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...clock in the morning a full moon shone over Maseru (pop. 75,000), capital of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a mountainous enclave within South Africa. Most of the residents had gone to bed, except for a few night owls playing the slot machines and roulette wheels of Maseru's two casinos. Suddenly the staccato of gunfire rocked the night. Lesotho had been invaded...
...shorthanded score that tamed the Wildcats last night. After Greg Britz broke a 4-4 tie at 15.35 of the final period, taking an across the slot pass from Jim Turner and beating UNH netminder Todd Pearson from 10 feet out. UNH quickly took a man advantage when a charging call sent Turner to the penalty box Ninety seconds later Mark Fusco relieved star Wildcat defenseman Peter Herms of the puck near the Harvard blue line and brother Scott took it away, zooming in on Pearson for his second coal of the game...
...Nursing a 3 I lead following a goal by Olson and two by Phil Falcone. Harvard faltered after three minutes of terrific penalty-killing when left wing Paul Barton backhanded a loose rebound between freshman goalie Dick McEvoy's pads and teammate Dan Muse pupped one home from the slot 19 seconds later...
Once in the casinos, from the glittering Golden Nugget to the garishly ornate Caesars Boardwalk Regency down the street, the visiting gamblers can be seen pressed six and eight deep against the gaming tables; at every wall, hordes of people furiously feed quarters and dollar coins into slot machines, sometimes operating two capricious bandits at a time...
...free-spending atmosphere, much of Atlantic City remains pocked with urban blight and decay. Worse, state officials are concerned about the infiltration of organized crime into the business and last week unsealed an indictment against several people, some of whom are thought to have Mafia ties, for tampering with slot machines at Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention...