61.   President Jacques Chirac of France flew over the site Wednesday in a helicopter with the Republican mayor.

62.   Proponents point to his role as a fiscal monitor and his liberal social views as offering a winning combination against a Republican mayor in an overwhelming Democratic city.

63.   Repeatedly, Polonetsky sought to link himself with the Republican mayor, suggesting that a vote for him would help further the policies and objectives of the Giuliani administration.

64.   Republican mayors call the shots in New York and Los Angeles.

65.   Republican mayors, such as Bret Schundler in Jersey City, have done even better.

66.   Savannah residents elected only their second Republican mayor since Reconstruction.

67.   Several attempts at settling the feud between the Republican mayor and the Democratic speaker, who had previously enjoyed a cordial relationship, failed.

68.   So far, the Council has only occasionally taken on the Republican mayor, choosing to accommodate him more often than challenge him, especially on the all-important budget.

69.   So the Democratic president says the package approach is essential and here is the Republican mayor of New York sticking his neck out for him.

70.   Such humility is unusual for the Republican mayor, who is not generally known as a politician inclined to share political credit.