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Jf What's in airport name? Northern Kentucky, now MetroD-1 Tops in stocks Moeller wins competition BusinessD-4 Just for kids Trendy bike helmets TempoB-l Working wardrobe City shorts go to office TempoB-l Jordan gets MVP, wants title McClendon likely out for 7 weeks Morris to make best of left field Giants' Craig: 'It can't get worse' Section Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls Bike helmets: Proper fit crucial nn FINAL35C iLiU 1 JU CMC itit a nrw INlNLnUL 7 Local recipient has AIDS virus BY JANE PRENDERGAST The Cincinnati Enquirer The worst news has come for a former Christ Hospital patient a ligament transplant more than five years ago during a routine orthopedic operation infected the patient with the AIDS virus. The grim results came back Monday morning, and the patient was told. "I think you can imagine what the emotional state of the patient was," said Jack Cook, hospital president. The patient is one of up to 56 people across the country who received tissues or organs from a Virginia man. Bill Anderson, LifeNet's chief executive officer.

"We're sorry. We don't know what else to do. But it wasn't like we made a mistake we did the best test available at the time." Local organ and tissue procurement officials agree. They stress that the chances of a patient contracting the human immunodeficiency virus from a transplant are rare about one in 153,000, one expert said. But they also are blunt: The chance does exist, and nothing can be done to be sure donated organs and tissue are 100 disease-free.

"The chance of something like this happening is next to zero," said Ron Dreffer, executive director of the Christ officials were extremely guarded in talking about the local case, fearful of revealing the person's identity. They would say only that the operation took place in early 1986, that it is a very common procedure and that the person has not yet shown any symptoms of the fatal disease. Dr. Robert Heidt who has a private practice and is a team physician for the Bengals, was the chief surgeon. "We are dismayed that something like this has happened," Cook said.

The hospital is not considering litigation against LifeNet Transplantation Services, the Virginia Beach, agency that provided the ligament. "We're all just pacing here," sdid Ohio Valley Organ Procurement Center. "But next to zero still isn't zero." In an industry always lacking donors and where public trust is crucial, this news is devastating, Dreffer said. If there is a positive side, he said, it is the proof that so many patients can be helped from one donor. Transplants were made at 30 hospitals from the body identified as that of William Norwood, a Virginia gas station attendant killed in a 1985 robbery.

Numbers of possible tran-splantees have varied, but LifeNet transplant coordinator Bruce Nicely (Please see AIDS, back page, this section) The Cincinnati EnquirerKevin J. Miyazaki Dr. Robert Heidt right, talks Monday about a tainted tissue implant done at Christ Hospital. With him are Dr. Corwin Dunn, left, and hospital President Jack Cook.

Close call oviets rail ock JXc'l 'K: tvv I'LL Drunken drivers targeted Patrol to check repeat offenders BY JIM CALHOUN and CHRIS GRAVES The Cincinnati Enquirer The Ohio Highway Patrol plans to track down some of the worst drunken-driving offenders and get them off the road. Assisted by computers, authorities hope to zero in on repeat drunken drivers who continue to get behind the wheel after their licenses have been suspended, said Col. Thomas Rice, patrol superintendent. "We feel we have a problem in this state. We're going to do something," Rice vowed Monday during a Clermont County visit.

"If you have someone with 12 or 13 convictions, we've got to get them off the road." Thursday the patrol charged Donald Jimison of Russellville, Ohio, with aggravated vehicular assault. Jimison allegedly drove west in the eastbound lanes of Ohio 32 and collided with a car driven by Fonda Rudd of Seaman, Ohio. Jimison had been convicted 10 times of driving under the influence (DUI). Statistics from the patrol and the Ohio Department of Highway Safety show: Nearly one-third of all drunken-driving convictions during the past decade were of people who already had been sentenced once before for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Ohio had 163,061 drivers during that period with two or more convictions.

The highest number of convictions found in a state computer check was 15. About 1 in 20 drivers on Ohio highways has had at least one DUI conviction. About 1 in 50 is classified a multiple offender. About half of all drivers convicted of DUI since 1977 did not have a valid license. (Please see DRUNKEN, back page, this section) Not-guilty plea made, Page A-8.

Video camera helps, Page D-1. The Cincinnati EnquirerJim Callaway Raymond Jones sits to the side of a Clayton Street porch in people on the porch suffered minor injuries. The bus driver said Walnut Hills, where he and three others were Monday a mechanical malfunction caused him to lose control. The driver afternoon when a school bus crashed into the steps. Two and the two children on the bus were not hurt.

exit doors New law will allow most to leave freely ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES MOSCOW The Soviet legislature Monday overwhelmingly approved the country's first law granting citizens the right to travel and emigrate freely, beginning in January, 1993. The law will allow travel abroad for virtually anyone who has permission from another country to enter. Prospective travelers must have no outstanding alimony obligations, criminal charges or recent knowledge of state secrets. The delay in putting the new law into effect was the result of widespread misgivings about the country's ability to handle the high costs that would result. The law as originally proposed was to go into effect a year earlier.

