Mrs. Feinstein elected Frisco mayor

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)Dianne Feinstein, who tearfully took over a city shocked and reeling at the murder of Mayor George Moscone, is mayor in her own right now, the first elected woman chief executive in San Francisco history. This time, there were no tears.

Exhausted but all smiles, Mrs. Feinstein said Tuesday night her triumph "means people's voices all over this city are going to be heard and this is going to be a mayor for all the people of San Francisco."

After a bruising, occasionally nasty runoff campaign in which she apparently succeeded in attracting voters who had cast ballots for David Scott, businessman avowed homosexual, she won with a 54% plurality -102,233 to 87,226 for Supervisor Quentin Kopp.

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But the 46-year-old widow brought a momentary hush to the crowd as she took a moment to pay homage to the man from whom she inherited the office in November 1978.

"We carry with us the heritage of a fallen leader," said the woman who was appointed mayor by her fellow supervisors (city councilmen) in one of the darkest moments in this city's 130-year history. "We will not forsake that heritage."

Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city's first elected avowed homosexual, was also shot to death in the violent City Hall eruption by former Supervisor Dan White, whose trial ended in conviction for

voluntary manslaughter.

Both candidates in. the nonpartisan election are Democrats, but Kopp ran as a fiscal conservative who could solve the city's serious financial problems. Mrs. Feinstein ran as a middle-roader who tried to bring people together, saying she would seek a wide consensus in solving problems. She called Kopp a "divisive" person who exploited problems she solved quietly. Kopp accused her of mismanaging the city.