Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hickel was Governor of the state, the legislature passed a law to permit hunting of the helpless musk ox. Hickel vetoed it. Recently, the Alaska legislature passed a new bill allowing the hapless ox to be hunted. As Interior Secretary, with power over federal acreage, Hickel immediately placed Nunivak Island, the federally owned haven for musk oxen, off-limits to all hunters...
...kind. On four successive days, formal Chinese statements and protest notes whistled out of Peking, and the angry mass demonstrations against the "new czars" resumed across the China mainland. Peking's most serious protest charged that there had been six other Soviet border transgressions on Chen Pao Island, site of the Ussuri fighting. At least two of these, China asserted, involved trucks and armored vehicles. The New China News Agency warned Moscow that "hundreds of millions of army men and civilians are on the alert. If you have the audacity to continue attacking China, you will be crushed...
Britain yesterday gave the Caribbean island of Anguilla 48 hours to rescind its declaration of independence or face invasion...
Anguilla, an island of 6000 inhabitants, announced its independence from the British-created state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla in July, 1967. In January Anguilla reaffirmed its independence and adopted a constitution similar to that of the United States...
British envoy Charley Whitlock flew to the island March 11 and was expelled he said, at gunpoint. Whitlock charged that Anguilla was "completely dominated by a gangster-type element ... somehow like the Mafia...