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...police official who hurried on board, the Soviet captain could not or would not use his ship's cranes to unload his cargo, meaning that scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy up the coastal highway to Elmina Castle, which now serves as Ghana's top-secret arsenal for Moscow's guns...
...Residue. In his silvered pressure suit, Astronaut Shepard seemed a creature from another planet as he stepped out of a white van into the baleful Florida dawn last week. He glittered under the searchlights that surrounded the rocket pad as he made his long-legged walk to the gantry elevator that would lift him to his capsule. When he rose to the "greenhouse," an enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft. level, technicians helped him squeeze through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business...
...hasty council of war met throughout the night of April 16. By dawn, the group, led by Mike Hornblow, had decided to petition the Council for a constitutional change which would bar the President and vice-President from holding office in "or acting as a spokesman" for any partisan organization. The request was not a direct personal attack on the incumbent President, but many elements of the College gleefully joined the fun, thinking that at last Howie could be pricked where it hurt. If approved, the measure would have forced Phillips to choose between his two chief loves--Republicans...
...time for the guns to fall silent. The rampaging Communist-led Pathet Lao agreed to the ceasefire, too, but meanwhile its troops keep right on fighting and advancing. At Vang Vieng, a military headquarters 65 miles north of the capital city of Vientiane, some 400 Pathet Lap launched a dawn attack and chased twice as many government troops 40 miles down the road toward the capital. Among the casualties: three members of a U.S. military mission intended to buck up the battle-bored Royal Laotian Army. A U.S. observer said grimly, "The army is pretty well finished for the time...
Four weeks ago, Nkrumah, under pressure from scandalized Marxist trade unionists around him, took to the radio at dawn one morning (the customary hour for Ghana's elders to give advice) to announce a new decree to his people: deputies in the legislature who engaged in outside businesses were violating the aims of socialism, and would be forced to give up their seats. "Some party members in Parliament," warned Nkrumah, "are tending to become a separate social group ... of self-seekers and careerists...