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...youngster, Richard Lee Owen II loved to curl up with the discarded lawbooks he obtained when his grandfather took him along on a visit to the county courthouse. By the time he was 13, however, Owen was on the wrong side of the law, serving time at an Indiana reform school for stealing from purses during a church choir rehearsal. That was the start of a life of crime, including a bank robbery and an attempted murder, that has kept him in prison for 19 of his 35 years. But now Owen has rediscovered an old friend-the lawbook...
...quite an adjustment." says Buckley, who acquitted himself well and might have made the Patriots had the club not signed eight-year veteran Tom Owen. "Let's put it this way: Throwing against guys like Rick Sandford and Mike Haynes was a little bit harder than reading Columbia's defense...
...Tyrone constituency, proved to be a winner in an important by-election last week. At stake was the British Parliament seat vacant since the death of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalists who have starved themselves to death in the Maze Prison near Belfast. The victor was Owen Carron, 28, Sands' former campaign manager, whose triumph over Protestant Kenneth Maginnis by 31,278 to 29,048 votes boosted the spirits of the Roman Catholic minority that wants independence from Britain...
...rural reservations. On the military front, Defense Minister Magnus Malan has warned South Africans that "the revolutionary effort against us has reached an extremely dangerous phase." The Pretoria government two weeks ago raised the defense budget by 30% to an all-time high of $2.6 billion. Said Finance Minister Owen Horwood: "In light of recent developments in and around South Africa, defense must remain one of our very highest priorities...
Terrorists enter the situation, although not explosively enough or early enough to save the book. The reader is trapped for lengthy incoherent chapters in the minds of Owen and his sister, specimens who would have a psychiatrist looking at his watch well before the end of each 50-minute hour. The only breaks come in equally long and profitless flashbacks to the boyhood of Maurice Halleck. The writing here is of the "It was a dark and stormy night" variety that Snoopy, the Peanuts dog, concocts whenever he tries to write his own novel. Halleck and his friend take...