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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...
Double Ballot. Should De Gaulle die, his presidential functions would be "provisionally exercised by the President of the Senate," who currently is affable Gaston Monnerville, 66, a Negro lawyer from French Guiana and an avowed opponent of De Gaulle's regime, which he describes as "enlightened Bonapartism."* Within 35 days of the President's death, according to the constitution, new elections would have to be held to pick a successor...
Trinidad-Tobago. In Trinidad-Tobago, two islands just off the coast of South America, Premier Eric Williams, 52, talks more wildly than Bustamante. Williams is a fiery critic of colonialism, professes to admire British Guiana's rabble-rousing Cheddi Jagan...
...novice at big-time bidding. Last May he paid $41,000 for a Hawaiian "Missionary" two-center of 1851, which was the highest price ever paid for a single postage stamp at a public auction. Only instance when this price was surpassed was in 1940, when an 1856 British Guiana one-center, brought $45,000 at a private sale...