European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine of champions by Wayne King new York times the Story is told that Gertrude who spent her girlhood once said that the problem with Oakland when you get there int any there like most such acid etched the assessment is More Clever than Oakland is As palpably there As for to which it is sometimes or which mirrors its deep economic and social or Phila which alone among american cities endures More bad Oakland is in a frenzy of Selecon Gatula Tion As the City of champions after its professional football the Oakland Defeated the Philadelphia eagles in a stunning 2710 upset at the super bowl in new for Oakland has suffered from a civic inferiority a kind of Rosie the Riveter Stepsister to san the Baghdad across the these Days Many Oaklander would turn the compari son maintaining that it is glittering san Francsi co that should hang its in originally from said Fern a fou year Oakland resident so taken with the City that she wrote a slim extolling the vitality of its she finds the characterization of Oakland As the Brooklyn of the West not a bad in new Manhattan would die without Brook Lyn Brooklyn provides the workers and the services Manhattan needs to she san Francisco could Wash out to sea and Oakland could be cause Oakland has an everyday and working people live City chirped a receptionist on the phone the other Home of the world Cham Pion Oakland such boosterism is a recent phenomenon for the and the Success of its athletes is not the Only Oakland is on the announced the trend spot Ting Kiplinger California letter a year when the City entered the 1980s with an ambitious program of we see Oakland As a gainer at san fran discos although Large parts of Oakland Flatland As opposed to its Graceful and gracious Hills display the  look that reflect the cites staggeringly High incidence of there Are hopeful signs for its downtown excavation is under Way for a huge new Center City redevelopment to include a 500room Hyatt re gency hotel linked to a convention office towers and shopping an asian Trade to be one of the largest of its kind in the is also in Early stages of and a Block of victorian Homes near the City Center Complex is being restored for restaurants and Bou the City is a bustling International Trade Center its port is the busiest on the West coast and among the Hal dozen largest in the providing the City with the View is by no Means All nearly one in five of Oakland residents lives below the poverty its murder rate last year was the 10th highest in the nation and its population declined Over the last 10 its no secret that crime has increased in said Carter the vice mayor and City Council who is one of the cites new coterie of Tough minded Black one of the main reason is drugs and High we also have probably the lowest num Ber of police per thousand in the and a lot of them dont live in the so you dont have the involve ment you although a trickle of Young married couples have be gun to return to the City Oakland population has not Only but the City has also become a City of minority in 1977 a special census showed a population of percent percent his panic american and percent asian the despite Oakland cites reputation has not caught up with new figure represented an 8 percent drop in population from that of preliminary figures from the 1980 census do not give an ethnic but City officials note an slight increase in population since up More than to until census data Are Oakland officials say they Are unsure just who the new residents but Early indications Are that much of the increase since 1977 resulted from Young married couples moving to the Cen trial City from the i think its said councilman Wilson riles Middle class people and White residents re turning to the like Gilmore and mayor Lionel councilman riles is also part of Oakland new Black others include Thomas president of the february 1981 port commission Calvin director of the Oak land and Robert editor of the Oakland despite Oakland accomplishments and its newly found sense of its reputation has not caught up with new for City officials were outraged at Oakland portrayal in the television situation comedy too close for in which two teenage girls moved from the family Home in san Francisco to an apartment in Oak when the girls father visited he brought his cars hubcaps in with sirens wailed the girls kept a baseball Bat behind the door and the landlord turned out to be a the City pondered a libel the stars and stripes Page 13