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The Statei
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Mostly Cloudy Inside at 7:30 and sets at 5:36. Details 6-A. The State 6-D 14-C Mostly cloudy today. High around 11-B 1-5-D 50. Low tonight around 30.

Sun rises Dear 3-C 10-B 14-A Want 7-14-D 12-14-B 1-3-C 88th Year No. 11 4 Sections 60 Pages Columbia. South Carolina Thursday, January 11, 1979 Circulation Ph. 771-8380 Gov. Plans Spending, Education Concerns By W.

CLARK SURRATT Governmental Affairs Staff Gov. Richard W. Riley outlined six major areas of concern in his inaugural speech Wednesday, including the tough combination of a tight-fisted state budget and the strengthening of some, major programs. His words about curbing the growth of government drew perhaps the best crowd response, but Riley also called for a concentrated effort at improving early childhood education and making good on a collection of promises to blacks, women, the elderly and the disadvantaged. Riley, the 81st man to hold the governor's office since South Carolina joined the states, delivered his inaugural talk after being sworn into office at 12:10 p.m.

Wednesday. His father. E.P. "Ted" Riley, administered the oath to his 46-year-old son and declared him "officially installed as the governor of South Carolina." The new governor got his healthy round of applause on the goverment growth issue when he said, "The time has long passed when government could spend money as if it had a charge account with the taxpayers. It cannot continue to run up bills which add to the burden of today's taxpayers, and which may bankrupt later generations." Riley noted that the size and cost of state government has tripled in the past 10 years.

The first state budget he will have a part in finalizing is $1.543 billion proposal for 1978-79, more than 10 per cent higher than the present budget and double the 1974 state appropriations. The tough combination of goals (See RILEY, 4-A, Col. 1) Strongholds Viet Mop-Up Mop-Up Attacks MILES THAILAND LAOS Siem Angkor CAMBODIA Pursat Battambang Phnom, Penh Ho Chi Minh NES VIETNAMES Moment To Remember Gov. And Mrs. Riley After Swearing-In Remaining Pol Pot Targets Of BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) The Vietnamese army Wednesday battled remaining strongholds of the vanquished Pol Pot government whose forces still had shaky control of about 20 percent of Cambodia, Western sources said.

The Soviet Union and some of its allies recognized the Vietnam-backed provisional government in Phnom Penh. China condemned the Soviets, while some Southeast Asian nations called on the U.N. Security Council to restore peace. Sources in Thailand said there were reports ex-Premier Pol Pot, whose repressive government was condemned by almost everyone but China, had been killed in fighting in northwestern Cambodia. But.

former Cambodian head of State Norodom Sihanouk told reporters at the United Nations in New York that Pol Pot and other former leaders were "in the jungle" in Cambodia and were in daily radio contact with Peking. Western sources said Vietnamese Riley Outlines On S.C. Future Photos by Chief Photographer Vic Tutte The New Team Lt. Gov. Stevenson And Gov.

Riley Acknowledge Ovation A Footnote To History From Staff Reports Nancy Stevenson put her hand on a 150-year-old family Bible just after noon Wednesday and carved herself a footnote to history. Promising to honor, protect and defend the state and federal Constitutions and "to the best of my ability discharge the duties" of her office, the 50-year-old Charleston Democrat became the state's first woman lieutenant governor in a family-oriented occasion. Barely had she assumed the state's second highest office than she had an official duty to perform: swearing in the seven constitutional officers six Democrats and one Republican who Additional Coverage 1-B, will serve the next four years with her. They were State Attorney General Daniel R. McLeod, Treasurer Grady L.

Patterson Comptroller General Earle E. Morris Agriculture Commissioner G. Bryan Patrick Secretary of State John T. Campbell, Rebels Rally In Phnom Penh Bakhtiar Reportedly Claims Iran Faces Coup Danger Adjutant General T. Eston Marchant and Superintendent of Education Charlie G.

Williams. Patrick is the only Republican to occupy a cabinet-level office in the new Democratic administration. Campbell, Marchant and Williams are newcomers to the scene. The sun peeked through clouds to provide a measure of warmth to the brief but colorful inaugural ceremonies on a frigidly cold morning on the South side of the Statehouse, in itself a new touch. Several thousand people, bundled heavily against the cold, witnessed the historic moment just after noon when the former House member repeated the vows in a clear, unwavering voice as a prelude to installation of the new governor.

Mrs. Stevenson, flanked by her husband. two daughters and son. walked down the red-carpeted steps to the podium for the oath-taking before an assembly which included colleagues she served with in the House for the past four years and two senators she beat to win the Democratic nomination last June. She chose a grey suede skirted suit with a white-tie blouse for the hour, an ensemble that aide Melissa Burnette said was "very basic, subdued and dignified." Despite the cold, she didn't wear a heavy wrap.

Smiling slightly, Mrs. Stevenson raised her right hand and placed her left hand on the ancient Bible held by her daughter, Ferdinan, to firmly swear the oath of office. Administering it was husband Norman W. Stevenson, a Charleston lawver who as a notary public is vested with legal authority to administer oaths. 0 100 air strikes, reported at about 100 a day Tuesday, had lessened.

Thai sources said a Vietnamese division was pushing against Siem Reap, 260 miles west of the Vietnamese-Cambodian border and 90 miles from Thailand. The 9th century temples of Angkor a symbol of recent days that military commanders deeply loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi might attempt a repeat of the events of August 1953 when unrest plagued the nation. At that time the monarch was forced to leave the country, returning three days later when the military had seized power. Bakhtiar was quoted as saying the shah would be leaving the country, ostensibly for rest and medical treatment. "Not only will I not prevent the shah from going abroad," Bakhtiar was quoted, "but I personally suggested this and this has been one of the conditions under which I accepted the premiership." The date of the shah's long awaited departure, expected to calm his vi- Cambodian nationalism are near the town.

Japan's Kyodo news service reported from Peking that Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Chung Hsi-tung told Japan's ambassador that Vietnamese troops occupied Siem Reap and Battambang, an airfield site. Thai and Western sources, however, said the two towns had not been taken and that a third city, Pursat, may be controlled by the ousted leaders. Gunfire could be heard at the Thailand-Cambodia border. Sources said the Vietnamese onslaught that began less than three weeks ago left some pockets resistance, but that the Vietnamese captured about 25 China-supplied warplanes and World War II U.S. bombers.

Vietnam maintains that a Cambodian rebel movement called the the National United Front for National Salvation, led by President Heng Samrin, overthrew Pol Pot. But (See CAMBODIA, 4-A, Col. 5) olent opposition, has not been announced. The United States, meanwhile, will send a small squadron of 12 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia for a "relatively short period" this month to demonstrate American support for Saudi security, U.S. Defense Department officials said Wednesday.

The decision to send the highspeed, highly maneuverable fighters is the second move announced in an apparent U.S. effort to show its military reach into the Persian Gulf area while Iran is rife with conflict. The Pentagon said it will continue to keep a small squadron of warships in the nearby Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean indefinitely. U.S. estimates showed that 30,000 Americans have left Iran in the last (See INAUGURAL, 4-A, Col.

1) Deaths TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar was quoted Wednesday as saying that Iran faces the danger of a military coup, but that he still expects the shah to leave the country. 'At the moment the country is facing on the one hand corrupt governments of the last 25 years which violated the rights of the Iranian people and on the other hand is facing the threat of a military coup," the Persian newspaper Kayhan quoted him. The newspaper said Bakhtiar, who is expected to present his new civilian cabinet to the lower house of parliament today, claimed he was "trying my best to prevent a military coup d'etat." Rumors spread over the capital in two months, an average of 500 a day. Only 12,000 remain in the country, compared wih 42,000 before the conflict escalated last fall, State Depart-. ment spokesman Hodding Carter said Tuesday.

U.S. government officials in Washington who asked not to be identified expressed disappointment that Bakhtiar, a longtime opponent of the shah, had been unable to restore order. American sources said Gen. Robert Huyser, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, was telling Iranian military leaders that Washington hoped they would back the new government.

One knowledgeable Western observer discounted the chances of an imminent coup and predicted the military would give Bakhtiar a chance to salvage the country before making any moves. The Iranian armed forces, with one of the world's best stockpiles of military equipment, traditionally have been loyal to the shah. At least half its 430,000 members pursue the military as a well-paid career. Sources in Tehran predicted that even if hardline senior officers should seize power and try to impose tighter discipline on the country, they would strive to retain the shah as official leader. The leader of Tehran's Shiite Moslems, the Ayatullah Taleghani, said Wednesday families of army officers had appealed to him for help after mob attacks on soldiers and their relatives.

Mrs. M.R. Brock, Union. Joseph Butler, Ridge Spring. Mrs.

Sadie B. Cannon, St. Matthews. Mrs. Lena P.

Carter, Lake City. Derek K. Davis, West Columbia. Horace W. Duncan Allendale.

Mrs. Helen B. Fengl, Columbia. Julius B. Horney, Florence.

Ernest M. Horton Greenwood. Henry J. Jaeger, Marion. Charlie J.

Jones, Lugoff. Mrs. Rebecca J. Martin, Orangeburg. Curtis H.

McMillian, Darlington. Charles P. Mears, Allendale. William H. Nabors, Greenwood.

Morris O. Rhoten, West Columbia. Mark A. Rish, West Columbia. Mrs.

Minnie S. Rowe, Saluda. Miss Maude A. Sawyer, Aiken. Mrs.

Margaret E. Smiley, Aiken. Mrs. Edna D. Smith, Summerville.

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