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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...darkness of Accra, two brigades of Ghanaian troops quietly took over the airport, the cable office, all government ministries and the government radio station. While early-morning market mammies stared, Jeeploads of soldiers moved into the suburban gardens of government Ministers and tanks deployed around Nkrumah's presidential compound itself...
White Handkerchiefs. There was little resistance. Nkrumah's presidential guard, dug in behind the four concentric walls surrounding the compound, held out for several hours; but by noon, downtown Accra was jammed with jubilant Ghanaians, dancing in the streets, cheering, singing, many of them wearing white handkerchiefs around their heads and white clay on their faces as a token of victory. "Fellow citizens," announced Colonel E. K. Kotoka, one of the coup leaders, in a broadcast over Radio Ghana, "I have come to inform you that the military, with the cooperation of the police, have taken over the government...
Confusing Questions. To compound the confusion, the few cases on record seem to agree that whether a husband gives his consent or not, A.I.D. children are born illegitimate; yet the same courts have managed to give the children all the rights of ordinary children by finding roundabout ways to rule that they have, in effect, been made legitimate. There is even more uncertainty, say some lawyers, about whether the donor himself can be made to support a child. Some state laws hold that every child is the responsibility of its "natural parents"-which in A.I.D. cases means mother and donor...
Surrounded by a high, spiked fence and a 20-ft.-wide defense perimeter bristling with punji stakes, the one-acre compound consists of five grass-and-straw huts, a camouflaged lookout tower, a well, a shaded hammock for the village chief. A dozen "Viet Cong" defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels...
...moved by government trucks to a barren waste in the Mamuthla Reserve, 25 miles to the north. Their offense was refusal to move into new government housing, where the rent of $5.60 a month was a third, the Bantus claimed, of what they could hope to earn. Visiting the compound, Bishop Crowther found most of the natives without food; some had not eaten in four days...