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UjjUQjSS STREET EDITION AJ The Arizona Republic Thursday, March 21, 1991 Storms roll into Valley, disrupt power, traffic .1 4 CTt Ills 4 minutes. It was restored about 7 p.m. "That was caused from wires slapping together," she said. Electricity for about 200 APS customers in an industrial area near Phoenix Greyhound Park was knocked out about 6:15 p.m., Arellano said. Power was restored about 8:15 p.m.

The largest SRP outage occurred about 6:45 p.m. when heavy rain washed away the base of an electrical pole that collapsed near 48th Street and Camelback Road, said Larry Crittenden, an SRP spokesman. Six hundred customers lost power, but it was expected to be restored late Wednesday, he said. Small outages affecting 10 to 20 customers each occurred near 51st and Peoria avenues in Glendale about 7 p.m. and near Guadalupe Road and McClintock Drive in Tempe about 7:35 p.m., Crittenden said.

Also, a "handful" of customers in the Queen Creek area lost power about 7:40 p.m., he said. Contributing to this article was M.E. Saavedra of The Arizona Republic By Glen Law The Arizona Republic A cluster of thunderstorms rolled across the Valley late Wednesday afternoon, causing power outages and flooding streets, slowing motorists On their way home from work. No injuries or major damage was reported despite wind gusts as high as 61 mph recorded at an automated weather station west of Tolleson, National Weather Service officials said. About 1,900 customers of the Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service Co.

lost electricity because of the storm, but most of the outages were expected to be remedied within a few hours, officials said. Jim Sanders, a Weather Service meteorologist, said that as of 8:30 p.m., the Valley rainfall ranged from 0.1 to 0.75 of an inch. "We had the big wind gust near Tolleson," he said. "And at Sky Harbor (International Airport), it gusted up to 46 mph." APS spokeswoman Maria Arellano said about 1,000 customers along Camelback Road in east Phoenix were without power for about 30 "It I 1 I JWu i David PetkiewiczThe Arizona Republic A group attempts to keep warm at a makeshift fire on 10th Avenue south of Jefferson Street as thunderstorms roll across the Valley. A meteorologist said that as of 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, the amount of rainfall ranged from 0.1 to 0.75 of an inch in the Valley. Behind NFL9 dosed doors, compromise of the fact that they had pulled the '93 game because of the absence of a King holiday. Arizonans are scheduled to vote on a King holiday proposal on the 1992 ballot. To come back with something "It was a difficult choice because the initial reaction is linkage," Rhein said. "But the feeling of the Cardinals is, despite the emotion and hard feelings knowing the '93 game was no longer an option to be able to come back with the '96 game under any circumstances is better than nothing." Few of "the owners walked out of the six-hour meeting happy.

"What an ordeal," Dallas owner Jerry Jones said. "Everybody is either too tired, too frustrated or too disappointed to be smiling." Some of the owners realized the whole mess could have been avoided had the Valley not been awarded the game last March without a King holiday. "It's a very unpleasant spot we're in," Cleveland owner Art Modell said. "In retrospect, I wish we had known for a fact what was going to happen. It wouldn't have been a problem because nobody ever bargained for this kind of hoopla.

"It's not good for the league and for the Cardinals. I feel for Bill Bidwill." to enact a paid holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. but conditionally award it the 1996 game, which would generate an estimated $250 million in the community. It was overwhelmingly approved, meaning that an emotional Bidwill had emerged with a partial victory.

"The whole year's events have been a shame," said Joe Rhein, Cardinals executive vice president. "But we sensed for the first time a realization by the commissioner of the problems that have been created in Arizona. We sensed in his supporting and pushing for the '96 game in Arizona a compassion for the people in the state and for the Cardinals." The owners then accepted Los Angeles' offer of Pasadena, as the 1993 site. Pacing for nearly 5 hours The Los Angeles delegation, which included Mayor Tom Bradley, had been pacing in the halls for nearly five hours when it finally entered the meeting room to make that presentation. "I've always had great respect for you people," Bradley told the owners.

