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I A8 The News Tribune Tuesday June 28 1994 Dead Continued from A1 the body Again aearchers began their meticulous sweeps of the area looking fo evidence wife was interviewed by deputies Monday afternoon She was unavailable to reporters family learned a body had been found shortly after the afternoon news conference asking for help finding her Her father Jeny Robinson said his daughter left about 7:30 pm Sunday to play cards with friends Family members BODIES FOUND Thebodyof Michael Johnston was found in the 16400 block of Canyon Road East (1) The body of Rochelle Robinson was found off of 66th Avenue East (2) federal budget before becoming director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1993 standing was enhanced by the changes He will have offices in the White House and at the State Department a level of access that is not enjoyed by the secretary of state or the national security adviser It has been just over a year since the president invited Gergen who had Berved three Republican presidents to leave the business of political commentary to join his staff A source familiar with thinking said Gergen had always wanted a mqjor foreign policy role "to enhance Ids Gergen a former editor at US News World Report has been talking with future employers in academia and the news media for weeks (The Associated Press Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post contributed to this report) trib stnet For instructions on getting additional stories by computer see Soundlife page 16 For more on the shake-up 630ft 6307 6308 for the text of the press conference 6309 Clinton i Continued from A1 legislative Panetta said Monday night on Larry King Live 1 have that kind of experience 1 know the Sitting alongside McLarty Panetta added: "Hie feeling was this is the best time that Mack become what he really is which is a dose adviser of the McLarty is among the last of the Arkansas inner circle that accompanied Clinton to Washington Deputy counsel Vincent Foster committed suicide and associate attorney general Webster Hubbell and White House administration chief David Watkins resigned Before going to Washington McLarty was chief executive officer of Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co the largest utility in Arkansas He is a longtime behind-the-scenes political power broker who has known Clinton since kindergarten At 23 he became the youngest person ever elected to the Arkansas House and at 30 he became the youngest person ever named to the board Panetta was a 16-year congressional veteran and student of the tle may have conducted the In the third experiment funded by the Department of Energy human subjects in 1977 inhaled radioactive nitrogen or carbon monax- ide to "determine functional changes that might be caused by low concenj trations of ozone from Other experiments involved patients at an Illinois mental hospital injected with radium as therapy fo mental disorders injection of newborns with radioactive iodine to study thyroid uptake and another in Chicago involving women about to undergo therapeutic abortions bring given radioactive tritium More than two dozen radioactive isotopes ranging from arsenic to zirconium were given to test subjects "It is not possible from the available records to tell whether consent was sakl Ellyn WriBS director of the office of human radiation experiments Wriss said the cases were selected in part because these experiments had "no potential therapeutic benefit to the subjects All told more than 1000 people may have been exposed to radiation in the latest experiments more than doubling the known number of human radiation experiment subject None of the 48 experiments was included in a 1986 congressional report considered the most thorough study of the radiation experiments to date Some of them however had been reported in the press over the past several years Since Oleary launched her open-i ness campaign the department has reviewed almost 100000 documents and found almost 11000 involve with human radiation experiments "Do we have it all? I wouldn't say we do but I hope and believe we have the bulk of it" Oleary said (The Associated Press contributed to this report) Tests Continued from A1 ed fetuses were studied to determine how much iodine they had absorbed "Almost any of us reading the description at these experiments has to be disturbed" said Energy Secretary Hazel whose department since December has spent nearly $37 million searching its records of Cold Warera human radiation experiments Officials said the searches eventually would cost at least $24 million Documents released Monday also included details of about 95 previously hidden nuclear bomb detonations at the Nevada Tbst Site The blasts went undetected because they were set off simultaneously with reported tests Details on the UW and Hanford experiments were sketchy A UW spokeswoman Cheryl Dawes said the university had no immediate information on the experiments but would be following up in an effort to provide more details In one of the UW experiments 40 to 50 women with known bone-wasting disease and 25 chronically ill adults suffering from kidney failure were exposed to high-energy neutron The purpose of the experiment funded by the Atomic Energy Commission and believed conducted at University Hospital between 1969 and 1973 was not known A second experiment involved up to 50 volunteers injected with radioactive chromium used to tag red blood cells so they could be traced as they moved through the body The studies led to the development of a drug used as a blood preservative studies may have involved foreign human subjects in Bangkok the Energy Department said in describing the University of Washington Seat said she often played a fantasy-card game called They overly worried when Robinson a Spanaway Lake High School graduate come home because the card game can take hours and hours But Monday night the family received word of a second body "I cant believe this is said mother Lynn cant behave this is happening" Popper spray has caused havoc at a couple of schools when students set it off as a prank Federal Way will incorporate the new law into a district policy that provides parents with permission forma (g fnithnriae (hair taannga Ail dren to carry sprays The polity calls for the immediate expulsion of a student who uses the spray as a weapon on campus spokeswoman Judy Wall said Brag HantsThe News Tribune policy says students will be punished if they use pepper spray or anything else as a weapon The debate over pepper spray started in Federal Way when the district became aware many teens especially girls were carrying pepper Bprays for safety with their encouragement A community uproar was set off when the school district proposed a polity that explicitly allowed students to carry such sprays i Something elemental draws sailors from comfort to the sea Federal Way administrators learned of the measure when attorney Jim Thrasher got a copy of the published law about a month after the session ended in March Tacoma School District spokeswoman Gay Campbell said she hadn't heard of the pepperspray provision "I guess a good thing we never tackled the pepperspray question -to allow it or disallow she said it is I think covered be equipped specifically to handle rough seas and strong winds Boats must cany a large list of emergency gear including life rafts and crew members must wear life vests mid tether themselves to the boat during rough weather and at night Meeting those provisions calls for ayear or more of planning by crews Hundreds of details are attended to thousands of dollars are spent mostly for gear that would bis required fo survival if a boat were damaged However the Vic-Maui has been a very safe race fo its entire history "No ever been lost Mid Frank Shriver a Tacoma resident and member of the racers safety committee "There have been dismast-ingB and loss of rudders but never been a boat And while minor injuries are normal on a racing sailboat there has never been a serious accident boats are very well prepared fo first Shriver said Race chairman Repard downplays the risks but his sailing experience includes races in the smith of England where storms in past yean have sunk boats and killed crew members isn't like Fastnet" he said referring to a famous and dangerous British race be honest pretty tame" Children as young as 8 have sailed in Vic-Maui Two years ago the entire crew of one boat consisted of men who had had cardiac surgery Known as the "zipper they discovered that their blood pressure and pulse rates declined at sea The race can be very fost Dan Sinclair a member of the Vancouver organizing committee holds the race speed record at just under 10 days in 1992 in Merlin a 70-foot sloop designed to go fast in just the conditions most often encountered in Vic-Maui "We got Merlin up to 30 knots (nearly 35 mph) at he said one niit we never got under 18 And it can be much fun Surprise Continued from A1 hope that Fm not Bethel School District spokesman Jay Reifel also was surprised to leam of the new law: didn't see that one" The Spanaway-area district bans possession of pepper spray he Baid and will search students if it has reason to believe carrying it Sailor Continued from A1 of virtually everybody who does Td do it again in a split said Peter Rasmussen a 50-yearold Tacoma architect who with a group of friends chartered the 46feot sloop Bright Star for the race a few years ago "I know anybody who do it again except for those that get really Cressey a retired Rolls-Royce en- gineer who emigrated from England to Vancouver years ago has sailed since he was a young boy With a cousin he stole the front door off a house rigged a broomstick mast and bedsheet jib on it and set sail on a lake near his native Leeds The makeshift craft promptly sank but Cressey-like most who set off in boats that are driven only by the wind -had found a lifelong mistress "I have a love for the he said simply "I love the ocean I love He's not unusual among sailors "Most perception of racing is the Cup or the Whitbread (around-the-world said Deborah Angrave a British Columbia television producer who serves as the race's public relations coordinator Bee the boats out there and they think just a bunch of rich people goofing "When I started to do stuff on the racers it was: Who are these people? Where do they come from? What attracts them to this?" she said "I found them to be pretty normal people who are just attracted to the Still Angrave who produced an hour-long documentary of the 1992 race understands that risks are involved the last frontier out there" she said on your In fact the Offshore Racing Council the governing body of blue-water sailboat races requires that boats It will be a deeply personal voyage fo all of us but perhaps even more so fo my son and me I first took Marie out on a sailboat when he was 7 or 8 years old Like his two older brothers he has loved sailing and the sea ever since Some of our closest most cherished times together have occurred on our sailboat Wanderlust cruising in Puget Sound or the San Juan Is-lands The voyage of Straitjacket however will be of a different sort There will be no stopping at a protected anchorage at night Anything forgotten to bring we live without The pizza folks don't deliver a thousand miles out at sea There will be virtually no communication with loved ones ashore The newsmakers of the world fo this newsman could as well be on Mars during the rare We can expect to be by turns cold and wet warm and wet hot and wet There will be moments of boredom and times of sheer panic when a squall fo example briefly overwhelms us There will be shared exhilaration when the boat moves at speed under a sturdy wind There will surely be frustration ifthe wind deserts us and we are becalmed however briefly Fatigue will be our biggest enemy A four-hour nap will become a luxury The boat is as sound as we can make it the hull the