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...first time Cheddi Jagan, 43, the East Indian dentist-turned-politician, won the prime ministership of British Guiana in 1953, his aggressive Marxism and strident anti-imperialism so outraged Her Majesty's government that 1,600 British troops landed in Georgetown to throw him out of office. Now, still breathing defiance of imperialism, Jagan is Prime Minister again, and last week had to call on British tommies for help-to save him from mobs roaming the streets calling for Cheddi Jagan's hide...
Brinkley has also done fine studies of British Guiana and its recent election, and Cambodia having a jolly good time accepting bridges, harbors and schools from a dozen nations East and West. This week he talks about credit buying in the U.S. and TV commercials abroad. Often pointing up issues but never preaching, the program is at best as sharp as an ax, but it seldom grinds one. "Brinkley's not out to save the world." says Producer Ted Yates. "He's just out to be Brinkley...
Lattimore cited a recent remark of Chetti Jagan, the unashamedly Marxist premier of soon-to-be-independent British Guiana, as being indicative of the problem the U.S. faces...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-1 1 p.m.). Brinkley talks about British Guiana and Cambodia. Color...
When Dr. Cheddi Jagan. 42. a politically ambitious East Indian dentist, first took power in British Guiana eight years ago, he fluttered the dovecots of empire. Sounding every inch a Marxist. Jagan vowed: "The same bullets which were fired on poor people will be fired on our oppressors." announced that he was forming a "people's police" and abolishing the civil service. In a day when Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister. Britain's reply was to send four warships and 1,600 troops, who ousted Jagan and suspended the brand-new constitution that granted the 147-year...