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...successful battle to win legal clearance to challenge the British government's ban on broadcasts by the I.R.A. and other extremist groups. His brother Dermot, 28, was sentenced in 1982 to 18 years on a terrorist charge but escaped in a mass I.R.A. breakout from Ulster's Maze Prison...
...Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...
Imagination remains in order, since last week the Soviet Union completed only the initial stage of a dizzyingly complex election campaign, the first contested balloting in the country's history. Although the period for proposing candidates ended last Tuesday, potential nominees must still pass through a maze of ill-defined voter meetings before they win a spot on the March 26 ballot...
...says architect Henry Yanaga. He should know. Yanaga has designed Wooz, an amusement park featuring a giant labyrinth. A Japanese firm, Sun Creative Systems U.S.A., has launched a $2 million marketing campaign to sell 60 Wooz franchises in the U.S. Its main attraction: a tortuous 5,000-ft.-long maze formed of 7-ft.-high redwood walls...
...pastime that the Japanese learned from the English by way of New Zealand, the maze craze shows signs of catching on in the U.S. Since August, thousands of visitors have paid $7 apiece to get lost in the first American Wooz, which stands for Wild and Original Object with Zoom. The $13 million park in Vacaville, Calif., offers two degrees of difficulty. Claustrophobes need not fear, because three escape routes are provided. Price of a franchise: $45,000 plus construction costs...