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Bn Sports ll gnsiss Shuffling off fO 91 1 operator demoted Mo Woody's weddings Bengals release Ickey Woods ZSr Stress blamed for her errorsB-1 i I Knot tied on 'Cheers tonight Cards give Reds blues, 4-2 i a Actor Robert Reed dies A-2 A tribute to Oscar Treadwell Cavs pound Celtics, 1 14-98 I Pay amendment certified A-8 Jp WJ VJ 'Cendrillon' a magic fairy tale Lil E. Tee eyes Preakness I I Envelopes to lose dark huesD-8 OTaT I Ballet season bows with flair Section Ickey Woods 'Cheers' Kelly and Woody Section THE CINCINNATI ENQUIMEE FINAL35C Brandt announces cuts in staff Many administrators shifted into schools Gun buying soars in wake of riots ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES In the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Californians are buying firearms at the highest rate since the state began keeping records 20 years ago, and other states are reporting similar surges in gun sales. California residents bought 20,578 guns in the first days of May, a 50 increase over the same period last year. Although there is no way to account for gun purchases nationwide, some states in which sales are tracked through registration report a similar rise since the three days of rioting. The National Rifle Association also reports an increase in requests for membership since the civil unrest began on April 29.

More on gun buyingA-3 $600 million in aidA-3 1 I BY LINDA DONO REEVES The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Public Schools will move manpower and millions from its downtown central office to the frontline in a massive reorganization announced Wednesday. Superintendent J. Michael Brandt said he will eliminate 142 jobs downtown by this fall, shifting many of those employees to schools. The move will save the debt-ridden district $16 million over the next two years. "Where will this $16 million "In a district the size of Cincinnati, I don't think there's ever been a decentralization like this," said Ray Finke, president of the Cincinnati Association of Administrators and Supervisors and principal at Western Hills High School.

"Nationally, I think a lot of attention will be paid to Cincinnati to see if this is going to (Please see SCHOOLS, Page A-4) Stunned by cutsA-4 Ramsey: Brandt knows key is childrenB-1 in savings go? Right back to the schools for the purpose of educating the children," Brandt said. "I hope everyone is starting to understand the priorities of this Cincinnati Public School administration that priority is kids." More than half of the 127 administrators at the district's Ninth Street office will return to the schools or be required to accept a severance package, Brandt said. Seventy-six administrative positions were cut, and 11 were added in the massive reorganization. Twenty-seven support staff were eliminated; about 50 clerical jobs will go. The Cincinnati' EnquirerGary Landers Frank Perry, retiring principal of Rockdale Elementary; gets a hug from Yvonne Mack, a former teacher.

Lower Hill marches on City Hall 9 6 1 1 Satellite snared in last-grasp try sibly today, the motor would boost ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES -1 i Vyir. 1 the $157 million device to its proper orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. Space experts alternatively called the plan bold and risky. The only thing protecting the astronauts' hands from the metal of the satellite and the extreme heat and cold of space was their gloves, composed of five thin layers. NASA has never failed to save a wayward satellite, so pressure was mounting.

Wednesday was the third and final try. Low fuel levels on the Endeavour ruled out a fourth rendezvous attempt. The capture was accomplished just before 8 p.m. EDT. The Endeavour had just passed to the southwest of Hawaii, 225 miles high and traveling at 17,500 mph.

The astronauts circled the craft like three legs of a tripod. After waiting for almost a half hour for the satellite to come into the right position, Hieb said, "Let's do Thuot was on a platform held by the shuttle crane, Hieb was on a sill at the edge of the cargo bay, and Akers was balanced on a pole straddling the bay. All three men were anchored to their posts by foot restraints. Almost as one, the three put their hands on the craft. Hieb locked the capture bar onto one side of the craft, and Thuot clamped it on the other end.

"I think we have seen some incredible work by some awfully brave men at NASA," said Irving Goldstein, chief executive officer of Intelsat. "I'm really excited." Intelsat, the 122-nation consortium, paid NASA $93 million for the rescue, and stood to lose it all plus $1 billion in potential revenue from the satellite. How craft was capturedA-2 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Like Earthbound laborers lifting a heavy sofa, three space shuttle astronauts floating 225 miles above Earth reached up with their gloved hands Wednesday night and snared a wayward satellite. "Got it!" exulted astronaut Pierre Thuot as he grasped his wobbling target.

The spacewalk-ers, in a circle outside the craft and with their hands on the bottom of the satellite, held it steady. "Houston, I think we've got a satellite," shuttle commander Daniel Brandenstein said from inside the shuttle Endeavour as applause broke out at Johnson Space Center in Houston. It was the first three-man spacewalk ever, and the first time anyone had captured an orbiting satellite with nothing but their hands. All previous salvage jobs had mainly used some type of high-technology hardware. The men held the shiny drum-shaped satellite for nearly an hour and a half one complete circle of Earth tilting it ever so slightly to balance it among the three.

