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Such allies as Thailand and South Korea are much more hawkish than the U.S. State Department and do not want to negotiate. Along with many Americans, they believe that when enough military might is applied, the Communists will realize that they are whipped and will "fade" back into the jungle. Then the enemy would be unable to demand votes, unification or anything else. A frustrating fact about this otherwise desirable concept is that U.S. generals have been expecting the Communists to fade for at least two years and, though they are plainly sweating hard, they so far have shown...
Cornell juniors Brian Cornell and Pete Tufford got loose on another breakaway against the first defense, and Cornell placed a fade-away shot into the open far corner...
...Wildcats Fade...
...Hampshire, after holding Harvard to a one-point half-time edge at 32-31, started to fade in the second half, as its full-court press failed, and its earlier ball-control offense dissipated into sloppiness...
Though the state was supposed to fade away in time, Russia has become the world's biggest bureaucratic nightmare; the state is omnipresent and oppressive, frustrating its citizens and slowing economic progress. Instead of a classless society devoted to the interests of the workers, Communism has spawned a new privileged caste of party members and bureaucrats whose style of life includes villas, limousines, maids and even special shops in which they can buy scarce Western luxuries. In Russia to day, the worker and peasant are still where they always were: at the bottom. When it comes to the economy...