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Senator Player: A dashing young man who attracts Liz because of his famous family name and tanned, muscular body, he is a sort of Phase II Sincere. As soon as the wife and kiddies are off on vacation. Player asks her up to his Georgetown house -and guess what happens. Their relationship lasts off and on for a year...
...five huge fans whirled lazily overhead, the mace-bearing sergeant at arms stomped into Georgetown's 19th century House of Assembly to declare the presence of the Speaker of Guyana's Parliament. Opening last week's 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...
...only recognized Cuba but urged such Caribbean countries as Jamaica and Barbados to do the same. Castro visited Guyana in 1975, and exchange programs began between the two countries. During Havana's Angolan offensive last winter, two empty Cuban planes returning from Africa refueled in Georgetown. Officially, Guyana has denied that a third plane, which stopped for fuel on its way to Angola, ever came through Guyana. Privately a high Guyanese official admits: "We did not know there were troops aboard when they asked permission to land, but even if we had known, we probably would have let them...
...GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY...
...dilemma: how to guide those who seem to need authority without alienating those who cherish their freedom. Catholic Americans who have met the Pope in audiences in Rome are almost invariably touched by the Pope's personal warmth, but that does not necessarily enhance his credibility. Georgetown's Sue Peot expresses the feeling of many when she says, "The Pope seems far away, and not just physically." Suggests Frank Innis Jr. of Mt. Vernon, Va.: "Pope Paul has become a titular head, like the Queen of England...