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4A DETROIT FREE PRESS SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1993 Li E. opes, fears join Clinton for superpower summit White House sees a link between re-election and Russian reform survives the latest power struggle, Russia will be in political turmoil for years. That will not only be a foreign affairs problem for Clinton, but also a domestic one. The White House logic goes like this: No Russian reform, no U.S. defense cuts; no defense cuts, no chance for the Clinton administration to deliver on its pledge to halve the budget deficit in four years; no dealing with the deficit, no re-election.

The whole Clinton proposal to slash $122 billion from the Defense Department budget by 1998 is built on the assumption that Russia will continue moving, with the inevitable bumps, toward a more open, democratic and free-market society By Thomas L. Friedman New York Tunes PORTLAND, Ore. President Bill Clinton is approaching the summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin today with an odd mix of feelings: a sense of urgency, a sense of opportunity and an unspoken fear that no matter what help he offers Yeltsin it won't make a difference. The urgency derives from the president's stated conviction that if the United States does not do what it can to bolster Yeltsin, and Russian reform falters, Clinton's ability to slash his own military budget and get his own economic program through Congress will be imperiled. In Clinton's view, aides say, the Clintion will present Yeltsin with a $1 billion-plus aid package during their talks today and Sunday.

One opportunity for Clinton is to use the summit meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, to establish himself finally as a credible statesman and leader of the Western alliance, something he has yet to do given his focus on domestic affairs. The sense of foreboding around the White House springs from intelligence reports suggesting that even if Yeltsin fettokeepSerbs out of Bosnian sides HMPMIIIH I I ft JZ I uww-fiiiM, i VV r- -jkm- Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium Marking a significant expansion of the Western military role in what was Yugoslavia, the United States and its NATO allies approved Friday an operation to keep Serbian aircraft from flying over Bosnia. The mission, which could begin as early as next week, may involve 50 to 100 jet fighters with authority to fire on violators if necessary. It will be the first such airborne operation by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since it was formed in 1949 to contain communism. NATO warships have already been sent to the Adriatic Sea to watch for violations of a United Nations trade embargo on Serbia and Montenegro, the remaining Yugoslav republics.

The Serbs have mostly waged ground offensives against the Muslim-led government and have limited air power. So far, the no-fly zone has been violated 465 times, mostly by non-military flights, UN officials say. But recently, small planes have attacked Muslim villages in eastern Bosnia and then fled toward Yugoslavia. The NATO move came as Bosnian core of the relationship has been fundamentally altered from one primarily focused on reducing the threat of mutual annihilation to one focused on reducing the threat of soaring budget deficits. More than any other in history, this summit meeting is going to be about balance sheets, not the balance of power.

That is why for the first time the U.S. president will be accompanied to a summit meeting by his secretary of the Treasury. Serbs rejected Friday a UN peace plan. The move was made by acclamation no vote in the Bosnian Serbs' self-proclaimed parliament. Serb fighters have seized 70 percent of Bosnia.

The UN plan would divide Bosnia-Herzegovina into 10 autonomous provinces and give Serbs 43 percent of the republic's territory. Earlier, expecting rejection, the UN Security Council on Wednesday authorized NATO warplanes to shoot down aircraft violating the no-fly zone. But it bowed to pressure from Russia, a longtime Serb ally, and ruled out preemptive strikes on Serb airfields. NATO ambassadors met Friday at the behest of the United Nations. The Allied commander in Europe, U.S.

Gen. John Shalikashvili, will be in charge of the operation from his headquarters near Mons, Belgium. The United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands are expected to take part in the mission. The fighting in Bosnia has left at least 134,000 people dead or missing. It erupted when Bosnia's Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia and Bosnia's Serbs took up arms.

Architect Robert A.M. Stern has fashioned the new museum building into his own clapboard and fieldstone paean to American folk life. The building is chockablock with architectural echoes of traditional New England, right down to a white picket fence and fieldstone siding. Rockwell's art studio paint brushes, knickknacks and all has been transported to the hew site. The artist's Stockbridge home was sold after he died at age 84 in 1978.

