Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Land Rovers prowled the streets, bristling with British tommies and submachine guns. Army helicopters whirred overhead. Military radios crackled back and forth. It was election day in British Guiana, and Her Majesty's government in Whitehall was determined to ensure the peaceful elections that seemed to be the colony's only hope of ending its three-year reign of racial violence. But -not for the first time-hope for stability in British Guiana was thwarted by Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
...election was specifically designed to oust Jagan, whose People's Progressive Party is overwhelmingly supported by Guiana's 295,000 East Indians. To guard against a repetition of the 1961 election, when Jagan won a parliamentary majority with only 42.6% of the vote, the government introduced a system of proportional representation under which he would have had to win a clear majority to return to power. Since no other party is willing to join a Jagan government, the British hoped that the election would result in a coalition headed by Attorney Forbes Burnham, a moderate, pro-Western leader...
...almost every correspondent's career there comes a moment when the only thing he can do is stop looking and start participating. One of those moments came to TIME'S Caracas Bureau Chief Mo Garcia as he finished observing a hot-tempered political rally in British Guiana, the British colony where a violent conflict is going on between Negroes and East Indians (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Negroes bitterly oppose and the East Indians support Leftist Premier Cheddi Jagan. Turning to leave the rally, Garcia noticed a commotion beyond the glare of floodlights and heard shouts...
Cuba, and calling for Cuban-style "socialism" in British Guiana. Yet he insists that "my party is not a Communist party." Is Cheddi himself a Communist? "If you mean to each his own," he says, "then I am a Communist. But if you mean denial of freedom, then I am not." Chance for a Coalition. Cheddi's chief opponent, Negro Leader Forbes Burnham, considers this pure doubletalk. A graduate of London University, Burnham is an able, experienced politician who would strengthen the colony's ties with the U.S. Chances are that Jagan will win the most votes...
Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana's Marxist Premier, finally gave in-at least for the time being. Last week East Indian members of lagan's agricultural workers' union were going back to work after the longest and bloodiest strike in the little South American colony's turbulent history. Even with the six-month strike officially over, peace is returning slowly...