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Married. Forbes Burnham, 44, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) since it joined the roster of independent nations last year; and Viola Harper, 34, high school Latin teacher; he for the second time; in St. John's, Antigua...
Divorced. By Forbes Burnham, 43, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana), newest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Sheila Lataste Burnham, 41, a former Trinidad optician; on grounds of desertion (he said that she left him, refused to return); after 15 years of marriage, three children; in Georgetown, Guyana...
...replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters" in an Amerindian dialect) and as the 23rd member of the British Commonwealth...
...embarks on nationhood, Guyana has plenty going for it: rich bauxite deposits, extensive timberlands, and an excellent climate for rice and sugar cane. But it may have even more going against it. Fully two-thirds of the country's 83,000-sq.-mi. land area is being contested by its neighbors, Venezuela and Dutch Surinam. It has a chronic and crippling lack of skilled manpower and cash. It has critical unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy...
Last week Jagan was biding his time. Under Britain's terms of independence, Guyana will keep a contingent of British troops till October and remain a constitutional monarchy for three years, with Queen Elizabeth as its head of state. Then voters will elect a new government and decide by referendum whether they want to become a republic. With the East Indian population growing far faster than the Negro segment-and thus producing more voters every year-Jagan hopes by election time to have the added racial support he needs to beat Burnham. Burnham's only hope...