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CwppiiiiiijlqiiiiiMVHiH WM lUlrLiAiliiilaEyji Stocks down 9.70 Page 50 Vll III, Final edition Complete stocks Tuesday, November 28, 1978 114th Year No. 146 Feinstein vows to put city back on course By Sydney Kossen Political Writer Supervisor and now Acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein vowed in an interview today, "This will not be a rudderless city. We'll put the bricks back." The 45-year-old acting mayor had just left a meeting with the late Mayor Moscone's staff. She said she had asked them to "please continue in memory of the mayor." "My intention (as acting mayor) is to work in the problem areas. I'll see that the programs continue.

It is very important that this not be a rudderless city. The bricks will be put back, and the city will continue," she said. Dan White was charged today with two counts of murder for the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Under the "special circumstances" cited in the charges filed by the San Francisco district attorney, White could face the death penalty if convicted. Ex-supervisor White will be arraigned in municipal court tomorrow, District Attorney Joseph Freitas said.

A spokesman for Freitas said bail would not be appropriate in this case. White is being held in a closely watched cell next to the medical facility in the county jail on the seventh floor of the Hall of Justice. At a mid-afternoon press conference four floors below, Freitas said the Feinstein mounted strong but unsuccessful bids to be mayor in 1971 and 1975, and before yesterday was usually included in lists of possible opponents of George Mos-cone in next year's election. Asked if she now would pursue criminal complaint filed against White charged two special circumstances in the Moscone and Milk murders. First, that the homocide involved more than one murder.

Second, that Moscone and Milk were duly elected public officials and their murders were personally carried out "in retaliation for and to prevent the performance of (their) official duties." vt 7 I W- ff INSIDE Harvey Milk knew he'd die "It only takes one nut," he said in a recent interview. And he made a tape to be played if he were killed. Page A. George Moscone: reconciler A man of ardent views, compassionate, he could fight and win or lose without bitterness. Page D.

The political aftermath Supervisor Feinstein is likely to be the next mayor, but all else is "confusion and uncertainty." Page 2. 'My friend, George Moscone' "He knew that you have to believe in the perfectibility of man, even though the evidence frequently is against it." Reg Murphy Page 28 1 i'V MMMMfliniMlllTIIWIIWiiW TTIf IMTiiniillMirTir Yn 1 TT ExaminerBob McLeod CITY HALL'S BASEMENT lat he'd lost his door keys DAN WHITE CLIMBED THROUGH THIS MCALLISTER STREET WINDOW INTO A building engineer opened it up after the former supervisor explained tb election to the post by her col-, leagues on the board, she replied: "I'm giving that a lot of thought But I'm still coming out of my state of shock." She said she wants to think hard about whether she would be a candidate as a board member, let alone in the November election. "I think everybody is in a deep state of shock," she continued. "I had hoped to wake up and find it was a nightmare, but I know it wasn't. "I didn't sleep much last night, trying to figure out how this could happen.

I don't have any answers. Both men were men of peace." Feinstein first won a seat on the Board of Supervisors in 1969, the first woman to be elected without benefit of incumbency by appointment. She was the top vote-getter, thus qualifying as board president in her first term. She won re-election in 1973, again by the largest margin of all board candidates. Last year, under the new method of electing supervisors by districts, she handily won a third term and again was elected board president, this time by vote of her colleagues.

Feinstein considers herself to be and always has campaigned as a moderate Democrat, although her critics maintain she has drifted to See Bark Page, Col. 1 A time for remembering: City Hall rite set for the slain That is the language of Proposition 7, passed by California voters earlier this month, that prescribes death or life imprisonment without possibility of parole for certain crimes including the assassination of a public official. The criminal complaint against White also charges that the 32-year-old ex-fireman committed the murders with a firearm. Police say White surrendered a .38 caliber Smith Wesson pistol when he turned himself in less than an hour after the shootings yesterday. Meanwhile, The Examiner learned that White, allegedly carrying the concealed pistol, rapped on the basement window on the McAllister Street side of City Hall yesterday to gain entrance.

He told a building engineer who he was and explained that he had misplaced his keys, The Examiner has learned. The window was opened and White, the former supervisor, climbed in and walked through the laboratory where public works employees test samples of concrete and cement, into the main corridor. Less than an hour later, Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk lay dead in their offices, shot with a pistol, and White had turned himself in to officers at Northern Police Station. "He just walked in the door, put his hands up and turned himself in," one of the station officers said. "He looked pretty calm well, not calm, actually.

Kind of in shock." The 32-year-old White was taken to the Hall of Justice, where he was booked for investigation of the murders and later formally charged. District Attorney Joseph Freitas, who arrived here last night from a meeting in Washington, D.C., said that White probably would be arraigned early tomorrow and that a preliminary hearing would be held within 10 days of Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Memorial services for Supervisor Milk will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Temple Emanu-El, Arguello and Lake Streets. Rabbi Bennett Asher will officiate.

A rosary will be recited for the mayor tomorrow at 8 p.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral, 1111 Gough St A Mass of Christian Burial for Mr. Moscone will be said Thursday at 10 a.m. at St.

Mary's. The mass will be celebrated by Monsignor Peter Armstrong, a friend of the Moscone family, and Archbishop John Quinn and other clergy will participate. A memorial service for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk will be held tomorrow at noon on the Polk Street steps of City Hall. Following the service, the bodies of the slain city officials will lie in state in the rotunda of City Hall. The public will be allowed to view the covered caskets, surrounded by an honor guard, until 6:30 p.m.

Several other services have -See Back Page, Col. 1 that. Neither Freitas nor police were willing to discuss details of the City Hall murders officially. Deputy Chief Clem DeAmicis said that "we're not going to do anything more than issue a very skeletal preliminary police report." From law enforcement See Back Page, Col. 1 Dan White: 'casualty of pressure' Index dy, White seemed composed and talked to sheriff's deputies about one of his favorite sports football.

His jailers said he had not asked for any special favors and at 6:30 this morning ate a normal breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast and coffee. After breakfast, White was visited by three of his sisters, Nancy White Bickel, Shelley Mc-Hugh and Charleen White. His Dolson characterized White as "just a normal, devoted young father" who was "a casualty of pressure." Politicians and friends of White could give little or no explanation yesterday, except to say that a rational man had snapped. White, 32, is accused of slaying Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Several hours after the trage parents had visited him late last night.

White had seemed logical enough only the night before the shooting. Supervisor Quentin Kopp had called White at home Sunday night and found White "composed, rational, calm." "We joked about babies He See Back Page, Col. 5 By Carol Pogash and Corrie M. Anders Former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White sat in a jail cell crying. "1 think everybody has a breaking point," said Supervisor Lee Dolson, who visited White in his cell last night, "and if Indeed, as It looks, there was a breaking point for Dan, I can understand it." Arts, Films 18-24 Calendar 13 City Notices 33 Comics 28 Crosswords ..........26 32 Editorials .28 Shipping .51 Television ..25 Want Weather ...32.

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