Word: guyana
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Harvard's already record number of Rhodes Scholarship winners grew further when Richard H. Drayton '86, a native of Guyana raised in Barbados, was chosen as the 1988 Rhodes Scholar for the British Caribbean in mid-December...
...tweed jacket, selling imported monkeys. After briefly fleeing to South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink a Kool-Aid-like punch soured with cyanide. By the time the world arrived at Jonestown, 911 people were dead...
...Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst and the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, to which Jim Jones had moved his cult followers from a "people's temple" in the center of San Francisco...
...polls had not yet closed last week in Guyana when familiar cries of "fraud" rang out. As in every election in the South American country since it was granted independence from Britain in 1966, opposition politicians and others charged that the polling and the vote count were rigged to favor the ruling People's National Congress. Indeed, the margin of victory was improbably large, with the P.N.C. taking 76% of the vote and six opposition parties dividing the rest. The win gives the P.N.C. 42 of the 53 seats in the national legislature and allows President Hugh Desmond Hoyte...
Hoyte has led Guyana since the death last August of Forbes Burnham, a charismatic Marxist who had eviscerated the country's bauxite-and-sugar-base d economy. Although he was Burnham's principal deputy for the past decade, last week the newly elected President offered his 800,000 fellow citizens some hope, promising that a revitalized economy would be his first priority. "I am a socialist," he said, "but I hope that I am not an airy-fairy socialist, that I am not bound by the dead hand of the past...