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...Castro years. Yet Castro has committed more sugar (at bargain prices he can ill afford) to his Communist partners, until he now owes them more than he produces. Faced with this kind of debacle, Cuba last week did an astonishing thing for the world's biggest sugar-cane producer. It went into the world market to buy sugar to meet its Iron Curtain commitments...
...away, death will be there." It wasn't. After keeping his appointment in Nairobi (where he claimed he had less than two shillings to his name), Okello found himself persona non grata. So he bought himself a dark blue Peugeot, packed his pistol and candy-striped cane, and set off for Uganda...
Near British Guiana's capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the customary public ceremony as Sir Richard Luyt, the colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual...
...February. Though the GAWU is smaller than the anti-Jagan Manpower Citizens Association, which speaks for 60% of the colony's 25,000 sugar workers, it makes up in terror what it lacks in size. Its men dynamited irrigation aqueducts, pay offices and watch posts on 41 cane properties, put thousands of acres of unharvested cane to the torch, and bombed 33 homes of anti-Jagan Negroes and East Indians. Gangs of strikers waged pitched battles with nonstriking workers, injuring more than...
Prisoners are fed at six and six. The morning meal consists of three cold biscuits. The whites are served first, (theirs may be warm--I don't know), a strip of "streak-o'-lean" bacon, and a tablespoon of cane syrup. Supper is one slab of cornbread (cold again), rice, and red beans. Prisoners are given a mattress and a blanket upon arrival, to be returned upon release. No uniforms are issued and neither are packages of fresh clothing permitted...