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...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...
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...
...building up against Castro. Last month officials in Surinam, The Netherlands' self-governing colony on South America's northeast coast, reported that Castro gunrunners in high-speed launches are smuggling large amounts of arms down the Courantyne River for delivery to Communist terrorists in neighboring British Guiana. The Dutch army has already sent 1,000 soldiers, plus two helicopters, to reinforce the border-river patrols, and a navy frigate has just steamed in with more much-needed help...
...take control of their race-torn little South American colony. After five months of continued violence between 295,000 East Indians, led by Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan, and 190,000 Jagan-hating Negroes, Britain's Governor Sir Richard Luyt announced that he was assuming emergency power in British Guiana to prevent further bloodshed. He also ordered the arrest and detention of 35 leading troublemakers-all but two of them members of lagan's People's Progressive Party. Temporarily at least, Cheddi Jagan and his Communism-spouting wife Janet were out of business...
Actually, British Guiana's Marxist husband and wife team have themselves busily stirred up racial trouble by calling on East Indians to support "to the death" Cheddi's demand for immediate independence from Britain. And they contributed mightily to the current flare-up by calling East Indian sugar workers out on a strike during which nonstriking Negro field hands were beaten and murdered. Negroes have fled from heavily East Indian villages, and streams of East Indians from Negro-dominated areas have poured into refugee camps near the Georgetown capital. The prospect is for further polarization and violence...