Officials have estimated that the law will cost $20 billion in expanding customs and passport services as well as transport and border patrols. The law approved by the Supreme Soviet legislature 320-37 with 32 abstentions also establishes appeal procedures for people denied permission to leave. Introduced as part of Gorbachev's reforms in November, 1989, the emigration bill was delayed by the KGB secret police and the military. Its passage removes a large obstacle to U.S. trade concessions and credits, sorely needed to help bolster the ailing Soviet economy.

The Soviet Union is barred from obtaining those concessions including most-favored-nation status, which fixes the tariffs on a country's exports to the United States at the lowest prevailing rate until free emigration is allowed. Supporters hailed the bill as a watershed. "We always feared strangers. Therefore, passage of this law is a historic act, an act of Russian history, not only an act in the fight against totalitarianism," said Fyodor Burlatsky, one of the bill's architects. Emigration activists said it contained loopholes that still could bar the departure of some people.

"Freedom of migration appears to be there on paper, but what will be in reality, we'll see," said Victoria Shakhet, co-chairman of the private Bureau on Exit and Emigration in Moscow. Officials from various Western governments, including the United States, said Monday they wanted the law to be more specific on appeals and reviews for people refused passports because of having worked in industries dealing with state secrets. Traditional households decline illllliME The percentage of family household headed by In the 1980s married couplet continued to decline 79.2 74.2 M.6 60,0. change in household characteristics is among the general trends emerging from those numbers. In Cincinnati, figures show, single women headed 34 of the family households in 1990 compared with 26.8 in 1980.

Single men headed 5.8 of the family households in 1990 compared with 4.6 in 1980. It is unclear how many of those heads of households are single parents, said Bob Grymes, a Census Bureau population statistician. The bureau defines a household as two or more people living together related by marriage, birth or adoption. Non-single parent households could, for example, include a woman taking care of an elderly parent or a man living with his brother. Both are termed families in the Census Bureau's latest figures.

But Grymes said anecdotal evidence and previous surveys indicated that most female heads of households had children. "More than half in 1980 were single mothers," he said. 1990 Census finds 'diverse' families BY MARK SIEBERT The Cincinnati Enquirer Traditional families mom, dad and the children continued to disappear in Greater Cincinnati during the 1980s as single-parent households became more common. In the city of Cincinnati alone, married couples made up 60.2 of the family households in 1990 less than in 1980 (68.6) and in 1970 (78.5) the latest release of 1990 census data showed. The percentage of married-couple families declined in all eight Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana counties that make up Greater Cincinnati.

"We often think of the family as the nuclear family a husband, wife and 19S0 1990 Cincinnati 1980 1990 Hamilton County children," said Miami University Professor Tim Brubaker. "But, in reality, the family is highly diverse." The U.S. Census Bureau, which previously released population and racial figures, last week released the first in-depth demographic information for Ohio. The 3 City plans to challenge Ky. riverfront's success Business NASDAQ D-5 NYSE D-6 Amex D-6 Mutual funds D-7 Tempo Advice B-2 Television B-5 Comics B-6-7 Five Sections 151st year, No.

42 Copyright, 1991 The Cincinnati Enquirer NationWorld Digests A-2 Nation A-3 World A-4 Healthscience A-5 Sports Scoreboard C-2 Digest C-2 Classified C-5-8 JlSTvl--4j Stadium Tir-j SuspensionW Community Development Committee. "We've been trying for a while to get some of the entertainment traffic which has gone to the other side of the river. This could be our start." Today's meeting also represents the first steps to develop the 90-acre tract called Riverfront West, the city-owned site which stretches from the river to Third Street and from the Suspension Bridge to the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge. Castellini officials have hired San Francisco architect William Turnbull designer of Adams Landing who has created a design that includes: Two riverfront restaurants on land. A floating entertainment complex.

A low-level parking garage. Landscaping and a rooftop plaza overlooking the river. Site preparation and minor construction are to begin this summer. The city will soon hire a consultant to link the riverfront to the business district on Third Street. "Ultimately, we want to connect the riverfront with our downtown," Strauss said.

The produce distribution centers from Pete Rose Way to the river would be relocated to make way for residential complexes, night spots and office towers. BY RICHARD GREEN The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati officials, envious of the success of the floating restaurants and nightclubs along the Northern Kentucky shoreline, will hear a plan today aimed at bringing similar entertainment to the city's banks of the Ohio River. Riverfront Development an arm of the Castellini Produce will submit design plans and a model to the city's Urban Design Review Board for a six-acre tract south of Mehring Way and west of the Suspension Bridge. "It's a very exciting plan," said Councilman Peter Strauss, chairman of the B-8-10 Classified Metro Howard D-2 Lotteries D-2 Obituaries D-3 Plan for this land to be submitted today. Covington unaing Kentucky Weather: Fair and warm today, with winds at 10 mph.

High 80; low tonight 60 to 65. Details, Page A-2..