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In Crisis, Giuliani’s Popularity Swells in His City, Country and Beyond “0 c CT o' "0 tn o ro ro week, as a chant of “Four more there “was no reason that 9L ro COHMnued From Page Al yearsi” follows him around. He has ■R W® , anyone had to lose their job.” O dismlssOd it at times, and early on ' C" ■ Then he resumed his role as lead o o fight Against terrorism. And today, said he Would not want terrorists to CX', ■’ cheerleader and morale booster. “I c .tite Bifttish are coming, including think they could dterapt democracy. ccully do think that people should 3 Master Tony Blair. As this week progressed, though, '■ r- o start thinking much more optlmlsti- 3 Alt this attention to the man whose some close to him have said there Is press aides were needling reporters growing concern iji the admlnlstra- B v «*" that I mean,“there ’s no“ •* “w question ev­ 2.JSI88IW®- •bls latest health care Initiative dur- ® Successful transition to a S new mayoral team, whifch may be W If Off erybody is sad. We’re mourning, we Ing a news conference in a sporting goods store. Indeed, Mr. Giuliani, whose most leading to his vaguer choice of SL,- words. bverturnihg the term limits law i' -I hurt and we’re going to hurt tomor­ row, the next day, for a month, a year, and maybe forever. I think we are going to hurt forever. But we recent spate of national attention would require state legislation. have to be optimistic. There’s no centered on the very public nature of Others , have Suggested that the ■y reason for us not to be optimistic. All Ws me^y divorce and his relation- mayor would be perfect to oversee the same things about our economy vdtii Judith Nathan, has now thenewcltycommissionbelngcreat- are there that were there before. V/e risen to-national hero and political edtorevitalizeNewYork ’sdevastat- have a big problem to -ovbrcomet But (^O.mer. 'T had no opinion of the may- ed downtown or a terrorism task overcoming the economic problems qt> pt .New York,7 said Elizabeth force, or should serve In some Other are the least of it. I mean I have no i,ach, a„ marketing director tn Chi- rqle that would keep his hands in city doubt the city is going to be economi­ cago. “What I knew about him was affairs. Some citizens see him rising cally stronger six months and a year that he had problems with, his wife, to a national level; although there are 'ST-' from now.” h&d cancer and pulled out of a Senate no job openings at, present. - It is that attempt to balance empa­ race. But now, he strikes me as "People not phly,in New York City, Pool Photograph by Timothy A. Clary, via Associated Press thy with a caring push that has im­ someone , who has a good mix of but people in Chicago and all over the pressed many Americans, and W; compassion and is yet really strong, country have been talking about a Tj^nitpH Natinnc -sorretarv wnerfl at the sitp on Tnesdav Signers, who have noted that Pi'eSl- Ke seems very natural in his role,” Mayor Giuliani,” said Chris Chlap- United Nations secretary general, at the site on Tuesday. dent Bush has not always mastered In Npw York city, these feelings petta, 29, a construction worker in Today, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain is to visit New York. it. “I’m very Impressed with him, have -manifested themselves in fre- Chicago. “The way he has been doing even though I’m a democrat,” said quent sUggestlons by voters that they things, I’d have no problem seeing The mayor has had to carefully dium, distributing tickets chiefly to Michele Hubbs, a photo studio man- defy the city’s term limit laws and him in a capacity ;on a national lev- balance tough talk, bullish optimism relatives of the victims and the miss­ ager 'in Los Angeles. elect,the mayor for a third term. For el.” , and comfort and empathy. During ing. The service is to be televised at “I was upset with his perspective ms pai^ the mayor subtly shifted At the moment, the mayor plays his press briefing yesterday, the the minor league stadiums in Brook- on the arts and the way he Went after jfrdm ai Complete rejection of that grim tour guide fOr national leaders mayor sought to explain why he and lyn and Staten Island, two of the the Brooklyn Museum,” she said, “i Idea yesterday to saying: “This is and foreign officios. Yesterday, he - his aides had decided to scrap a mayor’s pet projects. think he’s done a wondefful job Ir fipt tnfe time to talk about that. Yes, and Mr., Chirac viewed the site by large memorial service this weekend He had to deliver some bad news. holding New York together, anc those are 'things to talk about and air. Today, the mayor -will lead a in Central Park, saying that the city Asked about the faltering economy quite possibly making the rest .Of tht dlscusS; but it almost doesn’t seem Congressional delegation through was hot emotionally ready and that it and the volatile stock market. Mayor country feOl like New Yorkers at this right to he talking about that right the area. He has ^gid he finds these would be a drain on the police force. Giuliani predicted that the city would time) 1 heard someone say he looks ho^i” , )J tours an unpleasant but necessary . Instead, the city will hold what the lose a lot of tax revenue in the next like our next president; As a Denio- It Is a question the mayor has been tool in securtng suppdrt for the re- mayor called a prayer service, not a fiscal quarter. He quickly added that crat, frankly I don’t know about that asked over and over qgaln m the past c^jgry, including federal financing., njpmorlal service. In Yankee Sta- people shqgld go on with their lives I wonderBush feels.”