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...each other, murdering and looting, burning homes and assaulting women. Only the presence of 1,200 British troops with orders to shoot to kill prevented the ugly violence from erupting into a full-scale civil war, pitting the country's 295,000 East Indians, led by Premier Cheddi Jagan, against its 190,000 Negroes, who hate Jagan as a racist and rabble-rousing Marxist...
...patrolling soldiers were desperately trying to keep the two races apart. No one had an accurate count of the toll, but so far in lagan's strike at least 33 East Indians and Negroes have been killed and more than 2,000 injured. As for Cheddi and his Chicago-born Communist wife Janet, they still clamor for immediate independence from Britain and noisily accuse "American imperialists" of stirring up opposition to their rule...
...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-was Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
Trinidad-Tobago. In Trinidad-Tobago, two islands just off the coast of South America, Premier Eric Williams, 52, talks more wildly than Bustamante. Williams is a fiery critic of colonialism, professes to admire British Guiana's rabble-rousing Cheddi Jagan...
...Cheddi Jagan is a Communist. "Communism," he says, "is winning throughout the world-it will win everywhere." The smiling East Indian has long insisted that British Guiana will never be come an out-and-out satellite, but the evidence of Red influence is everywhere. Czech and Russian trade mis sions abound; ships carrying Russian and Cuban cargo frequently nose in and out of the harbor, 31 by actual count in the last 20 months...