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David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-1 1 p.m.). British Guiana and Cambodia...
...arresting blend of hurt and humor, peasant piety and patriotic gore, goes far beyond the common run of Caribbean books. Author Sylvia Wynter, 34, was born in Cuba of Jamaican parents, educated in Jamaica, Britain and Spain, now lives with her husband, Novelist Jan (Black Midas) Carew, in British Guiana. Author Wynter complements the simple faith of her Jamaicans with their equally deep cynicism: they resignedly expect that everything−from religion to Marxist atheism−will let them down eventually...
When British Guiana's far-leftist Premier Cheddi Jagan called on President Kennedy last fall, asking for $60 million he didn't get, he represented himself as a neutralist-type democrat who believes in friendship with both East and West. Last week Jagan faced a three-man commission sent by London to investigate last February's anti-Jagan riots in the British colony perched on South America's northeast coast. The commission's report may well affect Britain's decision on whether it should grant independence this year, and whether Jagan...
...During his 37-year rise from traveling geologist for Aluminum Co. of America, scholarly Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 61, learned to eat monkey meat and acquired a command of the Dutch Guiana pidgin known as Takki-Takki. But since he was named Alcoa's president two years ago, Litchfield's studies have been less exotic: under the tutelage of Chairman Frank Magee, 66, he has been mastering the art of managing a major corporation under tough competitive pressure. Last week, Magee turned over to Annapolis Graduate Litchfield ('20) the duties of chief executive of the world...
...British Guiana is divided by a long-festering racial struggle between the 294,000 rural East Indians, who gave Jagan his majority, and the 187,000 Negroes, who live in the towns and see Jagan as just another coolie. What set off the up roar was a Jagan budget that he claimed would ''soak the rich'' but seemed more likely to soak everybody, with increased tariffs on consumer goods and a compulsory savings plan. Even a state visit by Prince Philip did not quench the anger among Negro merchants and workers...