Word: guyana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dictator Idi Amin Dada last week, as he proceeded to rattle off a lengthy list of potential invaders. They included neighboring Tanzania, Britain, Israel, Zambia, India, Rwanda, Sudan, "some countries in NATO," plus "two other countries"-one of them presumably China-all conspiring with Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Malawi and Guyana. But Ugandans should not worry, Amin added, because "the Uganda armed forces are prepared to deal with the threat," and he was in direct command...
...series is devoted to "black journalism, which, in its search for the truth, may frequently run counter to white journalism. One thing that black people need is education that will enable us to love our beautiful black selves." The première was an admiring look at black-run Guyana...
...Imperiled Credit. Most U.S. copper men had written off the prospect of compensation long ago. Nationalization is becoming a familiar, if uncomfortable fact of life for American firms in Latin America. In the past few months, Bolivia, Peru, Guyana and Ecuador have seized U.S. holdings. Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank, warned last week that such a trend in developing countries may "seriously imperil" their ability to get credit and may discourage investment in entire regions...
...policy has taken a harder line toward any country that expropriates American property and fails to promise "prompt and adequate compensation." The chief spokesman for that point of view is Treasury Secretary John Connally. He had the U.S. pointedly abstain from voting for World Bank loans to Bolivia and Guyana, and had the Export-Import Bank refuse a $21 million credit to Chile for the purchase of three Boeing passenger jets. Although he denies it publicly, Connally has been heard to say in private that "the U.S. can afford to be tough with Latin Americans because we have no friends...
Alfred Lord Tennyson foresaw it all: "The old order changeth, yielding place to new ..." It took time, but as Guyana became a republic, the 73-year-old statue of Tennyson's patron, Queen Victoria, was hoisted indecorously from its place in front of the Supreme Court building in Georgetown. The old lady did not look amused...