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kept their girl friends. These experiences were America to him At a party, Jagan met s slim, athletic blonde named Janet Rosen- berg and later married her, despite the objections of both their fami lies. Janet was an active radical. She grew up on Chicago's South Side and in Detroit, and went to Michigan State, Detroit and W'ayne uni. versities. When Jagan met her, she was attending the Cook County. School of Nursing. Offcials still argue over whether she belonged to the Young Communist League. The Anglican archbishop of British Guiana, who respects the Jagans, says fatly that she did. Just as fiatly,. Mrs. Jagan denies it. "I never held a party card," she says. Jagan and his wife bought second-hand dental equipment and sailed to British Guiana in 1943. They believed that capitalism and colonialism were evil. In Georgetown, their beliefs became important. Jagan started a militant labor movement, and in l947, his wife organized the colony's first modern election campaign in the villages. Her voting in foreign elections cost Mrs. Jagan her U. S. citizenship. By 1953, they had organized the People's Progressive Party and controlled the limited native government. He was the theoretician, the charismatic leader; she, the practical organizer. After Jagan had been in office iour months, the Britist , vernor, fearing "a Com-. munist take-over," called for help. The constitution was suspended, troops were brought in, and Jagan was confined to the city. When he defantly broke that restriction, he was imprisoned for six months; two days before he was to be released, his wife was jailed.. Jagan, a charming, handsome man, was by now the Ieader of the Indian-descended population, who-make up the majority of the colony's 560,000 people. Mrs. Jagan, as Minister of Health, was widely admired for her work for sanitation and disease prevention. Last year, when the colony was granted internal self-government, Jagan be- came its first Premier. In the August 21 election, he was opposed by the Peo ple's National Congress, led by Socialist Negro lawyer Forbes Burnham, once his closest disciple, and the smaller United Force, led continued