The State - News from June 5, 1988

Alameda Mayor Chuck Corica said his campaign to bring the battleship Missouri to the Bay Area city has been dealt a “bitter” setback by Barbara Thomas, his chief political ally on the City Council. “I’m really upset, and I don’t know what her motives are,” he said. Corica had planned to ask the council to adopt a resolution asking the Navy to base the Missouri at Alameda Naval Air Station if San Francisco does not accept it. Now, however, he has decided against placing the resolution before the council because it would probably go down to defeat. “I’ve always said that I’m not going to give blind support or a blank check to the Missouri,” Thomas said.