"I've gotten to know you over the years, but I have newfound respect for you. You guys have to have the best bladder control I've ever seen." embarrassing to the league, harmful for the state of Arizona and the Cardinals," Rhein said. "There was some sentiment to stay and fight for the cause. But the overriding sentiment was no matter what the sympathy was, there was nothing else they could do but move the game. We fought to the end and lost." Pittsburgh owner Dan Rooney said Bidwill fought with "dignity and class." "We have done everything we could to eliminate ourselves from a political situation," Rooney said.

"We still tried to show some sympathy and interest in the community (in awarding the '96 game). We're not turning our backs on the people of Arizona." The owners then had two options vote to rescind the game and walk away, or come up with a compromise. They never voted on just the issue of whether to pull the game, despite reports to the contrary. Instead, Tagliabue came up with a plan to pacify Bidwill and the Phoenix group. He first discussed the idea after speaking with Arizona Gov.

Fife Symington for 45 minutes over the weekend. The owners would award the Valley the '96 game with conditions. They wouldn't say what those conditions were, but they made no secret Tagliabue, who had remained in the meeting room for all of BidwiU's filibuster, then let Bradley in on a secret. "It's not all true," Tagliabue told him. "There's a back-alley way out." The owners argued long and hard because of an impassioned plea made by Bidwill.

"He's not a man of many words, but he spoke very well, very forcefully, and for him, very emotionally," Rhein said of Bidwill. Bidwill told the owners he thought they were wrong for considering moving the game out of Phoenix. They had said they were trying to get football out of politics, but he told them that by pulling the game, they would be putting politics back into football. At times, the debate got ugly. "It was bull," an AFC owner said.

"There was a lot of nose counting going on in the corner. It was clear they (the Arizona delegation) didn't have the votes. But there also was a lot of Tag (Tagliabue) bashing." The votes weren't there Halfway into the meeting, it became clear that Bidwill couldn't get the eight of 28 votes needed to keep the game in the Valley. "Some owners said the issue had been very Cardinals owner was best weapon in losing effort By Steve Schoenf eld The Arizona Republic KAHALA, Hawaii Unlike the Los Angeles delegation, they didn't bring a videotape narrated by Sidney Poitier and starring former President Reagan cracking jokes. The Phoenix representatives who came to this rainy tropical paradise to try to keep the 1993 Super Bowl in the Valley knew their best weapon was the staying power of angry Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill, who wouldn't let the debate in the meeting room end until he thought everyone understood his position.

Finally, three hours after the Phoenix '93 Super Bowl Committee made its presentation at the league meeting Tuesday, the talking stopped and Commissioner Paul Tagliabue came up with a compromise proposal. The owners would strip the Valley of the 1993 Super Bowl because of Arizona's failure 1 JUIWNIII f-f 'Si Super Bowl '96 not tied to King Day, NFL insists 'Man in the street' is tired of Bowl as political football Fife Symington Says he told Paul Tagliabue that taking the Super Bowl from Arizona was a "disaster" for everyone the state, its economy and the NFL By Don Harris The Arizona Republic Take the Super Bowl and stuff it. That seems to be the mood of several Phoenix-area folks questioned Wednesday at the Phoenix Transit bus terminal after a National Football League decision Tuesday to pull, the 1993 game from Arizona because the state has no paid holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. And they really don't like the football moguls meddling in local politics.

Still, some say Arizona deserved to lose the game. Mel Campbell, 57, an electronics technician, said the state ought to tell the NFL to "stuff it." Campbell said he supports a KingCivil Rights Day but doesn't like being "kicked around by sports." "I don't think they ever wanted it here in the first place," Campbell said. Stacey Dreher, a bus driver, doesn't approve of the NFL's handling of the situation. "I feel we can make our own decisions without outside interference," Dreher said. But she said she thinks a 1992 ballot measure that would create a King holiday and combine Lincoln and Washington's birthdays will pass if it's worded right.

James Money, a student at Metro Tech Vocational Institute of Phoenix, wasn't miffed by the NFL decision. "That's good," he said. "We didn't vote for King, so they took the Super Bowl." Money doesn't see why he has to wait until 1992 to vote again for the holiday. The Legislature, he said, should "do the thing." Steve Leake, a disabled construction worker, said pulling the game was "stupid." "It sounds immature to me," Leake said. "If the government and the people say we don't want it, a King holiday, I don't see how they (NFL owners) can hold it against the state.

