Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carrying submachine guns and automatic rifles, guards from Osagyefo's own Nzima tribe-the only tribe he really trusts-constantly patrol the presidential palace. But Nkrumah's recent highhanded dismissal of the Supreme Court's chief justice, for acquitting three suspects charged with a previous assassination attempt, only strengthened the determination of his enemies. Last week an assassin struck again-or so Nkrumah's p.r. men claimed...
With the "assassin" safely in jail, thanksgiving vigils were scheduled to celebrate the sparing once more of Nkrumah's life. At many of them, no doubt, the official anthem of the Ghana Young Pioneers would be sung: "Nkrumah never dies, never dies, never dies. He forever lives...
Whatever Recompense. Hundreds of miles away, Marie Tippit, widow of the Dallas policeman who was shot to death while trying to question Kennedy's assassin, spent the pre-Christmas weekend decorating a tree at home with her three children, Allen, 14, Brenda, 10, and Curtis, 5. But on Christmas Day she left Dallas for visits to the outlying homes of her parents and her husband's parents. The trip was marred by a minor but upsetting auto accident, in which Mrs. Tippit cut her head. For whatever recompense it was worth, mail sacks filled with contributions...
Heartful Sincerity. Strangely enough, for Russian-born Marina Oswald, 22-year-old widow of Kennedy's assassin, this Christmas-and perhaps only this Christmas-seemed "wonderful." Life with Lee Harvey Oswald had always been hard and unpredictable. But last week, after the seclusion imposed upon her by the Secret Service, she became radiant over the opportunity to attend a midnight Christmas Mass and to enjoy a glittering tree surrounded by donated gifts. Inside the 20 large boxes were clothes and toys, including 15 dolls for two-year-old June and two-month-old Rachel. Marina visited with her brother...
Meantime, the seven-member Warren commission moved ponderously ahead with its work. Warren ordered the FBI to add more details to its five-volume report, told the State Department that it too must flesh out its findings about the background of Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "They are summary reports in more or less skeleton form," said Warren, "and in order to evaluate them, we have to see the materials on which they are based...