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by Jeff Barker

or a mid·October evening, the weather in San Franci&e0 we.a unuaually warm. At Candlestick Park, where fans generally dress in ski jacketa a.nd mittens for night games, the fashion for game three of the World Series was mostly shorta and T–

ohirts. "Earthquake weather," muttered a elightly intoxicated Giants fan tailgating neit to me in the parking lot, He couldn't have been more correct. While at Candleotick Park fellow USD atudent Mike DiMuro and I survived the October 17 earthquake. Upon entering the ballpark and settling down in our seata, the

to the point where it looked as though they would shat– ter, I said to DiMuro, "Oh my God! Thia is an earth– quake!" (As if my friend from earthquake-free Arizona hadn't figured it out yet.) DiMwo'a face turned pale as he noticed the &e0reboard ~dn~~t_up and down and the foul poles awayina back An incredible feeling of helplessness was in the air. I looked at the people around me and everyone aeemed to have the same nervous smiles on our face&. It was as if we all wanted to say, "Hey, we're from California. We've felt the•• before, right? - Wrong! Thie earthquake WBB a huge and no one was sure if it WSB ever going to end. Oil Slick Reaches Shore At Newport, Huntington Beach By STEVEN R. CHURM and LARRY B. STAMMER 0 fter drifting for more than a day off the Southern California coast, the first wave of 300,000 gallons of crude oil spilled by the disabled tanker American Trader began washing up along several miles of Orange County shoreline Thursday night. Fishermen who braved the advancing slick had to wipe the black goo from their lines, while spectators who ventured to the

festive crowd of 60,000 enjoyed the eighty-degree weath– er. In the meantime, we were anxiously awaiting the opening pitch the first World Seriee played at Candle– stick in twenty-seven years. It would be tho firat World Serieo game I'd ever seen in peraon. That first pitch, however was never thrown. At exactly 5:04pm our aeata on the front row of tho oecond deck began to ,hake. At first I thoughteveryone in the crowd was stomping their feet in attempt to show their spirit. DiMuro nervously said, "What kind of stadium is this?!? Stomping shouldn't be shaking everything!1' The shaking got stronger and stronger. As I watched thewindows ofthe luzury skyboxes rattle

Still The Greatest By ROBERT HILBURN TIMES POP MUSIC CRITIC 0 ~e winner and still champ: the Roll– mg Stones: On a night when rock'n'roll's most celebrated survivors played with such passion and fire at the Los Angeles Me– morial Coliseum that they looked as though they could go on convincingly for another 10 years, Guns N' Roses, the young Los Angeles rock upstarts, made you wonder Wednesday whether they were going to even survive the ' concert. In the series of hot-tempered remarks dur– ing his group's SO-minute set, Guns lead singer Axl Rose not only fueled the controversy over the racial and sexual epithets in the band's "One in a Million", but he twice suggested that the four-day Coliseum stand, which con– cludes with 5 p.m. shows Saturday and Sun– day, may be his last performances with the band. The concert loomed as a classic rock 'n roll showdown: a generational battle of the bands. '

water's edge scooped up handfuls of the muck and struggled to clean their hands. And Newport Beach's mascot, Charlie the Sea Lion, swam through the muck near the Newport Pier.

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