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STATE Friday September 1 8 1 998 A5 Willie Brown also on Dan hit list report says neighborhood conservative and his resignation created an opportunity for Moscone to fill his seat with a liberal ally shifting the balance of power in the legislative body However a few days after his resignation under pressure from the Police Officers Association and others White a former police officer and firefighter asked for his seat back Moscone left him dangling and neglected to inform White when he decided to replace him On the morning of Nov 27 1978 White took a loaded 38-caliber revolver and 10 extra bullets to City Hall where he climbed through a window to avoid a metal detector then killed Moscone and Milk firing five shots into each Brown revealed that he had been drinking coffee with Moscone when Moscone broke off their conversation to tell White hp would not be reappointed Brown left office by a back door as Moscone was about to admit White by a second door 1 White me by 30 a clearly shaken Brown said when informed 20 years later that White had been gunning for him too murder then-Assemblyman Brown Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver Moscone and Milk as a blow against liberals whom he believed were ruining the city and personally conspiring against him At his trial for shooting to death Moscone and Milk White was convicted of manslaughter after mounting a psychiatric defense He served 5Vfc years in prison The article reveals that in the summer of 1984 a recently paroled White confessed the true scope of his intentions to San Francisco homicide inspector Frank Falzon who had been friend and had taken his tear-choked statement within hours of the City Hall assassinations on Nov 27 1978 really lost it that White told Falzon as the two sat in a cafe during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles was on a mission I wanted four of them Ruth Silver she was the biggest snake and Willie Brown he was masterminding the whole Falzon believed final confession felt like I had been hit by a he said found out it was a premeditated Told recently of plan to murder her Silver said having She placed her hand over her heart and said impulse is to call my grown sons and tell them not to White abruptly resigned from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 1978 a year after he was elected He was a The Sac amento Bee By Mike Weiss Knight Ridder Newspapers San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and another liberal leader also were targeted for assassination by Dan White who killed then-Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk 20 years ago An article in the October issue flf San Francisco magazine written by this reporter reveals that White who committed suicide in 11985 confessed his intention to Victim of attack shows her hew poise Mary Vincent talks ito House panel i Jy Michael Doyle tee Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Amid the bright lights and politicians Mary Vincent is finding herself on Capitol Hill slowly getting used to it pne choreographed news event Upon another as she recites her horrifying story of rape and mutilation The attack 20 years ago in a weedy rut of the Diablo mountain range what she lives with daily is precisely what brought Jier back to Washington on Thursday Lawmakers invited back Mary Vincent: the woman whose arms were chopped off by the man who raped her in western Stanislaus County They got her all right as She tearfully delivered the gripping testimony that the lawmakers hope will help sell new anticrime legislation grip of my hand against his was so strong that I remember him flailing his arm to release my Vincent told the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime 5 Then Vincent wiped her eyes rwith a handkerchief pinched between the hooks of one of her prosthetic arms In her mind it seemed she was cast back to 1978 as a rootless young hitch- hiker she was raped sodomized mutilated and abandoned near Patterson Cameras whirred while she composed herself i But the 35-year-old woman who (was making her second appearance on Capitol Hill this summer is also blossoming as more than one of victims She soldiered on and finished her statement And today back in California interviewing for her first wage-paying job a secretarial position with the Orange County District Office 1 volunteering at Mothers Drunk Driving living independently with her son and starting to confront the world on its own terms been too excited just to Vincent said meeting lots of new She smiles steadily as she says away from the cameras and the lawmakers tanned from quality beach time and i reading at her recom-tmendation retired Gen Colin autobiography She likes lit save for the gruesome war scenes that she skips over Washington interests her life again I interests her Her Capitol Hill appearance I Thursday showed the transforma-f tion even from her last appearance in July Then she dressed in a halter top and spoke two ing sentences before the cameras tThursday she dressed as if for a job interview and read through i her entire two-page statement J1 feel she said feel a little bit more tf Others also testified Marc Klaas the father of slain Petalu-t ma schoolgirl Polly Klaas brought Jhis gut-wrenching tale to the House panel Thursday So did I three other victims All were headline draws for Rep Matt Salmon R-Ariz whose legislation was the focus of Thurs-l hearing as he seeks to gain support for his bill Salmon wants states to impose lifetime prison sentences for all those convicted of murder rape I and child molesting Because the federal government readily impose sentences for state crimes Salmon proposes that if a murderer rapist or child molester is released from prison and com-f mits the same type of crime in an- other state the state that released 1 the criminal would have to pay for ktR6 investigation.