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...those with the affliction. On Oct. 4, Shands paid for flying MacDonald, accompanied by a doctor and two social workers, to San Francisco aboard a chartered air ambulance. But when he arrived, MacDonald was so weak that he had to be admitted to San Francisco General Hospital. Mayor Dianne Feinstein charged that the transfer was "outrageous and inhumane," and Mervyn Silverman, the city's public health director, declared that the episode was "a dump of the worst kind" and accused Florida of "abandoning" an AIDS patient...
...Dianne Feinstein, 50. Mayor of San Francisco since 1978, she is an able administrator and a political moderate in a town that does not automatically view that as a virtue. She could win votes in electorally rich California, but her lack of national experience and the fact that she is Jewish might prove political liabilities...
...percentage points in one year) that the state education department conducted a secret check in 1978 to make sure everything was on the up and up; it was. As a result, about 1,000 private school students return to the public schools each year. In 1982 Mayor Dianne Feinstein showed her confidence in Alioto by giving $4 million of the city's surplus funds to the schools...
...brutal murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, 49, and Supervisor Harvey Milk, 48, in their city hall offices almost five years ago set in motion events that are still unfolding. Moscone's death resurrected the then fading political career of Dianne Feinstein, who as president of the board of supervisors automatically succeeded him as mayor. She later won election in her own right. Milk, the self-styled "mayor of Castro Street" (the center of San Francisco's major homosexual district), became a martyred pioneer of gay politics and a recognized trail blazer...
...only legal alternative for them may rest with the U.S. Justice Department. Attorney John Eshelman Wahl, who represents Milk's estate, is urging a new trial for White on the charge of violating federal civil rights laws. The sentence could be life imprisonment. The board of supervisors and Feinstein have endorsed Wahl's proposal. Said Feinstein recently: "The wounds are still very, very fresh." Harry Britt, the man named in 1978 to fill Milk's vacant seat on the board and like Milk a gay activist, said, "The legal system broke down in San Francisco. The federal...