Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 1

rfX: isHt tiVisut I i-3-tJ -XyfC- motifr IMS' V- $lt0 Sunday January 14 1990 140th Tear No 14 Richmond Virginia 23293 S- 'V u' i eS Safate freedom today Wider tells 30 expand it map Change constant in stream of time ft of sees hard tasks Inside By Michael Hardy and Jeff Schapiro ThnceDtapateh staff writer Proclaiming himself a of Virginia" Lawrence Douglas Wilder was sworn in yesterday as the nation's first elected black governor promising to expand for others the freedom that had been denied his slave forebears "As we salute the idea of freedom today let us pledge to extend that same freedom to others said Wilder 58 becoming the 66th governor of Virginia during an emotional ceremony on the shadow-draped north side of the state Capitol us fulfill the perfect promise of freedom and liberty left as a legacy for us by those who founded this Wilder said in a 15-minute address before the estimated 30000 people who crowded onto Capitol Square for the historic inauguration let us likewise be thankful that while our country gave birth to a freedom long denied and delayed for all who loved freedom the belief 'in these dreams held by those forebears was passed from generation to generation and roawned the seeds that propagated the will and the desire to Wilder elected in November by the closest margin ever In a Virginia Staff photo by Undy Keast Rodman TAKING THE OATH Douglas Wilder was sworn in as governor yesterday by retired US Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell Jr Daughter Loren other members of his family and a crowd estimated at 30000 looked on and cheered as Wilder a grandson of slaves became the first black elected governor CHARLES MCDOWELL The truth is that inaugurations in Virginia are pretty much the same every four yean The ritual has not changed fundamentally in the modern era the rented formal clothes on the good old boys from the General Assembly the solemn oath the sudden panic of the Capitol Square pigeons at the firing of the 19-gun salute But if the ritual change the times do The inauguration of Gov Douglas Wider made that point yesterday as it has not been made In all the history of the state or any state Another governor of Virginia had said in his inaugural speech generation speaks of changing times but change is constant in the stream wmm A Silent amen marks point in of That was Albertis Harrison in 1961 He was at the Capitol yesterday smiling The governor before him was the late Lindsay Almond Jr His inaugural speech 32 years ago helps now in gauging the stream of time call upon the General Assembly to stand firm with unwavering unity of purpose and high resolve against every assault upon the sovereign integrity of this commonwealth Against these massive assaults we must marshal a massive Almond thundered He also said in that speech: cannot conceive such a thing as a little integration any more than I can conceive a small avalanche or a modest Just a year later to racial Integration of the public schools began to collapse (and Almond dismayed the die-: hards by accepting the inevitable) On Jan 19 1959 Robert Continued on page 9 coL 3 Staff photo by Ctonwnt Britt weather in Capitol Square did chill the emotion of the moment -zM -i at ACLU New York Times Service DETROIT After years of telling officials what they cannot do to keep guns and other weapons out of the troubled schools the American Civil Liberties Union in Detroit last week adopted a completely tack: It presented its own plan to tighten school discipline and security Tb the surprise of local educators and law enforcement agenda jthe civil liberties group outlined a broad strategy to address school violence including tougher enforcement of truancy rules the creation of a program to collect anonymous tips ana searches of Individual lockers when there Is to believe that a student is carrying a weapon While officials of the ACLU said the elements were consistent with their efforts to defend and expand the array of constitutionally protected liberties their broader strategy underscores a shift In the way the oldest mainstream dvil liberties group is now seeking dvil liberties group is to further its agenda Confronted with a fe to hirther its Confronted with a federal Theinau Virginia and! is a beginning middle and end This is the of the Ba-liles years Page A-10 Numb feet bother the 30Q00 in Capitol Square Page A-6 polite now but the lieutenant governor and attorney general look like opponents four years from now Page A-10 race follows as chief executive segregationists and slave owners visionaries and revolutionaries ceremonies drew political and government leaders from around the nation and