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...Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing the new Accra government. After that, Algeria, Somalia, Kenya and the Brazzaville Congo followed suit...
...Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu and ex-Premier Moise Tshombe were locked in a power struggle that had paralyzed the government, threatened to plunge the nation into another senseless civil war. "Political bankruptcy was complete," said Lieut. General Joseph Mobutu, the army commander, after his bloodless coup. "We are going to impose the spirit of discipline...
...trying. Ghana's leaders promise that they will cancel many of Nkrumah's overblown industrialization schemes. In Nigeria, General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi was governing Nigeria for the first time in its history as a unified nation instead of a federation of four mutually suspicious parts. The Congo's Mobutu, having decreed efficiency, was having a hard time making his civil service understand what he was talking about. But in the Central African Republic, Colonel Bokassa was fast off the mark with two immediate economic reforms: he reduced the tax on bicycles and announced that the government from...
...month when the anti-Obote faction supported the charge in Parliament by an opposition party leader that the Prime Minister, two of his ministers, and the deputy army commander had illegally shared a $325,000 windfall that was captured from Simba rebels by Uganda troopers during the 1964-65 Congo rebellion. At first, Obote agreed to set up a judicial panel to investigate the charge. But before the judges could convene, Obote took matters into his own hands. Ordering the arrest of five of his ministers, Obote had them dragged screaming and kicking from a Cabinet session by members...
When he wrote To Katanga and Back, the story of his six months in the Congo, various U.N. officials argued that he had no right to tell his story, which they felt was biased anyway. He was pictured as a guilty victim bent on self-justification. But O'Brien seems awfully clearheaded, and even lighthearted, as his U.N.-inspired image would imply. True, he quit two jobs after disagreements with his superiors, but there is much to indicate that he may have been justified in both cases...