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...Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies her as a foreign monarch. And on the royal route down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue to Kwame Nkrumah Circle, past Kwame Nkrumah Cooperative College, scores of signs...
...anguished outcries over his policies, Nkrumah replied with dictatorial harshness. He ended a wave of strikes against spiraling prices and compulsory savings by clapping strike leaders in jail for daring to criticize him. Last week the tame Ghanaian Parliament-which now has only nine opposition Deputies out of 114 members-passed a bill setting up kangaroo courts, where Nkrumah-appointed judges in secret trials can deal out no-appeal death sentences for political offenses. Some 370 Nkrumah opponents are already in jail under another law by which a man can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Ghanaians have been urged...
Amid all this uncertainty, Nkrumah turned more and more to the support of his Communist friends. Off to Russia went 68 Ghanaian cadets to attend a Moscow military institute, and onto the agenda of Accra's Parliament went an ugly little piece of legislation setting up special courts to mete out death sentences for "offenses against the state...
Died. Brigadier Joseph Michel, 44, Sandhurst-trained Ghanaian army officer who. the day before his death, had been named chief of staff of U.N. forces in the Congo: of injuries following a plane crash; in Kintampo, Ghana...
...Tune. Linner dispatched his aide, Robert K. A. Gardiner, a Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe...