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...African countries had not supported their demand for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. But, surprisingly, more heads of state showed up than at last year's meeting in Addis Ababa, among them Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Ghana's Joseph Ankrah and Uganda's Milton Obote...
...Dekwamification by re-establishing an independent judiciary, granting a degree of freedom to the long-muzzled press, freeing political prisoners and rooting out corrupt officials. They spared the country a bloodbath by singling out only the most culpable of Nkrumah's followers for punishment. Said General Joseph Ankrah, 51, the N.L.C.'s leader: "I did not depose Nkrumah to institute another reign of terror. We can be tough, but we are civilized...
Fears & Alarms. In recent weeks, the fear of Nkrumah-planned subversion has forced Ankrah to become increasingly tough. His men have uncovered two separate shipments of explosives and hand grenades being smuggled into Ghana to be used, so police say, to sabotage the big International Trade Fair, now under way in Accra. The country is full of rumors about assassination plots against the military rulers. Two army officers and two other men have been arrested on the charge of plotting a countercoup. Cracking down, the military regime has enacted an antisubversion law that is reminiscent of Nkrumah...
...Ankrah feels understandably edgy. He has taken some unpopular steps in an attempt to rescue the nearly bankrupt economy left behind by Nkrumah. He has, for example, shut down work on many grandiose and unrealistic construction projects that Nkrumah had scattered throughout the country. One result is that 50,000 people have been thrown out of work. Ankrah fears that many of them might be glad to see Nkrumah return, if only to get their jobs back. The most immediate threat from Nkrumah is not armed subversion but the ability to stir up in Ghana a state of nervousness...
...Toure knew well enough that few would take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia's President Tubman and Egypt's Nasser, Ankrah relented. To Accra went a message: turn the imprisoned Guineans loose...