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...Ghanaians, including government officials, arrested for crimes "against the people." The announcement raised fears that the takeover would follow the course of Rawlings' first seizure of power in June 1979, when three former heads of state were executed. Presumably among those who will soon be tried: former President Hilla Limann, 47, who was taken into custody last week after an apparent attempt to flee the country...
With the help of the armed forces, 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 Rawlings overthrew the government of President Hilla Limann, 47, in whose favor he had withdrawn in September 1979.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...
...camera to photograph it. When he saw the prints, he decided that sketching was futile. "These things are so full of fantasy there is absolutely no sense in trying to paint them," he says. "I realized that no artist could have made them better." His wife Hilla, a trained studio photographer, acts as bag boy, lens handler, bookkeeper and darkroom technician. Together, they have dedicated themselves to recording what they call the "anonymous sculpture" of the Industrial Revolution. In the past few years, their photographs have been displayed in museums in Germany, Holland, Denmark...
Bernhard Becher is one of the few people in the world who hate to see a bright sunny day. Before his blonde wife Hilla even pouts on the morning tea in their Düsseldorf apartment, she looks outside, hoping to see the kind of lead-gray overcast for which Germany's Ruhr Valley is noted. Becher's concern with the weather is not a matter of whim. He is a photographer, his subject the collieries, mills, water towers and other rugged structures of Europe's coal and steel industries. Only a dull diffused light...
...right, Bernhard and Hilla pile their assorted cameras and tripods, plus the makings of a picnic, into their rattling Volkswagen bus and head for the slag heaps. When they are not on a long haul to the coal fields of Liège, Belgium, or the grimy Bassin du Nord of France, they ply a favored route leading from Düsseldorf into the heart of the Ruhr, home of Germany's coal and steel industries. Before a visit to Oberhausen recently, Becher had made contact with one of the plant offices, cajoled plant guards with a few cases...