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Cincinnati's breeding success was key, B1 ers, cheered the insults and shrieked as Carla (Rhea Perl-man) did when Diane (former cast member Shelley Long) walked back into the bar to see Sam Malone (Ted Danson). In what is expected to be one of the highest-rated programs in modern TV history, Sam and Diane were reunited for a final fling and nearly ran off together to California. When Sam announced the move, his words were met by (Please see CHEERS, Page A9) at Covington Landing sponsored by WKRQ radio (101.9 FM). The Emmy-winning series broadcast its final episode Thursday after 11 years on NBC. Until the opening scene arrived, few at the standing-room-only party glanced at TVs over the bar, which were showing the NHL hockey playoffs and ABC's Matlock.

When the familiar Cheers theme song filled the room at 9:22 p.m., a hush fell over the crowd and many people sang along for a final time. They laughed at the one-lin BY JOHN KIESEWETTER The Cincinnati Enquirer COVINGTON Five overweight guys walked onto the Howl At The Moon Saloon stage, and everybody knew their name. Norm! "I've been called 'Norm' for years," said Dick Bosley, 38, a Western Hills insurance salesman. "Everybody says I look like him," said Bosley, who won a trip to the Bahamas for looking most like Cheers barfly Norm Peterson at the "Last Call Party" The Cincinnati EnquirerPhaedra Singelis Dick Bosley of Western Hills, left, and an employee at Covington's Howl At The Moon Saloon who calls himself Poindexter try the Norm look Thursday night. 2.2-mile subway tunnel IT rh A IT! PIT! fW LiffftaJ I (1 IV 1 11 ti Jjjf MarshallAve- oP! UN InJ jEePs TV? 4 til "I Unused passage holds promise BY JIM CALHOUN The Cincinnati Enquirer Centrarxw.

McMicken Parkway mAV9' 1 Liberty St. AW Ezzard Charies outsold hardly seems fathomable that a dark, dank and dingy cavern written off decades ago could be resurrected into the gleaming centerpiece of a modern transportation network. But that notion has captivated politicians, planners and transit I I I ma Trim shift more than $40 billion in taxes "away from people with incomes above $135,000 down to elderly and working people." The bipartisan Senate al experts as they eye Cincinnati's subway tunnel for a new commuter-rail system. With flashlights and big expectations leading the way Thursday, a small entourage traipsed down 25 stairs near Central Parkway and Race Street and descended Borerr into the city's storied underground past. Some of the things they discovered about the tunnel abandoned 66 years ago: "There's nothing wrong with it," said Dory Montazemi of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Govern "We're closer than we've ever been to finding a use for it.

Roxanne Quails -0 They seek deeper spending cuts Enquirer news services WASHINGTON A bipartisan bloc of senators offered an alternative deficit-reduction plan Thursday that would replace President Clinton's proposed energy tax with deep spending cuts in Medicare and other benefit programs. The chairman of the Energy Committee pronounced the energy tax "dead." "I would vote against it," said J. Bennett Johnston, "and I don't think the votes are there in the Senate to pass the tax." Sens. David L. Boren, John C.

Danforth, and William S. Cohen, R-Maine, joined Johnston in offering a proposal to overhaul the president's $500 billion, five-year deficit-reduction program. Boren and Danforth are members of the Finance Committee, which must first consider the president's economic plan in the Senate. The House is scheduled to vote on the bill next week. Democrats hold only an 11-9 edge in the Finance Committee, so Boren's defection there is important.

The White House has faced rebellions among Democrats in both houses as it tries to pass its economic plan against unified Republican opposition. Clinton quickly criticized the senators' proposal, and spokesman George Stephanopoulos said the president was "sticking with his package." Clinton said the rival plan would no ternative offered Thursday would reduce the federal budget deficit by $542 bil-; lion over five years, compared with the $500 billion in deficit reduction contained in the House bill. Ohio Democratic Sen. Howard Metzenbaum rejected Boren-Dan-forth proposal. "Unfortunately, some Democrats want to unfairly burden senior citizens, working people and the poor," said Nancy Coffey, Metzenbaum's press secre-t tary.

