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Miami Vice 0 1 Rules The Hill a A NBC King Of Mountain A In Emmy Nominations Philip Thomas, left tw. n-, 4 and Don Johnson Tempo, Page D-1 Leagues Run Aground With Change Of Rules Recreation Commission Charges Soccer Teams A Pay-To-Play Fee Metro, Page C-1 Turner Grabs Lion's Share TBS Makes Reel Motion To Acquire MGM-UA Ted Turner Business, Page B-7 MO FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE 35t TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1985 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER CINC EM mm Chief; Strike Is 0 Players9 Last-Chance Talks Set For Today On The Inside Commissioner Peter Ueberroth conspicuous by his absence on eve of strike, Page B-1 Prospect of strike casts pall over Reds clubhouse, Page B-1. Parker powers Reds over Padres, 8-7, Page B-1 Reds owner Marge Schott said she won't let a strike come between her and her players, Page B-4. Reds fans are in the dark about strike issues, Page B-4. Dodgers, Mets, Blue Jays and Angels may already have won pennant races, Page B-5.

planned morning session as an informal meeting and not a formal resumption of negotiations. Talks were deadlocked over salary arbitration. Reds player representative Joe Price took heart in the fact that an early-morning meeting had been scheduled. "Hopefully," Price said late (Please see BASEBALL, back page, this section) before midnight. "There's a strike.

The players are going to scatter." Fehr and baseball owners, responding Monday to pleas by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, agreed to meet today in an attempt to avert a strike set for later in the day. NEITHER TIME nor place of the session was announced. Bob Fishel, a spokesman for the owners, characterized today's ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK Major league baseball players went on strike after Monday's games, the leader of their union said, but representatives of players and owners were to meet today in hopes of avoiding lost games. "The strike is on as of the end of games tonight," Donald Fehr, acting executive director of the players association, said shortly erchants, GCb ttliltipSfl 1 i .1., PRESIDENT REAGAN told to stay out of sun Reagan's Spot Was Cancer It 's Easily Curable, Caused By Sun ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON In his second brush with cancer in less than a month, President Reagan revealed Monday that tissue removed from his nose last week was a sun-induced skin cancer, the most common and easily curable form of the disease. Mr.

Reagan said no further treatment was necessary, but added: "I'm told I must not expose myself to the sun anymore." His wife, Nancy, had a similar skin cancer removed from her upper lip in 1982. DOCTORS DIAGNOSED the small bump as a basal cell carcinoma, the most common of the three types of skin cancer. While basal cell skin cancers are considered malignant, they do not metastasize, or spread to other parts of the body, and they are rarely, If ever, fatal. They can, however, become very disfiguring. "They are not life endangering in any way," said Tucson, dermatologist and skin cancer expert Dr.

Michael Schrelber, whose studies of skin cancer have shown that Tucson is second only to Australia in the incidence of the disease. Mr. Reagan said Monday that his cancer started out as a small pimple-like object that he picked at occasionally and which was aggravated by the tape that held In place the naso-gastric tube used during and after his surgery for colon cancer. He was operated on for colon cancer July 13, and the small patch of skin was removed July 30. ONCOLOGISTS, OR cancer experts, say there is no possible link between the President's more serious colon cancer and this innocuous form of skin cancer.

White House spokesman Larry Speakes said last Friday that no biopsy had been done on the skin that was surgically removed from the right front side of the President's nose. Monday, Mr. Reagan (Please see REAGAN, back page, this section) 0 I) City Could Strike Out Local Economy Depends On The Players Playing BY PAUL FURIGA The Cincinnati Enquirer The Reds won't be the only Cincinnati team striking out if major league baseball players don't suit up. Along with the $414,200 that the ballclub is expected to lose for each game not played, local merchants could lose $333,490 and the City of Cincinnati could lose $32,800. If the players remain on strike for the rest of the season's 25 home games, the loss to the greater Cincinnati economy could reach $19.5 million or $780,000 for every game not played.

Those figures come from estimates derived by Larry McLaughlin, staff economist for the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. McLaughlin said he has been tallying those kinds of figures "with some reluctance" every time there has been talk of a major league baseball or football strike during the last seven years. The Reds are drawing fans very well this season and that means money to the Reds and other businesses, McLaughlin said. "WHEN WE take in consideration the last few weeks-the Reds staying close to the Dodgers and Padres-we've had to adjust (attendance estimates) up," he said. Earlier in the season, McLaughlin said he figured a baseball strike would cost the Reds an average of 23,900 fans a game.

But the Reds are close in their division. He said he has pushed his estimate of fans lost to 38,000 per game, based upon sales for recent home stands and advance ticket sales Into September. If a strike does not interrupt the season, he said, the statistics point to a season attendance of more than 2.2 million for the Reds. This time the city would be less likely to file suit against the Reds, as it did In 1982, to recover lost revenues. Mayor Charles J.

