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...last week, at a Moscow dinner in honor of Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nikita rose to launch an attack on the U.N., declared that "even if all the countries of the world adopted a decision that did not accord with the interests of the Soviet Union and threatened its security, the Soviet Union would not recognize such a decision but would uphold its rights, relying on force. And we have the wherewithal to do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Thunder in the Wings | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...shops, the airways-everything," he cried. Kaunda insisted that the "master plan" would be peaceful: "We will not lift a stone, a panga, a club, a spear." But next day he was off again on another trip, this time to Accra and talks with Ghana's rambunctious Kwame Nkrumah, who not only advocates violence, if necessary, to sweep the white man out of Africa, but has received hundreds of tons of Soviet arms to help achieve the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Black Temper | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

Since the brightest, most aggressive young men of Africa are generally the labor leaders, he who controls Africa's trade unions today may well control the continent tomorrow. No one is more aware of this than Ghana's ambitious Kwame Nkrumah, who for months has been striving to export his own authoritarian Marxist-style unionism to all of Africa. But everywhere Nkrumah turns, he finds the same stubborn opponent, the West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: He Who Controls Labor | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali's Mobido Keita accepted. But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who destroys everything he cannot lead, talked them both out of going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Quiet Ones | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah deliberately edging his nation toward Communism, or is he just flirting harmlessly and neutrally at a safe distance outside the Soviet orbit? With considerable fanfare, he has added six Ilyushin planes to his little national airline, approved a new technical-aid pact with Moscow, and contracted for Soviet surveyors on the Volta River. But no publicity at all has been given to the last, most dangerous commodity just in from Russia: guns and ammunition by the thousands of tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Arms & the Man | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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