The Nation - News from April 21, 1988

Attorney William Kunstler and an associate took over the defense of suspected Japanese terrorist Yu Kikumura and said jail officials agreed to remove special restrictions on their client. Kikumura, arrested last week for allegedly transporting pipe bombs and explosives paraphernalia on the New Jersey Turnpike, had been denied access to a telephone, mail delivery, or writing implements, Kunstler associate Ronald Kuby said. Authorities at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City also had placed Kikumura in solitary confinement and denied him recreational privileges, Kuby said. Kikumura, 35, has been described by Japanese authorities as a suspected associate of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist group based in the Middle East.