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First sign that anything was cooking at Flagstaff House came when Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah got on the horn and was told by the operator: "I'm sorry, the lion is busy." "Rhino what you're up to," he roared, with the phone still Ringling in his ears, "but I don't know vulture doing it for." In a frightful stew, Ankrah headed for the waterfront zoo (known as Hyenasport) for an on-the-spots investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Fangs a Lot | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...bear facts, as Ankrah herd them, suggested that the garrison had been reluctant at first about eating up the zoo. But hesitation quickly gave way to hunger, and it soon became a matter of gibbon take. For the first time they could remember, the ill-paid troops at Flagstaff House were all in plover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Fangs a Lot | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...time Ankrah arrived on the scene, the zoo was nearly empty. Why hadn't someone phoned to inform him? he growled. "We orangutang but ewe did not answer," the zookeeper replied tsetsely. After a halfhearted tour of the cages, he returned to headquarters, sank wearily into a chair and, realizing it was too late to save the animals, told the garrison commander to allow his troops to continue the feast. "As a matter of fact," said Ankrah, "as long as you're up, get me a Grant's gazelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Fangs a Lot | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...later, the general was back on the air with even better news. "Ghana's burden of taxation is the highest in Africa," he said, announcing a wide range of tax cuts on everything from basic foods to income. To spur the private enterprise that Nkrumah had always shunned, Ankrah pledged that private companies would no longer be forced to accept government "participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: A Longing for Home | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...news from Guinea that the Ghanaian ambassador and his staff were being held under house arrest during Nkrumah's visit, Ankrah broke relations with Sékou Touré. He re-established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: A Longing for Home | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

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