Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When British Guiana's far-leftist Premier Cheddi Jagan called on President Kennedy last fall, asking for $60 million he didn't get, he represented himself as a neutralist-type democrat who believes in friendship with both East and West. Last week Jagan faced a three-man commission sent by London to investigate last February's anti-Jagan riots in the British colony perched on South America's northeast coast. The commission's report may well affect Britain's decision on whether it should grant independence this year, and whether Jagan...
...During his 37-year rise from traveling geologist for Aluminum Co. of America, scholarly Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 61, learned to eat monkey meat and acquired a command of the Dutch Guiana pidgin known as Takki-Takki. But since he was named Alcoa's president two years ago, Litchfield's studies have been less exotic: under the tutelage of Chairman Frank Magee, 66, he has been mastering the art of managing a major corporation under tough competitive pressure. Last week, Magee turned over to Annapolis Graduate Litchfield ('20) the duties of chief executive of the world...
...first time Cheddi Jagan, 43, the East Indian dentist-turned-politician, won the prime ministership of British Guiana in 1953, his aggressive Marxism and strident anti-imperialism so outraged Her Majesty's government that 1,600 British troops landed in Georgetown to throw him out of office. Now, still breathing defiance of imperialism, Jagan is Prime Minister again, and last week had to call on British tommies for help-to save him from mobs roaming the streets calling for Cheddi Jagan's hide...
...British Guiana is divided by a long-festering racial struggle between the 294,000 rural East Indians, who gave Jagan his majority, and the 187,000 Negroes, who live in the towns and see Jagan as just another coolie. What set off the up roar was a Jagan budget that he claimed would ''soak the rich'' but seemed more likely to soak everybody, with increased tariffs on consumer goods and a compulsory savings plan. Even a state visit by Prince Philip did not quench the anger among Negro merchants and workers...
Brinkley has also done fine studies of British Guiana and its recent election, and Cambodia having a jolly good time accepting bridges, harbors and schools from a dozen nations East and West. This week he talks about credit buying in the U.S. and TV commercials abroad. Often pointing up issues but never preaching, the program is at best as sharp as an ax, but it seldom grinds one. "Brinkley's not out to save the world." says Producer Ted Yates. "He's just out to be Brinkley...