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Ahmadinejad roadshow seduces an adoring public Eyewitness report: Iran's president arrives on a US-made helicopter - an evangelist from the sky Simon Tisdall in Meshkinshahr, Iran Saturday August 19, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves from his office in Tehran. Photograph: Getty He arrives amid a hurricane of swirling brown dust and deafening noise. A dense, rolling cloud of straw and dirt sweeps across the parched field, enveloping turbaned dignitaries, battering the hoisted green, white and red flags of Iran, and forcing thousands of enthralled onlookers to shield their eyes. As the rotors of the venerable American-made Huey 214...
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Race for New Orleans mayor will be roadshowBy JESSICA BUJOL Associated Press Writer March 03. 2006 6:56PM Mayor Ray Nagin and 23 challengers have entered the April primary for the city's top elected job, hitting a campaign trail political observers say will stretch from Atlanta to Houston. Qualifying for the race ended Friday afternoon. Besides Nagin, those who have qualified include former minor-league baseball team owner Rob Couhig; minister and civil rights activist Marie Galatas; financial planner Carlos Hornbrook; former state Rep. Leo Watermeier; Audubon Institute chief executive Ron Forman; Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu; former city councilwoman Peggy Wilson and...
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Gaddafi's African roadshow sets off with 400 guards, three jets and a ship By John Battersby and Beauregarde Tromp in Durban 11 July 2002 The Muammar Gaddafi roadshow has left Durban on a tortuous drive home after the Libyan leader and his heavily-armed entourage upstaged an African summit called to map out a new path for the continent. The Libyan President's security detail, several dozen strong, have taken with them a special jamming device installed in one of his vehicles. So people on his route are likely to suffer sudden interruptions of their cellphone conversations as the convoy passes by....
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