71.   Gingrich indicated the state aid would soften the impact of a shutdown and the backlash against Republicans.

72.   He also said he hoped the state aid would prompt the Giuliani administration to devote more energy to the project.

73.   He agreed that whopping cuts in state aid have made it terribly difficult for mentally ill people who want help to find it in the city.

74.   He also proposed a reduction in state aid for some of the neediest students.

75.   Gov. George Pataki flew to Walton by helicopter Monday with pledges of state aid and to announce a request for federal disaster relief.

76.   Governor Pataki has announced that he is freezing state aid to schools.

77.   He accused Pataki, a fellow Republican, of providing insufficient state aid for such initiatives.

78.   He also outraged German government officials by challenging subsidies to Volkswagen in eastern Germany as well as state aid to areas in western Germany.

79.   Hayden acknowledged that the plan would probably face resistance from upstate and suburban legislators who were likely to lose state aid.

80.   He blamed that rising bill on lowered state aid for his school district.