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Prelude to Independence
McKitterick, T. E. M. | September 28, 1963 issue

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The article presents information on Guyana and its President Cheddi Jagan, who won the elections on August 1961. The problem of British Guiana is one in which economics, political principle, race and personalities are inextricably mixed. Jagan is supported mainly by the Indians. The political differences in Guyana are largely identified with differences of quite another sort, and the conflicting personalities of the leaders do much to intensify them. Guyana has only 600,000 people in its 83,000 square miles, it is an overcrowded country; almost the whole population lives on the narrow sugar and rice belt along the coast or at the foreign-owned bauxite and manganese mining centers in the interior.

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GUYANA -- Politics & government; JAGAN, Cheddi; ELECTIONS; PRESIDENTS; ECONOMICS; INDIANS; GUYANA
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