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Hie Weather Today: Sunny and cold with highs in the 30s Tomorrow: Chance of snow Locil Data on Page A-M 177179 Virginia Largest Newspaper 35 Cents Virginia 9s State Newspaper 124th Year Number 11 Richmond Virginia 23219 Sunday January 13 1974 To our Readers i The newsprint shortaee has eased sliehtlv In 3: The newsprint shortage has eased slightly in Richmond In terms of circulation this means that begihning tomorrow Richmond newspaper once again will be available on newsstands and in coin-operated machines sufficient quantities to meet normal reader demands In terms of news in The this will get Example oi integrity lor US New Governor Urges Virginians 8 in Times-Dispatch mean a gradual increase in the volume of material ijji national international sports state and published in the paper Several new features are being planned for introduction in the next two months Since Aug 31 the newsprint shortage has caused some readers unavoidable inconvenience and disap-pointment which we sincerely regret Although newsprint probably will continue in limited supply for months and some restrictions will remain in gj effect indications are that normal distribution can be maintained Republican at 12:25 pm just eight years after he took the first as a Democrat and struck an inaugural keynote of bipartisan cooperation it be our purpose and our prayer" he said in summing up his 14-minute inaugural message disparagement may give way to discussion altercation distill into alter Miller for a second term as attorney general It was a relatively mild January day The sun slipped in and out of thin white clouds while Virginia National Guard cannon boomed out a 19-gun notice to the world that the Old Dominion had inaugurated another governor There was no identifiable of- natives integrity disarm distrust and principle rise above partisanship" About 3500 persons gathered around the white-columned south portico of the Capitol for inaugural rites that also inducted Republican John Dalton as lieutenant governor and reinaugurated Andrew tailment over our plans" and then drew the first of seven bursts of applause by vowing that Virginians and Virginia' should receive fair treatment sharing equally any sacrifices that may come He won moreapplause in two moderate rounds of handclapping with a law-and-order assertion that preservation of civil peace and tranquility is not negotiable in this Then reading deliberately in cadenced prose from his manuscript he turned to what he discerned to be great yearning a very great yearning for spiritual at a time of doubts and choruses" Without identifying the malaise symbolized by the Watergate and other scandals he seemed to be suggesting a national need: None Blameless "Let us abandon the hunt for someone or something we can blame for whatever offends or aggrieves us Where the people govern no citizen can hold himself completely blameless if government be found wanting us convert our concerns over what we feel is wrong into positive and peaceful work toward what we know is 1 nowhere can that event be filled with more meaning nowhere is its purpose better remembered than here We cannot do less than take the lead in this observance 1 We can once again Continued on Page 7 Col 1 ficial on hand to represent the Nixon administration at the 1974 inaugural proceedings but there was one visiting governor Republican James Holshouser Jr of North Carolina along with four former Virginia Governors 11 of the 12 Virginians serving in Congress a dozen federal and state judges and other dignitaries There was a parade with stirring band music and briskly stepping military units but the spectacle was shortened and a bit subdued in deference to the energy crisis In late afternoon hundreds of Virginians queued up to shake the newly inaugurated hands at a public reception in theCapitol's old Senate chamber and last night more than 3500 persons turned out for inaugural balls at the John Marshall and Jefferson hotels In launching his second administration Godwin spoke only fleetingly and generally of the legislative program he will outline in detail to the General Assembly tomorrow afternoon He offered a reassuring word on education: that no Virginian young or old rich or poor whatever his endowments is denied a place in the classroom or the laboratory or the library New Needs He cited new needs to be met traffic congestion growing concern for our environment swollen welfare rolls and crime statistics continued penal He warned that the energy crisis cast a cloud of cur A qfejfc MMk t- (C' 'r V-'- nt eight years ago in the inauguration Godwin explained "There will be a new one of course We all get don't you use the new one" asked Mrs Godwin you would have three to give when you go on one fur lieutenant governor and two for Godwin Same Man9 Insists On Same Bible Same Hat By Stephen Fleming Mills Godwin Jr carefully took oil his top hat and asked about the Bible mean the old he said to be clear to the people around him in Suite 900 of Hotel John Marshall It was shortly before 11 am the same Bible I used By James Latimer Mills Godwin Jr began his second term as governor yesterday with an appeal to all Virginians to join him in providing example of integrity and responsible citizenship for an anxious nation Godwin took his second gubernatorial oath as s-3 Her husband shook his head He wanted the same Bible just as he would wear the same top hat and although he didn't mention it then the same thermal underwear Wife Shfugs "Well" Mrs tJodwin said and shrugged it means anything to you" She stepped away to make arrangements Somebody asked how the governor-elect felt "I feel good" Godwin said and nodded to reaffirm it none of the suspense of eight years ago I know what to He shifted speech cadence and smiled as he tossed off a familiar campaign phrase: "I'm the same man I was eight years ago" Mrs Godwin turned back and leaned into the group I'm the same woman only older" She slipped into the corridor by the