[LucyT]

Back to the Thread:

Check out # 158 for link to Tom Fife's FR thread,

"The first time I heard of Barack Obama."

Thanks for finding that article, Fred Nerks.

[Fred Nerks]

If you are looking for a contender for the Tom Fife story as told to him in 1992 in Moscow, Alice Palmer is as good as any:

Source:

[Fred Nerks]

...In March 1986 Alice Palmer covered the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congress in Moscow for the Black Press Institute[18].

Alice Palmer told the People's Daily World[19]; I spent a great deal of time with a woman from the Novosti (Press Agency) and she and I had a lot in common...I had a chance to go shopping, just as I would if were back in Chicago...

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[GregNH]

Glad to see you two back on pinging terms. :)