Spending would be cut $337 billion, compared with a $100 billion trim in the House measure. Taxes would be increased by $150 billion, compared with the $246 billion increase in the House bill. The Senate alternative would eliminate the proposed tax on energy and delay tax increases for corporations and higher-income Americans for six months. Spending on government enti; tlement programs, excluding Social Security, would be capped begin-' ning in 1995. The plan would reduce annual increases given to some Social Security recipients, federal retirees and others.

The alternative "is fairer than that put forward by the Boren said. ments (OKI), a Tri-state planning agency. "It's in decent shape. With maintenance, it could last forever," said Joe Vogel, a structural engineer for the city's engineering division. "We're closer than we've ever been to finding a use for it," City Councilwoman Roxanne Quails said.

Its height (16 feet) and width (13 feet) easily could accommodate modern electric rail cars or even buses, said Michael Setzer, general manager of the Metro bus system. What they and the others saw Thursday was a small part of what originally was intended to be a 2.2-mile concrete-and-steel subway snaking 30 feet beneath Central Parkway from downtown to lower Clifton Heights. Trains were to surface at Clifton Heights and run above ground to such (Please see TUNNEL, Page A9) The Cincinnati EnquirerErnest Coleman Joe Vogel, a structural engineer, leads a tour Thursday of the Central Parkway tunnel. WEATHER Cloudy, cool 'The family didn ft know that their son was abused' Brothers at religious order sued High 66 Low 43 Cloudy today, high of 66. West winds 10 to15mph.

Partly cloudy tonight with a iow of 43. Mostly sunny Saturday with a high of 72. Details on Page A2 Guard accused of smuggling ammunition The Cincinnati Enquirer A Lucasville prison guard smuggled bullets into the prison Thursday in a bag of Fritos, authorities charged. Prison, officials said they had been watching guard Robbie D. Stringer, and said he also had smuggled bullets into the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility last week.

"We had information that he was doing it, so we began an investigation," Warden Arthur Tate Jr. said. "He was going to give them to an inmate." Incident apparently not related to riot, B1 INDEX Four sections, 153rd year, No.42 Copyright 1993, The Cincinnati Enquirer north of Portsmouth, from 1963 to 1985. The retarded Cincinnati man, incompetent to care for himself, was placed there in 1968. He returned home in 1992 and is being treated at Holmes Hospital AIDS Clinic.

The lawsuit also names Brothers Robert Illig, Camillus Harbin-son, Paul Johnson and four other unnamed brothers. As employees at the home, Shaffer, Hayden and Illig had a duty to report known or suspected incidents of sexual and physical abuse, the lawsuit alleges. William A. Weathers contributed to this report. "It is an extremely tragic situation," said the Rev.

Thomas Hola-han, director of communications for the Columbus Diocese. The diocese was shocked when it learned of the situation in October, 1985, he said, and acted immediately, removing the brothers and establishing a lay board to run the home. "There was criminal prosecution," Holahan said. "Some prison terms were involved." Brother Justin Howson, head of the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd, could not be reached at his home in Ontario, Canada. The religious group operated the home in a transformed school building in Wakefield, 19 miles and names as defendants the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd; nine brothers; the Columbus Diocese, which owns and supervises the home; and its bishop, James A.

Griffin. The suit accuses two brothers, Fintan Shaffer and Robert Hayden, of molesting residents of the home. Shaffer is specifically accused of molesting the AIDS patient. The lawsuit alleges that between 1981 and 1985, brothers at the home engaged in sexual activity with the residents. About 100 males were being cared for there.

"The family didn't know that their son was abused," said Norman Murdock, attorney for the retarded man and his parents. BY JOHN HOPKINS The Cincinnati Enquirer A 41-year-old man is dying of AIDS because he was molested at a Pike County home for the mentally retarded operated by a Roman Catholic order of brothers, a lawsuit filed Thursday says. According to the suit, the man, who is now "awaiting death" at his parents' home in Cincinnati, contracted AIDS when he was sexually abused in the early 1980s at the Good Shepherd Manor near Wakefield, in Pike County, Ohio. The suit, filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, uses pseudonyms for the man and his parents. It seeks unspecified damages Abby C2 Nation A8 Business B8-10 Obituaries B4' Comics C14 Puzzles C15 Editorials A12 Sports D1 HealthScience D14 stocks B7-9 Lotteries B2 Tempo CI Metro B1 JV C6 Movies C9-11 World A5 Classified D5-13 Printed on recycled newsprint using soy oil ink.