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ft -I Mil LIST Janis Epton, injured by a drunken driver, needs a washer and dryer Tempo, F1 What we watch Tristate TVs not tuned according to national trends Arts Leisure, H1 UJisiter escapes For those seeking warmth or just some real snow Travel, Section EC MO FINALSingle-copy price $1.50 CINNAT iami Tribe or Miami Redskins? ff TT T-T-T f- The vote "JO In avon Sister Jean Patrice Harrington, Donald Kasle, Eleanor Irwin, Joseph Marcum. Opposed: William Gunlock, Harold Paul, Robert Tenhover. Abstaining: Wayne Embry (He declined to say why). Absent: Richard Farmer. Picture of dejection Moeller players Andy Shafer and Ron Adkins are consoled by Adkins' parents, Joyce and Ron, after their team's defeat Saturday in the state champion- ship.

Two-time defend ing Division I champ Cleveland St. Ignatius defeated the Crusaders, 38-20. Coach Steve Klonne said: "I can't be disappointed in our kids. This team we played was as good as it gets." Stories, Section Mi iXf details about when or how those groups will vote on the name. The compromise ended Miami's official debate on the issue, but controversy continues.

"There will continue to be an organized student movement," said Sarah Ford, a junior from Madison, and president of the Miami College Democrats. "We'll start to approach (groups) on an individual basis" about switching to Miami Tribe. The compromise "is a cop out," said Guy Jones, a Hunkpapa Lakota Indian and director of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans in Dayton, Ohio. "There should be no compromise when it comes to racism." The term tribe also is derogatory to Indians, Jones said, because it's linked to "something primitive" and confines American Indians to the stereotype of a wild, Board approves deal giving teams a choice BY CHRISTINE WOLFF The Cincinnati Enquirer OXFORD The Miami University nickname now is a matter of personal choice between the old "Redskins" and the new "Miami Tribe." Trustees voted 4-3, with one abstention, Saturday to accept a compromise proposed Friday by Miami President Paul Risser, to end a yearlong controversy over whether "Redskins'' is racially offensive to American Indians. Groups using the "Redskins" moniker may continue or adopt "Tribe." New groups or teams starting up will be prohibited from using "Redskins." Only the marching band and hockey team have "Redskins" on their uniforms.

The plan offers no "I honestly don't know if there would have been five votes to drop," said Donald Kasle, a trustee from Dayton, Ohio, who said he wanted to keep the name but voted for the compromise. Sister Jean Patrice Harrington, S.C., from Cincinnati, elected board chairwoman Saturday, said she supported dropping the name but voted for the compromise. "I think it was a very thoughtful effort of the president to recognize the feelings of alumni, concerning the respect they had for that nickname," she said. Trustee William Gunlock, an alumnus from Dayton, Ohio, voted against the compromise because it "opened the door for a gradual disintegration of Officials of the Miami Indian Tribe, for which the school is named, sent a letter supporting the compromise. savage people.

Risser promoted his compromise as a platform for individual thinking. "The term 'Redskin' is offensive to some; to others, it is not," he said. "This resolution says the individual has a choice." Some of the nine trustees said it was doubtful the board would have supported a recommendation to drop the name. The Cincinnati Enquirer Ernest Coleman JLhe $375 million expansion of j( CincinnatiNorthern Kentucky International Airport will open 25 new gates and bring several million more travelers through the airport each year. Law enforcement officials say it will also open a floodgate for who already move millions of dollars of illegal narcotics and drug money through here.

Drawn by low-profile and easy dealers are finding the airport is a primeWI bewildered by the large number of parties. Reformers are worried that voters' dark mood could result in extremist candidates, led by Vladimir Zhiri- i 3 new Delta gates will bring in as many as 150 drug traffickers a year looking for a cash landing, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials say. That could be a losing battle as much as 75 of the drugs already slip through for a task force of nine that isn't expected to grow. Cross-country couriers book flights that connect through the Cincinnati airport to avoid heavily watched direct flights between larcer cities. BY BRENDA J.

BREAUX The Cincinnati Enquirer Vincent Charles Ushery was far from the typical last-minute flier. Ten minutes before a Delta flight left for San Francisco, Ushery walked into the CincinnatiNorthern Kentucky International Airport, whipped out an inch-thick stack of money and peeled off 11 $100 bills for a $1,072 one-day, round-trip ticket: Six days earlier, he had bought a ticket to Atlanta in the same fashion last-minute, cash, no luggage. Enquirer news services MOSCOW Ten weeks after the violent destruction of the last Soviet-era parliament, Russia today will choose a new legislature in its first multiparty election since 1917. Russians also will vote on a proposed new constitution that guarantees the right to own property and greatly expands presidential power. The constitution is expected to win approval.

