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Grace ~-- ~-~~-~~-~~~~~ ~-~ <br />C~ <br />• <br />• <br />';; :; 99 <br />••. .,: <br />i I <br />slur :_ -. ~:= - ~ ~~. <br />_,: 1:. <br />~~~8 The Aaeodaletl Pnue . - .~~'~~ <br />MILWAfiRFF. -Industrialist 3.~Pe- <br />ter Grace apologized yesterday fori`e~' <br />terring to New York Gov. Mario Cuo."tno . <br />as "Cuomo the homo" during the dedi- <br />cation ceremony for a new factory.±i;; <br />'Grace, chairman and chief ezecutive ~ <br />'officer of .the c¢emicalr. giant":WSR. ' <br />!Grace & Co., made • - - <br />the remark Tues- <br />. day while praising. i <br />.Wisconsin. „'Gov: <br />Tommy G. Thomp ; '• <br />soq a Republicans ; , <br />.."He_doesn't. have <br />much competitioq". <br />Grace said:: `~~., "" ' <br />Where:,I -come. <br />/rom we have Cuo- . <br />- mo the homo;and <br />then ib New ~Yoik ` rece'rF.. "4i~',~' ' ' <br />'City, we have Dink- ~ '° M- <br />: ins the pinkies," rn i <br />ferring .ctoc: New•:I <br />York Mayor David <br />;:Dinkins: "Pink"..sir :•; ~` <br />an old derogatory,~i -I <br />term for leftist i'•.' . <br />This morning,-= <br />Grace aides issued, <br />a statement raping' <br />. the chairman 6ad';, ,z,~y <br />apologized.. , :: ,~i ;;;..i '..,;~ <br />•.~ "J.. Peter Grace." <br />said today that lan- ~CuOmo ,..~:. ~~ <br />guageTe used yesterday about !;oyes: <br />nor Cuomo and Mayor Dinkins in Mil- <br />waukee was unfortunate and he regrets <br />having said it," the statement raid. "Mr.. ' <br />Grace'has.apologized both to'Govertior . <br />Cuomo and Mayor Dinkins this mdcn- <br />Graceyspokesmanl Frederick Bona <br />said the apologies took the torm. of let- .; <br />tern Eased to Cuomo and Dinkins.':-•i i' , <br />,.~ the identical letters to the two New <br />i York officials, Grace said his remark <br />was "unfortunate and inadvertent "; ;! <br />"It cast false aspersions on you .:'.' <br />i he said. "It was said in jest, in the heat <br />and excitement of the momeat„ and it <br />was un-Christian and unbecoming of <br />,', ,. <br />me." <br />Bona said Grace was traveling.,and <br />not available to discuss the matter.: - <br />He also declined to speculate on'whp <br />Grace bad made the remarks. <br />Grace was in Milwaukee for the open- <br />ing of the Ambrosia Chocolate Co. far-. <br />tort', part of Grace Cocoa's Chocolate <br />Ameriraa nivicinn <br />o <br />