Word: guianans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army has raided the homes of ousted officials and their friends, searching for incriminating documents. And although Cheddi Jagan, ex-prime minister, and his fellow ministers were fired for what amounts to treason, there have been no official charges against them. So, England has dissolved the legally elected Guianan government without formally accusing it of more than possessing an aura of Communism...
...that neither Her Majesty's government nor our own would tolerate an armed Communist rebellion in South America. Besides, Communist sympathizers already had legal control of the government through the ballot. It was precisely because the Communists had so much actual power that Britain had to send in non-Guianan troops...
...traditions of Anglo-Saxon justice to punish a man for high crimes, never telling him what they are, and never allowing him to make a defense. Those who rail against this sort of thing in Congressional investigations must also condemn the hasty British action. But if the Guianan officials are liable to jail sentences, their former position should not keep them...
Recent medical advances with sulfone drugs have benefited Patient Stein but created personnel problems for Editor Stein. Staff members are discharged from Carville when the disease is arrested. Besides six Texans, the Star's staff now includes a Cuban, a Mexican, a Virgin Islander, a Dutch Guianan, a Hawaiian, a Samoan and a Filipino...
...Star and Garter Hotel, where thousands of curious Britons, acting for all the world like U.S. bobby-soxers, craned and crowded for a glimpse of Robinson and his flamboyant 14-man entourage or a peek at the gaudy fuchsia convertible* parked outside. Turpin, 23, son of a British Guianan and a white British mother, trained in the placid remoteness of Grwych Castle in North Wales...