But with 13 parties vying for seats in the Federal Assembly, and with polling less sophisticated than in the West, most analysts were reluctant to make firm predictions in the legislative battle. It is the first test of President Boris Yeltsin's popularity since he disbanded the old parliament and sent tanks to pound hard-line holdouts in early October. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin warned Saturday that if the constitution were rejected, Yeltsin might have to declare "direct presidential rule." At least half of Russia's 107 million eligible voters must vote on the constitution for the referendum to be valid, and there is wide concern that the turnout may be lower. Many voters 'appear 1 Yeltsin novsky, win ning up to 20 of the seats in the new Federal Assembly. That could saddle Yeltsin with a parliament no more cooperative than the old one.

Zhirinovsky's remarks, such as a promise to recapture the former Soviet empire, outraged many voters but thrilled others. To mollify voters angered by 900 inflation this year, Yeltsin nearly doubled most government pensions Saturday. He also raised benefits for families with children, single mothers, orphans and children of army draftees. Because Russia stretches across many time zones, the polls opened at 3 p.m. EST Saturday in the Russian Far East and the last will close this evening.

Results aren't expected until Monday. Missile launchers sold, A7 Election analysis, A15 The Cincinnati Enquirer Phaedra Singelis YValter Brown DEA Pete sniffs for drugs at the CincinnatiNorthern Kentucky airport agent in charge of the DEA- Cincinnati Drug Task Force. Tipped about his trip, San Francisco police watched him meet with three other men, drive to a neighborhood known for drug activity and then return to the airport to catch a flight back to Cincinnati. After his plane landed, narcotics officers nabbed him and two other men. They found two kilos of cocaine and more than $5,000 cash.

In the first four months of 1990, Ushery brought 15 to 20 kilograms into Cincinnati from St. Louis, San Francisco and other West Coast cities. Cincinnati is an attractive hub because of its central location and quick access to Interstate 75, nicknamed the "Cocaine Lane." "The demand for the drugs is already there," said Sgt. Dave Bunning, a member of the drug task force formed to crack down on the illegal narcotics trade. "More traffickers are going to come in because of the opening of the gates, the additional flights from the west and south." Airport officials expect the expansion to (Please see CASH, Page A6) Four task force success storiesA6 Probable cause lawA6 That was 1990.

Since then, authorities have arrested 117 suspected drug couriers like Ushery. Law enforcement officials say they are only 20 to 25 of the couriers coming through the airport. With completion next spring of the $375 million Delta Air Lines hub, authorities expect the airport to become a hub for more drugs and drug money moving through Cincinnati. The opening of 25 What were the top stories of '93? The Enquirer wants to know what you think were the biggest stories of 1993 here, and across the nation and globe. We provide some suggestions for the top stories, Page A12 LEATHER Families of missing children 'still believe' Hear skies Relatives hold out hope that cases will be solved High 44' Low 17 Clear this morning but very cold.

Mostly sunny this afternoon with milder temperatures. Chilly tonight with temperatures in 30s. back page this section Details, 1DEX I I iurteen sections, 153rd year, No. 246 pyright 1993, The Cincinnati Enquirer peared with no explanation. Wade Tackett, a farm boy from Highland County, was 17 went he went to Alaska in the summer of 1986 to work on a friend's fishing boat.

He never came back. In Northern Kentucky, Randy Sellers, then 17, was on his way to the Kenton County Fair on Aug. 16, 1980, when he vanished. In Clermont County, Scott A. Hubert, then 19, left his Union Township home on March 13, 1988, to visit friends at Ohio State University.

His pickup was found abandoned in Arizona. In Fayette County, Denise Pflum has been missing since March 28, 1986. She came home from a party (Please see MISSING, Page A14) BY TANYA BRICKING and STEVE HOFFMAN The Cincinnati Enquirer Richard Spencer looks for the face of his daughter when he spots a 5-foot, 3-inch girl with blond hair. Karen Ann Spencer vanished on the drizzly, foggy night of Dec. 29, 1989.

After arguing with her sister-in-law on a remote stretch of Interstate 275 in Clermont County, the 17-year-old Reading High School senior walked away from the car and disappeared. Her picture sometimes appears on candy wrappers, fliers and milk cartons things that are tossed away and forgotten. But her family can't forget. Neither can the families of four other Tristate teens who have disap F2 Nation A2, 4, 7 )by The Enquirer's four-part series on the environment concludes today. In Metro Portrait of a pollution fighterB1 Area trouble spotsB3 In Forum What the public must do to clean and protect the environmentL1 Places to recycleL1 How to get involvedL4 ive Barry F3 Obituaries B7 J1 D1 Real Estate isiness C1 L2 Sports litorials D5-10 Stocks aithScience A8 tteries A16, B2 F1 Tempo M1 Travel B1 H3 World A2, 10-11, 15 avies Classified The Cincinnati EnquirerTony Jones Richard and Diane Spencer with a picture of Karen Ann Spencer, missing since 1989.

With them is a son's child, Jamie Spencer, 10. A Printed on recycled newsprint using soy oil Ink.