L.A. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FAILS TO BACK COLISEUM FOR NFL

          The L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce "failed" last week to
     approve a resolution backing the L.A. Memorial Coliseum as
     the "top choice" for the return of pro football to the area,
     according to Jodi Wilgoren in the L.A. TIMES.  The
     "impromptu vote ... could be a setback for the plan to build
     a state-of-the-art stadium" on the Coliseum site, "giving
     NFL owners already wary of the stadium in Exposition Park
     more reason to worry about it."  The chamber's vote in
     support of the NFL's return to L.A. to play "in what has
     been dubbed the 'New Coliseum'" fell one vote short of the
     two-thirds majority needed for approval.  Meeting sources
     said some board members "were leery of supporting the
     Coliseum while rumblings remain about alternative stadium
     plans near Dodger Stadium or next to the Convention Center," 
     while "several other" execs "were unwilling to sign on to
     the Coliseum project without more research and discussion."
     The NFL declined comment on the vote (L.A. TIMES, 6/14).