Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Terrorist bands of East Indians and Negroes roamed British Guiana day and night last week, waging sporadic war on each other, murdering and looting, burning homes and assaulting women. Only the presence of 1,200 British troops with orders to shoot to kill prevented the ugly violence from erupting into a full-scale civil war, pitting the country's 295,000 East Indians, led by Premier Cheddi Jagan, against its 190,000 Negroes, who hate Jagan as a racist and rabble-rousing Marxist...
...Malta's 129,649 voters approved independence by a small majority last week, their tiny Mediterranean island joined Malawi, Zambia and Tanzan* in a gaggle of emergent nations that are twisting tongues and ending any pretense of proportional representation in the U.N. Others clamoring for nationhood include British Guiana (pop. 620,000), Southern Rhodesia (4,000,000), Bechuanaland (335,000) and Angola (circa...
...three-day visit, his first in four years, was planned to be as informal as the French West Indies them selves. He scheduled a few speeches, a few toasts, quiet nights at the homes of the Guadeloupe and Martinique prefects, and a quick side trip down to French Guiana, perched on the northeast shoulder of South America. The islands may get no more aid, but De Gaulle's visit has already yielded one happy dividend. The Fort-de-France government house in Martinique just got its first lick of paint in 30 years...
Near British Guiana's capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the customary public ceremony as Sir Richard Luyt, the colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual...
...decreed that they would be held under proportional representation instead of the simple majority rule that Jagan prefers. Sandys' obvious hope is to encourage party coalitions, thus weakening Jagan's power. Jagan's response has been to cripple the country's economy and bring British Guiana to the verge of civil...