Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lattimore cited a recent remark of Chetti Jagan, the unashamedly Marxist premier of soon-to-be-independent British Guiana, as being indicative of the problem the U.S. faces...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-1 1 p.m.). Brinkley talks about British Guiana and Cambodia. Color...
When Dr. Cheddi Jagan. 42. a politically ambitious East Indian dentist, first took power in British Guiana eight years ago, he fluttered the dovecots of empire. Sounding every inch a Marxist. Jagan vowed: "The same bullets which were fired on poor people will be fired on our oppressors." announced that he was forming a "people's police" and abolishing the civil service. In a day when Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister. Britain's reply was to send four warships and 1,600 troops, who ousted Jagan and suspended the brand-new constitution that granted the 147-year...
...spent nearly $3,000,000 and has little to show for it. No chemical has yet been found that will kill the weed and leave fish unharmed. No native animal eats the weed. One possibility is to import manatees, the tropical American sea cows that are used in British Guiana to eat ditches clear of vegetation (TIME. Dec. 19). Another possibility is the coypu, or nutria, a South American aquatic rodent that has a voracious appetite for water plants. It reproduces almost as fast as Salvinia, and the scientists fear that it might devastate Africa as European rabbits did Australia...
...green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana, a 19-year-old is the only white person within 50 miles, does everything from mending Amerindians' canoes to teaching sewing to women...