1.   A number of Navajo tribal leaders have visited the place, including President Albert Hale.

2.   Despite this economic clout, Navajo leaders, including their president, Albert Hale, worry about the environmental damage and say government is not an effective steward.

3.   Hale is the second Navajo leader in the last decade to resign under a cloud.

4.   He has proposed that Navajo tribal leaders sign an agreement to cover all the resisters.

5.   In welcoming Yvette home, Navajo leaders rose to speak in defense of their children.

6.   It must have drawn a smile from Groscost, who has been quietly courting Navajo leaders for months.

7.   Navajo leaders are beginning to confront the problem.

8.   Navajo leaders prompted outrage for briefly considering blocking all the roads into their expansive lands in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah as a declaration of their rule.

9.   Others abandoned their families, drank to death or committed suicide, Navajo leaders said.

10.   The former Navajo leader has family in the Shiprock, N.M., area and in the community of Teec Nos Pos. Vlassis refused to specify his whereabouts.