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...after the first intermission Harvard got the break it needed, when the line of Brian Busconi, Dave Burke and Rob Wheeler--previously inconspicuous on the scoring sheets--first tied the game and then put the Crimson ahead...
First, Busconi headmanned the puck to Wheeler, giving the ex-tennis star and Burke a two-on-one. Wheeler's shot went wide, but he collided with Fink, leaving an open net for Burke when he grabbed the rebound off the back boards...
...seven minutes later, Wheeler again carried the puck on a two-on-one, this time with Busconi, dishing it off to the right wing to set up Harvard's second goal...
...nationwide protest against higher fuel taxes and highway-user fees for trucks. But within hours, violence eclipsed the issues. Shortly after 11 p.m. on the first day of the Independent Truckers Association (ITA) strike, George Franklin Capps, 34, a Teamster driver, lay slumped in the cab of his 18-wheeler on Route 701, north of tiny Newton Grove, N.C., fatally shot in the neck by a sniper. "The strike is the last thing we talked about," recalled his widow Esmond. "I told him to be careful...
...least 37 states, some highways were becoming unsafe at any speed. In La Porte, Ind., a sniper fired at an 18-wheeler, missed, and hit Schoolteacher Chris Balawender, 35, in the hip while he was driving a van loaded with eleven children. He managed to keep the vehicle under control, averting a major tragedy. One driver in Tampa, Fla., roused by fellow truckers, awoke in his cab's sleeping compartment to find his trailer engulfed in flames. To protect themselves, many truckers traveled only by day, and then only in convoys. At night, drivers jammed rigs into crowded truck...