Word: guyana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five huge fans whirled lazily overhead, the mace-bearing sergeant at arms stomped into Georgetown's 19th century House of Assembly to declare the presence of the Speaker of Guyana's Parliament. Opening last week's regular session on the eve of the former British colony's tenth anniversary of independence, the Speaker then interrupted a droning debate about a pension scheme, with a notable announcement: after a three-year boycott, the opposition People's Progressive Party, led by dedicated Marxist Cheddi Jagan, had agreed to take its seats in Parliament. The return...
...that point, Jagan was surely right. Under Burnham, the Guyana government has shifted markedly to the left, most visibly in cultivating relations with Jagan's idol, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Washington, which lavished millions on Guyana in development projects to encourage Burnham's election in 1964, is upset. So are neighboring Venezuela and Brazil. Outsiders' suspicion has provoked a kind of fortress mentality on the part of Burnham, who optimistically called Jagan's return to Parliament "a warning to our enemies that we are a united people...
Your article "Castro's Globetrotting Gurkhas" [Feb. 23] made reference to reports about the presence of Cuban troops in Guyana. I wish, with full authority of my government, to deny unequivocally that there have ever been or are now any Cuban troops whatever in Guyana...
Ambassador of the Republic of Guyana Washington...
TIME stands behind its report. Cuban military personnel are still in Guyana...