the world including the Rev Jesse Jackson the two-time presidential candidate who antagonised Wilder following the election by trying to take credit to his victory Wilder has been viewed as an alternative to Jackson on the national political stage In it symbolic meeting of the old Virginia and the new Wilder was administered the 49-word oath of of- Continued on page 8 coL 1 felt I was at a point in history and that really means I said Robin Mer-I cer-Snead of I Chesapeake Mrs Mercer-Snead 27 see Wilder from a spot near the black wrought-iron fence That matter people Williams who were at the reflecting pool and heard Martin Luther King speak were probably way in the back Just like we she said She called it appropriate that inauguration occurred two days before the national holiday that honors Dr King It seems she said Continued on page 11 col 1 13 sections 230 pages in the lower 30s Cloudy tomorrow with highs in the lower 50s Data page A-2 Business Alex Armour has spent a lifetime at Davenport 8c Co a Richmond-based brokerage that will honor the stockbroker for 70 years of work And Armour 84 has no Intention of retiring Conumjto By Michael Paul Williams Tlmcs-Dispateh stag writer We came in droves to Thomas Jef- Capitol to celebrate and to be a part of history On this sun-kissed January day the chilly air held an abundance of Joy pride and hope as we witnessed a dream realized As Douglas Wilder the first elected black governor spoke of the equality of men during hu inauguration speech Johnnie Jones of Port Washington Md nodded his head in silent amen' thank God to being alive to witness something waited to 100 years or more" Jones 53 said Jones and the thousands of other blacks at the inauguration recognized a new epoch when they saw one TRIUMPHANT TRIO Gov Douglas his running mates Lt Gov Donald Terry The Wilder shares the inaugural rostrum with Beyer Jr and Attorney General Mary Sue nothing to Inauguration Pages A-6-11 index VILNIUS (AP) President Mikhail Gorbachev said yesterday that be no longer objects to legalization of other political parties in the Soviet Union where the Communist Party has held a monopoly on power to 72 years see no tragedy In a multiparty system if and I can tell you this straightforwardly it arises as a result of a normal historical process and answers the needs of he told Lithuania's Communist Party It was a surprising reversal by Gorbachev who had remained opposed to the idea of rival parties even as pro-democracy movements forced an end to one-party rule elsewhere In Eastern Europe Police routinely have broken up demonstrations by the Democratic Union until recently the only organization trying to establish Itself an opposition party A reason for Gorbachev's change could be that multiparty systems already exist in Lithuania and Latvia The party Ideology chief in the third Baltic republic Estonia has said that the same is inevitable there Lithuania was the first to legalize other parties and its Communists will face them in February elections to the Supreme Soviet Violence in Azerbaijan page A-13 Gorbachev hu been seeking to persuade the Lithuanian Communist Party to reverse its decision to break with the central one His three-day visit ended with the Lithuanians refusing to budge The president concluded yesterday's party meeting with the statement have laid a good foundation to continuing the He then returned to Moscow Gorbachev pleaded for unity in the party and the nation but faced proindependence demonstrators at every stop and clearly had no significant effect on public opinion Lithuanians strongly support independence to the republic which wu taken over in 1940 The Communist Ideology chief Vadim A Medvedev said after the meeting that elaboration on statement on multiple parties will be In an article by Gorbachev due to appear in the press possibly early today Communists have held exclusive power in the Soviet Union since a Continued on page 13 coL 6 Mostly sunny and milder today with highs in the mld-40s Increased cloudiness tonight lows Tomorrow's features Metro Think heard it all about the inauguration? bu haven't Columnist Ray McAllister finds same oi what you missed in foe three days of hoopla and-effers a different perspective on lt all A special report In Business examines the forces that most certainly will deliver plenty of changes and challenges throughout Virginia Executives trade unions and consumer advocates will discover quickly that they need new rules new viewpoints and new dreams From comes many things turmoil ure success and opportunities The report begins on D-l iewpoints i ftiangw nouTfail- Judiciary it regards as less and less recep- Continued on page 3 coL 1 Virginia's State Newspaper.