Near the speaker's stand in Georgetown's Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the poleto be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thuswith the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representativesdid the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life...
Guyana: Under Five Colors
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