window and watched the parade units forming along Franklin Street Below the Suffolk band the one from home was tuning up Mrs Godwin wore a rose' coat and fur hat Everything was new She thought perhaps the hat wasold but decided that was wrong more sentimental than I she said On Schedule Right on schedule the Godwins started toward the elevator to begin the official part of their day Special state police security men walked ahead As Mills and Katherine Godwin walked down the corridor ne took her hand and held onto it The lobby was rrnwded The people applauded as the Godwins stepped from the elevator Mrs (indwin shook the hands of friends across the guide rope In the Marshall Room the other principal characters of the day waited It Gov Henry Howell and family posed for a photographer as Godwin ame in Howell lost to Godwin in November hv about I'iihiii votes The former combatant id a brief encounter an! win leaned across a group to rjip Howell's hand briefly Then he retreated In las conversation In due time (iov lwwnnd Holton arrived and oon the of -fit tal trip to the apitol began The governors traveled in the iff ml state limousine Therar ff1 4 -'r ApjH'ared Relegated Canal Front 4 Explosive 9 UN Says pmm Wire Disfintclii UNITED NATIONS -Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in a report to the Security Council Saturday described the Fgyptian-lsraeli cease-fire sector as "unstable and potentially The four-page report on Waldheim's progress in deploying the Emergency Force said the force was having trou-blr interposing its units between the two sides The report gave ihe strength of the force as 5545 and told of pi jns to add 2020 men by Feb against an authorized strength "in the order of exceeding I imit He explained that he had had to exreed his target limit of about ik)ff men for any one national contingent because the ruuncil's decision to divide logistic dunes bet wren Canada and Poland had m-ufeit impossible to limit (heir contingents to y-i ii jvf 5 -s I Two days ago he sfsked the White House for tapes of about 10 more conversations He has rereived everything he has asked fur from the White House except for a fpw items not yet located but he emphasized "don't let the conclusion be drawn that these things have been handed to me on a silver platter" Once hegives material toa grand jury- he cannot also pass it on to the impeachment study being conducted by the House Judiciary Committee The evidence presented so far to grand juns and hr predicted that indictments would be returned hv the rndof February liesaid he iped trials would be heduleii as Minn as possble lie met with former presidential aide John i I inwootl llollon No Lunger Governor StaR Photo by Bob Jonci Jr to Holding Up the Windblown State Seal The Inside Story Ten Sections 140 Pages The World SHEIK ADMED Zaki al-Yamani warns oil consuming nations against forming bloc that may clash with oil producing countries Page A-ll The Nation TOP BRASS are quietly infiltrating formerly civilian policy-making posts in the Defense Department PagpA-20 The State THERE ARE PROBLEMS behind the fences at the Lorton Reformatory in Northern Virginia Page C-l The Area TRASH MAY BECOME an energy source Page B-l Business ENERGY CRISIS FALLOUT afreets jnbsthroughout Europe Page B-8 Perspective SURVEYS OF FUTURISTS by The Associated Press show a dark picture for our traditional style of life Page F-l Parade PSYCHIATRIST Eli Chesen a well-read Nixon watcher is interviewed about his book "President psychiatric Profile" Jaw or ski May Seek Testimony Tunisia and Libya Say Merge (C) Si'ir York Times Service However Bouruuiba said later in the day: had decided" to set up a referendum on Jan 18 but that date cannot be met for procedural reasons The referendum will take place March There was no indication how such policy differences as Libya's vehemently anti-Israel stand and Tunisia's comparative moderation toward Israel would be resolved Full union would presumably pub Libya'soil riches as thedis-posal of a combined nation with a population of more than six million and a Mediterranean coastline strecching from Algerian to Bgypt The merger agreement was signed after two days of discussions on Djerba Evident Surprise Word of the unification plan was broadcast simultaneously in both countries and was received ith evident surprise though reports of a possible f- CoL i WASHINGTON (AP) Special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski said Saturday that he might need President Nixon's testimony in some of the criminal cases being developed by the prosecutors In a meeting with newsmen Jaworski was asked if he could foresee any need to sepk testimony from the President After a long pause he replied: "That could be soYou're raising something that could conceivably happen" Jaworski noted that among the evidence in his possession are tapes of presidential conversations and that it might become nr esarv to ask the President to explain matters on the tapes He declined to elaborate Jaworski also made the following point His staff is studying the legal and ronstituttonal questions r-f whether a president can he inde ted hut he ha reached mi oni lasi" TUNIS The leaders of Libya and Tunisia announced Saturday that they had decided to merge their adjacent North African nations into a new republic The announcement by Col Moammar Khadafv the Lihvan head of state and President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia appeared to herald a union of cnuniries that have difference than similarities A joint on the Tunisian island of Djer-ba where the two leaders have been meeting said that the new state would be known as the Arab Islamic Republic and would have one constitution one president and 1 single army and flag The brief announcement first iud that a popular referendum would be held Fridjv in both countries to approve the division It gave no date for completion of the union and pmvid-d no indication of who would hr president.

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