Word: ghanaian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within a day or two, hundreds of thousands had left their jobs and started looking for transportation to take them home. Ghana Airways scheduled six flights a day from the Nigerian capital of Lagos to Accra, Ghana's capital, and some 10,000 Ghanaians paid $60 each to go home in relative comfort. The Ghanaian government sent six ships to collect thousands of its stranded citizens who began packing the docks in Lagos the day after the expulsion order. By the time the first ship arrived, more than 30,000 people were waiting on the quays. In the scramble...
...callous as they are, pale in comparison with those of Ghana's military ruler. Flight Lieut. Jerry "J.J." Rawlings. Last New Year's Eve, Rawlings and a band of disgruntled army officers shot their way to power and quickly imposed a reign of terror on Ghana. Editors of major Ghanaian newspapers were herded to an army barracks and told that "objectivity" and "neutrality" in reporting were relics of the past: "You are either for or against the revolution...
Many undergraduate and graduate students took advantage of the free demonstrations yesterday to get some research done. Brian C.W. Pilmer '86 who needed information. "The vitality of the Ghanaian Tradition in India Today," left Widener Library with a list of five sources. "I like the computer's efficiency." he said, "but I don't like its cost...
...former Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 34, was in power in Ghana last week for the second time in 2½ years. Rawlings overthrew the government of President Hilla Limann, 47, in whose favor he had withdrawn in September 1979. The dashing Rawlings, son of a Scottish father and a Ghanaian mother, had seized command, he declared, because the previous government was led by "a pack of criminals" who were taking the West African nation "down to total economic ruin...