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LISBON, POrtugaL • A NATO summit originally in-tended to allow members to signal an exit date for the un-popular 9-year-old war in Af-

ghanistan instead concluded Saturday with an agreement leaving open the possibility that allied forces will remain in the unstable country for years to come.

North Atlantic Treaty Or-g a n i z a t i o n leaders gath-ered in Lis-bon signed an agreement with the Af-ghan gov-ernment to transfer pri-mary security responsibility from the alliance to Kabul by 2014, as NATO gradually shifts focus to training, ad-vising and logistics.

But officials carefully hedged the timeline, in light of the uncertainties in the military effort and the train-ing of Afghan security forces.

Since a military buildup that has seen Western forces rise to about 150,000, this

Voters who live within Colorado Springs city limits made the difference in the Nov. 2 election when it came to staving off a ban on medi-cal marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated El Paso County. Voters outside city limits wanted to put a ban in place, according to a Ga-zette analysis of precinct-by-precinct results released last week.

While ballot measure 1A

failed by a razor-thin margin county-wide, the proposed ban lost by a much higher rate in city limits. In the city, 61 percent of precincts voted against the ban.

“This is exactly what we were hoping for,” said Tanya Garduno, director of the Col-orado Springs Medical Can-nabis Council. “The people in the city are the ones who primarily are living with the dispensaries now. A lot of people probably thought ‘hey these businesses aren’t hurting anyone.’”

NATO OKs 2014 exiT plAN, mighT Keep suppOrT rOle

afghanistan

by maria st. louis-sanchezmaria.sanchez@gazette.com—

Voters outside city limits wanted dispensary ban

SpringS reSidentS tilted vote

by christi parsons and paul richter

medical marijuana

Obama hedges his bet on progress in Afghanistan

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the plan in brief• Seek a limited U.S. withdrawal in July 2011.• End combat role in 2014.• Provide train-ing after 2014.

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online > in depthTo see an interactive map of precinct results go to

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CRESTONE• Kit Carson was an ex-plorer, mountain man, Civil War hero and pacifier of the Navajo. His name graces a Colorado county and town, river, national forest, two mountains and a military base — Fort Carson.

One San Luis Valley town says it no longer wants his name on a nearby mountain.

Residents of the hamlet of Cre-stone, known for attracting New Age types and followers of Eastern religion, have petitioned the federal government to rename 14,165-foot Kit Carson Mountain in the San-gre de Cristo Mountains as Mount Crestone. The town and Saguache County governments support it as a way to correct what locals see as a long-ago misnaming of the peak that looms over Crestone.

The proposal has spurred a de-bate over how far a community can go to rename a public feature that belongs to everyone. Many moun-

taineers who climb the state’s 54 fourteeners, peaks above 14,000 feet, are opposed to the change, as is the U.S. Forest Service, which manages the area.

The request has also sparked a debate about Kit Carson.

Some in the liberal-minded com-

munity say he was not a great American figure, but a war crimi-nal. They point to his brutal 1863-64 campaign against the Navajo, when, acting under orders from the Union government, he led a march of destruction through their terri-tory. When they surrendered, about

8,000 were forced on a 300-mile march to New Mexico, where they lived in captivity for several years, losing many numbers. The episode is known as “The Long Walk.”

“This beautiful mountain de-serves better than to be named after such a shameful character of U.S. history,” wrote one of the 104 people who signed the petition.

The naming conventionWhen Colorado was still a wilder-

ness, survey parties traveled the state naming features, sometimes based on their appearance, some-times after famous people of the time, sometimes after their friends.

debate over a mountain’s name looms over san luis valley town

kiT CaRSON mOuNTaiN

Kit Carson Mountain is next to Crestone in southern Colorado. A petition has been submitted to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to change the mountain’s name to Mount Crestone.

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Petitioners say it’s time to quit honoring ‘shameful character’

Crestone resident Fred Bauder introduced a petition to keep the name of the fourteener that looms over Crestone as Kit Carson Mountain.

ONliNEWhat do you think about renaming the mountain? Weigh in online.

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