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mtfrnmm tmmmmmm i 'll i -aj -s r''f SBUSISITICERS: An era will close right along with Puyallup store LOCAL B1 Seattle skids into 5th straight loss AND HAPPY David Byrne talks about baring his soul 8PORTSC1 SOUNDLIFE THE Tuesday morning June 28 1994 Tacoma Washington Pierce County Edition the last frontier out there on your ggBes top aodles Chief of staff replaced by politically savvy budget director Panetta hood friend whom he has known since would remain doe-most trusted personal in a new senior role as counselor on political and legislative matters But McLarty 48 has never pretended to the role of a mqjor legislative strategist and even among his friends and subordinates in the White House the shuffle was regarded as a sidetracking of the unfailingly courteous former businessman who had become an ineffectual chief of staff The announcement of the shift was greeted with relief by many of advisers And McClarty admitted that neither he nor Clinton understood the central political and administrative implications of the job when he was selected chief of staff Air tiatives have sometimes floundered for lack of a strong central voice think the job of the president is to make the White House as effective as Clinton said means you have to use people at their highest and best Clinton portrayed the changes as nothing more than a midterm re- alignment meant to help the White House in its enpign to overhaul the health care system gain respect for its foreign-policy posture and overcome stiff Republican challenges hi the November elections He said the moves would add and to the White House Democrats in Congress believe Panetta 56 a former California congressman will move quickly to bring focus to administration actions More important as the struggle over health care and other issues enter the decisive phase he will bring to his new job an understanding of Congress that conies from experience shepherding difficult measures in-chiding last yearkdentitredudaon package -through the legislative meat grinder The president went out of his way to paint McLarty as an architect himself of the diakeup And he said his boy Vic BUm1992 By Douglas JsM The New York Times WASHINGTON President Clinton announced the most extensive staff shake-up of his 18 months in office Monday redrawing the lines of power in the White House as he searched for a way to give an air of strength and mhnimwliim in hi adminiatratinn Clinton removed his fellow Arkansan and lifelong friend Thomas McLarty as White House chief rf staff and replaced him with Leon Panetta his budget director Tb succeed Panetta the president nominated Alice Rivlin 63 the No 2 official at the Office of Management and Budget to become the next director And he installed counselor David Gergen 52 to whom he turned in another time of political crisis in a powerful new position to help refine foreign polity Beginning with the setting -the Oval Office instead of the more informal pressroom -everything about announcement seemed intended to project leader-ship and authority in a White House whose stumbles have left an appearance of ill management and whose ini ing the transition Fori months David Gorgon Foreifji policy aide rumors have swirled of a shake-up as the president appeared to move from crisis to crisis winning razor-thin legislative victories at the last possible moment But despite the rumors announcement was kept secret until Monday morning from even the most senior aides happening is now looking at a very large Deni Cresaey mm the hekn of MCFastrack In 111992 Victoria Maul InteniatloiialTfrchtRscsL At right la ciowman Gunther Schofr Maui race beckons NW sailors see CEnton back page Fatal stabbings linked questions are just beginning ByAIOMw The News tribune VICTORIA BC For Northwest sailboat racers and their boats the 3000-mile Victoria-Maui International Yacht Race can last anywhere from 10 days to three weeks Denis Cresaey hopes to make it in 12 days That way he can bring his 52-foot sloop Zamazan into the dock at Lahaina on his 82nd birthday would love to have my birthday at the Ijihaina Yacht Cresaey said put on a helluva party for Cresaey of Vancouver BC skippered MCFastrack to a 13X-day run to Hawaii in 1992 He is by fiar the oldest of two dozen skippers who with their crews and sailboats will start this biennial running of the most famous yacht race on Wednesday (for mall boats) and Friday (big boats) ofTBrotchie Ledge here About half the boats are from Puget Sound -npia and Tacoma to Seattle and im The remainder are Canadian From the smallest body was found Behind him are Investigators and rescue A Pierce County official removes Moody rubber gloves near where Johnston was found an an unpaved road off Canyon Road East near the Tacoma Club in an area known as a for couples Benson Victims shared romantic relationship boat Straitjacket out of Gig Harbor at 33 feet -to the biggest -Atalanta at 74 feet -two dozen boats will set out to race more than 3000 miles across the open Pacific Ocean Sponsored by the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and