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DATE: THURSDAY, June 10, 1993                   TAG: 9306090376
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

MAYOR-ELECT PROMISES TO UNITE LA

Mayor-elect Richard Riordan, who won on the strength of his law-and-order, pro-business platform and the support of white suburban voters, pledged Wednesday to reach out to all groups in the diverse and divided city.

"I will take steps immediately Riordan to unite this city," Riordan said at a news conference the day after he became the first Republican mayor in a generation in the nation's second-largest city.

Riordan, 63, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur worth an estimated $100 million, defeated Councilman Michael Woo, 41, to succeed Mayor Tom Bradley, who is retiring after 20 years in office.

Riordan's 54 percent to 46 percent victory marked a fundamental change in the direction of the mayor's office, as Woo fell far short of tapping into the multiethnic coalition that had sustained Bradley since 1973.

by CNB