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...strains that will mean better crops. Also, Burnham allowed India's Bank of Baroda to open a branch in Guyana, declared national holidays on Muslim and Hindu feast days, issued Guyanan postage stamps in honor of the Koran. As a result, Burnham last week carried Indian districts that Jagan had always considered safe. And the long-term effects of such policies augur well for mineral-rich Guyana's future in an atmosphere of racial harmony. They do, that is, unless the mercurial Jagan oversteps his angry vow last week to topple the new government by "legitimate means...
...Jagan's anger was presumably aroused by Schlesinger's policy advice to JFK: "An independent British Guiana under Burnham (if Burnham will commit himself to a multiracial policy) would cause us many fewer problems than an independent British Guiana under Jagan...
...situations, perhaps, mere aid or propaganda functions turned into full-fledged political operations-as in the violent general strike that helped bring down the government of pro-Marxist Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana three years ago. It was financed by the CIA-backed Public Services International, whose ostensible aim was to organize government workers into independent unions around the world...
With 173 persons dead and thousands injured, Britain finally clamped on a state of emergency two years ago, and shrewdly called for new elections under a system of proportional representation. As expected, Jagan lost out to a coalition government headed by Burnham. Since then Burnham has tried to blur the country's color bars by setting up what he calls a "consultative democracy." He appointed a multiracial Cabinet, began conferring regularly with various racial groups, and did his best to form a color-blind government...
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...