BIG HORN COUNTY, Mont.— Jackie Big Hair slept in hercar again, waking every fewhours to fire up the engine andgaze at the frozen highway reststop where her 16-year-olddaughter had been reportedmissing.

“I just have to be here,” Ms.Big Hair, 50, said, watchingsemis lumber across the plains.“I don’t know where else to go.”

This was her vigil now, alongwith searches in Billings about30 miles away, three weeks af-ter her youngest child, SelenaNot Afraid, was reported miss-ing from a barren stretch of In-terstate 90 in a southern Mon-

tana county where 65 percent ofthe population is Native Ameri-can. Law enforcement officialssaid a van carrying Selenahome the day after a NewYear’s party in Billings hadpulled into the rest stop afterbreaking down, and then hadreportedly started up again anddriven away without her. No-body had heard from her since.

A national outcry over thekillings and disappearances ofIndigenous women has reacheda boiling point here in Big HornCounty, a rural stretch of rollingmountains and ranch lands thatcontains the Crow and North-ern Cheyenne reservations andhas the highest rate of missingand murdered Native Ameri-

Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, an 18-year-old girl from Hardin, Mont., was found dead in August days after she went missing.PHOTOGRAPHS BY CRISTINA BAUSSAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — With Presi-dent Trump’s impeachment trialgetting underway, Democrats areintensifying their demands formore testimony and documentsthat could add to the already volu-minous evidence against him andbolster their case by sheddingnew light on several key ques-tions.

Despite the White House strat-egy of blocking testimony fromtop officials and rejecting de-mands for documents, the Senatewill have various accounts of howMr. Trump eagerly sought to per-suade Ukraine’s new president topursue investigations into twomatters that could benefit him inhis re-election campaign. Thosematters are dealings in Ukraineinvolving former Vice PresidentJoseph R. Biden Jr. and his sonHunter Biden, and purportedUkrainian meddling in the Ameri-can 2016 presidential election.

But in part because of the WhiteHouse’s decision not to cooperate,the record of actions by Mr. Trumpand his underlings is riddled withgaps — and new evidence hasbeen surfacing at the 11th hour.Testimony from Mr. Trump’s sen-ior advisers could illuminate howovert the president’s efforts were,though it is unclear if that wouldpersuade any Republican sena-tors to abandon their defense ofthe president.

On Sunday, RepresentativeAdam B. Schiff, the chairman ofthe House Intelligence Committeeand the lead House impeachmentmanager, said he was concernedthat the C.I.A. and the National Se-curity Agency were withholdinginformation about Ukraine out offear of angering the president.

“The N.S.A. in particular iswithholding what are potentiallyrelevant documents to ouroversight responsibilities onUkraine, but also withholding doc-uments potentially relevant thatthe senators might want to seeduring the trial,” Mr. Schiff, Demo-crat of California, said on ABC’s“This Week,” referring to the Na-tional Security Agency.

Republicans called those com-plaints proof that the case againstMr. Trump was so weak that Dem-ocrats were scrambling to bolsterit. “But this, to me, seems to un-dermine or indicate that they’regetting cold feet or have a lack ofconfidence in what they’ve done

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Seeking to Sway Some inG.O.P. Before Start of

President’s Trial

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DANVILLE, VA. — Ten min-utes into a small community meet-ing between black farmers fromSouthern Virginia and regionalcampaign staff for Senator Eliza-beth Warren of Massachusetts, anaide took the floor.

He was the only white person tospeak in a room of older black vot-ers seated in an old beauty salon.He stood, delivering an off-the-cuff pitch for Ms. Warren’s plan tohelp rural black America: propos-als for new access to funding forblack farmers, and to address dis-crimination in the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture. Sheunderstood the challenges black

farmers faced, he said.But he was cut off midsentence,

before he could finish his appealfor their support. Instead, theblack farmers had a message forhim, and for Ms. Warren’s cam-paign. Plans and rhetoric are onething, but to trust a candidate todeliver — or the government at all— is entirely another.

In a community all too familiarwith legal discrimination and un-equal access to public services,believing in “big, structuralchange,” as Ms. Warren likes tocall it, is a gamble.

“No disrespect,” called out Lau-ren Hudson, a 62-year-old hempfarmer, “but there’s a whole differ-ent avenue when we go for fund-

Democratic Candidates Struggle to Win the Trust of Black Voters

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Supporters listened to Senator Elizabeth Warren give a speechhonoring black women at Clark Atlanta University in November.

