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With the Garden filled close to capacity, the Eagles and Huskies played a fast-skating, hard-hitting shootout, and goalies Bob O'Conner of B.C. and Mark Davidner of Northeastern responded with dozens of spectacular saves. Eagle winger Chris Delaney put an end to the excitement 55 seconds into overtime, lifting the puck over a supine Davidner after the Husky netminder had made two tough saves...
...political terrorism, from both the Red Brigades of the left and the neo-Fascists of the right. Partly as a result of improving police intelligence, acts of violence tapered off this autumn, but there were still 753 incidents in the first ten months of the year. In a Shootout on a Rome street two weeks ago, two policemen were seriously wounded and a right-wing terrorist, Neo-Fascist Alessandro Alibrandi, was killed. Next day, in retaliation, a member of the national police was shot to death...
...raiders in all. Some had apparently arrived in Mahé", the main island, earlier and were lying low in hotels when the main body of mercenaries landed, posing as rugby players. The coup was then triggered prematurely when a mercenary's gun was discovered. Since the ensuing airport Shootout, at least 500 visiting tourists have been confined to the islands' luxury hotels. Five mercenaries have been arrested, leaving perhaps three others dead or hiding in the hills from the continuing security dragnet...
Democrats tended to blame the President and his party, rather than the process. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia termed the veto "a manufactured Shootout." House Speaker Tip O'Neill was unusually personal, scoffing at Reagan: "He knows less about the budget than any President in my lifetime." But Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte of the House Appropriations Committee put the blame more broadly on Congress, declaring, "We're the laughingstock of the nation." In fact, there was plenty of blame for all to share...
This time the mercenaries planned to infiltrate Mahé after they landed and stage the coup later in the week, possibly as the first phase of a bigger operation involving local sympathizers and a back-up force of other mercenaries. But the premature Shootout left the scheme in shambles and the first wave of attackers stranded at the airport-until they captured the control tower and gave the Air India plane permission to touch down. The landing was nearly a disaster; the pilot just missed a Seychelles army truck parked on the runway and was forced to hop over another...