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Health department's Mobile Assistance Patrol vans begin cruising the streets:
It's the start of a new era in handling public inebriates here. Many will be diverted from the criminal justice system and the drunk tank. Alcoholism will be treated as a sickness, not a crime. — Jan. 16
More than 10,000 sympathizers of the United Farm Workers union, led by Cesar Chavez, gathered in Modesto for a massive rebirth of the union's organizing offensive. — March 2
Berkeley, rocked time and time again with bitter anti-war demonstrations until its name became synonymous with opposition to the Vietnam War, came alive with jubilation as word spread that South Vietnam had fallen. — April 30
Some 60 feminists, union officials and supporters paraded along San Francisco's Broadway nightclub strip in a noisy protest against alleged wage and sex exploitation of cocktail waitresses and other women employees. — May 1
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill legalizing most sexual activities between or among consenting adults in private. The governor's signature marks a milestone also for San Francisco Assemblyman Willie L. Brown Jr., who has carried the measure since 1969. — May 13
Warriors win NBA championship: With a 96-95 victory yesterday, Golden State completed perhaps the most stunning upset in basketball history with a four-game sweep of the heavily favored Washington Bullets. — May 26
The San Francisco school board voted unanimously to outlaw discrimination against gay teachers. — June 18
Like latter-day mythological gods, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones proved to 15,000 screaming fans at the Cow Palace that they are indeed "The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band." — July 16
The arrest, when it came, was quiet, anti-climactic. It amounted to almost a shrug, in stark contrast to the fiery end met 16 months ago by Patty Hearst's alleged SLA comrades in Los Angeles. Miss Hearst, kidnaped heiress turned purported revolutionist, surrendered meekly when an FBI agent and San Francisco cop entered her modest second-floor apartment in the outer limits of San Francisco's Mission. — Sept. 19
EXTRA! Shot Fired At Ford: A shot was fired at President Ford by a woman as he left the St. Francis Hotel. The president was not hurt. — Sept. 22
It was all very sad. The Boston Red Sox were beating the Oakland A's out of the American League pennant — depriving them of an opportunity to win a fourth straight World Championship — and there wasn't very much anyone could do about it. — Oct. 8
Sen. George R. Moscone is San Francisco's mayor-elect by the narrowest of margins. The man he defeated, Supervisor John Barbagelata, citing "all sorts of reports of hanky panky," said he may demand a recount. — Dec. 12
At least 12 persons were killed when fire raged through a big Mission District apartment building that had been condemned — for fire safety law violations — two years ago. — Dec. 12