Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself "Osagyefo" (Redeemer). Nkrumah was toppled 44 months ago and sent into exile in nearby Guinea. He is living there on the interest that Guinea is paying on a $2,400,000 loan made during his administration. Since he was deposed, Ghana has been ruled by the National Liberation Council, a six-member coterie of army and police officers...
Anxious to return the country to civilian rule, the council convened a constituent assembly last January and ordered that elections be held...
Tribal Appeals. From his exile in rigged" Guinea, elections Nkrumah for the blamed N.A.L.'s di "completely sastrous showing. The party's leaders knew better. To ensure fair elections, the military council had appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times...
...universities of Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota, for example, will all begin black-studies programs for the first time this fall. The University of Iowa will have a new "action-studies program," whereby students can suggest curriculum changes. Northwestern University is including students in a new community council, with faculty and administrators to advise the president on all matters of university policy, and is also turning questions of discipline over to a student board empowered to conduct hearings and appeals on everything short of "major disasters." Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor...
Nixon's problem, Barber says, is a failure to communicate; it stems from "a very strong drive for personal power-especially independent power-which pushes him away from reliance on any one else." In council, Nixon listens attentively and then "retires to his chambers, where he may spend hours in complete solitude" before he "emerges and pronounces the verdict." It is, says Barber, "the lonely seclusion adopted consciously as a way of deciding that stands out in Nixon's personal-relations style." This style has already produced a number of "presidential stumbles," among them the rejection of John...