Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheery newspaper ad. "Are you usually late for work, appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch." And if timing is no problem, how about Chinese or Czechoslovakian sewing machines, glassware, pots and pans, brushes, cut-rate food items? In British Guiana's capital of Georgetown, Gimpex, short for Guiana Import-Export Corp., offers them all. The company is the colony's biggest importer of Communist goods, and Marxist Premier Cheddi lagan's lifeline to the Red world...
Cheddi Jagan is a Communist. "Communism," he says, "is winning throughout the world-it will win everywhere." The smiling East Indian has long insisted that British Guiana will never be come an out-and-out satellite, but the evidence of Red influence is everywhere. Czech and Russian trade mis sions abound; ships carrying Russian and Cuban cargo frequently nose in and out of the harbor, 31 by actual count in the last 20 months...
...Private Company." The most dramatic evidence, though, is Gimpex. As a colony, Guiana must have Britain's consent to conduct trade behind the Iron Curtain. But a "private company" can proceed on its own. Hence Gimpex. Organized 21 months ago, Gimpex is run by lagan's own People's Progressive Party and operates as an extension of the government. Last month Gimpex moved into potatoes, onions and garlic with imports from Poland and Czechoslovakia; it is filling lumber orders for East Germany and Russia. To Cuba it ships railroad ties and rice; in return, Castro sends cement...
...British Guiana...
...tourist and business travel to undersanitized parts of the world means that the bedbug has to be taken seriously once again. And not only for its infuriating bite. Dr. George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted...