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Associated Press/ San Francisco Chronicle (John Storey)

Former San Francisco city supervisor Dan White, left, after his arrest in

the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.

Mayor shot dead in San Francisco

Gay city supervisor also slain

• Los Angeles Times

SAN FRANCISCO Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, an avowed homosexual, were shot to death in their City Hall offices yesterday and a former supervisor who wanted the mayor to reappoint him was charged with both murders.

The killings stunned a city still reeling from the week-long shock of mass suicides and murders in-

Word of Mayor Moscone's killing spreads quickly. through the delegates to the National League of Cities convention. Page 14-A

• A former Cleveland official now in San Francisco describes Harvey Milk as "a man with a violent temper.' Page 15-A

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volving San Francisco-based Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, but there was no connection between the two tragedies.

The former supervisor, Dan White, 32, a former city policeman and fireman, surrendered at a police substation eight blocks from City Hall less than an hour after the shootings.

White had quit as a supervisor Nov. 10, claiming he could not support his family on the $9,600 annual salary, but later changed his mind and urged Moscone, 49,

George Moscone

to reappoint him. However, the mayor, although initially agreeable to the reappointment, said he had received "expressions of dissatisfaction" about White and was going to fill the, vacancy with Don Horanzy, a real estate loan officer.

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Moscone had scheduled a press. conference for 11:30 a.m. yesterday to announce the selection of Horanzy.

White showed up at Moscone's office about 10:40 a.m. without an appointment, but the mayor came

Harvey Milk

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out personally and agreed to see him. They adjourned to a small sitting room just off Moscone's main office.

The mayor's secretary, Cyr Cupertini, asked him if he wanted someone with him, but he "just laughed it off," Roger Boas, the city's chief administrative officer, said. It was the normal proceduré for someone to sit in.

Not long afterward, some of the mayor's staff heard shots, but, press secretary Mel Wax said they "were

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