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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Sunday, July 21, 1991 A-3 ROB I r.v.- A wtiion at Sm Tmmt Smly Euminw nd Ctironidt (cT) ns ish of tfedayi trout metani; sddium 7 FOR MOST of last week IVe been lying around the sick as a pound ijsagpy inur. -uug. xnisxyia given me a lotof tirne to consider the Handmade hereattraestions ol life. relstion for this jenvuoiimefttailydisas- crochet tablecloths ace tubus week: Why doflicaCpmp4iiJes insist on sticking themselves wit embarrassing slogans? TJslogan of the AnivacChjewiqal CcP- the manufacturers of the poisonous nletarn sodium that were dumped into the Sacramento River, is "Chemistry kife!" We sure hope it isnYfdflifc'Sbrhfe experts are pradicting the toxicflpJaif foureeks, although life is over for thousands of trout and other creatures. Given the lack of care taken in transporting dangerous chernlipals; a better motto would be "Chemistry You Bet'Your Life!" 'Another a 97-car trin," of seven cars that derail the one that lands upside down in a river ii thfrSne loaded with toxic chemicals? This is aH'etyof Murphy's Law, I MuxKy Law mayoej 'tnom 1 i eww MmMM Mi' Nofmuch going on mayor's race but ugliness.

OfiTntSrkfi night, the same day building trades peQPifi picketed Mayor Agnos' honWbecause of his using nonunion workmen, someone broke the windows of his wife's car. That was the same night a bustciad'of Frank Jordan supporters booed and shouted down the mayor at a debate. "It was like an Eflglish Vbccer riot," said Agnos, immediately'IosJg the English vote. Jo-Arrne Miller, presidenVdf the" Sari Francisco school board, had a bullet shot through the window of her hBrne' in the Bayview district two weeks ago. Re-centiy she asked if the'ootdistrict would pay for therepairs.

Aren't there lots' of schools that need repairs first? The Sacramento Bee printed a gem of a line by our state Sen. Milton Marks. In cBhimenting on GovC Wilson's announcement that hie.will name a reapportf onineiit committee made ujipfdistinguished citizens; Marks said: "A commission of distinguisKecTcitizehs would not be sufficiently reflective of ethnic, economic, social and rSCIat diversity WeTl, I thmk know what he meant, but. The summer national parks issue of Life magazine has creatively rearranged San Francisco. In discussing three Alcatraz escapees, the magazine reports: "They were able to escape the prison at Alcatraz, now part of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in 1962." And it's quite a swim across the fly- casting pool.

Michelle Garrambone, 13, brought down the house at the West Portal Cinema during a recent screening of "Terminator 2." When Linda Hamilton appeared all pumped up in a camouflage T-shirt with an automatic weapon and all kinds of sidearms, Michelle shouted, "Yo, Rambette." Dumb joke of the day: What has four legs and an arm? A very happy pit bull. One more thing that's been bothering me about Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. The fact that he goes to a church that's anti-abortion isn't what bugs me (I've given up oh Bush's approach to choice of justices), andneither is the fact that parishioners in Thomas' church frequently speak in tongues. The bothersome part is that this is an Episcopal churchjthe Truro Episcopal Church of Fairfax, Va. i Thomas has been having it both ways in every department.

He's against quotas, yet he got into Yale Law School on one. And now we find out he goes to an Episcopal church where people speak in tongues. I'm sorry, there's something really twisted here. Episcopalians speak in lockjaw not tongues. In other national news: Last week a.

Senate committee voted down a conservative nominee, litera ture teacher Carol Iannone, to the advisory council T)G OFF Handmade crochet bee tablecloths prk3 that's hard to beat! Fc.iy-core mocitme wash ond dry, in vhifo or ecru. Stock on hand only. SiVa Rg. Sole 63' round $60 $29 m-Wobiw $60 $29 $60 $29 Nip $6 $3 T.l Unens 7555, Sab prices in -ft'c! now fhrovyK August 4. to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

At one point Sen. Ted Kennedy waved Iannone's academic dossier, comparing her short list of scholarly writings to the longer lists of other candr dates. This is the same Ted Kennedy who was thrown out of Harvard for his scholarly writings by other scholars Blow for the free press: State Sens. Quentin Kopp and David Roberti have co- authored a bill to exempt free newspapers from the onerous sales tax recently levied on them. It will go before committee on Aug.

21 Politically correct signs over the paper recycling bins at the San Francisco law offices of Hammill and Wolf: One bin is labeled "Paper of color." The other is labeled "Paper of pallor." SHOP SUNDAY 1 1 AM-6PM Except Stonestown Golleria, SORRY ABOUT a misprint on page 2 of today's Semi-Annual Home Sale insert. The price of the chair listed as 2d. should be: reg. $800 each, sale $499 each, or 2f. should read: reg.

$500 each, sale $299 each, or We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our customers. More bad economic news for the Oakland Tribune, this time from gas station attendants. Recently a Trib reporter and photographer stopped for gas at a San Francisco filling station. When they handed theattendant an Oakland Tribune credit card, he cut it in half. There have been a lot of cuts at the Trib, but this is the unkindest cut of all..