I'm all for Martin Luther King, but I think we have too many holidays." James Pekelsma, who operates a hot-dog stand outside the bus terminal, said that if he were a sports fan, he'd boycott the Super Bowl if it ever were played in the Valley. "I don't like what they did," Pekelsma said. "They're kinda telling us how we're supposed to vote. Like blackmail. I'd tell them we don't want them back." Jess Cuellar, a chef, supports a King holiday because "he was an individual who fought for the rights of individuals, and their color or ethnic background had nothing to do with it." "But even though we lost the Super Bowl, we shouldn't let anyone dictate how we should vote," Cuellar said.

"I think the gentlemen of the NFL overstepped their bounds. And now they're dangling it in front of us again." Cuellar was referring to the NFL's tentative decision to award the 1996 Super Bowl to Phoenix, presumably if a King holiday is in place. Amy Barnard, an Arizona State University student, sees both sides of the issue. "I think it's wrong (moving the game to Pasadena, but I understand," Barnard said. "The Martin Luther King holiday is important.

I think it'll pass the next time because of public awareness. "Hopefully, people will do it for the right reason, not just for the Super Bowl." Symington also said he discussed the "tragedy that results when you politicize sports," citing President Carter's decision to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as an example. At one point, Symington said that he suggested that the league's players take a vote on whether they wanted to play the Super Bowl in Arizona. He said he and Tagliabue did not discuss whether the 1996 bid would be tied to whether Arizona had a King holiday, but added, "I believe we'll have a holiday approved by 1996." Arizonans turned down a King proposal in November by 17,000 votes two days after CBS reported that the '93 game would be pulled if the measure failed. Polls indicated that 60,000 voters changed their vote from "yes" to "no" after the CBS report.

Members of the Phoenix group trying to bring the '93 Super Bowl to the Valley don't think voters will perceive the "preliminary" '96 decision as a threat. "We have the 1996 game," said Bill Shover, chairman of the Phoenix '93 Super Bowl Committee and public-affairs director for Phoenix Newspapers which publishes The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette. "We're happy to have the game. There was no linkage, no deal. We have it, not on a conditional basis.

We have the game." But what if the King vote fails in '92? "I can't answer that," Shover said. "I don't think it will fail." Contributing to this article was Mary Jo Pitzt of The Arizona Republic. SUPER BOWL, from page A I meeting after the 1993 Super Bowl was pulled and moved to Pasadena, Calif. Owners voted to move the game because Arizona has no paid King holiday. "There was no implied threat in giving Phoenix the 1996 game," said Pittsburgh Steelers President Dan Rooney, one of the most influential owners in the league.

"We just said we will open this up and look at the situation later. We're trying to stay out of politics. We're involved in politics in everyday life." Owners aren't saying when they will determine the conditions for the 1996 game, but it is sure to come after Arizona's 1992 vote. There again is the linkage problem. "The commissioner acknowledges you get into a potential linkage controversy," said Joe Rhein, executive vice president of the Phoenix Cardinals.

"But the position we're in now, no matter what we did was controversial." 3-hour discussion That potential linkage controversy one reason that the owners discussed the resolution for more than three hours Tuesday before coming up with a compromise proposal. "The language was sticky," Rhein said. "It certainly was revised a few times." The final draft of the resolution said the Valley was "preliminarily" awarded the "96 Super BowL Rhein knows that some will say that means the game is linked to the King holiday question. "It should be viewed as an opportunity there to be taken rather than someone trying to dangle it in front of us," Rhein said. "The intent is not to dangle.

"The so-called NFL threat became a reality two days before (November's) election. We are 18 months before the next election. I would hope, in time, the '96 Super Bowl will be viewed as more of an opportunity than a threat." Gov. Fife Symington, in Washington on Wednesday, said that although he did not make a deal when he spoke by telephone with Tagliabue before the owners' vote, "it was clear by the end of the conversation where the subject was headed," referring to the preliminary agreement to allow Tempe to host the 1996 Super BowL He said he told Tagliabue that taking the Super Bowl from Arizona was a "disaster" for everyone the state, its economy and the NFL He also said he didn't believe the state's full story was told to all of the owners. Only 17,000 votes "I told him every major municipality celebrates a King holiday, I told him what a great, rich and culturally diverse history the state has," Symington said.

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