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...broken apart while flying through turbulence. In every case the break occurred just behind the rear passenger door. First-class passengers, who are seated in the rear compartment, complain of a violent sideways jarring motion in turbulent weather. After flying back from the Congo in an Ilyushin, a top Ghanaian official declared: "I will never fly in one of them again. It's like dancing the High Life at 18,000 feet...
...Ghana, President Kwame Nkrumah's favorite newspapers are the Ghanaian Times and the Evening News. They should be. They never fail to address him as Osagyefo (Redeemer), the title that most tickles Nkrumah's vanity. They print his speeches and praise his every deed with a loyalty-firmly cemented by $8,000,000 in government subsidies-that leaves very little room for anything else, particularly news. By rights, such a love match ought to endure as long as the government treasury. But last week, to the consternation of the Times and the News, the Osagyefo cut them...
...know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There was the United Nations cats, the Congo cats, and then we had Ghanaian troops all around us. A man gets good protection in the Congo." But Satchmo's best life insurance was his refusal to talk politics: "I just took a John L. Sullivan stance and blew the horn...
...ears, Nasser sent cultural missions to all the new black nations and appointed vigorous Ambassador Murad Ghaleb as Cairo's man on the board of the Congo's informal Diplomatic Society for the Preservation of Patrice Lumumba. But last week, soon after Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian charge d'affaires was thrown out on his ear for overzealous tinkering in local affairs, the Congo's President Kasavubu bluntly invited Nasser to withdraw the U.A.R.'s plotting Ghaleb and staff as well. Astonished at this ingratitude, Nasser turned to an old Cairo weapon of reprisal: nationalization...
...Ghana government has given VALCO a written promise that it will not expropriate the Volta plant once it is built and running, President Nkrumah is a volatile nationalist and neutralist dealing with both East and West, and there are segments of his Cabinet that favor outright nationalization of all Ghanaian private enterprises. As a precaution for its U.S. and foreign private investors, VALCO will take out International Cooperation Administration insurance against nationalization hazards. But in the long run, it is on the maturity of the Ghanaians that Edgar Kaiser is gambling...