The Sun from Biloxi, Mississippi • 1

IFnimdh may gyrated as governor of Mnssnssippi legislator and district attorney from Batesville pledged to place "special emphasis on an all-out war on drug traffic" In addltioh he promised will not let inflation or Indifference rob our senior citizens of the dignity and pride they have earned with years of labor and toil that laid the foundation of this society that we enjoy" Finch whose unique campaign focused on rural working people and who captured their hearts and votes to wintwo primaries and a general election defended his political base of support in Ms address "Some refer to working people as Americana and infer that they are small men and women" Finch said "The truth is they are the giants of modern history No people in any nation have matched their courage and their contributions to mankind "They may be silent Finch added drawing applause "but their deeds will bless them until the end of Monday morning's pre-inauguration activities featured a prayer breakfast hosted by Finch and a parade which included mobile symbols of Finch's cam- By HANK KLIBANOFF CAnrati sumac JACKSON Mias Charles (Cliff) Finch a North Mississippi attorney who parlayed economic discontent with an imaginative "workingman's campaign" became 46th governor Tuesday A rain-slackened crowd estimated by public safety officials to be 8000 witnessed the inauguration ceremonies on the Capitol steps following a morning of parades and other festivities Numerous celebrities ranging from two members of a popular rock group to former governors and present congressmen attended the ceremonies weathering blustery winds during Finch's 16-mlnute address Following administration of the oath of office by Supreme Court Chief Robert Gillespie and a booming 19-gun salute reserved for governors Finch promised a "working partnership" which will "reach from your house to the White House" As Finch had indicated earlier this week his address inteirupted three times for applause offered only a broad outline of Ms administration's priorities for the state He has promised to provide specific details of his legislative program during a statewide Educational Television Authority hook-up Thursday at 6: SO pm Finch's Inaugural address however singled out as general priorities through education and training linking industry to agriculture through increased processing of homegrown raw materials and expansion of former Gov Bill foreign trade efforts Rain threatened during Finch's short address and it finally began to drizzle near the conclusion of Ms remarks Finch who removed his topcoat Just prior to taking the oath of office continued to speak during the drizzle covered at one point by an umbrella held by an aide The governor touched briefly on improving transportation in order to boost tourism expand harbor facilities and provide better access to recreation areas While hailing the "visionary Tennes-see-Tomblgbee (Waterway) project" Finch said increased industrial efforts must be matched "with deep concern for the protection of the environment wMch is ours for now" The 48-year-old former Cliff Finch takes the oath of office from Chief Justice Gillespie PLXAII TURN TO FADE A-10 Vol 3 No 78 Wednesday Morning January 21 1976 Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula Intervention urged Moslems in control of Christian sectors Economy growth slackens WASHINGTON (AP) The government said Tuesday that growth in the nation's economy slowed substantially in the final quarter of 1975 and top administration economist said It showed there will neither be a boom nor a bust in the economy in 1978 The nation's Gross National Product increased at an annual rate of 54 per cent during October through December less than half the 12 per cent rate of increase in the third quarter the Commerce Department said The GNP measures the total output of goods and services in the economy and is a basic barometer of economic health The Commerce Department said Inflation as measured by the GNP was at a rate of 65 per cent in the fourth quarter down from 71 per cent in the third quarter James Pate assistant commerce secretary for economic affairs said the slowdown in economic growth in the final three months of 1975 was widely anticipated since It was considered unlikely the economy could match the third-quarter rate of growth "I see no evidence of an economic boom but there also Is no evidence that the economic recovery Is he said "What we've got is sustainable economic strewn Karantlna slum of Beirut Police said more than 200 people were killed most of them combatants in the previous 24 hours That raises the death toll since Jan 1 to more than 2050 In addition to the estimated 8000 killed last year is a wave of kldnaplngs in various suburbs of Beirut and some of the victims are being shot dead on the spot by street the spokesman added Interior Minister Camille Ghamoun 76-year-old leader of one of the private Christian groups fighting Moslems and Palestinians called for the foreign intervention after he was evacuated by helicopter from his besieged seaside mansion south of Beirut Chamoun who as president in 1958 called in US Marines to end another civil war situation charged Monday night that up to 15000 Syrian army troops had crossed Into Lebanon The Syrian government and Palestine guerrilla leaders denied it and US State Department and Israeli military officials discounted Chamoun's charge Palestinian and Lebanese military sources said Syrian-trained units of the Palestine Liberation Army the official military wing of Yasir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization had moved into Lebanon Intelligence sources here estimated their number at 1500 and US and Israeli officials agreed with It Large numbers of Palestinian guerrillas have been Involved in the war for months but only in recent days have there been reports of organized army units arriving Israeli military sources said the Palestinian army could tip the balance to the Moslems In the battle for Beirut They estimated that Moslem and Christian forces were otherwise about evenly divided with some 20000 fighters each BEIRUT Lebanon (AP) Leftist Moslem militiamen apparently won control of large Christian areas of Lebanon Tuesday A powerful Christian leader