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...former premier of a small nation that was an early victim of U.S. CIA operations will speak at Morse Auditorium, 603 Commonwealth Ave., Boston at 11 a.m. Cheddi Jagan, expremier of Guyana, will talk on "The Way Forward for the Carribbean." Now you know where Guyana...
...South Boston and a pugilist from some other ethnic background. But this year's locale was the Boston Arena--a building so decrepit that its rats should strike for better living conditions--and the feature fight matched two black men: "Marvelous Marvin Hagler," The North American Middleweight Champion, and Guyana's Reggie Ford, the 1972 Pan-American Games champion...
...able to regroup and eventually push back the Peruvians. An armed conflict, if it did occur, would not only take a bloody toll of the participants but could also tempt other countries on the continent into similar action. Potentially volatile territorial disputes, for example, simmer between Venezuela and both Guyana and Colombia, and also between Peru and Ecuador...
...that the resolution would fall one short of the nine votes required for passage in the 15-member Council. The U.S. and Britain and possibly Italy, Japan and Sweden would have opposed it; France would also have abstained; China, the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Libya, Tanzania, Benin (formerly Dahomey), Rumania and Guyana would have voted for it. Rather than suffer certain defeat, the Africans did not demand a vote on their resolution. The U.S. and Britain, however, insisted on a vote on their broad counterproposal condemning all terrorism. It was defeated handily, receiving backing from only Italy, Sweden, Japan and France...
More significant than any external threat-real or imagined-to the Burnham regime is the narrow, racially divided base upon which his "cooperative republic" tries to stand. Burnham consolidated his power through elections that were gimmicked in favor of the 40% of Guyana's 800,000 population who are black; Marxist Jagan and his P.P.P. draw much of their strength from the resentments of the 52% that is East Indian (the remainder are native peoples, known locally as Amerindians). The black P.N.C. retains a relative monopoly on patronage, and the laboring Indian majority believes Burnham's socialism...