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...favor of it. Faced with opposition to his rule from back-country Ashanti tribesmen, Nkrumah tried to deport two of their leaders even though they were Ghana citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: White Eminence | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...leading Russian universities. They would mysteriously materialize, tacked up on bulletin boards, demanding the truth and asking embarrassing questions. One student told Abrams that some of them had been seen only a month before the Festival, and another related how authorities had labored to track down and expel the students responsible...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Grad Addressed Crowds in Red Square | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...government ordered the deportation of three men who displeased Nkrumah. One was Nkrumah's erstwhile idolatrous biographer, Journalist Bankole Timothy, who had been taking jabs at the Premier in Accra's British-owned Daily Graphic. Since Timothy was born in Sierra Leone, it was possible to expel him. The Minister of Information refused to specify the charges against the other two, Ashanti leaders of the Moslem Association Party, "since then they could challenge them." When they appealed to the courts to prevent their deportation, Nkrumah rushed through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) a special bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Living If Up | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Does the Oppenheimer appointment mean that Harvard is suffering from a bad case of schizophrenia? Wouldn't she expel a student found guilty of the very misconduct confessed by Oppenheimer, whom she has honored by asking him to teach ethics to her students? Edmond J. Donlan House of Representatives State House, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Readers Criticize 'Veritas' Committee | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

Bunker asserted that the U.N. is "based on unsound and thoroughly un-American principles," since it does not represent the people of the member nations. He asserted that if some nation had introduced a resolution in the U.N. to expel Russia after her action in Hungary, it might have been successful...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Bunker Links Envoy Death To Red Ties | 4/11/1957 | See Source »

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