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...Henry F. Owen III, a defense attorney in the case, said he felt that potential jurors who were either Irish Catholics from South Boston or Italians from the North End would be biased against the defendants. He added that the defense has so far been able to exclude members of these ethnic groups from the jury...
...Owen also said the chief prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Thomas J. Mundy, was trying to exclude blacks from the jury because they would be sympathetic to the defendants...
Assistant District Attorney Ira Wallach declined to comment on Owen's charge...
...odds-on favorite to succeed the late British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland was Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, 59, who had long wanted the job. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan instead chose a dark horse: Dr. David Owen, 38, an ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named...
Just the title was enough to send even the most scrutinous gut-seekers flocking to the Owen Room of Winthrop House last September. "Sport and Political Ideology" were the magic words which drew self-proclaimed sports aficionados to the relatively obscure course...