European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Seattle crowd welcomes russian Goodwill ship from wire reports Seattle a a russian Navy ship bearing a space capsule full of symbolic treasures steamed a final half mile to a Seattle pier tuesday for a greeting by officials and the Start of a Long weekend of festivities. Quot As a High school band played Louie Louie the states unofficial Rock Anthem the marshal Krylov inched to its moorings. About 400 people Many of them russians who arrived Here monday on charter flights greeted the 692-foot radar ship. Chained to the Krylova a deck was the scarred and scorched space capsule it plucked from the Pacific about 80 Miles off the coast sunday. Inside the capsule were religious icons greetings from russian president Boris n. Yeltsin a Cut Glass replica of the statue of Liberty and a pair of wedding rings to be exchanged with marriage vows saturday by a russian couple who arrived in Seattle on tuesday  s Case scrutinized los Angeles a the . Justice department disclosed tuesday that it is investigating whether a korean grocer Given probation for shooting and killing a Black teen Ager can be charged with Federal civil rights violations. The departments civil rights division made the disclosure As it sought to Block soon a dues plan to return to Korea. Do 51, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and Given five years probation for shooting 15-Ycar-old Latasha Harlins on March 16, 1991, in a dispute Over a bottle of Orange juice. She said she thought the girl was shoplifting. Dues probation angered Black leaders who said the sentence was Light because the victim was  victim of stabbing Columbia . A the state Bishop of the United methodist Church was stabbed in an attempted robbery police said. The 60-year-old Clergyman was hospitalized wednesday in critical condition. Bishop Joseph Bethea was stabbed in the Abdomen once monday night during an attempted car theft at a parking lot said Columbia police detective Mark Vinson. Bethea was listed in critical condition at Richland memorial Hospital after surgery that ended Early wednesday a nursing supervisor  win damages Minneapolis a three Library employees were awarded More than $90,000 in damages after a civil rights panel ruled that the City discriminated against them by not providing health insurance for their lesbian partners. Ann Degroot executive director of the Gay and lesbian Community action Council called the ruling a a major breakthrough in recognizing discrimination based on sexual orientation. Maury Landsman of the University of Minnesota Law clinic one of the lawyers representing the women said several cities around the country have provided benefits for their employees same sex partners. A but As far As we know this is the first time a judicial or administrative body has found the policy of failing to provide health insurance to be discriminatory a Landsman  face Economy a Washington a the National Park service has proposed operating cutbacks at Federal Parks nationwide a including Philadelphia a Liberty Bell a to meet a $48 million budget shortfall Agency officials said tuesday. That would mean among other things building closures and Shorter hours at Independence National historic Park in Philadelphia and the closure of about 70 Miles of Virginia a Skyline drive for much of next year. However George Berklacy. A spokesman for the Park service said the plan to close most of Skyline drive on dec. 1 was put on hold after complaints by Virginia members of Congress. He said that the decision has not been reversed but that other options such As Shorter opening hours were being studied. Cluster groups get set to Chart Clinton course Little Rock Ark. Apr Over the next 90 Days president elect Clinton Scluster groups will draw the map the new administration will follow. The groups will recommend changes in government personnel and procedures a a task that will help Clinton fill 3,000 full time political positions. That Effort was to get Down to business with wednesdays expected announcement of the group leaders. Quot they produce the Road map for the next 90 Days Quot spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said tuesday of the groups. Clinton a policy team has been at work since nov. 12, when he announced his top advisers on the Economy health care and other key issues. Naming the group leaders begins the second phase of the transition. The president elect is considering his options for the Cabinet in private meetings at the Arkansas governors mansion. Clinton met tuesday with Sens. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and Timothy Wirth of Colorado. T he visits which were not announced in Advance fuelled speculation that they were being considered for Cabinet posts. T he Cluster groups will examine personnel and operations under the 14 Cabinet secretaries. In the foreign policy area sources close to the transition said that j. Brian Atwood would Lead the state department Cluster Jeff Smith would Lead the Pentagon Cluster George Tennant would Lead the intelligence Cluster and Madeline Albright would Lead the National Security Council Cluster. Atwood now head of the National democratic Institute was assistant Secretary of state for legislative affairs in the Carter administration. Smith a Washington attorney served As an attorney on the Senate armed services committee. Tennant is chief of staff of the Senate intelligence committee Albright is director of the Center for National policy a democratic foreign policy think tank. In addition Rose got Muller a strategic analyst for the Rand corp., is said to have been tapped to Lead the arms control and disarmament Agency Cluster and Goller t. Butcher a member of the Board of directors of the Howard University Law school to head the Agency Lor International development Cluster. President elect Clinton a half brother Roger gets his hair done tuesday before a television taping in new York. Clinton s half brother tells of abuse new York apr Roger Clinton wept on a television talk show tuesday As he spoke about being abused by his father and visiting his grave with his half brother president elect Clinton. He spoke with love and respect about his older half brother who he said assumed the role of a this father Best Friend guardian and  he also talked about his past cocaine addiction and the year he spent in prison in 1984 on drug charges. At a taping of the Maury Povich show which airs nationally monday Clinton 36, recalled that Bill Clinton then running for a third term As governor of Arkansas did not interfere in a state police investigation of him. A the could easily have informed me and i could easily have flown. From Here in the Chelsea District and gone to Bogota Colombia which was an option because i was screwed up at that time a he said. Roger Clinton is a television production assistant in Burbank calif., and the Lead Singer in the Rock band politics which he said will perform at one of the inaugural balls. He said he gave Bill Clinton who is 10 years older the nickname  a i called him  he was my Bubba a a a he said. The president elect seas 4 when his Mother Virginia Kelley married the younger Clinton a father who was an alcoholic. The father also named Roger Clinton died in 1968. Clinton told Povich that he was first abused by his father when he was 4. A i have some vivid memories of certain instances a he said. Later he began to cry when he said he still goes to his father s Quot graveside to talk to  he said he is close to his sister in Law Hillary hut their relationship was difficult in the beginning a a clash of cultures was How he explained it. He said Hillary Clinton was raised in Chicago a in a colder Type upbringing than he was As a Southern Baptist. A she had this hard exterior and you just done to have a Haril exterior in at Kansas a he explained. But now he said his sister in Law is a a wonderful combination of strength drive and brilliance along with a that Doggone Arkansas Down Home Southern hospitality  Clinton said his half brother has been planning Lor the presidency for a Long time Quot he has been ready for this gig. He a got his  i he younger Clinton said his past drug abuse contributed to the president elects drug policy. During the Clinton administration he said a you will see More of an Emp a is placed on education about drug abuse