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Ken Taylor, hero of 1979 'Canadian Caper' in Iran, embodied...

2015-10-16 12:54:49| Footwear - Topix.net

Kenneth Douglas Taylor, who has died aged 81, was a Canadian ambassador who became an American hero in the snakepit of revolutionary Iran, risking his own life to save six others. He died of colon cancer Thursday afternoon in New York Presbyterian Hospital, having lived since the early 1980s mainly in Manhattan, where he consulted to private clients on government affairs.

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