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With Barry Treadwell in the penalty box on a tripping violation, Wood still stopped six straight Eagle shots before B.C. forward and captain Paul Alken put the puck home at 5:57. The shot was at point-blank range on a Hogan pass from behind the goal, and gave B.C. a 2-1 lead...
...thing, 28 Republicans voted with the Administration and against Minority Leader Charlie Halleck's point-blank opposition to the expanded Rules Committee. These Republicans, mostly younger ones, were tired of allowing the Administration to blame its legislative defeats on the "obstructionist" G.O.P.Southern Democrat coalition on the Rules Committee. They preferred to let Administration bills come on to the floor-and then try to beat the legislation in a House that is nearly three fifths Democratic...
...paddies, the Communists let loose with a blaze of bullets from the woods at the edge of the rice field. "The tree line seemed to explode with machine-gun fire," said one helicopter pilot. "It was pure hell." Virtually motionless, the banana-shaped helicopters were helpless targets at point-blank range; five of the hovering choppers were shot down, and nine others were riddled by enemy fire...
...Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, where U.S. and Soviet tanks once faced off at point-blank range, Communist border guards last week erected Christmas trees. It was as paradoxical a symbol as any to mark the fourth anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's bold threat to force the West out of the city and sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany...
...called him a ghost. But the ousted Imam of Yemen, Mohamed el Badr, seemed very real last week. Badr's enemies had repeatedly reported him dead ever since September, when rebel tanks commanded by Strongman Abdullah Sallal ringed the palace in San'a and opened fire at point-blank range. But the royal troops held out until the next day, when the Imam darted through a breach in the wall. A woman in a nearby house helped him replace his fancy clothes with a common soldier's khaki tunic, and Badr safely made his way to neighboring...