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Talk With Raiders, Panel Told : Football: The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission is being exhorted by Supervisor Kenneth Hahn to restart negotiations to keep the team from leaving.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Supervisor Kenneth Hahn called Friday for a restart of stalled negotiations between the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission and the Raiders, saying the city loves its football team and doesn’t want to lose it.

Hahn appeared at a press conference with a cross section of community leaders who voiced their wish that the Raiders stay in Los Angeles. “We worked very hard to get them here,” Hahn said. “We would be very foolish to lose them to some city up north.”

Al Davis, the managing general partner for the National Football League team, has expressed a desire to move the team to another city. The Raiders’ contract to play at the Coliseum runs through 1991.

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The team is being wooed by both Sacramento and Oakland.

Talks between the Raiders and the Coliseum Commission broke down in June and snagged on a legal point. The commission filed a $57-million breach of contract suit against the Raiders in 1987 and have asked, as a requirement of further discussion, that Davis sign an agreement that would prohibit the Raiders from using any discussions in the negotiations as fodder in a lawsuit. Davis has refused to sign such an agreement.

In an apparent attempt to placate Davis and resume negotiations, Coliseum Commission President Richard Riordan said he would be willing to drop that requirement. It was unclear, though, if he meant the requirement might resurface in another form.

“Yes, we will drop that agreement and try to get something that will satisfy Davis,” Riordan said. “Simply, what we would like to do is to have some sort of an agreement that would satisfy Mr. Davis and his lawyers to the effect that any discussions in negotiations would not be used in any lawsuit between the two of us. It’s that simple.

“My argument is that it doesn’t hurt Mr. Davis and it doesn’t hurt us. My dealings with Al Davis (is) that he’s tough but he’s reasonable. I think we can come to some meeting of the minds on that.”

Davis could not be reached for comment.

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