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...guerrillas of the Patriotic Front, nothing was more important than disrupting elections in Rhodesia that will usher in Prime Minister Ian Smith's version of black majority rule. For Smith and his three black colleagues in the interim government of the breakaway British colony, nothing was more essential than preventing the guerrillas from carrying out their plans. On the eve of balloting by the country's blacks, a heavily armed Rhodesian raiding party last week struck deeply into Zambia, which provides a headquarters and staging bases for 16,000 irregulars of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People...
Mike Milbury and Bobby Schmautz also tallied for the Bruins, and defenseman Dick Redmond added a spectacular breakaway goal, which came with Boston shorthanded. Former Flyer Orest Kemdrachuk and former Bruin Greg Sheppard scored for Pittsburgh...
...after hanging tenaciously to its tenuous one-goal lead for nearly 24 minutes, the Big Green produced the Big Screw-Up. Coach George Crowe chose the worst possible time to change both his line, and defensemen on the fly and gave UNH a three-on-nothing breakaway. Gaudet made a chest-save on Ralph Cox, but Bob Francis (son of Emile) flipped the rebound past his left shoulder to knot the contest at one apiece...
With both teams skating four a side, Elice-idol Paul Castraberti notched the game-winner at 13:21 of the third. The sophomore rink dragster used his speed to create a breakaway for himself at the Harvard blue line, then beat Harvard goalie Giff Duffy with a wrist-shot from the right circle...
Anders Carlsson came through two minutes later to make it 4-2, and then Brugman's second, a pretty breakaway deke job, gave Yale its biggest lead and waved "goodbye" to those who didn't know what to feel...