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...make Nkrumah's Convention Peoples Party the nation's only legal party. But in hundreds of places the "no" boxes were sealed up or nonexistent. All the ballots carried the voter's registration number, which would make it easy to see who voted no. In Accra's Ward 22, the registration was 1,834, yet the official count showed a "yes" total of 5,791. The overall announced results: 2,682,095 yes to 2,480 no, for a 99.9% victory sweep...
...radio speech afterward, Nkrumah vowed that the "evil men and neocolonialist agents amongst us shall be smoked out." Two days later a mob shouting "Ghana yes, Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31, of Denver, fought his way through the crowd, ran the flag up again. The government denied that it had anything to do with the incident and expressed "regret," but the assault was obviously officially engineered. The mob was led by a C.P.P. sound truck, and the local Tass correspondent arrived 25 minutes...
...version of the recent assassination attempt on Nkrumah leaked out of Accra last week. When the assassin opened fire, the police scattered, and Nkrumah raced back into his official residence and sought refuge in the kitchen. According to one report, the pursuing killer was felled not by Nkrumah - as the official story had it - but by the kitchen's swinging door...
Breathlessly, they announced that as Nkrumah was leaving Flagstaff House, an assailant in a police uniform fired five shots from a .303 rifle at close range, mortally wounding one of Osagyefo's guards. In Accra these days, it is difficult to sift fact from propaganda, but according to the official version of the incident, Nkrumah himself grappled with the would be killer and finally disarmed him. "Don't hurt him," Nkrumah was quoted as yelling to the guards. "Don't kill him. Put your guns down." All the while, proclaimed the official party newspaper admiringly, Osagyefo held...
...along the 4,500 miles of the DEW line, which guards the North American continent against surprise attack. For eight years, the U.S. has been using Fuller domes to house its exhibits at global trade fairs; they have represented America in Warsaw, Casablanca, Istanbul, Kabul, Tunis, Lima, New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka. The Russians were so impressed by the 200-ft.-diameter dome at the 1959 U.S. exhibit in Moscow that they bought it. "Mr. J. Buckingham Fuller must come to Russia and teach our engineers," garbled Premier Khrushchev...