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From: jcgowl@ihlpg.UUCP (r. gowland)
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Subject: Re: A Medal For Colonel Wilford
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 15:10:10 EST
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> 	On Sunday, January 30, 1972 Lt. Colonel Derek Wilford led his troops
> of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment in an operation which

This is not an attempt at humour, but a statement of feeling by
an expatriate Brit concerned about people. Why did Col Wilford do
this twelve years early and in the wrong place. He should have
been set onto Arthur Scargill and his rent-a-mob pickets.
This is probably not a view which my employers would have, so I
had better disassociate this personal view from any connection
with anyone who might be regarded as my employer.