Word: burnham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near the speaker's stand in Georgetown's Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny...
...unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy but also triggered a violent racial feud between his 320,000 East Indian followers and the 200,000 Negroes who support Burnham...
With 173 persons dead and thousands injured, Britain finally clamped on a state of emergency two years ago, and shrewdly called for new elections under a system of proportional representation. As expected, Jagan lost out to a coalition government headed by Burnham. Since then Burnham has tried to blur the country's color bars by setting up what he calls a "consultative democracy." He appointed a multiracial Cabinet, began conferring regularly with various racial groups, and did his best to form a color-blind government...
...elect a new government and decide by referendum whether they want to become a republic. With the East Indian population growing far faster than the Negro segment-and thus producing more voters every year-Jagan hopes by election time to have the added racial support he needs to beat Burnham. Burnham's only hope is to chip away at the old color blocs and broaden his following. He is confident he can, but only the next election will tell...
...gang made infamous. Planned as a commuter college without dormitories, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle sits in the inner city-as does the Sorbonne in Paris. Within view of the Loop, the campus actually occupies the area designated by City Planner Daniel ("Make no little plan") Burnham in 1909 as the site for Chicago's future civic center. It is no coincidence that the campus is the first ever named for a traffic clover-leaf-the adjacent intersection of three expressways called Chicago Circle...