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...piece struggle. Tamil fighters, known as Tigers, dropped their usual tactics of ambush and evasion to launch a 3,000-strong force against a government base controlling Elephant Pass, a narrow, one-mile causeway, surrounded by marsh, beaches and sand dunes, that connects the mainland with the Tigers' heartland, the Jaffna Peninsula...
...July 15, most residents were preoccupied with rising property taxes, gang violence and renewed efforts to ban nude dancing. Civic boosters lauded themselves for snaring two Miss U.S.A. pageants in a row. But all the factors that make Wichita a nice place to raise a family -- its manageable size, heartland values and high standards of civility -- also proved irresistible to out-of-state Operation Rescue activists. Though largely pro-choice, Wichita contains all the ingredients for staging a militant morality play on abortion. Says Steve Smith, assistant managing editor of the Wichita Eagle: "We're on the fringes...
Rural Mississippi is a long way from the White House, where Sidey has chronicled the comings and goings of Presidents from Eisenhower to Bush. But for this veteran Washington watcher, who logs at least 100,000 miles a year roving the country's byways, the heartland is where the drama of American politics unfolds. "Any program that is passed either affects certain people or they have to pay for it," he explains. "To comprehend the political struggles in Washington, you have to know what's occurring in the small corners of this nation." Sidey has always been unerring...
...early days of the cold war, central Slovakia became the heartland of the heavy-arms industry. The sleepy little town of Martin, 145 miles north of Bratislava, was the site of a tank factory that employed 11,000; nearby Dubnica churned out armored personnel carriers; down the road, Povazska Bystrica produced jet engines...
...capital, they were left on the sidelines. Though the front, with only 7,000 fighters, is militarily insignificant, the Oromo constitute 40% of the country's 51 million people. The Oromo rebels are pressing their demands for a referendum on either autonomy or independence for the southern provinces, their heartland. That call has done nothing to ease long-standing suspicions between the Oromo and Tigrean groups, who have clashed in the past...