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3 unit prv -w 'tv I 7 i 1 1 1 i i i. high school SPOILS I1QWS Sports, Section UJUlLS 1 i 1 I I 4 WrtiUimit nf m.LhmJ Wtdni kmm 1 ''i Pom mnnitv thpnfpr thrivino vixxiiiMlllbJ L.J.J.NMl'WX kill 111 TO TO A Gannett Newspaper 501,100 readers daily Friday October 7, 1994 Final EditionEast 35 cents J- TMTOM ITT lGwir JllMvllM INIM 1 JDIXIMU Jl mm to urn fr 0 BwiijIMIWHtittB Crime bill grant to be bolstered by local money BY PAUL BARTON Enquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Cincinnati will receive a $2 million Justice Department grant to help pay for 30 new police officers over the next three years. The grant, from money approved in the recently passed crime bill, will be supplemented by $3 million in local funds. The grant was announced Thursday by U.S. Rep.

David Mann, D-Cincinnati. It will be formally presented Wednesday at a White House ceremony that is expected to include Cincinnati officials. "I am convinced that the 30 new police officers will help to reduce crime in our city and restore a sense of safety in our neighborhoods," Mann said. Cincinnati now has about 960 officers. Mann was one of only two Cincinnati-area House members to vote for the crime bill.

Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Nashville, was the other. Mann's opponent in the Nov. 8 election, Republican Steve Chabot, charged that the announcement was politically timed. "That's not surprising.

You have Bill Clinton and all of his cronies working hard for his re-election," said Chabot spokeswoman Shannon Walker Jones. But Justice Department officials denied politics was involved. "We've got this stuff (money). Why not put it to use?" said Justice spokesman Bert Brandenberg. City officials had earlier expressed pessimism about getting a grant, saying they did not think Cincinnati had a high enough crime rate to qualify.

Last year, the city submitted a similar grant request to the Justice Department and was denied (Please see CRIME, Page A12) 'It is something that we have been working hard for and will prove of great benefit to our policing. William Gustavson, Cincinnati safety director 4 i 1 jV, TPTTT wfr if 1 Uimoiis, city 0 Discount outlets to close p. 4 Is if 0 "(rm Lmirsnr Own i 1 II 11 II II II Ma.J II till 11 El 4 'i mm iiii 11 it in 11 i a 't'T. BY RICHARD GREEN The Cincinnati Enquirer Union leaders would be willing to endorse repeal of an ordinance calling for union-only labor at a new downtown azarus store, but aren't saying at what price. Lazarus 'Department Stores has given Cincinnati City Council until Monday to repeal the ordinance.

If the deadline is not met, Lazarus says it will stop work on the $29 million project on Fountain Square West. "We are looking at every possible alternative, and we are committed to finding what it would take to Jerry Gafford has said. The non-union group, organized by a Dayton organization known as Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), filed suit in September. It called the union-only pact unfair to competition. Despite pressure from city leaders and the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, ABC officials have refused to drop the lawsuit.

Radford said ABC was "holding downtown hostage." "For everyone to have a win-win situation, four groups council, Lazarus, the 300-500 to lose jobs at area Van Leunens BY JEFF McKINNEY The Cincinnati Enquirer Van Leunens department stores, a retail landmark in the Tristate for more than 40 years, will soon close, eliminating 300 to 500 jobs. Van Leunen's owner of the chain of discount outlets in Greater Cincinnati said Thursday it will close all seven of its department stores, including Casual Attitudes in Fairfield, between this fall and early next year. The stores are in Amelia, Er-langer, Fairfield, Mason, Milford, Monfort Heights and Newport. Stan Johnson, chairman of Van Leunen's, said his company will restructure operations to focus on All About Sports, its profitable sporting-goods equipment unit in Cincinnati and Dayton. He said the restructuring will allow All About Sports to grow.

There are now 10 AH About Sports stores, with another under construction at Sycamore Plaza in Ken- (Please see VANLEUNENS, Page A12) Plans for Wilder mall presented, C1 IS The Cincinnati EnquirerPhaedrtrSingelis Mayor Roxanne Quails, leaving a meeting Thursday with labor leaders, said talks were continuing. With her was Tim Burke, executive director of the Hamilton County Democratic Party. endorse the repeal," said Dan Radford, executive secretary of the local AFL-CIO. Radford and executives from the Greater Cincinnati Building Trades Council met for two hours Thursday with Mayor Roxanne Quails. Jerry Monahan, (Greater Cincinnati) Chamber of Commerce and the labor council have to share in the process and compromise," he said.

