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jr Ai 8.F. EXAMINER Toes Apr. 1S, The death of a 'titan' omrades: Burton left shoes that Can't be filled Burttin body i to lie in state' at City Hall i Rep. Phillip Burton's body win He' in state, in a closed coffin, in the rotunda of City Hall tomorrow from 10 am until 10 pm, with an honor guard of San Francisco police, fire- men. deputy sheriffs and National! Park On Thursday, a delegation of 110 members of Congress will attend me- mortal services for their late colleague on the Great Meadow at San Francisco's Fort Masoa Those going to Thursday's memorial service are advised that shuttle buses will run down Marina Green and from Crtssy Field in the Presidio.

Burton bid been planning a bid for either the, speaker's job or that of majority leader. Such a move, they said, would have put him on a collision course 1 with his long-time friend and ally in the state contingent, Rep. Henry. Waxman, D-Los Angeles, who harbors similar aspirations. Burton's death ends concerns that a Increasingly united Democratic delegation might have been splintered by a power struggle.

California Democrats on Capitol Hill have been securing influential positions, In some cases because of 41 Burton's behind-the-scenes efforts. At 4 1 that.lnstea.(1 i V0 era, donations be made to the Golden By Laurence McQuillan and Dennis J. Opatrny 1 j' Examiner staff writen WASHINGTON At a time when CaTffornia's congressional delegation hastshown increasing national clout, thp death of Rep. Phillip Burton costs thet contingent its most influential power broker, a role not likely to be filled soon. 'Burton generally was acknowledged as 8enius at piecing together divergent interest groups to form fragile coalitions to back his legislation t'You're not going to see one per-sojuTeplace Phil Burton." said Rep.

Ledh panetta, DCannel Valley. "No onecould have his type of impact. operated like a street fighter basfcally," said panetta. "he'd know wfiere you were coming from. He'd your strengths and weaknesses.

Ht fjealt with everyone on an individual Phil was the father of the modern California Democratic delegation," he said. Don Edwards, the dean of the state's 45-member delegation and head of the 28-member Democratic caucus, said he marveled at the way Burton "would get controversial things through by unanimous consent" "He sort of provided the glue that held the delegation together, and also held us together with the state Legislature, which was very important," said Edwards. Edwards, ISan Jose, who has been in Congress for 20 years, Bon Hubcrman, vice chairman of The City) Democratic Central Committee, said the respect throughout the party for Burton could convince the selection committee that this is the only place for its 1984 convention. The Democratic Party will look to San Francisco to recognize Phil Burton's accomplishments, the things that he lived for, the things that he died for," Huberman said. The vice chairman said It appeared a natural selection now for San Francisco to host the party's convention to honor one of its mighty warriors in his hometown and in the shadow of one of his greatest achievements, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, The veteran lawmaker received a broad array of tributes yesterday, from Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill who called him "a fighter close personal friend," to Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore, who told colleagues, This house has lost a great leader." Although Burton) stature in Congress remained high, the zenith of his career was back in the mid-1970s when he led young-Turk liberal Democrats in toppling decadesold House rules that stressed seniority in assigning positions of power. In 1978 he ran for House majority leader, losing by just one vote to Jim Wright of Texas. That experience created a distrust of Burton in both Wright and O'Neill, who made certain that Burton did not serve on any of the powerful House committees, such as those with out her husband's remaining term and then gracefully disappear from the political scene. "She's well known in Washington," said the top aide of a veteran Bay Area congressman in a telephone interview, Asking that his name be withheld, he added: "She's very highly regarded.

Everybody knew she was his right hand and had the political savvy. She's well connected and tough. The word on the street here is she'd be a hell of a congresswoman. "She's not the traditional congressional spouse that goes to parties. She's around the Capitol all the time.

She worked by talking to people at dinners, receptions, around the Capitol (lining room, meeting with people." A Sala Galante, of Jewish descent, had escaped from Poland with her family to the United States, just. Gate National Park Association, at Fort i An autopsy performed yesterday blamed Burton's death on the rupture of an aneurysm, or a ballooning-out in the body's largest artery, the aorta. The "blowout" was followed by bleeding into the abdominal cavity. aneurysm could have been caused by high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries, according to the coroner's report Speakers at the services will include Mayor Feinstein, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, former San Francisco Democratic Party leader Agar Jaicks, Burton's chief of staff Frank Kiellger, a spokesman for the California congressional delegation and three ministers. 1 A spokesman said Burton's wife, Sala, regarded as the current favorite to succeed hec husband in a special election in June, plans to attend the services, A family spokesman said earlier plans to have the casket at the memo-.

rial were changed; it will not be at the service. r.v. Following the congressman's wishes, the body will be Joining the members of Congress will be a bipartisan delegation of California legislators headed by Speaker. Brown. The Assembly will hold a brief memorial service for'' their former colleague at 9 a.m.

