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Section Randy Travis, country singer Inside: MetroA-7 MMO FINAL35 L7A7 if i 1HE CINCINNATI RMOT Nation's 1 Ttt rr- 7-7- 1 T1 TK TCI It -y, iiying nign The game: Players cool in 36-19 win AFC Central Cincinnati 6 0 0 Houston 4 2 0 Cleveland 3 3 0 Pittsburgh 1 5 0 Sunday's scores Cincinnati 36, Jets 19 Houston 7, Kansas City 6 Seattle 16, Cleveland 10 Phoenix 31, Pittsburgh 14 Next Sunday's games Cincinnati at New England Houston at Pittsburgh Philadelphia at Cleveland All games 1 p.m. 1 BY TIMOTHY W. SMITH The Cincinnati Enquirer The fans were yelling "Who Dey?" after the Bengals had downed the New York Jets 36-19 Sunday at Riverfront Stadium for their sixth consecutive victory. The Bengals heard them, but they weren't listening. "We've got to keep everything in perspective," said quarterback Boomer Esiason.

"We can't afford to let anybody, and particularly you guys in the media, pump us up and get us overconfident." For the Bengal players and coaches, Bengalmania might as well be Beatlemania. It's got a nice beat, but the Bengals aren't yet dancing the Super Bowl Shuffle. The 6-0 start by the Bengals matches their best in franchise history. They got off to a 6-0 start in 1975, finished 11-3 and made the AFC playoffs. Coming Tuesday: Injuries fail to derail Bengals.

The Bengals, who lead the AFC Central Division, can split their remaining 10 games and (Please see BENGALS, back page, this section) The fans: Streak multiplying thrills ji t. O'Hare's problems -rvMf crime climbs But in Midwest, rate unchanged BY PETE YOST The Associated Press and THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER WASHINGTON Crime levels rose 1.8 last year, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Sunday. The increase ends a five-year decline the Reagan administration attributed partly to vigorous law enforcement and tougher treatment of criminals. In the Midwest, the number of people raped, robbed, assaulted and murdered was unchanged from 1986 to 1987. Similarly, crime rates have stayed constant in Hamilton County since 1983, said Art Ney, county prosecutor.

Nationally, the number of personal and household crimes rose about 613,000 in 1987 to more than 34.7 million. In 1986, the number of crimes hit 34.1 million, the lowest level in the 15-year history of the government's national crime survey. Even with the increase, crime levels last year were 16 lower than in 1981, the peak year with 41.5 million crimes committed, said Joseph Bessette, acting director of the bureau. Some academic experts have stressed that the size of the most crime-prone age group, those in their mid to late teens, has shrunk in the 1980s. The crime-prone age group will decline through the early 1990s, demographers say, when many experts anticipate crime levels will rise again.

Last year's slight crime increases suggest a greater concentration of low-income groups at the young age levels, said Alfred Blum-stein, dean of the school of urban and public affairs at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Last year, the number of personal crimes rose nearly 250,000 from 1986 to more than 19 million, with increases in rape, robbery, theft and assault, which includes murder. Household crime rose by nearly 360,000 to 15.7 million, with increases in burglary, larceny and vehicle theft. In 1987, the number of personal crimes per 1,000 people was 125 in the West, 101 in the Midwest, 91 in the South and 71 in the Northeast. Household crimes were: West, 223; Midwest, 166; South, 179; and Northeast, 116.

The West showed an increase in personal crime last year compared with 1986, up 8.6. In the South, it fell by 4.8, while the Northeast and Midwest showed no significant change. The crime survey was compiled by questioning about 93,000 people last year. Four sections 148th year, No. 184 Copyright.1988 The Cincinnati Enquirer DlMain news Nation A-3 Healthscience A-4 World A-6 Metro Rohrer Obituaries-State Sports Sullivan B-1 B-2 OBusiness Separate Regional Executive report.

QlTempo Comics D-6 D-8 led force changes after week the chief word The slowdown months O'Hare The high found 7 V'l 1 1 I I V- by sheila Mclaughlin The Cincinnati Enquirer The first quarter was touch and go. Boomer Esiason spent more time on his duff than on his feet, and Jim Breech couldn't find the air between the goal posts. But the Bengals' fans, as fickle as some have called them, kept the faith. "The Bengals are going all the way," said 22-year-old "Bear" Theobald, with the Bengals down, 9-6, not quite three minutes into the second quarter. Theobald, of Lawrenceburg, wore a black Bengals jersey and a bright yellow wig flecked with gold sparkles.

The word "Jets" was printed with black grease paint on Theobald's right cheek. An obscenity describing what he thought of them was 7-year-old yells as Glenn Hartong for The Enquirer Erin Durrette of Forest Park Bengals kick off against Jets. Bengals wide receivers Tim McGee and Eddie Bengals' 36-19 victory over the New York Jets. Brown share some aerial high fives after The 6-0 Bengals overcame several early mis-Brown's 60-yard touchdown in the first quarter cues to remain the NFL's only undefeated Sunday. Brown had another TD later in the team.

Close calls plague Tall Stacks early; city scrambling Controller errors painted on the left. "Boomer's unstoppable," Theobald said. By half time, even one Jets fan, a transplanted New Yorker, said he was impressed by the Bengals' performance. (Please see FANS, back page, this section) today. She will use one of the special mooring rings along Serpentine Wall.

The President, based in St. Louis, is the largest of the river-boats to take part in this week's Tall Stacks celebration. Its captain, Don Dobson, agreed to tie off just upriver of the Markland Dam for several hours this morning while preparations were made. The city will bring in three barges to form her dock 50 feet from the Serpentine Wall, to ensure sufficient water depth, Downie said. Sightseers be warned: The Public Landing is closed to cars.

The Cincinnati EnquirerJohn Samora O'Hare to handle, the FAA concluded. The intersection of flight paths around busy airports is a routine practice; planes are safely separated from (Please see O'HARE, back page, this section) The FAA's findings and recommendations: Half of the controller jobs at O'Hare are filled by most-experienced people; 75 is the preferred level. The FAA should offer money incentives to recruit controllers and give them first choice on their next job after O'Hare. Only 74 of technician jobs are filled, and many retirements are coming risking equipment failures and flight delays. The FAA should fully staff those jobs.

Traffic at four airports near O'Hare will jump 71 by the year 2000. FAA should study new ways of allocating that crowded airspace. to safety study ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON A federal task this week will recommend 31 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport a rash of controller errors last called into question the safety of world's busiest airport. Federal Aviation Administration Allan McArtor will have the final on the two-month study. FAA already has ordered a expected to last several of hourly arrivals at to ease the load on frantic controllers.

investigation, launched after controllers began making unusually numbers of errors this year, that 150 flight paths intersect THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Bicentennial officials were a little like party hostesses with early guests at the door Sunday, as the first of the Tall Stacks prepared to steam into port more than a day ahead of schedule. Top-flight river conditions put the President on the city's doorstep Sunday. But Bicentennial officials asked the ship to delay its arrival until 3 p.m. today so that proper moorings could be secured, said Jay Downie, bicentennial events producer. The Island Queen excursion boat out of Memphis, could arrive as early as 9 a.m.

every day at a point 50 miles southeast of O'Hare. The crossover of high-flying arrivals and low-flying departures, when combined with additional traffic heading to and from nearby Midway Airport, may be too much for controllers REGISTER TO VOTE! DEADLINE TODAY IN INDIANA, TUESDAY IN OHIO AND KENTUCKY.