Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...verbal powder and smoke of the present Cuban crisis, it is fairly easy to forget about the tiny South American country on the Caribbean coast whose people have elected, by conventional parliamentary procedure, an avowed Marxist as their prime minister. Under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana has been attempting since 1953 to pursue a policy of gradual socialism in the domestic sphere and a policy of neutralism abroad...
...government, no proposals regarding foreign aid or technical assistance have as yet emerged from State Department channels. In his interview last spring with Alexei Adzhubie, editor of Izvestia, the President emphasized that America had no bone to pick with a democratically elected Marxist regime such as that of British Guiana. Yet all appeals of Dr. Jagan for technical development loans from the United States have come to no avail...
...executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency. If De Gaulle were to die tomorrow, the office would go to Senate President Gaston Monnerville, an undistinguished politician from French Guiana...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-1 1 p.m.). British Guiana and Cambodia...
...arresting blend of hurt and humor, peasant piety and patriotic gore, goes far beyond the common run of Caribbean books. Author Sylvia Wynter, 34, was born in Cuba of Jamaican parents, educated in Jamaica, Britain and Spain, now lives with her husband, Novelist Jan (Black Midas) Carew, in British Guiana. Author Wynter complements the simple faith of her Jamaicans with their equally deep cynicism: they resignedly expect that everything−from religion to Marxist atheism−will let them down eventually...