Word: anguilla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Robert Bradshaw, 61, highhanded Prime Minister of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, a trio of West Indian islands knit together as a British associated state; of cancer; in Basseterre, St. Kitts. In a troubled climate of high unemployment with a flimsy sugar-cane economy, Bradshaw clung to power chiefly because of his adaptability. A onetime bicycle mechanic and cane cutter, he rose as a labor organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime...
...Piglets," and one war correspondent cabled Fleet Street from the battlefield: "I say, chaps, the natives are friendly." That was two years ago, when then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent a company of paratroopers to capture the tiny (35 sq. mi.) West Indies island of Anguilla, a onetime possession cutting loose its British apron strings. The islanders had tried and rejected a British-sponsored association with the neighboring and more economically advanced islands of St. Kitts and Nevis; now they wanted to return to their colonial status. The British would not hear of it, so the plucky Anguillans...
...Britain Forever. The troops and bobbies never met any opposition-Anguil-la's most formidable weapon is a barnacle-encrusted French cannon last used in 1796-but British forces have remained on Anguilla ever since the invasion. Their relationship with the locals has been happy. Last year, on the anniversary of Operation Sheepskin, the occupation forces solemnly judged sack races and high jumps at a field day while older Anguillans tacked up signs reading ST. KITTS NEVER-BRITAIN FOREVER. Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government eventually came to the reluctant conclusion that the Anguillans simply would...
Some Antiguans saw the results as a warning to other longtime Caribbean leaders like Trinidad-Tobago's Eric Williams, Jamaica's Hugh Shearer and Robert Bradshaw of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. Crowed the jubilant Walter: "There are no more gods in the black Caribbean...