Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perched on the continent's northeast shoulder, British Guiana has a lot going for it: major bauxite deposits, rich timberlands, a benign, well-watered climate for rice and sugar cane. Yet until a year ago, it was all London could do to maintain law and order, let alone grant independence. Under rabble-rousing Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana's 295,000 East Indians and 190,000 Negroes were engaged in a vicious racial feud that only the presence of British troops prevented from becoming outright civil war. Then in new elections last December, Negro Attorney Forbes Burnham...
...sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very happy...
...moved medical, nursing and welfare personnel out into the countryside so that the poorest sugar-cane workers' children would get the same medical and dental examinations as city youngsters. Now there are clinics for pregnant women and for well babies-along with proper care for the sick. Where TB patients once languished for lack of treatment in a sanatorium, health workers now give out supplies of isoniazid to be taken at home, and then they check to make sure the pills are really taken...
...weekend meeting of the Bricklayers and Plasterers International Union, received a delegation from Appalachia, attended a couple of parties, invited himself to a cartoonists' luncheon at the National Press Club. Up before 7 a.m. next day, he signed a rural water-and sewage-facilities bill, proclaimed White Cane Safety Day in aid of the blind, chatted by phone with an Army sergeant convalescing in San Francisco from wounds suffered in Viet Nam. He greeted "Miss Wool of 1965," signed a proclamation making Oct. 20 a National Day of Prayer, addressed an international water-desalination symposium, conferred with countless aides...
...interesting to speculate about the motives behind Castro's offer to cut down the "sugar cane curtain...