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...federal action involves divvying up 1.8 million acres of disputed grazing and farm land in northeast Arizona. At the heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile...
...population numbers approximately 50 million people, of which 2.3 million live in the capital, Kiev. Ukraine is bordered on the south by the Black Sea; on the west and southwest by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania; and on the north and northeast by Byelorussia and Russia. It covers more than 230,000 square miles...
...going to be a theme park in Nashville," says Park Flack Tom Adkinson, "you'd better be about music." But not just country music: Opryland's 120 acres embrace doo-wop and Duke Ellington in as many as a dozen simultaneous stage shows. Then it's 20 miles northeast to Hendersonville and a stop at Twitty City, the monument Country Star Conway Twitty has built to himself, including a guided tour conducted by a giant mechanical Twitty Bird. (Just down the road is Johnny Cash's House of Cash, a museum that is proud to display Al Capone's favorite...
Cuomo does best with those who know him well. Familiarity with Cuomo is highest in the Northeast...
Although it is likely that Cuomo would appeal to voters in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, traditional Democratic power bases, both his style and his message may play less well in the South and the Sunbelt, regions that are critical if the party hopes to regain the presidency. Cuomo is still largely unknown in the South and West, to party activists as well as voters...