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...16th century, Spain built a buffer province near the headwaters of the Rio Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes...
...Minox to take the pictures. However, he later changed his story to claim that he wanted the documents for his memoirs. If so, they would surely have ranked among the dullest ever written, since the documents were merely directives for handling supplies. Nevertheless, he was allowed to go home arid was interrogated only the next day. Because West German counterspies apparently take weekends off, two more days elapsed before the federal attorney's office in Karlsruhe, which investigates and prosecutes treason, was informed of the case.* It took over the investigation, but unfortunately it did not stick close enough...
...they also believe firmly and frighteningly in witchcraft. Some of the hippie mysticism is a calculated put-on-as when Abbie Hoffman and his crew attempted to levitate the Pentagon last October-but much of the new concern with the arcane is a genuine attempt to find enrichment for arid lives...
Wherever water wells up in the vast, arid reaches of northeastern Iran, improbable pockets of green blossom in the hostile landscape. People gather in isolated hamlets and towns to scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground...
...crowd on Rio Branco, and for most of the country, a big cause of the current unrest is the government's arid educational policy and the rough police treatment of students protesting it. In the past three years, education's share of the national budget has dropped from 11% to 7.7% and the number of illiterate, already half the total population of 85,655,000, has slightly increased. Overcrowded Rio universities are now forced to turn away two out of three qualified applicants...