Word: ghanaian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residents of Accra were startled last week when a low-flying jet trainer zoomed over government-built skyscrapers in the Ghanaian capital. People in villages as far as 400 miles away were later treated to the same unusual sight. The pilot of the plane was Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33. The madcap buzzing was his way of announcing that the fourth coup in the country's 22 years as an independent nation had apparently succeeded...
...nightclub-loving son of a Scottish father and a Ghanaian mother, Rawlings seemed to be an unlikely leader for such a cleanup. But he appears to mean business. He has told friends that he was appalled by the military government's routine kickbacks and contract rigging. As a first step in reform, he ordered the arrest of a host of high-ranking officials suspected of graft, including former President Acheampong, who had leniently been exiled to his native village in lieu of being tried. Rawlings followed up the arrests with a blunt warning to civilian winners of the forthcoming...
...Israeli lines. After a day-long argument, these members of the P.L.O.'s radical wing agreed to take off their combat uniforms and head back north of the Litani River. But they kept their weapons, and there is no guarantee that they will not try again. Says Ghanaian General Emmanuel Erskine, UNIFL's Sandhurst-trained commander: "We have to assist the Lebanese government to establish its own authority in the area. Once that is done, I suppose it will be time for the U.N. to pull...
UNIFIL already faces plenty of problems. It has no overall commander in Lebanon, so major decisions must be referred to the Jerusalem headquarters of Major General Emmanuel Erskine, a Ghanaian. So far, the backbone of the U.N. force is composed of 627 French paratroopers based in Tyre and 690 Norwegians stationed in the eastern sector of the ceasefire line. The French are tough soldiers, the Norwegians well trained and professional. But neither unit is familiar with the Arab world or has had much fighting experience. "The only combat most of them have seen," remarks one Western military observer...
...their government." Yet, abstract beliefs clash with immediate practicalities; Poku-Appiah says that military rule--which overthrew leftist President Kwame Nkrumah's regime in 1966--is the proper form of government for Ghana at present. The junta instills discipline: Poku-Appiah says an endemic problem in the Ghanaian bureaucracy is lateness for work, a crime which in the old days went unpunished. Now the offenders are drilled, required to march up and down by their military employers. This is an improvement, he says...