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Most obviously agreed with Dr. Johann Einaar, representative of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in South America, who rose before fellow legislators to declare: "We cannot understand what you have against the wedding. You cannot keep your own children in hand when they are in love." He got a healthy round of applause, and Parliament approved the marriage by a vote of 132 to 9. It will take place on March...
...exceptions, such as in Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala. This now gives the Russians better control of purse strings and operating methods. The Havana meeting also laid out a list of likely present and future targets. Among them: Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Paraguay and British Guiana...
Banners of Reform. In four years, the U.S. has handed out $4.2 billion in grants, loans, goods and technical assistance−of which $3.9 billion went to the OAS nations, and the rest to British Guiana, Jamaica and other smaller countries and colonies. In turn, Latin American nations have invested from $22 billion to $24 billion in development projects, and more than $1 billion more has come from foreign lenders and international agencies. "Twenty-five million people−13 million of them little children are now receiving food from the Alliance program,"Johnson reported. "More than 1.5 million people have...
Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey...
...form or another, the three gases have been in use for nearly 40 years. The British used CS in Cyprus and British Guiana, a fact that must have surprised Foreign Minister Stewart no end, and the French used it in Algeria. Guards on both sides of the Berlin Wall have lobbed gas grenades at one another from time to time. The British have sold CS gas to a score of nations from Australia to Venezuela; the U.S. has sold it to such nations as Bolivia and France. It was used by New York state troopers during last year...