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...biggest gains at the polls were made by the Radical Liberals, who are considerably to the right of the Social Democrats. Their leader, Hilmar Baunsgaard, 48, was summoned at week's end to Christiansborg Palace by King Frederik IX to form a new government. Baunsgaard has displayed a pacifistic aversion to NATO, but he profited only slightly from the election-eve crash of a U.S. nuclear bomber in Danish-owned Greenland. He must form a coalition with other center parties, who undoubtedly will compel him to keep Denmark on its pro-Western course...
This would never do. Summarily, Nkrumah fired the chief justice who had presided, declared the verdict void and ordered the five retried. With a new, and presumably wiser, judge on the bench, the retrial was held at Christiansborg Castle, the massive, 300-year-old redoubt that the Redeemer some times uses as executive headquarters. This time none of the five had a lawyer-perhaps understandable in view of the fact that the chief counsel for Adamafio and Adjei during the first trial had himself since been jailed. At one point Adamafio announced with resignation that he had thought over...
...since shorn of all power, the democratic monarchs are universally liked by their subjects and show none of the condescension that surrounds the British throne. Danes seem happy enough that King Frederik lives in a wing of the Amalienborg Palace in downtown Copenhagen rather than in the gloomy, inconvenient Christiansborg Castle where the royal family lived in the past. And they did not revolt when a too-candid picture revealed that the towering (6 ft. 4 in.), rugged King had a chestful of tattoos. Norwegians felt genuinely sorry for King Olaf, a dedicated yachtsman and onetime Olympics champion, when Khrushchev...
...spare parts and duplicate training of troops. As a first step toward his dream of Pan-African leadership, Nkrumah laid out $21 million in loan commitments to Mali and Guinea. Further draining the treasury were such lavish expenditures as $3,000,000 for facelifting the ancient (1661) Danish-built Christiansborg Castle, Nkrumah's new presidential palace; another $3,000,000 for Accra's Black Star Square, where Nkrumah can rant about his brand of socialism to his followers; $500,000 for Nkrumah's luxury palace near Aburi...
When Sékou Touré of Guinea in 1958 visited his brother African leader, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, he ran his fingers over the furniture in Nkrumah's Christiansborg Castle in awe, saying, "The British left everything, even the ashtrays!" Things had been different when Touré demanded and got independence for Guinea, making it the only African state to secede from De Gaulle's French Community. Petulantly, the departing French took everything-the telephones and electric-light sockets, typewriters, chairs, tables, even the government records-leaving Guinea (pop. 2,800,000) to start building a nation...