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...back into the game in the second period, as Terrier center Todd Johnson sandwiched two power play goals around a tally by B.C.'s Paul Hammer...
Johnson knocked in his first one at 12:40, flipping a backhander over an outstretched O'Connor to cut the B.C. margin to one. Hammer's goal followed less than a minute later, when he circled around behind the net and snuck the puck in between Weisman and the right post...
...play. It may also have been the moment at which the electorate, almost subliminally, began to harden in the view that Carter was hopeless. Yet he continued to roll over Kennedy in the primaries and went on to win renomination by his party. Republican Ronald Reagan continued to hammer away at the Administration's foreign policy failings without dwelling on the desert debacle. But it was becoming clear that Carter's handling of the entire hostage crisis was perceived by many voters as a disaster...
...teachers, approved earlier by a blue-ribbon committee. In the Cabinet, however, the salary question provoked a collision between two stubborn antagonists: Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who was determined to forestall any new wage spiral that would further boost the country's 140% hyperinflation, and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt equally committed to the teachers. Each vowed to resign if he lost the battle, taking precious parliamentary votes with him. Thus either way Begin's coalition would be left without a majority in parliament...
...Napoleon Duarte, President of the U.S.-backed civilian-military junta, promised an "extensive investigation" into the murders of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera, but was vague about what interests in the strife-torn country might have been responsible. At first, he said the killings were "an action of the extreme right," but then he added, "Of course, it could be the left." Officials believed that Viera, 39, had been the killers' main target, that the two Americans might have been shot solely because they happened to be with...