will spend money on car rentals, shopping, entertainment and souvenirs. The proposal that the Super Bowl committee made for the game says that hotels in the area have set aside 15,062 rooms for Super Bowl visitors staying three nights or longer.

The $200 million estimate is based on revenues from the past three Sec VALLEY, page AS i lion in Nicaraguan aid for the year beginning Oct. 1. Bush tied the Nicaraguan funds to a stalled $500 million aid package for Panama proposed early this year after the U.S. invasion Dec. 20 deposed Manuel Antonio Noriega.

The total aid for both "newborn democracies," Bush said, would come from the Pentagon budget. "These nations need our help to heal deep wounds inflicted by years of strife and oppression, years of loss and deprivation. And we must act and act soon," the president said at the outset of a 41 -minute news conference. Early reaction to the Nicaraguan See BUSH, pageA7 MYSELF' David PetkiewlczThe Arizona Republic Gov. Rose Mofford is on the receiving end of a kiss from Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill after the Super Bowl announcement.

"I feel like I won the lottery," said Mofford, who spent three days in Orlando, lobbying for the game. Bush bullish on Nicaragua Lifts trade ban, seeks quick OK for $300 million in aid By Steve Schoenfeld The Arizona Republic ORLANDO, Fla. Three emotional speeches by Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill to the other 27 National Football League owners helped the Phoenix area score a stunning upset Tuesday: landing the 1993 Super Bowl. But the Valley also could lose the game, according to the chairman of the NFL's Super Bowl Site Selection Committee, if the state doesn't have a Martin Luther King holiday. The Valley secured the game on the fifth ballot, edging Los Angeles by a 16-12 vote, according to league sources.

San Diego was eliminated on the first ballot when it received only seven votes to the Valley's 12 and Los Angeles' nine. Neither Los Angeles nor the Valley was able to get the 21 votes needed on the first four ballots. The Valley then won by a simple majority on the fifth ballot. "I feci like I won the lottery. It is the lottery," said Arizona Gov.

Rose Mofford, who spent three days in Orlando lobbying for a game that could generate $200 million for Arizona's economy. Several people who attended the meeting said Bidwill's appeal tied the See NFL, page AS RELATED STORIES FANS: Local sports aficionados react to news. A2 KING DAY: State lawmakers feel pressure for holiday. A5 MONTINI: Practical matters about Super Bowl. Bl FRAUENHEIM: Getting game is Bidwell's triumph.

Dl TICKETS: Only 7,000 available through Cardinals. D4 6 numbers could earn 8 figures tonight After six drawings with no winner, the jackpot in tonight's Arizona Lottery is estimated to hit $10 million, officials said. Although no one can predict how to pick the numbers that will guarantee the big bucks, Lisa Honcbrink, the lottery's public-information officer, provided a few facts that may help contestants. "On Wednesday and Saturday, the sales take off and usually peak between the 6-to-7 p.m. period," she said.

So to avoid the crowds, try to get your ticket earlier, Honcbrink said. Although Honcbrink said that your odds arc no different if you use the "Quick Pick" method or if you select the six numbers, players who have let lottery machines pick their numbers have had the biggest share of luek. Of the 245 winning tickets selected since the numbers game began in October 1984, 131 winners were Quick Picks, she said. The last jackpot, $3.6 million, was won Feb. 17 by Casey McAfee, 32, of Phoenix.

"He said he had an itchy palm when he was buying his tickets," Honcbrink said. "They say if you have an itchy palm, you're coming into money." The largest single jackpot was $23 million, which was won by several people Feb. 7, she said. "Richard DcLaVcrgne, 42, was our single-biggest winner," Honcbrink said. "He won $11,763,492.20.

Annually, that's $447,012.71 after taxes. He won with seven bucks (worth) of Quick Picks." How he almost quit television Exclusive interview by television critic Greg Joseph Page El Soviets OK strong presidency But Gorbachev may face trouble By Mark J. Porubcansky The Associated Press MOSCOW In a matter of minutes, the Soviet Congress on Tuesday threw out basic Communist procedures that had ruled this country for 72 years and approved Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev's proposals for a multiparty political system headed by a powerful president. The Congress of People's Deputies voted to put the country's supreme power in an American-style executive presidency rather than in the leader of the Communist Party. It also ended the party's monopoly on political power and approved the principle of private property.

13 ut opposition deputies charged that Gorbachev seriously violated parliamentary rules in ramming the proposals through a procedural muddle, and they demanded that the issues be brought up for one more vote. Failing that, they said, Parliament likely would balk later this week at naming Gorbachev the new president, forcing him instead to face voters in the country's first nationwide presidential election. "We are standing before the greatest, most meaningful step in the history of our government," Gorbachev told deputies shortly before they voted. "This is a major step in favor of democracy and the protection of Sec SOVIET, pagcA7 Coalition crumbles in Israel U.S. proposals spur power crisis By Nicolas B.

Tatro The Associated Press JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on Tuesday dissolved a political alliance with the center-left Labor Party in a crisis brought to a head by President Bush's comments on the status of Jerusalem. Shamir fired Vice Premier Shimon Peres, the Labor leader, and the 10 other Labor ministers submitted their resignations after an impasse was reached on whether to accept U.S. proposals for talks in Cairo with a Palestinian delegation. Peres told a press conference, convened within an hour in his Finance Ministry offices, that Labor had introduced a motion of no-confi-dence in the Shamir-led government and will vote Thursday in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to try to bring the regime down. "Wc think there is a chance to form a (Labor-led) coalition" if Shamir's Likud bloc is defeated in the vote, Peres said.

"If wc do, then, as in the past, the guideline will be the peace process." Peres said Shamir had handed him Sec IMPASSE, pngcA2 4. Barry ThummaThe Associated Press President Bush says Nicaragua and Panama "need our help to heal deep wounds inflicted by years of strife and oppression." Mayor Marion Barry returned to Washington, D.C., after substance-abuse treatment, declaring Tuesday, "I feel good about myself," and saying he won't resign. Story, A4. IK fU man purporting to be Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani. "What's wrong with reaching out and touching someone when the hostages are at stake?" he asked.

Bush also said an ambitious deficit-cutting plan by Democratic Rep. Dan Rostcnkowski of Illinois could help "break the ice" toward reaching a long-range budget pact with Congress. On Nicaragua, Bush called on Congress to approve the aid by April 5 to help bolster incoming President Violcta Chamorro, who upset leftist Daniel Ortega in the Feb. 25 elections. Bush said he will ask Congress for an additional $200 mil 'I FEEL GOOD ABOUT By Ellen Warren KnightRidder WASHINGTON President Bush lifted a 5-ycar-old trade embargo against Nicaragua on Tuesday and proposed a speedy $300 million aid package as "an investment in democracy" to help that nation rebuild after a decade of war and upheaval, In a globe-straddling news conference, Bush also spoke tanlalizingly about Americans held hostage in Lebanon, saying, "When the whole story comes out on this, you all are going to be very, very fascinated with the details." He would not elaborate further but defended taking a hoax call from a Inside Early riser awakens 2 neighbors in blaze See PageBl Suns tip Jazz 114-106, go 5-0 on road trip Sec Page Dl Today's prayer: With trust, Lord, we can prepare a new day.

Amen. Today's chuckle: America has become so voyeuristic, we're going to have to change it to, "Wc, the peephole." Today's weather: Sunny to partly cloudy, breezy. High 66, low 44. Tuesday: high 62, low 44; humidity, high 68 percent, low 21. A14, 111.

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