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TENSIONS Journalists are up inarms about new access rulesduring the Senate trial. PAGE B1

South Florida leaders ponder whetherto change the name of Dixie Highway,which glorifies a racist past. PAGE A13

Debating the End of a RoadA haunting performance of “Cion,”below, highlighted the Prototype festi-val, which featured new opera. PAGE C1

A Mix of Dance and Voice

A NASA program could be ready tosend astronauts to orbit once again, andtravel to space could surge. PAGE A14

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SpaceX’s Explosive TestJosh Thomas’s first TV show gained acult following. He’s back, applying moredroll humor to tough situations. PAGE C1

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Back on the SetRussia, Turkey and other countriespledged to end their interference andmake way for efforts to peacefullyresolve a civil war. PAGE A4

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Call for a Cease-Fire in LibyaA man accused of robbing banks in NewYork City was released under new bailrules, then went right back to heisting,prosecutors say. PAGE A19

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Fodder for Bail Reform CriticsPlayers and organizers at tennis’s Aus-tralian Open are watching air pollutionlevels linked to bush fires. PAGE D7

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Something in the Air

The Times editorial board says AmyKlobuchar and Elizabeth Warren arethe Democratic candidates bestequipped to lead a debate about theirparty’s ideological future. PAGE A24

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Two Paths Forward in 2020

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The Soul of Davos

Concordia, an upstart studio backed byLaurene Powell Jobs, will have fourdocumentaries in competition. PAGE B1

A New Force at Sundance

Businesses in Hong Kong are beinglabeled yellow, to note support for thepro-democracy movement, or blue, infavor of a strong link to China. Thedivide affects the economy. PAGE A6

Color Them Divided on Beijing

Twitter accounts sowed confusion innations opposing the Moscow-backedVenezuelan government. PAGE A12

Trolling South America

DENVER — They keep expect-ing to see Senator Cory Gardnereverywhere — on the local Fox af-filiates in Colorado, on Facebook,on literature crammed inside theirmailboxes. They are voters whowear tasteful crepe blouses andcarry structured Kate Spadetotes, who like how their 401(k)’sare performing but say they coulddo without President Trump’s“temperament.”

They are members of one of themost coveted groups in electoralpolitics: suburban women. But in

their field of vision, Mr. Gardner,Colorado’s top Republican office-holder, is almost nowhere to befound.

“I don’t hear him speaking outon things,” said Jennifer Grem-mert, 50, the executive director ofan energy nonprofit. She is thekind of voter who could help Mr.Gardner win re-election in No-vember, a registered Democratwho considers herself “nonparti-san,” “not that enthusiastic” abouther party’s Senate candidates,

As Trial Nears, G.O.P. SenatorDodges His Base to Stay Afloat

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In August 2015, Ken Starr, thenpresident of Baylor University, is-sued a bold pronouncement to stu-dents and faculty. “By God’sgrace,” he wrote, “we are living ina golden era at Baylor.”

Less than a year later, the uni-versity’s regents voted to removeMr. Starr after six years on the job,saying he failed to act as chargesof sexual assault upended thefootball team and swept the na-tion’s largest Baptist university, aplace where biblical verse iscarved into the sidewalks.

Mr. Starr, 73, has held manyhigh-profile national posts, includ-ing solicitor general and inde-

pendent counsel. Now he willwork on the legal team defendingPresident Trump in his impeach-ment trial. But his tenure as presi-dent of Baylor and its 14,000 stu-dents registers as a dark chapterin his career. Young women andseveral former officials said in in-terviews that Mr. Starr ignoredthe women’s cries for help andthat he and other top officials atBaylor failed in their responsibil-

ity to shield the women from sexu-al harm.

Three years ago, 15 current andformer female students filed alawsuit against Baylor, sayingthey had been raped or assaultedby fellow students, one of whomwas a football player. Their casehas unearthed piles of unsightlyevidence of official inaction.

“Starr presided over Baylor at atime when hundreds of youngwomen were assaulted and Bay-lor’s policy was indifference atbest,” said Jim Dunnam, who is aBaylor Law School graduate andformer leader of the statehouseDemocrats and who, as a lawyerfor the plaintiffs, has taken testi-

Baylor’s Handling of Rape Cases Still Dogs StarrBy MICHAEL POWELL

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LISBON — It was the party tobe seen at during the Cannes FilmFestival, where being seen wasthe whole point. A Swiss jewelrycompany had rented out the opu-lent Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc,drawing celebrities like LeonardoDiCaprio, Naomi Campbell andAntonio Banderas. The theme:“Love on the Rocks.”

Posing for photos at the May2017 event was Isabel dos Santos,Africa’s richest woman and thedaughter of José Eduardo dosSantos, then Angola’s president.Her husband controls the jeweler,De Grisogono, through a dizzyingarray of shell companies in Lux-embourg, Malta and the Nether-lands.

But the lavish party was possi-ble only because of the Angolangovernment. The country is richin oil and diamonds but hobbledby corruption, with grinding pov-erty, widespread illiteracy and ahigh infant mortality rate. A stateagency had sunk more than $120million into the jewelry company.Today, it faces a total loss.

Ms. dos Santos, estimated to beworth over $2 billion, claims she isa self-made woman who neverbenefited from state funds. But adifferent picture has emerged un-der media scrutiny in recentyears: She took a cut of Angola’swealth, often through decreessigned by her father. She acquiredstakes in the country’s diamondexports, its dominant mobilephone company, two of its banksand its biggest cement maker, andpartnered with the state oil giantto buy into Portugal’s largest pe-troleum company.

Now, a trove of more than700,000 documents obtained bythe International Consortium ofInvestigative Journalists, andshared with The New York Times,

Earning RichesBy ExploitingA Poor Nation

Angolan EntrepreneurBuilds Shell Empire

This article is by MichaelForsythe, Kyra Gurney, Scilla Alecciand Ben Hallman.

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