Word: balewa
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...Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen Williams, dune-hopping from Rabat to Tunis-and eventually 14 countries, seeing such Africans as Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
...Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After all, the argument ran, the Commonwealth speaks for a quarter of the world's population, hence represents a microcosm of world opinion...
...There is a certain madness in Ghana at present," Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa told a press conference last week. "We should not boycott the conference because of Ghana's puerile attitude but rather because it is difficult for the heads of state to meet in Accra, where the undesirable elements of their own countries are harbored by the Ghanaian government...
...abruptly as it began, Nigeria's political crisis faded away last week. In five days of talks at the presidential palace in Lagos, political leaders from the East and West argued bitterly over the election that returned Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Northern-based alliance to power-and led the East to threaten secession. But tempers cooled. The regional leaders recognized that the alternatives to compromise were chaos and the destruction of Africa's most populous country...
...populous north, the Moslem ruler, whose title is the Sardauna (Field Marshal) of Sokoto-the real power behind Prime Minister Balewa-removed all elements of chance. Aware that the north's 167 seats alone were enough to guarantee the N.N.A. continued control of the House, the Sardauna's police jailed 40 U.P.G.A. candidates on spurious charges, and election officials refused to register at least 20 others. The lonely opposition candidates remaining were turned away from hotels and restaurants all over the north, denied entrance to public buildings-and even found police roadblocks barring their way to the next...