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Jun. 06, 1981 - Inside the Maze Prison Belfast. Demand by hunger strikers at the Maze prison were dismissed by staff there as an attempt to turn the jail into a terrorist training camp. And they showed Mr. Barry O'Brien the London Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph during his exclusive visit to the Maze, terrorist training equipment made by IRA prisoners here before they lost the special category status they are seeking to regain. He saw realistic wood and metal replicas of guns and models of bomb detonators. Prison staff described them as products of the free association for which convicted terrorist at the Northern Ireland prison are campaigning. OPS: A prisoner being returned to his cell on one of the H-blocks after being visited by a relative. He normally wears only a blanket as part of the protest campaign

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Campaigning Category Convicted Correspondent Demand Described Detonators Dismissed Exclusive Hunger Maze Normally Obrien Realistic Regain Relative Replicas Returned Seeking Showed Status Strikers Terrorist


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