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Article: City having easy time of it New Orleans has plenty of crowd-control practice
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 24, 1997
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NEW ORLEANS -- When New Orleans mayor Marc Morial was asked if any
potential problem kept him holding his breath as his city hosts more
than 100,000 visitors and its eighth Super Bowl this weekend, he
replied, "a catastrophe."
So far, New Orleans appears to have things under control. "We
think we're prepared well," Morial said, "but we have to remember
recent history, the tragedy at the Olympics and what Atlanta went
through."
New Orleans was the setting for a fictional terrorist attack on
the Super Bowl in Thomas Harris' 1975 best-selling novel, "Black
Sunday." It was made into a movie that was filmed, in part, at a
Super Bowl played at old Tulane Stadium.
The prospect of terrorism is ...