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Giuliani Takes Charge, and City Sees Him as the Essential Man CT o o o' o “0 cn o KJ By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Giuliani shared a private hug with p. is overlooked.” emerged shaken but unscathed. Crete has been removed? Which OS CD Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton On Tuesday morning, the mayor The mayor then held a hastily While the world has yet to learn hospital needs water? Which agen­ O precisely who is responsible for after a joint briefing on Wednes­ was at a private breakfast meeting put together and sparsely attended cy has it and which one has the o o the terror that engulf^ New York day with the city’s Congressional In Midtown when he received a call news conference for the few jour­ truck to drive It there? How does c City, there is little doubt about delegation and City Hall officials. from Mr. Lhota, who had been nalists who had found their way to one secure 18-gauge needles and 3 o who Is containing the aftermath. And yesterday, he met with for­ sitting at his desk in City Hall the same comer at West Broad­ who will store them centrally? 3 From the moments after the mer Mayors David N. Dinkins and writing his secretary a note when way and Church. “The mayor was Gov. George E. Pataki Is an active first plane rammed into the World Edward I. Koch and religious he heard the explosion. Running adamant to have communication,” participant In these conversations, Trade Center on Tuesday morning, leaders to plan a prayer service into the parking lot, Mr. Lhota Ms. Mindel said. “He was adamant officials said, but clearly yields to 1 Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has for the city. All were invited at the grabbed the mayor’s spokeswom­ to let it be known that we were not the mayor. : taken an orderly control of how the an, Sunny Mlndel, and they both going to cede the city.” the mayor, In between constant phone calls city would respond, even when hopped in his car to meet Mr. his aides and the few reporters with government and private sec­ > trapped in a building near the fiery Giuliani at the World Trade Cen­ made their way up West Broad­ tor officials, the mayor often visits . towers as the first collapsed to the ground, engulfing him in smoke Long hours seeing ter. By the time they all got there, the second plane was approaching way, deliberating as they moved which way to go next. hospitals and the site of the Inci­ dent, and is often greeted with (and debris. , Acting at once as chief operating to every detail of the south tower, and cell phones had gone dead. The mayor ran They heard another rumble. A huge plume of smoke chased the applause. He comforts women who have lost their husbands and chil­ officer of the city — personally ■= monitoring, for Instance, how the crisis. with his aides up West Street, look­ ing for land lines. They told top group up the street as the mayor and others literally ran for their dren. In between, he grabs a slice of pizza, a half a sandwich, .i , many pounds of debris have been Fire Department officials at a lives. The north tower had come diversion from his iisnallv caiefnl , removed by the hour to securing command post that they would down. The group took refuge in tlie menu linn he lollnw. Ihm lueie nl . low-interest loans to rebuild the mayor’s behest. talk to them later. Tribeca Grand Hotel. The mayiir his Irealinenl.s (or |iroslale ( aiii ei city — to city psychologist, trying But while Mr. Giuliani has They found their way into 75 looked around, nixed it as a possi­ “ I hei c is no doulu that Giuliani to assure a grief-stricken and ter- shared the podium and the credit Barclay Street, an office building ble command post and from there is the man you want in charge of . rifled population that they are safe with his counterparts in the state just north of the Twin Towers, in the group went its way to a fire this situation,” said Sgt. Michael ; and that he knows they are hurt- and federal governments, he has search of telephones. Mr. Giuli­ station of Houston Street and Ave­ Hanrahan, who stood duty ; Ing, the mayor has almost unilat­ personally overseen almost every ani’s chief of staff, Anthony Car- nue of the Americas. They waited Wednesday along Canal Street He erally managed to create the sense aspect of the attempt to recon­ bonetti, got on the phone with the 15 minutes until someone came to is not always a fan. “Everyone that the city and by Its proxy, the struct the city’s infrastructure, White House. They heard rum­ unlock the door knows we want a raise,” he said, nation, are scratching their way economy and psyche as well as bling, and the front of the building Since the moment they found “but in this situation, it is like he is back to normalcy. comforting families who are wait­ where they had taken refuge came another location in Midtown, the the only one who seems to take The horrific situation illumi­ ing to recover their loved ones. down. The room filled with smoke mayor started commencing meet­ command.” nates how the mayor, who is “The mayor Is able to do this and debris. No one knew, including ings with all of his key deputies Yesterday, among heaps of rub­ known to explode over seemingly because he Is always looking for­ the mayor, what had happened. A and commissioners to get updates ble, concrete, twisted metal and small slights, maintains an almost ward,” said Deputy Mayor Joseph security guard led the mayor and and hear requests for resources. strewn papers, a single thing stood unparalleled sense of calm and J. Lhota. “The ability to do that several of his aides through the The drill Is always the same: ev­ upright outside 75 Barclay Street. control In the most stressful of ■ has always gotten us through hard basement of the building, through eryone sits around a large table, It was the podium that had been times, literally embracing his po- / times. It may be one of the few an Intricate web of tunnels to 100 and the mayor goes to each person set up on Tuesday, for the mayor litical enemies In the process. Mr. / aspects of this administration that Church Street, where they for their update. How much con- to address his city.

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