Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Ballot. Should De Gaulle die, his presidential functions would be "provisionally exercised by the President of the Senate," who currently is affable Gaston Monnerville, 66, a Negro lawyer from French Guiana and an avowed opponent of De Gaulle's regime, which he describes as "enlightened Bonapartism."* Within 35 days of the President's death, according to the constitution, new elections would have to be held to pick a successor...
Trinidad-Tobago. In Trinidad-Tobago, two islands just off the coast of South America, Premier Eric Williams, 52, talks more wildly than Bustamante. Williams is a fiery critic of colonialism, professes to admire British Guiana's rabble-rousing Cheddi Jagan...
...novice at big-time bidding. Last May he paid $41,000 for a Hawaiian "Missionary" two-center of 1851, which was the highest price ever paid for a single postage stamp at a public auction. Only instance when this price was surpassed was in 1940, when an 1856 British Guiana one-center, brought $45,000 at a private sale...
During British Guiana's crippling, 79-day strike, Gimpex saved the day for Jagan. When food reserves dried up and the opposition threatened to starve the government out of office, Gimpex imported petroleum products, flour and other staples, using Cuban and Russian ships. Last July Gimpex actually managed some indirect aid from Cuba. The company sold $1,000,000 worth of railroad ties to Cuba, and the money-paid in advance-was lent by Gimpex to Ja-gan's government...
Just Wait & See. Last week Jagan was in London lobbying for independence and some free world investment. He accomplished little. Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys has already laid down the condition for British Guiana independence: a coalition between Jagan and Opposition Leader Forbes Burnham of the People's National Congress. But that seems a long way off. In talks with British investors, Jagan was less than reassuring: "About my government and my party, it is only when we have independence that the people will know where we stand...