called for intervention by the United States the United Nations or Western Europe US Lebanese Syrian and Israeli government and military sources denied reports of massive Syrian armed intervention in the war but indicated that an estimated 1500 troops of the Palestine Liberation Army had crossed into Lebanon from Syria to fight on the Moslem side US Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger warned against outside intervention and Arab League Secretary-General Mahmoud Riad called for an Immediate Arab summit to settle the war State-run Lebanese television announced that Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam and the Syrian army and air force chiefs were due in Beirut on Wednesday to try to work out a settlement Informed sources said Lebanese Moslem leaders had proposed Syrian Army Chief of Staff Gen Hikmat Shehabi as a neutral negotiator A police spokesman said communications were out with much of the country but that Moslem forces appeared to have added most of northern and eastern Lebanon to the southern area they already controlled "The last messages received reported scores of tiny Christian villages besieged by Moslem tribal warriors in the north and he said of Christian families there have already fled to neighboring Right-wing Christian forces held onto an area along the coast and mountains between Beirut and Tripoli and part of the capital Itself They were cleaning out Moslem pockets including the last Palestinian holdouts in the corpse- CUBAN CAPTIVE A captured Cuban soldier fighting for the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola Is guarded by National Union for the Total Independence of Angola police The rival factions were reported fighting possibly decisive battles on three fronts late Tuesday with Cuban-led MPLA forces meeting strong resistance from UNITA Speculation is mounting that peace talks will soon be held in Kenya SURE AIN'T ALABAMA Former Alabama Governor George Wallace finds Illinois weather no match for Ms last stops in Florida and Mississippi as his breath freezes after arriving in Springfield Tuesday A story on the Wallace campaign on Page A-7 INSIDE Minicars represent about a third of US car sales I WEATHER: Decreasingly cloudy Wednesday and a little cooler High in the lower 50s DEDICATED: Jimmy Carter credits showing in Iowa Dem caucuses to 'dedicated group of volunteers Page A-3 POSITIVE: The New Orleans Saints football team announce the signing of Hank Stram as head coach Page B-1 SUNSHINE Waller Worked New machinery of Congress to eye budget DETROIT (AP) The American driving public which grew up behind the wheel of a roomy full-size family auto is now purchasing four-passenger cars over the big models by nearly a 2-1 margin Last year 28 million persons bought subcompact cars or mlnlcars vehicles no bigger than a Ford Pinto or Chevrolet Vega That represents about a third of all the new cars sold in this country including imports diving 1975 By contrast just under 15 million persons bought standard six-passenger cars: Chevrolets Fords Plymouths Bulcks and other models of similar size which once were the backbone of the U8 auto Industry The meteoric growth of little cars is all the more remarkable considering Detroit didn't even build an auto to seat four or fewer persons until 1969 when the first of the subcompacts went on sale Now the American companies are rushing smaller-than-subcompact cars called mlnlcars onto the market to meet a burgeoning demand for low prices and high gasoline mileage Mlnlcar sales belonged exclusively to Imports until General Motors introduced Its Chevrolet Chevette last fall The mlnlcar sales jumped 40 per cent from 1974 to 711000 last year while over-all sales declined 8 per cent The little-car boom took off in 1978 when consumer worries about Inflation and the subsequent Mideast oil embargo created an overnight demand for a size vehicle that Detroit used to call a fringe market you asked me two years ago if there was a market for mlnlcars In this country I'd have said 'forget one industry analyst said the industry is selling close to one minicar for every two full-size cars That's The mlnlcar market now Includes the Datsun B-210 Toyota Corolla Honda Civic Fiat 128 Chevette and Volkswagen Rabbit among others The field will continue to grow as Ford Chrysler and several importers join the mlnlcar action A sales analyst for (me Big Three company added: small-car growth here began with the arrival of small cars from abroad about three years ago "Now the very smallest of the smalls has become acceptable to the American deliberations Feb 3 Both have their work cut out for them The act requires each committee to report to its chamber by April 15 a target resolution setting out totals of contract authority and actual outlays both as a total and for each major budget category recommended levels of revenues deficit or surplus at present certainly deficit and debt That resolution while It actions that have to do with money House Speaker Carl Albert in an interview said budget items will take precedence and all general legislation will have to stand aside until the early deadlines are met The House Budget Committee has scheduled two weeks of hearings on the budget They begin Monday The Senate committee Is to begin Its is not absolutely binding on Congress will give the first firm indication how far the Democratic-con- trolled legislature with its emphasis on economic stimulation and legislation intended to produce jobs will depart from Ford's recommendation for a 13942 billion spending ceiling and a $10 billion tax cut To prepare their resolutions the budget com WASHINGTON (AP) When Congress gets President Ford's budget Wednesday the new machinery the lawmakers constructed to give themselves a better grip on the nation's fiscal plans will go fully Into effect for the first time The Budget Act not only invites Congress to set spending ceilings for itself but it imposes a tight timetable all legislative mittees will have estimates and recommendations from all the congressional committees preparing legislation a general recommendation from the Joint Senate-House Economic Committee and a technical report from the new Congressional Budget Office laying' rat alternatives and effects of various budget levels.