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Catching baseball on TV More than 575 games to see Faldo wins Masters again Mister Frisky wins attention Thorn Brennaman calls Cubs Navratilova beats Capriati Section TempoC-l Flat sales have music industry singing blues ReMax shaking up real estate market Cincinnati fairly safe But rape, arson rank high Inside: MetroA-7 to use recycled plastic in packaging Section Nick Faldo nHir-FT CINCINMT ENQUIMER FINAL35C HI A top-secret card trick Astros take Reds out to Opening Day Hidden maps fooled Nazis Inside CO i BY JOHN FAY The Cincinnati Enquirer COLUMBUS Ohio -For baseball players, Opening Day is Opening Day even if it's played tonight in Houston and won't be preceded by the Findlay Market Parade. The tradition may be missing, but the players are ready to start the regular time since 1876 that the Reds A special section about the Reds and the Major League season. Section Preview of Opening Day. Section D. BY PATRICIA GALLAGHER The Cincinnati Enquirer The year was 1943.

The United States was more than a year into its second world war. The Nazis had captured thousands of American military, men and installed them in stalags war camps across Germany. And U.S. Playing Card Co. was busy printing escape maps for the POWs.

In a story as full of intrigue as Hollywood's The Great Escape and as full of folly as TV's Hogan's Heroes, the Norwood-based playing card company and more than 100 other U.S. companies secretly pumped out thousands of products, at the request of a covert U.S. agency called MIS-X, to help American war prisoners escape. U.S. Playing Card was in charge of maps, says Lloyd R.

Shoemaker, an MIS-X officer who arranged the deal and who wrote The Escape Factory, The Story of MIS-X (due out next month) to reveal the agency's once-classified activities. Shoemaker, traveling incognito in civilian clothes, journeyed to (Please see CARDS, back page, this section) season. This will be the third have not opened the season at home. (Please see REDS, back page, this section) The Cincinnati EnquirerMichael E. Keating Reds president Marge Schott says she's hanging this season's hopes on manager Lou Piniella.

The Cincinnati EnquirerJim Callaway Parts of escape maps were hidden in cards. a ir Ti ti 00 ti o-n A udge to police: Keep hands oil exhibit 71 1 1 ran if Si fl.il rVT "VI Ml 1 The Cincinnati EnquirerGeorge Longfellow From left, CAC attorneys Martin Pinales, H. Louis Sirkin and Marc D. Mezibov, all sitting, and James W. Harper, chief assistant prosecuting attorney for civil cases, argue their case before U.S.

District Judge Carl B. Rubin. Cameras are not allowed in courtrooms. Photo show, criminal cases to proceed A' CAC membership soars 'People want to make a statement' with support 1 BY BEN L. KAUFMAN The Cincinnati Enquirer The doors of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) will remain open and the center safe from further legal action even though a grand jury has indicted the CAC and its director for displaying the Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit.

U.S. District Judge Carl B. Rubin, in an unusual Sunday court session, ordered city and county authorities not to interfere with the continuation of the exhibit. He warned Cincinnati police against acting against the show under the guise of maintain-please see CAC, Page A-6) Obscenity battleground, Page A-6. Warrick column, Page A-7.

BY FREDERICK BERMUDEZ The Cincinnati Enquirer The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) has found a silver lining amid the controversy brought on by the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. Over the past two weeks, the center's membership has increased nearly 50, from 1,600 to 2,300, said Dennis Barrie, director of the CAC. "People want to make a statement and join in support of the center," Barrie said Sunday. Sunday, about 300 people an hour filed through the CAC during its second-day run. At day's end, 1,992 had filed through the gallery.

The show reopens today from 10 (Please see SHOW, Page A-6) A The Cincinnati EnquirerGlenn Hartong Some of the 1 ,992 people wait along Walnut Street to see the controversial Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center on Sunday. 3 Voters choose in Hungary Conservatives overwhelmingly defeat Communists Ryan White, 18, dies after 5-year AIDS fight Five sections 149th year, No. 365 Copyright, 1990 The Cincinnati Enquirer NationWorld ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES INDIANAPOLIS Ryan White, the teenager from Kokomo, who captured the hearts of presidents, rock stars and the nation during his five-year battle against AIDS and Business Separate voice B-2 Regional stocks B-5 Investment report B-5 Taxline B-7 Tempo Advice C-2 Comics C-4 RadioTV C-6 Classified C-7-14 I Metro Warrick A-7 In brief A-8 Obituaries A-9 State news A-9 Digests A-2 World A-3 Nation A-4-5 Comment A-10 for Children at Indiana University Medical Center, where White died of complications resulting from AIDS. White had been in a drug-induced coma since being placed on a life-support respirator a week ago and was not aware of his surround i pi rJ ni Sports BY GEORGE JAHN The Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary Voters choosing Hungary's first freely elected government in 43 years gave an overwhelming victory Sunday to Hungary's main conservative party, final unofficial results indicate. It was the second conservative sweep in Eastern Europe in as many free elections.

East Germans gave conservatives a clear victory in elections March 18, relegating the Communists to an opposition role. In Hungary, Democratic Forum President Jozsef Antall said, "It is not we, but the Hungarian people who have won these elections," speaking to jubilant supporters crowding party headquarters six hours after polls closed. Official results for the 261 parliamentary seats at stake in runoff elections Sunday were not expected before Tuesday. The results were combined with elections held March 25 for a total of 386 seats in the 394-member parliament. Eights seats will be allocated based on minority representation.

The national vote counting center predicted the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum would win by 42.7 of the vote. That gave the party 165 seats after both rounds. (Please see HUNGARY, Page A-3) Artists as politicians, Page A-3. bigotry, died Sunday at Ryan White 18. ings.

Kleiman said. Scoreboard D-2 Digest D-3 Baseball D-4-6 Classif D-9-12 White's mother, Jeanne, and sister Andrea, 16, kept a bedside vigil, joined at times by celebri- (Please see WHITE, back page, this section) "He was the boy next door who first showed to a stunned nation that no one is safe from the risk of AIDS," said Dr. Martin B. Kleiman of Riley Hospital Weather: Sunny early, then increasing clouds. Gusty southwest winds.

Showers and thunderstorms tonight. Hiqh In the upper 60s. Low in the upper 40s. Full report, A-2..