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...eight-minutes, Toronto stormed the Harvard zone, and in less than ten seconds put six point-blank shots on the net. Durno stopped five, but the sixth, which gave Boland the hat-trick, beat Harvard. The Crimson pulled Durno with a minute remaining, but Toronto's Brian St. John stole the puck at his own blue-line, outraced the Harvard defense, and flipped a shot into the open net for the second goal...
...Kenyatta's convoy began to move away after the speech, spectators stoned the lead car. Panicky police fired point-blank into the crowd, leaving at least nine dead and 70 wounded. Two days later, Kenya police arrested Odinga, and most of the other KPU leadership, including all eight of the party's MPs. A day later, KPU was banned for allegedly seeking "to overthrow the lawful and constitutional government of the Republic of Kenya." It seemed a clear reference to Communist intrigues. Though apparently no Communist, Odinga is a leftist who has accepted funds from Soviet and Chinese...
...final period, Tech gained he lead for the first time in the game on Carl Ahlsten's point-blank shot at 4:04 of the final period. But Bauer added his third point of the night by scoring at 7:55, sending the game into two overtimes...
...walked out to meet the Chinese. He intended, says Moscow, to protest their intrusion on Soviet territory and ask them to leave. He never got the chance. As the two groups neared each other, the Chinese opened fire. Strelnikov and his men were killed-"literally shot at point-blank by the Chinese provocateurs," according to the Soviet communique. At the same time, the Chinese gunners across the river opened fire at the Soviet border guards covering Strelnikov...
...withdrawal, however: the Russians admit that they have no idea of the attacker's casualties because the Chinese took their dead and wounded with them when they fell back. Before they withdrew, they held the ground long enough to inflict some "bloodcurdling brutalities," says Moscow. "The Chinese fired point-blank at the wounded and bayoneted them. The faces of some of the slain Soviet soldiers were so mutilated that they were unrecognizable...