Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banners of Reform. In four years, the U.S. has handed out $4.2 billion in grants, loans, goods and technical assistance−of which $3.9 billion went to the OAS nations, and the rest to British Guiana, Jamaica and other smaller countries and colonies. In turn, Latin American nations have invested from $22 billion to $24 billion in development projects, and more than $1 billion more has come from foreign lenders and international agencies. "Twenty-five million people−13 million of them little children are now receiving food from the Alliance program,"Johnson reported. "More than 1.5 million people have...
Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey...
...form or another, the three gases have been in use for nearly 40 years. The British used CS in Cyprus and British Guiana, a fact that must have surprised Foreign Minister Stewart no end, and the French used it in Algeria. Guards on both sides of the Berlin Wall have lobbed gas grenades at one another from time to time. The British have sold CS gas to a score of nations from Australia to Venezuela; the U.S. has sold it to such nations as Bolivia and France. It was used by New York state troopers during last year...
...their kith and kin, your ancestors and mine, into slavery to the New World. What is more, the African chiefs and middle-men who participated in the slave trade were aware that thousands on each slave ship would die like dogs of diseases before reaching their destination in Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, or the American South. This, I'm sad to say, is little different in my reckoning from the Germans' participation in the Nazi regime, knowing that such participation meant death for millions of Jews and other people...
Foreign investors are suddenly regaining their enthusiasm about British Guiana. In the past month, foreign and domestic companies have snapped up more than $3,000,000 in government bonds. The Reynolds Metals Co., which operates bauxite mines, is now talking about expanding operations. The British government has pledged $7,000,000 in development funds, and a U.S. aid team has just finished studying Guianan needs...