Earlier in the day, Quails called for all parties to "get over the rhetoric and posturing." "At some point, What's next? City council will meet Monday. Council hopes labor leaders endorse a repeal of an ordinance mandating union-only labor for the planned Lazarus store. If the issue isn't resolved, all work on Lazarus is to stop Monday. i Deadline 3 days away Facing a Monday deadline to keep the Lazarus project moving, council members and labor leaders made conciliatory sounds Thursday. Here's what they said: Dan Radford of AFL-CIO Jerry Monahan of Building Trades Council 'Council, Lazarus, the 'We don't have anvthinzfan Chamber of rnwimorro nvA agreement people have to understand this is not just about Lazarus and not just about a department store," she said.

"It's real people, real jobs and real businesses at stake here." Councilwoman Bobbie Sterne, head of council's Community Development Committee, agreed: "If we are to have a viable retail district, then we have to keep our major stores. The city has to do all it can to keep Lazarus." Quails and Sterne voted for the ordinance in July. If they change their votes, it would be enough to repeal the ordinance. Three Republicans advocate repeal. executive secretary of the trades council, also was optimistic after the meeting: "We don't have anything right now.

But I expect something before Monday." Radford said some business leaders want the unions to "forget about our responsibility to our membership for the good of downtown development. We cannot do that." Lazarus wants the union-only agreement scrapped because officials fear a lawsuit filed by a conglomerate of non-union contractors will prevent the store from beginning construction in April. That must happen if the store is to open in fall, 1996, Lazarus spokesman Bobbie Sterne, councilwoman 'If ware to have a viable retail district, then we have to keep our major stores. The city has to do all it can to keep Lazarus. Roxanne Quails, Mayor: 'At some point, people have to understand this is not just about Lazarus and not just about a department store.

It's real people, real jobs and real businesses at stake here. SUBURBSEAST Montgomery firms fault officials A group of Montgomery business people, including Marge Schott and restaurateurs Ted Gregory and Michael Comisar, charges that Montgomery officials have created a climate harmful to business. Others dispute that. Story, C3 making suburban push A health care center under construction in Clermont County Hs part of a plan by Bethesda Hospitals to make health care more accessible in suburban i communities. Story, C3 the labor right now.

But I council expect have to share in something the process and More Monday. Cincinnati women succeeding, but sometimes at a snail's pace The percentages of Americans who say theyave sex at least-twlce a week: WEATHER Nice, but windy Married: 41 WW 2 Single, non-cohabiting: 23 High78Low 56" Wind will help drive the temperature up today. Enjoy the sun while you can: Showers likely will roll in for the Living together: 56 Number of sex partners in lifetime: Men: 6 Women: 2 Sex in '90s: Doing it less, with loyalty Chicago Tribune CHICAGO The most sweeping survey of sexual practices since the nearly 50-year-old Kinsey reports should calm fears that America is careening into immorality. Set to emerge officially from the University of Chicago next week, the landmark study finds that Americans have less sex and fewer partners than reported in earlier polls, most of which were mail-in surveys such as the Hite reports of the 1970s and 1980s, or focused on narrowly defined groups, such as the readers of Playboy and Redbook. This more scientific survey was conducted in 1992 by the university's National Opinion Research Center and presents the results of interviews with 3,432 Americans aged 18 to 59 selected randomly nationwide.

They represent 97.1 percent of the adult population. Among findings: Details, back page this section Percentage polled who say they ythey- (V. are gay or bisexual: Men: 2.8 Women: BY LAURA GOLDBERG The Cincinnati Enquirer Twenty-five years after eight women banded together to create the Cincinnati chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), some obvious barriers to sexual equality have been dismantled. Jobs aren't advertised by males and females. Company lunchrooms aren't segregated.

A woman is Cincinnati's mayor. The progress hasn't been as far-reaching or fast as many women would like or expect. Positions of power still elude women of Greater Cincinnati. Women in the business, civic and political arenas here think there is still a long way to go. "There is still a good old boy network that is alive and well," said Lovie Ross, 41, president and co-owner of Penguin Painters and pres- (Please see WOMEN, Page A6) The Cincinnati EnquirerJerry Dowling INDEX Seven sections, 154th year, No.

181 Copyright 1994, The Cincinnati Enquirer Abby D2 Obituaries C4 Business C8 People D2 Comics D6 Puzzles D7 Editorials A14 Sports B1 HealthScI A8 Stocks C9 Lotteries A16 Tempo D1 Metro C1 TV D4 Nation A2-4 World A2, 10 1 Classified B7-16 Americans have sex' about once a week, on average, but a third of adults have sex only a few times a year, or not at all. More than 80 percent had one or no partner in the past year. Just 3 percent of men and women had five or more partners in that time. More details, A3 The Cincinnati EnquirerPhaedra Singelis Lynn Rohr, 36, is president of Cincinnati's NOW chapter. Among changes she would like to see: "I don't think we do well at all with getting women elected to office where they can make a difference." Printed on recycled newsprint using soy oil ink A.