The museum, which was founded in 1969 in a small, two-story building downtown, now attracts about 150,000 visitors a year to this country town of 2,300 residents. Some who knew Rockwell wonder how the gaunt, retiring, pipe-puffing man would have felt about the new home for his creations. "I think he would have been a little embarrassed by it," said the town's police chief, Rick Wilcox, another Rockwell model. "He was an extremely modest person, and I think he would have said, 'What's all the fuss 4 i I '4 Vice President Al Gore, left, and President Bill Clinton compare notes Friday at the opening session of the Clinton referees forest Simpler America Gets fresh start Loggers, tree lovers air views 11:10 a.m.: Clinton and Mulroney meet at MacKenzie House. Noon: Mulroney hosts lunch for Clinton and Yeltsin, MacKenzie House.

1:30 p.m.: First summit session MacKenzie House. 6:15 p.m.: Clinton and Yeltsin dine, at Seasons in the Park, Queen Eliza-1 beth Park. I Sunday 10:40 a.m.: Second summit ses sion, Pan Pacific Hotel. 1:30 p.m.: News conference. By the Associated Press BLAKE SEUReuters forest conference in Portland, Ore.

dispute issue," the archbishop said. "Our Judeo-Christian tradition values all God's creation the forest and the workers." Buzz Eades, a burly logger whose family has worked in the woods for almost 200 years, said timber workers respect the forest but face "a fearful future as modern Paul Bun-yans hiding in the car while their wives buy groceries with food stamps." "My people are forest people," Eades said. "We love it and we don't want to hurt it. But my three grandchildren deserve as much consideration as we are lavishing on the spotted owl." Bill Arthur, director of the Sierra Club's Seattle office, was one of the witnesses who argued that logging is destroying the few remaining stands of 200-year-old trees. "We no longer hunt buffalo.

We don't kill whales. We can't sacrifice the last 10 percent of old growth forest," Arthur declared. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Yet, talk to individual sanitation workers the men King came to Memphis to stand with and jt becomes clear that their lives have improved in the last quarter of ia century. Some have traded in their tattered gloves and garbage-stained T-shirts for paisley ties and desk jobs.

Others still earn low wages hanging on the backs of trash trucks, but they say their struggle in 1968 left them with a dignity and respect, and eventually a wage, that had seemed unattainable.) "My life and my living got said White, the son of a Mississippi cotton farmer, who spent the 1960s carrying 80-pound tubs of trash seven days a week with no vacations. White earns $14 an hour today and is supervisor in the Solid Waste Department. "You smelled like a skunk at the i i See KING, Page 9A VANCOUVER, British Columbia The schedule for the summit between President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, as released by Canadian officials, follows. All times are local. Today 8:30 a.m.: Yeltsin arrives at Vancouver International Airport.

9:10 a.m.: Yeltsin meets with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mul-roney at Norman MacKenzie House, University of British Columbia. 10:30 a.m.: Clinton arrives at Vancouver International Airport. and northern California. Scientists watch the health of the spotted owl to gauge the overall health of everything that lives in the forest. The Forest Service has declared 8.3 million acres of federal forests as critical to the owl's survival; more than half are considered suitable for timber harvest.

Federal courts have banned logging in national forests though not on private land until the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have a plan to protect the owl. Estimates on the number of jobs lost because of the ban vary by the thousands. The first witness, Archbishop Thomas Murphy of Seattle, described his torn feelings as he drove through an ancient forest threatened by logging and then met a jobless timber worker living with his family in a pickup truck. "The timber crisis is a moral But sanitation workers in Memphis are far better off than they were in 1968, when they worked a seven-day week for $1.32 an hour. Some sanitation workers say race relations remain as strained as they were in the 1960s.

That seemed evident after an uproar recently when 11 white jurors were chosen for the federal trial of Rep. Harold Ford, a popular black Democrat from Memphis accused of bank fraud. The furor prompted Mayor W.W. Herenton the city's first black mayor to call for calm. Some say the city is on the verge of rioting.

