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SWIFT AND BOLD: AN APPRAISAL OF HOSTAGE RESCUE OPERATIONS

The presence of Gordon Fairweather, the distinguished New Brunswicker who had contested nine Canadian elections, ensured that at least one of the Commonwealth Observers had practical political experience. He remarked to me that he was much moved by the success of this Commonwealth undertaking; in particular, by his realization at the London briefing, that all his colleagues understood election procedure on the Westminster model, whether they were from Papua-New Guinea, Nigeria or Australia. They well-understood the powers of governors, councils, courts and the police and they had a common lang…