Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world's leading stamp firm. It is a pale blue, unused 2? Hawaiian Missionary stamp-so called because such stamps were mostly used by Christian missionaries writing home in the mid-19th century-and it replaced the renowned British Guiana one-cent magenta ($32,900) as the world's most valuable stamp. Its sale also proved once again that stamp collecting is a lot more than child's play...
...Progressive Party, now runs it as secretary-general and edits the party's Red-lining paper called Thunder. Associates are called "comrade," and last year she spent three weeks in East Berlin, Moscow and Peking talking trade and spreading the word about what was going on in British Guiana...
...activist," says Janet Jagan. "People either hate me to infinity or love me to death. I get caught in extremes." She denies that she has "the influence I'm supposed to have." Whether she does or not, British Guiana's husband and wife team has brought little besides economic stagnation and political upheaval to the country...
...Work. Under the circumstances, the U.S. has refused all Alliance for Progress aid to British Guiana. And Britain, which last year was ready to discuss complete freedom for the self-governing colony, has now postponed independence indefinitely...
...bayonets patrolled the streets of Georgetown. At week's end Cheddi was desperately trying to negotiate a solution to the strike. It was doubtful whether he could get away for a trip to the U.S., where he was scheduled to appear before a United Nations committee studying British Guiana's case for full independence, and he was forced to send his regrets to the Winnipeg Press Club in Canada, where he was supposed to make a speech. As a substitute, Cheddi wired the Canadians that he would send his wife Janet to do the talking...