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MARRIED. Colleen McCullough, 46, Australian meganovelist (The Thorn Birds) who for three years has lived on tiny Norfolk Island, 900 miles east of Brisbane; and Ric Robinson, 33, Norfolk Islander who two years ago painted her house to earn money for a palm plantation; she for the first time, he for the second; near Sydney...
...wanted to be ready to serve in the Persian Gulf if war broke out, he explained, although as a noncombat officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps-a military lawyer-he would probably get no closer to the front than the naval base at Norfolk, Va. In 1979 he separated from his wife Lee, who had been his college sweetheart; they got back together in 1980, separated again in 1981, then reconciled a few months before he announced his presidential candidacy...
...would, indeed, be very surprising if Reagan's Justice Department requires more than token adjustments in the new $50 billion Socal-gulf company. Reagan can claim no significant anti-trust prosecutions during his tenure--despite the mergers that have resulted in 30,000-mile railroad giants like Norfolk Southern and Southern Pacific-Santa Fe, and the recent rumblings in the steel industry where U.S. Steel, Republic Steel and LTV Corporation, three of the five biggest steel companies in the country, are planning mergers and acquisitions...
While state law entitles prisoners to legal counsel in institutional proceedings, the state is not required to provide attorneys as in criminal trials. Unable to pay for professional lawyers on their own prisoners at MCI-Concord. Norfolk, Framingham, and Walpole prisons call the program collect to request its assistance...
...Georgeanna Seegar Jones, vice president of the first test-tube-baby clinic in the U.S., at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, thinks the technique has a major drawback: "Asking a woman to have a pregnancy, even an extremely brief one, is very different from asking a woman to donate...