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...bring a return to parliamentary government. He made good on his second promise, calling free elections three weeks after the coup, but after just two years of civilian rule Rawlngs again moved in with his army strongmen. A leftist revolutionary descended from a Scottish engineer father and a Ghanaian mother, Rawlings promised on regaining power that Cuba would be the model for Ghana's development...
...once thriving central market, goods are now in short supply. An egg costs $2.20; a pack of cigarettes, $30. Many factories have closed completely for lack of materials, while those that remain open commonly operate at only 10% of capacity. Harvests of cassava, the staple vegetable of the Ghanaian diet, have fallen to 1.8 million tons, down from 3.6 million tons ten years...
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...