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...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, 6,000 strong, proclaimed their independence and severed all ties with the mother country. Gravely, Wilson launched "Operation Sheepskin" and sent in troops, later reinforced by 80 policemen. It was the domino theory, Whitehall solemnly insisted. If one territory were allowed to go its own way, all the rest would want to go theirs...
...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 not accept an association with their...
After the horror show of Vietnam atrocities and other film clipping that begin this picture, Jake is seen walking away from his own grad school degree presentation in a zombie-like trance after the ceremony has been turned into a banal sheepskin burning festival by the bearded members of the class...
...memoir is an incomparable record of the weird and wonderful Russian nobility, compared with whom the pious, drunken, sheepskin-clad serfs seemed like another race. The Czar's ramshackle empire was made up of three other races-the merchants, who were much like merchants anywhere; the official class, whose devotion to sacred paper could be compared only to a Tibetan monk operating a prayer wheel; and the student and professional intelligentsia, politically zealous to a pitch of almost mystical intensity...
...mugged girl turns out to be a bugged housewife (Anne Jackson) with even more identity crises than he. She is surrounded by mink coats, but only wants a sheepskin to prove that she has a mind. He is merely a hero-worshiping intellectual-his walls are covered with pictures of Napoleon, Schweitzer and Einstein-who wants to be a womanizing tiger...