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...High Dedication is the latest title given Kwame Nkrumah by his admirers, who once were content with Osagyefo, or Redeemer. By whatever title, Nkrumah is in bad trouble, and so is his country. Ghana, a little land once rich with promise, is slipping fast toward financial failure and harsh dictatorship. Thanks to Nkrumah's reckless spending, hard currency reserves are half what they were four years ago. And thanks to the pressure of left-wing extremists around him, Nkrumah is inching closer to the brink of Communist control of the country he led to independence...
...Adjei spoke. President Kwame Nkrumah was courting U.S. aid money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission...
...called "compromise" scheme of three under secretaries (one Communist, one Western, one neutral) to run the U.N. as a directorate. Any practical difference between the two plans could be discerned only by Communist or heavily clouded neutralist eyes. Still another variation of it was heartily plugged by Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana delegation...
...known U.S. alumni in Ghana, for example, the only West baiter is Lincoln University Alumnus ('39) President Kwame Nkrumah-although he may outweigh the others. More typical are such friendly U.S. alumni as India's Under Secretary for External Affairs, the director of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, Colombia's Minister of Mines, and Venezuela's Minister of Finance. What seems significant is the Argentine pattern of students who leave for the U.S. as rabid anti-Yankees, return emphatically...
...heat increased, the hated East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht was nowhere to be seen. After he failed to appear at an East Berlin reception for Ghana's junketing Kwame Nkrumah, reports circulated that Ulbricht had flown to Moscow for fresh orders and to discuss with Khrushchev new therapy for "the bone in my throat" that is Berlin. At week's end an East German spokesman confirmed that Ulbricht was in Moscow...