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  • YESTERYEAR: Rising star Barack Obama fills Aurora plaza for Perlmutter rally

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    Ernest Luning

    Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … An estimated 1,300 people crowded a plaza in Aurora to cheer Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at a rally for Democratic congressional candidate Ed Perlmutter, who was running against Republican Rick O’Donnell for the seat being vacated by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez. “Today, you’re going…

  • May: Iran and the future of the Middle East

    May: Iran and the future of the Middle East

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    Clifford D. May

    Obama’s bet on the Islamic republic moderating is a long-shot Nixon went to China. Obama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the communist revolutionary leader, and Premier Zhou Enlai, the pragmatic head of the government. Détente…

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