Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, chairman of the National Liberation Committee that now ruled Ghana, got work going on a new constitution that would eventually return the nation to civilian rule. "We do not want to have a dictatorship again," he said. In the meantime, all political parties would be banned...
In Cameroun, President Ahmadou Ahidjo is up against a powerful separatist movement. Burundi's last two Prime Ministers have been assassinated, and a police coup was barely avoided last October. Rumors of an impending military coup grew so strong in Uganda last month that Prime Minister Milton Obote'...
Obote has long nursed an ambition to do away with the political opposition and run Uganda on a one-party basis under the domination of his fellow Nilotic tribesmen of the north. Trouble is that a split recently began developing even in his own Uganda People's Congress, caused...
Obote's actions caused deep divisions among Uganda's 8,000,000 people. His political opposition refused to be intimidated. "It is the duty of all Ugandians to protect the constitution and to die for it, if necessary," cried Kabaka Yekka Party Leader Daudi Ocheng. "Once the constitution...
Win the demonstrators did-but in a remarkably close 5 to 4 decision that apparently signaled the Supreme Court's growing disenchantment with ever bolder civil rights demonstrations. Though the Negroes were protesting an unconstitutionally segregated library system, the angriest of four dissenters in Brown v. Louisiana was none...