rigging the sails The weak link is us The more tired we get the less trustworthy our instincts reactions and decisions become Do we change a sail when we should or wait too long and risk blowing out the sail or damaging the mast and rigging? Are we too tired to react property to a night squall? Decisions are one thing indecisions can damage the boat or in jure one of us We don't course expect any of that to happen We are all very experienced sailors with thousands of hours on boats But the unexpected on a blue-water race on the open ocean almost always happens So why do it? Why spend hundreds of hours of planning and preparation and thousands of dollars for new sails and safety equipment and all those things that make the boat better? Why go to that trouble for a couple of dock parties and a small plaque? There are flip answers: was Sr Edmund Hillary's But in reality we do if precisely because it IS there because a challenge We can make lists attend to details plan plan plaaYet in the end inexorably if is because all of us in the rare from those on the biggest boats to those on the smallest know that fo 3000 miles our lives will be reduced to absolute simplicity: Make the damned boat go In a world filled with cell phones and foxes voire mail and computerized E-mail our time on the boats will become very elemental No matter how good our planning and preparation we still have to deal with wind and water and we cannot control either We must sub-mit ourselves to the forces of nature We cannot make them go away and we do not wish to We can only think analyze adapt act on those instincts we have collected over our years under Bail We must rely on our wits in a very physical Bense not in the intellectual sense that guides so much of our lives ashore It is a challenge of the most elemental order What a thrill to have such an opportunity AIGMw The News Maine VICTORIA BC The telephone call was completely unexpected been thinking of doing Vic-Maui and Td like to know if like to Milt Ploeger said That was more than a year ago The Victoria-Maui International Yacht Rare a 3000-mile sailboat rare to Hawaii was the furthest thing from my mental horizon "Why do you want to do I asked "Adventure fun and racing of course" Ploeger responded Ihe answer was perfect I took three maybe four seconds to think it over I said hut thatb a tough rare Why do you want me a good sailor very comfortable on a boat and you can sleep said Ploeger with whom I had cruised aboard a 45-foot sloop in the Caribbean a few months earlier So began the voyage of Straitjacket and her crew a trip that started with hopes and endless lists ofdetails to be attended to and will end in Lahaina sometime in mid-July when we cross the finish line At just 33 feet Straifjadret out of Gig Harbor is the smallest in a fieri of two dozen boats We will also have the smallest crew just four of us There will be Milt 53 the financial officer for a mental health provider in Tacoma and his brother Vaughn 50 a plumbing supervisor fo a Seattle contractor There will be me 53 and my youngest son Mark 27 a sailmaker and college student who lives in Santa Cruz Calif i I 4 It I I PEOPLE cookies: Fighting crime with dough Tf it wasn't fo my wife and family waiting at the dock I would have suggested mutiny and kept right on Sinclair agrees with the seductiveness of being at sea fo days cm end working as a team to get the most speed possible out of a boat "This kind of rare is something everybody should do at least he said LOTTERY NUMBERS 08-4 i 1 5 10 19 32 35 37 39 40 "The laugh muscles got exercised nonstop all the way from Victoria to Maui" Rasmussen said In 1992 fo example a crewman from one boat who dressed as a medieval wizard showed up at the dock in Inner Harbour to sprinkle "slow an Merlin the rare favorite Best of all are the parties Lahaina Yacht Club members throw fo racers David KwpAssociaCed Press Denis Cressey however gets a little wistful when he discusses sailing across what he calls "that big ocean out "I keep saying to myBelf that this might be my last he said might be my last attempt" Then he brightens and observes: I also tell people Til never retire no future in Charles Schulz 46 49 54 56 57 59 68 89 72 78 80 $6 million $600000 $35 minion $7 million -t- after the course is finished "I cant realty talk about the parties fo Rasmussen chuckled The end of the rare isn't always appreciated "We hit the finish line with mixed Rasmussen said "I wanted to get to the dock and meet my loved ones but I was really upset it was over sion of Grisham's first book "A Time to The book is about a black man in the South who kills rednecks who raped his daughter Marion Brando whose autobio is out this fall will do one interview to hype the boric be a specially made hour-long TV tape produced by Random House which the publisher hopes to sell to broadcasting companies A source said the tape will be a and loving look" at the life of Brando who got $6 million to do the book Compiled from news services byjm McNett James Brown has a new job: cookeez monster A portion of the proceeds from his James Brown Cookeez will go to his Anti-Violence and Crime Prevention Campaign The organization raises money for communities hit hard by crime Eight types of cookies are bring introduced nationally The Godfather of Soul said Monday in a statement that the venture means "literally that we are taking a bite out of Brown will mark his 40th anniversary in show business in September Writer John Grisham will never again get ahead of himself Universal bought based on an outline but the completed book didn't turn out to be a thriller as anticipated "John never again wants to make a dt-al with anybodv for a book sight-uen" agent Garon said i latte (JeneSSp 1-3-11843536 (Am asp 10 I I I dc 3031 i UMM asp 611-12152538 James Brown conducts Ms news conference Monday from behind a drum ML amount of money is going to seduce Garon plans to talk with Warner Bros next month alut a film ver (Jsae asp 67-263343 PitthMI IB 1 I.