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...each other, murdering and looting, burning homes and assaulting women. Only the presence of 1,200 British troops with orders to shoot to kill prevented the ugly violence from erupting into a full-scale civil war, pitting the country's 295,000 East Indians, led by Premier Cheddi Jagan, against its 190,000 Negroes, who hate Jagan as a racist and rabble-rousing Marxist...
...Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual-was Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
...years, as head of the self-governing South American colony, Jagan has developed into a curious combination of Castroite and racist, preaching Communism while leading some 290,000 East Indians against 330,000 anti-Jagan Negroes and whites split between two major parties. Full independence was expected this year or next. But last October, after eleven weeks of strikes and violence, Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys indefinitely postponed complete freedom for the tiny, strife-torn land. Sandys ordered new elections by the end of 1964, and decreed that they would be held under proportional representation instead of the simple majority rule...
Partly to force Britain to call off the election and partly to force sugar producers to recognize his two-year-old Guyana Agricultural Workers Union, Jagan sent his union out on strike at the beginning of February. Though the GAWU is smaller than the anti-Jagan Manpower Citizens Association, which speaks for 60% of the colony's 25,000 sugar workers, it makes up in terror what it lacks in size. Its men dynamited irrigation aqueducts, pay offices and watch posts on 41 cane properties, put thousands of acres of unharvested cane to the torch, and bombed 33 homes...
...part-time. If the strike goes on much longer, there will be no hope at all of producing the usual 300,000 to 400,000 tons of sugar that represent a large part of the colony's foreign exchange. "So far, our strike has been partial," said a Jagan union leader last week. "From now on, it is a general strike...