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New Orleans possible site of 1984 Demo convention sc United Press International NEW ORLEANS — City lead- s are teaming with 1984 orld’s Fair officials to take a jjj ird look at making a bid for the a'persTndH ^ Democratic National Con- N™ Orleans became a candi- fete for the political meeting ■hen the National Organization » t for Women and other women’s V Olll ou P s dropped a boycott of the ■ty, organized after New •rleans and several other cities nW IN not en dorse the Equal L/ VV Rights Amendment. “NOW, the National Political fomen’s Caucus and other pro- |RA groups have quietly drop- a boycott that virtually put lew Orleans off limits to a na- [onal Democratic convention,” id Kathy Vick, vice chairman the Louisiana Democratic Jatty. “As a result, if the tourism dustry can accommodate the orld’s fair and the Democratic invention simultaneously for The world’s fair is designed to accommodate the needs of simultaneous events like the na tional political convention, said fair general manager Petr Spurney. A Democratic National Com mittee spokesman in Washing ton said convention planners be lieve New Orleans, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta are major cities in anti-ERA states that now are possible sites for the 1984 convention. City officials also stress the Superdome would be a prime facility to house the convention. Edward McNeill, vice presi dent and executive director of the Greater New Orleans Tour ist and Convention Commission, said even with the world’s fair here, there is a chance that a suf ficient number of hotel rooms could be made available for the convention, provided the plan ning is done far enough in adv ance. The Republicans already have chosen Dallas as the site of their 1984 national convention. 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Woodbridge, N.J., recently became the first city to ban the use of the earphone-cassette players by drivers of cars, motorcycles and mopeds, as well as joggers on roadways. When the ordinance takes effect Aug. 29, even pedestrians will have to remove the headsets to cross the street. But Chicago Alderman Louis Farino said Wednesday he was the first lawmaker to propose such a measure. The idea came to him after a near-miss with a cyclist wired to a personal stereo. “One day I was driving my car and a cyclist was in front of me,” Farino said. “I saw him with his headset on, blew my horn and tried to pass him. He damn near hit me. He said he was sorry, he was listening to music and couldn’t hear me.” He said a young suburban woman was killed recently be cause she didn’t hear a car coming. Farino’s headset ban was pas sed in a City Council committee but never made it to the full council, evidently because of pressure from the electronics in dustry. No headsets while driving, motorcycling or biking would be allowed. Joggers and pedes trians would have to remove the earphones while crossing streets. “I’ve noticed a higher and higher degree of people riding cars, motorcycles and bikes with these things on,” Councilman William K. Collins said. “I term that a hazard simply because people using personal stereo un its cannot hear oncoming cars. It’s really getting out of hand.” Collins, 30, a Brown Universi ty geologist, said a headset- equipped jogger recently walked in front of his car at an intersection: “I watched this guy bebop ping across the street cutting me off, and he didn’t know where he was. He was in never, never land.” Politicians — able to hear a bandwagon from miles away, with or without headphones — are proposing more laws on the subject and harsher fines. The Woodbridge, N.J., law carries a $50 fine and 15 days in jail and several bills are pending in other cities. One measure, sponsored by New Jersey Sen. 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