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...seized the chief of the island's Mau-Mau-like rebel Ras Tafarians reported finding correspondence with Castro officials. Revolution, Castro's newspaper mouthpiece, devoted a 40-page supplement to calling Puerto Rico "a slave territory of America." Communist-lining Cheddi Jagan, a political power in British Guiana, got a red-carpet welcome in Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: REVOLUTION FOR EXPORT | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Thus, in speeches and loud, littered pageantry, De Gaulle's week wore itself out. He flew out of New Orleans for a passing visit to French Guiana, then was bound for home, where the problems of preparing for the summit might seem almost a rest for the weary traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vive Chicago! | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...early French settlers in the new South American colony of Guiana in the 18th century, the three tropical islands rising out of the water a few miles off the coast were a sight to behold. According to legend, the largest and most beautiful they named Royale in honor of their sovereign, King Louis XV. The second was named St. Joseph after the patron saint of their voyage, and the third was named Devil's Island because of the angry sea around it. But when the settlers christened the cluster as a whole, they became the authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Islands for Sale | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Ford Startime (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). My Three Angels: Sam and Bella Spewack's TV adaptation of their own Broadway adaptation of Albert Husson's La Cuisine des Anges, a bizarre comedy about convicts in French Guiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

N.A.H. GOODMAN Mackenzie, British Guiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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