11.   Those hopes have died in recent weeks.

12.   But hope dies hard in Brazil.

13.   But their hopes died in a climate of fear and intimidation.

14.   Waiting in Georgetown, their hope died as they heard that Ryan and four others had been shot to death in an ambush at the Jonestown airstrip.

15.   But that faint hope died with every new boom of exploding ammunition from the tunnel, every new gust of acrid smoke.