Luken said he's not in favor of that approach. EARLIER THIS year, Luken and Reds owner Marge Schott finally settled the 1982 suit and a Reds countersult in an agreement that calls for the city to build a $2.5 million private club In Riverfront Stadium. Even if council members did want to file suit against the Reds, they couldn't the settlement agreement from the last suit prohibits It. That angers Councilman David S. Mann, who initiated the 1982 lawsuit while he was mayor.

"A strike comes, the revenues (to the city) stop, and the city is still left holding the bondholders' bag we sill have to pay (the stadium mortgage)." I if nmggHB jioMiiiiir "if fmmTl innffliiwiiiY urn ijf The Cincinnati EnquirerEd ReinKe MARGE SCHOTT keeps up with strike developments using during Monday night's Reds game. "If the strike happens, the the ground superintendent's phone at Riverfront Stadium fans will be the ones who suffer," Schott said. Hoping For A Miracle Schott: 'This Team Belongs To The Fans9 BY HOWARD WILKINSON The Cincinnati Enquirer Dave Parker said goodbye Monday night by hitting a fastball up-and-ln, sailing it 350 feet over the right-field fence at Riverfront Stadium, his 21st home run and his 80th run batted in. Pete Rose lined a single to center before hanging up his cleats, leaving him 24 hits away from baseball history. The Reds beat the Padres 8-7 and the fireworks exploded high over the Ohio River.

But 28,798 baseball fans went home wanting more. The 1985 baseball season, the year of a spectacular Reds comeback from their recent basement-dwelling past, could have ended last night. Negotiating players and owners still were far from an agreement at 10:30 p.m.-less than a day away from strike deadline although one last meeting was scheduled for this morning in a final effort to avert the strike. THE CROWD last night knew it might be watching the end of a season; and most didn't like it. "It's not fair; it's not right," said Don Mitchell, an auto worker from Franklin as he was leaving the stadium.

"You come down and see a great game like this and you know that's the end. I think the fans ought to strike." On the green floor of Riverfront Stadium an hour before game time Monday night, Marge Schott was praying for a miracle. (Please see FANS, back page, this section) WANDA STRUNK this will "break my heart" Truman's Nuclear Decision Bierman To Become Acting City Manager IK'S Index Four Sections, 145th Year, No. 119 1985 The Cincinnati Enquirer BUSINESS B-7-12 CLASSIFIED C-5-12 COMICS T8 DEAR ABBY D-2 DEATHS G4 EDITORIALS AJ FASHION HOROSCOPE DJ HORSE RACING BJ METRO C-1-4 PEOPLE DJ PUZZLES D-8-9 SPORTS B-1 -6 SULLIVAN BO TEMPO D-1-9 TV-RADIO D7 WEIKEL 02 III Use OfA-Bomb Still Debated BY JOHN HANCHETTE Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -Four decades later the controversy still swirls over President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on the quiet Japanese Industrial city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

The Importance of Truman's decision seems to grow with every anniversary of the event. As historical documents come to light year by year and lend perspective, scholars have focused their arguments on a small cluster of persistent puzzlers: Was use of the A-bomb truly necessary to cause the Japanese surrender and end World War II? Did Truman understand the magnitude of his decision? (Please see DECISION, back page, this section) fc. W.f"fll BY PAUL FURIGA The Cincinnati Enquirer Michael A. Bierman, one of Cincinnati's two deputy city managers, has been named to replace Sylvester Murray as acting city manager when Murray becomes city manager of San Diego on Sept. 9.

Mayor Charles J. Luken said an overwhelming majority of council members agreed to name Bierman to the post after a series of private meetings held in the mayor's office Monday afternoon. Both Bierman and Philip A. Hawkey, the city's other deputy city manager, are in the running to replace Murray as the city's 10th city manager. LUKEN SAID the tentative council decision which will be voted on Wednesday is not an indication of favoritism.

"This action Is in no way intended to presume anything about a permanent successor," the mayor said. "It's not a statement of permanency. It's a statement Intended to show we are comfortable with Mike." "I feel good," Bierman said. "I'm ready for It." Bierman said he foresees no administrative changes during his term as acting city manager. The big issues, he said, are the $61 million Convention Center expansion and construction of a million stadium club called for in the settlement of a 1982 lawsuit with the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.

IF HIS term should stretch into the fall, Bierman said the city's 1986 budget will also be an issue. (Please see BIERMAN, back page, this section) it 1 SPORTS RESULTS Telephone 369-1005, 369- 1006 Enquirer File Photo THE INDUSTRIAL Exposition Hall was one of the few buildings left standing after the atomic bomb exploded In Hiroshima. Americans still debate whether use of the bomb was necessary. Rain likely in afternoon; high mid-85. Low tonight, upper 60s.

Chance of rain Wednesday. Details, Page A-2..