Others say the furor just means black residents who make up 55 percent of the population and are well-represented on the City Council and school board will have to push harder for improvements. Norman Rockwells art is enshrined at new museum site by Jeff donn Associated Press TOCKBRIDGE, Mass. In a world that worships fast food and MTV, the new Norman Rockwell Museum opens its doors today to a public that BY ROBERT S. BOYD Knight-Ridder Newspapers PORTLAND, Ore. Like a family therapist trying to bring a quarreling couple back together, President Bill Clinton on Friday set out to heal the deep grievances between environmentalists and timber workers of the Northwest.

With Vice President Al Gore at his side, Clinton and five members of his cabinet spent five hours listening to people on both sides of the long and bitter dispute air their stories of hardship and suggest solutions. "The process we begin today will not be easy," the president said. "Its outcome cannot possibly make everyone happy. Perhaps it won't make anyone completely happy. But the worst thing we can do is nothing." Both Clinton and Gore insisted that a middle ground can be found, making it unnecessary to choose between jobs and the environment.

"A healthy economy and a healthy environment are not at odds with each other, they are essential to each other," the president said. At the end of the day, the president gave his cabinet 60 days to produce a "balanced and comprehensive long-term policy" that will permit limited logging in federal forests, preserve jobs and protect the environment. Clinton stopped in Portland, en route to his summit conference with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Canada, to carry out a campaign promise to mediate the timber controversy symbolized as a life-or-death struggle between the spotted owl and the Northwest's embattled timber workers. Clinton repeated that his first goal will be to develop a unified government position. "Together, we can move beyond confrontation to build consensus on a balanced policy to preserve jobs and to protect our environment," he said.

There are 3,000 breeding pairs of spotted owls in Washington, Oregon "He was a man of a lot of words, but the words really meant something." Gene May, a 17-year-old dropout on his way to the Army when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis in 1968 Black sanitation workers still stand by King still yearns for cherub-face boys and country doctors. The new building houses the i world's largest body of works by the artist who extolled a simpler time, perhaps largely imaginary, in Ameri- can life. The opening also marks the first in a series of celebrations for the centen-; nial of Rockwell's birth Feb.

3, 1894. "A lot of us wondered how the younger generation would respond," said Anne Braman, 73, a town resident 1 who modeled for the artist's "Happy Birthday Miss Jones." Braman was the teacher surprised by the birthday greetings of a pupil. "Modern art is so different from what he did. But I just think all ages respond to his work," she said. The artist, who lived his last 25 years in this Berkshire Mountain community, borrowed from its small-town facades and finely etched faces to draw his extraordinary and often comic portraits of ordinary people.

The museum's holdings encompass more than 500 of his original paintings, drawings and illustrations. Many have taken on a life of their own as cultural icons, first appearing on the cover of the old Saturday Evening Post and now on calendars and as unpretentious art for the home. After 25 years, woes remain despite progress BY JEFFREY FLEISHMAN Knight-Ridder Newspapers MEMPHIS, Tenn. Junior White stops his city sanitation truck on a street of broken bottles, peers through black bars surrounding the Mason Temple, and recalls the spring of 1968 when he carried a sign that said: "I Am a Man." Reaching back 25 years, White walked to the temple gates and listened to the wind. "I was inside the temple that day," he said, "and I heard Martin Luther King Jr.

give that speech. 'I have been to the mountaintop I have seen the promised White shook his head, hoisted his pants and climbed back into his truck. Less than a block away two men sat drinking whiskey under a clothesline at the Fowler housing project, a maze of beat-up gray walls, dirt yards and poverty. "Man, yeah," said White, "things Some seek a broader scope of King and his vision. Page 3A.

still have a long way to go in this town." Twenty-five years ago on Sunday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. He had come to help White and 1,100 other blacks unionize the city's Sanitation Department. His death sparked riots across the nation.

Today, as veteran sanitation workers prepare to celebrate King's memory, racial inequality and black poverty persist in this Mississippi River city of 610,000. "There's many people living in misery," said Maxine Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis branch of theNAACP. la File photo Norman Rockwell will be honored in a series of celebrations for the centennial of his birth on Feb. 3, 1894. LJ I.