the Lahaina Yacht Club the race has been run since 1968 along a course that the explorer Captain Cook took and that old-time Ninth Pacific whaling ships sailed to winter in Hawaii For Northwest sailboat racers it is the World Series World Cup Super Bowl and Stanley Cup all in one For anywhere from 10 days to three weeks the sailors will face strong winds and dead calms flat ocean and large seas terror and boredom discomfort and exhilaration for a reward no larger than a small trophy and the knowledge that they finished the race were hyped up beyond belief Tbny Repard said of sailing the first race in 1968 Repard is this race chairman for the Vancouver committee he said no other way to describe it Known simply as Vic-Maui the race is one that captures the heart of nearly every Northwest sailboat racer who would like to sail it and the bouI car meanwhile was 6arked near home in the 16000 block of Winchester Drive East They held a press conference about 4:15 pm asking for the help in searching for her About 5 pm nearly 12 hours after the discovery of body their fears were realized A man who lives in the 21400 block of 66 th Avenue East found Robmaonb body hidden in shrubbery on his property Deputies said the man was earrhing the grounds after recently having problems with illegal garbage dumping in the neighborhood When he saw a cardboard box he lifted it and found Johnston and Robinson had last been seen alive leaving a card game Suiulay night in Etyanaway Beit-son said Benson said friends and relatives knew the two had a romantic relationship Johnston was a day laborer and was married with two children Benson said Robinson was not married she lived at home family members said She was attending Pierce Community College in Lakewood and worked at a Subway Sandwich shop in Puyallup A woman saw Johnston at 4:45 am tying outside 1988 gray Mazda which was parked near the 16400 block ofCanyon Road East Benson said A woman leaving the Sportsmenh Chib found the body in a dump of grass next to the car Search and rescue teams combed the thick brush by the car Monday mailing Deputies said they found evidence in her car that led them to believe she might have been harmed as welL By Mm Hubbel and Paul Chavez The News Tribune As dawn broke Monday a woman mi her way to work found the body of 25-yearold Michael Johnston oflhcoma Twelve hours later and four miles away the body of Rodidle Rcbinsan a 19yeardd friend from Spanawqt was found in a wooded area south of Puyallup Both had been stabbed several times in the upper body Pierce County sheriffs spokesman Curt Benson said Investigators believe the two homicides are linked but could offer no motive or likely scenarios Monday They said they had no suspects and had yet to find the weapon see Salk back page Law stops schools from banning pepper spray 7 INDEX may catch some people a legislative staff member Business El-5 Classified CSTESFS Crossword F3 WEATHER Ust says UW radiation tests exposed foreigners ill adults By Las Btamenthal The News Tribune Washington (DC) Bureau WASHINGTON -A new list of US government-sponsored human radiation experiments includes three believed conducted by the University of Washington including tests in Bangkok Thailand and on chronically ill adults list of 48 experiments also includes eight Hanford Nudear Reservation workers who were gi ven radioactive iodine-laced milk to determine how quickly it was absorbed by the thyroid In another experiment at the University of Iowa in 1953 pregnant women scheduled for therapeutic abortions were given doses of radioactive iodine The abort- of can prohibit a teen over 18 from buying or carrying pepper spray Nor can a governmental body forbid a teen 14 to 17 from carrying pepper spray if she or he baa a permission the new law says On the other hand it is a misdemeanor for a teen 14 to 17 to carry the spray without a parentis permission Those under 14 cannot carry the spray under any circumstances The law was tucked away in the huge Youth Violence Protection Act passed during a special session of the Legislature in March It took effect this month I By EBzabeth Moore and Uee Kramer The News Tribune surprising some school officials but they cant forbid students older than 14 from carrying pepper sprsy to school While Federal Way parents and educators were wrangling in committee last winter over whether to ban personal protection sprays from school state lawmakers were busy passing a law taking away their power to decide that Under the new law town city county special purpose district quasi-municipal correlation or other unit rK4 1 i 4 Mostly sunny HlgilniiM- 70s Details bill this size it's tough to get the word Legislators familiar with the law could not be reached Monday One of those surprised by the law was University Place Schools Superintendent Don Krag who said he was shocked he didni know about the statute University Place have a pepper-spray policy Tve missed this thing somewhere along the Krag said I Please see Spiise back 112th year Issue Ns 80 0 1994 The Nes Tribune prase run: 131105 Recycled paper is used to print The News Tribune 1 5 --y ma.