Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giants at Arizona...
...author spends time at Big Mountain, Hopi territory still settled by refusenik Navajos, "way out in the Arizona desert, off the modern grid." A traveler who has returned from the back of beyond may be tempted to claim more acceptance by the locals than was really the case, but Shoumatoff plays it straight. He made some headway and won some trust, but he reports that the wall Navajos have erected against white wannabes and sight-seeing Anglo journalists is very real...
...Games Cincinnati at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Dallas at New York Giants, 1 p.m. Detroit at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Kansas City at Miami, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Wash. at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Seattle, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Arizona, 4 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 4 p.m. San Diego at Oakland, 4 p.m. New Orleans at Chicago...
...state known for hard-nosed law enforcement, no one talked tougher than Arizona Governor Fife Symington. Since taking office in 1991 he had called countless times for more arrests and harsher penalties. "Crime is not traced to the lack of material things," he once said. "It happens through loss of values...
Within hours of his conviction, Symington, 52, a Republican, resigned from office and thus became the second Arizona Governor in a decade to step down as a result of scandal. Governor Evan Mecham, a former car dealer, was impeached and removed from office in 1988 on charges of obstructing justice and misusing state money. He was acquitted of separate charges in a criminal trial...