Thursday before leaving for San Francisco. In Sacramento yesterday, Brown adjourned the Assembly in memory of Burton, and the chaplain, Rabbi Mikki Bourne, included him in her Rep. Tony Coelho of Merced has attained national stature by effective ry serving as the chairman of campaign fund-raising efforts for House Democrats last year, a position he may be able to parlay into a major leadership role. Waxman now serves as chairman of the House subcommittee on Panetta is considered as being groomed for possible chairmanship of the House Budget Committee. Other examples of those who now have political muscle include Rep.

Vic Fazio of Sacramento, the Democratic whip, and Rep. Norman Mineta of San Jose, the Democrats' chief deputy whip, Rep. Ron Dellums, DOakland, has become the radical in charge of the establishment. He now serves as chairman of the House Armed. Ser-.

vices subcommittee overseeing military acuities. cratic Party thought we were in rect communication with' Moscow," Jakks recalled. "Like calling for the recognition of Red China, saving the Rosenbergs, equal rights for blacks everything we accept today." A year after their marriage, her husband ran for the Assembly and lost He ran again in 1956 and was elected. 1 Because of her roots, Sala Burton "was concerned about dissidents in the Soviet Union perhaps a little more than Phil she had lost relatives in Poland. She and Phil made a trip back to her village in the 1970s and it was traumatic for her and they cut the trip short" Linda Post, current San Francisco Democratic echoes Jaicks in calling her "everybody's first choice.

She knows San Francisco and Washington. She knows the sues andisher own person." Warmth, savvy among Sala Burton's political assets REP. LEON PANETTA 'No one could have his Impact stressed the importance of close ties between California lawmakers in Washington and their counterparts in Sacramento. "He went out of his way to keep the cement there," he said of Burton. "We have lots of talent," said Edwards of the delegation, "but let's face it, Phil Burtons don't come along very often in this world." A local party official believes Burton's death could trigger a sympathetic note in his political party and cinch the selection of San Francisco as the site for the 1984 Democratic National Convention.

process. Burton won a decisive victory, with 58 percent of the vote, thanks in part, say the politicians, because Sala Burton continued to campaign when her husband often flew to Washington to take part in congressional matters. Immediately following his death Sunday, political allies of the congressman rallied around her, contending that her husband had wanted her to succeed him. Interviews with a number of leading Democrats, not all that close to Phillip Burton, drew praise for Sala Burton's political abilities in Washington, which weren't apparent in San Francisco until last year. Until 1982, her husband had faced no serious local challenge, and therefore had no need to campaign strenuously since his first election to Congress in 1964.

Nobody believed that if Sala Bur- ton decided to run in June's special election, she merely would seek to fill "'I I J't HI v. REP. DON EDWARDS 'A glue that held us together a major voice in the budgetary In recent months, Wright had adopted a bury-the-hatchet approach to his personal frictions with Burton. While professing earlier this year that their relationship had improved, the majority leader could not resist using one of his favorite lines: "It is better to heal a wound than to wound aheeL" Despite the fact that his liberal base of supporters in the House had been diminished in recent years by the election of more moderate and conservative members, insiders say ahead of the German invasion in 1939. Arriving in San Francisco, she promptly married Irving Lipschultz, a local businessman.

They had a daugh-' ter, Joy, before they separated in 1951, according to her former husband. "It was an amicable marriage and Tm very proud of her," says Lipschultz, who has since remarried and lives in Belvedere. He said that she was "active in politics and I encouraged her to attend a lot of political meetings, such as the Young Democrats." He and his wife remained in touch with the Burtons through the daughter, who now lives in Spain with her husband and two children. Sala and Phillip met in 1953 at a meeting of the California Democratic Council, the liberal wing of the party. "She was no farther left than the rest of us, although the established Demo I A Whichever Royal Aloha complimentary new electronic There 's too.

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