Word: mesa
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...first international crisis. Iran has historic claims to three tiny islands in the gulf that were controlled by the Trucial States. Shah Reza Pahlevi took advantage of the political changes in the area to negotiate an agreement with Sharjah in which Iran received oil-exploration rights on Abu Mesa. The other two islands, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb, were seized by helicopter-borne Iranian troops after similar negotiations with Ras al Khaima collapsed. The Union was hard put to resist such encroachment; its principal military strength consists of Abu Dhabi's 6,000-man defense force...
...sidles up beside you to let you share her scrapbook, you can't help but understand. Liz Renay will always be, at heart, the fifteen-year old bargirl from Mesa, Arizona, astounded by her success so far, but nonetheless always wanting more. Not that she shouldn't be amazed. She has every right to be proud for she's proven tough enough to survive the men who've picked her up and used her along the way--from New York to Los Angeles--even though she's hardly about to resist those who'll pick...
...lost onto the vision we see them, the clouds now whiter and still moving the sun now higher the light, now above the mountains, has moved from eclipse to sharper distinction, less peaceful stasis pinon-you smell it as everything around you clouds and light moving across the mesa the highway lost as a thirsting arroyo, brief and fearful potential, one can run across any land easiest in the arroyos-the length greater, but the water does it because it is the only way-if not meander, then a tacking against and with gravity, for the integrity of the land...
...always in sun, always grateful for the light and warmth and presence. When that dawn joins the silence of birds calling for miles clear through the valleys, deer in the shadow of mountain eclipse, before the sun is over; and then a band of light the length of the mesa, a light which descends to the simple base of earth as sun moves into higher brightness...
...having written about the sunrise of New Mexico, it becomes impossible to elaborate. It is not real-days and nights on a mesa-the warmth and meaning of the sun when clouds brought the chill of the altitude. Some have wondered why Indians with histories of peace lived on mesas when water had to be carried from the valleys around...