Woman named San Francisco's

new mayor

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein, who fearfully announced the assassinaion of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk last week, gas named yesterday to replace Moscone and become San FrancisCo's first woman mayor.

One of her first duties will be to ppoint three city supervisors o replace herself, Milk and former Supervisor Dan White, who recently esigned and has been charged with he shootings of Moscone and Milk

Mrs. Feinstein, 45, is the ninth woman in the country to run a ity with a population over 100,000. The position pays $55,596 a year. She won votes from six of the eight ther members of the board of jupervisors, which is similar to a city council.

Mrs. Feinstein, formerly presilent of the board, has been acting mayor since the assassinations of Moscone and Milk in their City Hall ffices Nov. 27.

White had quit his supervisor's ob and then asked Moscone to apoint him to fill his own vacancy.

Dianne Feinstein, right, is sworn in as mayor of San Francisco by Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court.

Only 13 months remain in Moscone's term. Mrs. Feinstein -who ran unsuccessfully for mayor twice, including once against Moscone is expected to seek election next

November by the city's 663,000 residents.

Mrs. Feinstein is considered a liberal. She supports the Equal

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Rights Amendment and homosexual rights in this city where an estimated one-sixth of the population

is gay.