Once it was even, a 15-foot-long handle was locked onto the Intel-sat-6 satellite. The next step was for Bruce Melnick, operating the shuttle crane from inside the cabin, to grapple the handle and lower the 4l2 ton, 12-by-17-foot satellite onto a rocket motor in the cargo bay. Success had eluded Endeavour's seven-member crew on two previous days. But an emergency plan, executed by Thuot, Richard Hieb and Thomas Akers, worked beautifully. With a little more luck, the astronauts would release the mated device back into space.

Pos The Cincinnati EnquirerMichael E. Keating Residents of Lower Price Hill march Wednesday toward downtown and Cincinnati City Hall, where they made an emotional plea to tear down the abandoned building where the body of Aaron Raines was found Tuesday. The boy's death has been ruled a homicide. Word of slaying adds to outrage City targets vacant building for demolition after investigation utes, and then he was gone." Barbara Raines said her son had been shy and insecure since he was struck by a car in August, and it was very unlikely that he would have wandered far from home alone at night. "He had to have somebody with him," she said.

Her son never played in the vacant building where he was found, about 2Vz blocks from his (Please see SLAYING, Page A-4) the problem of abandoned buildings sent neighbors on a protest march to City Hall on Wednesday. The victim was last seen about 9 p.m. Monday near his home in the 700 block of Neave Street. Dallas Hayes, 19, one of Barbara Raines' six children, was keeping an eye on his youngest brother when he disappeared. "He was playing across the street," Hayes said Wednesday.

"I checked on him every 15 min Hamilton County Coroner's Office late Wednesday ruled Aaron Raines' death a homicide. The preliminary cause of death, the coroner said, was blunt trauma to the head. The boy's body was found in a vacant building at 2139 W. Eighth St. early Tuesday morning.

The police investigation is continuing, and no arrests had been made late Wednesday. Outrage over the crime and BY WILLIAM A. WEATHERS and JEFF HARRINGTON The Cincinnati Enquirer Barbara Raines sat on the couch in her Lower Price Hill living room Wednesday evening trying to imagine who could have wanted to kill her 10-year-old son. "I've been going over it and over it my mind, trying to figure a person who would want to hurt him," Raines said. "That's just it, nothing adds up." White students likelier to use drugs, studies say 2.

I Metro Six sections 152nd year. No. 35 Copyright, 1992 The Cincinnati Enquirer Morning Lotteries B-2 ...2 NaMonWoTjJ Sullivan. D-l Digests A-2 Nation Healthscience A-12 D-7 Digest Outdoors. questionnaires, a method critics say invite misrepresentation.

Sullivan and others stand by the data. "People are not clear on it because they see so many black youths being arrested for selling drugs, but there's a big difference between selling and using," said Erica Tollett, senior public policy analyst with the National Black Child Development Institute, a nonprofit study group. "There are other problems that sur- -round (drugs) that make it a very troubling problem in the black community," Tollett said, noting that blacks are more likely to be victims of violent crime and more likely to be imprisoned. Analysts blamed the disparity on economics; white youths have more money to spend on non-essentials, they say. In all cases, the proportion of girls using alcohol and other drugs was less than for males, the surveys found.

The findings are not new to medical authorities. U.S. Surgeon General An-tonia Novello earlier this year released other surveys depicting the typical teen-ager at risk for becoming an alcoholic as a 16-year-old white male. Surveys of schoolchildren conducted by Parents Resource Institute on Drug Abuse of Atlanta also have found higher drug use by whites than blacks. The studies are based on student to reinforce the positive news about black youths.

The public's misperception, Sullivan suggested, is based on media images of black youths being arrested or committing violent crimes related to drugs. White male high school seniors were almost twice as likely to use cocaine as blacks, according to the government's National High School Senior Surveys from 1985 to 1989. At least 40 of white male seniors had used marijuana, compared with 30 of black male seniors. Almost 90 of white male students said they had consumed alcohol in the last year compared with almost three-fourths of black males. BY ALEXIS MOORE and GREGORY SPEARS Knight News Service WASHINGTON White students are more likely to use alcohol, cocaine and marijuana than their black counterparts, the government's top health official said Wednesday, citing recent studies he says should shatter racial stereotypes.

"The time has come to put an end to misconceptions about the extent of drug use among black youth," Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan said. The announcement came as Sullivan launched a national education campaign Tempo r1 Business People E-2 Comics E-4 Puzzles E-7 Television E-8 Classified F-l-8 NASDAQ NYSE stocks Mutual funds Amex stocks Weather: Fair. High 73. Low 56. Details, A-2..