Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Love is a British expedition into the blackboard jungle-territory sometimes assumed to be exclusively American. The plot is primer-simple. A refugee engineer (Sidney Poitier) from British Guiana's black, bored jungle takes an interim teaching job in a London slum school to tide him over until he can find an opening in his field. He meets with little race prejudice; the students hate him-less for the color of his skin than for the shade of his opinions. Stiff-necked, prim, always dressed in a starched white shirt, he tries to turn the kids into adults...
...situations, perhaps, mere aid or propaganda functions turned into full-fledged political operations-as in the violent general strike that helped bring down the government of pro-Marxist Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana three years ago. It was financed by the CIA-backed Public Services International, whose ostensible aim was to organize government workers into independent unions around the world...
Married. Forbes Burnham, 44, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) since it joined the roster of independent nations last year; and Viola Harper, 34, high school Latin teacher; he for the second time; in St. John's, Antigua...
Divorced. By Forbes Burnham, 43, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana), newest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Sheila Lataste Burnham, 41, a former Trinidad optician; on grounds of desertion (he said that she left him, refused to return); after 15 years of marriage, three children; in Georgetown, Guyana...
...Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start...