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Burnham has engineered substantial flows of Western aid (including $47 million pledged in the past four years from the U.S.) by warning against the perils of a victory by his Communist rival, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, 62, who was Guyana's Premier between 1957 and 1964. Particularly helpful was a $125 million credit line approved by the International Monetary Fund last July. Burnham has also sought favor with African and Communist bloc countries by nationalizing 80% of the Guyanese economy, including bauxite mines once owned by Alcan and Reynolds Metals. Although Guyana still has close relations with Cuba, Burnham promptly...
...former premier of a small nation that was an early victim of U.S. CIA operations will speak at Morse Auditorium, 603 Commonwealth Ave., Boston at 11 a.m. Cheddi Jagan, expremier of Guyana, will talk on "The Way Forward for the Carribbean." Now you know where Guyana...
...Cheddi Jagar-former Premier of Guyana, Morse Auditorium, 602 Comm...
...regular session on the eve of the former British colony's tenth anniversary of independence, the Speaker then interrupted a droning debate about a pension scheme, with a notable announcement: after a three-year boycott, the opposition People's Progressive Party, led by dedicated Marxist Cheddi Jagan, had agreed to take its seats in Parliament. The return of the opposition did not mean that Jagan, who misruled Guyana into economic chaos during the early 1960s, had mellowed. In fact, Jagan noted that Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, his political archrival and head of the governing People's National...
...what a flag ought to be, Smith points to that of Guyana: a boldly simple design with a red triangle and a gold arrowhead on a green field. It just happens that the banner was designed by Smith himself. "I wrote to [Guyana's former Prime Minister] Cheddi Jagan, as I always do to leaders of newly independent countries, and sent in a design," he recalls. "Nothing was heard for a while until finally a Guyanese flag arrived in the mail, and I said, 'My God, that's my flag...