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AFRICA. President Kennedy made it a point to give the red-carpet treatment to Ghana's visiting President Kwame Nkrumah, who, only last fall, was given short shrift by Former Secretary of State Christian Herter (who said that Nkrumah was "very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc"). Kennedy, Rusk & Co. chose to put the best possible light on Nkrumah's speech last week to the United Nations lending qualified support to the U.N.'s peace-seeking attempts in the Congo. Kennedy met Nkrumah at the airport, exchanged warm greetings, took him to the White House for "fruitful...
...besides tipping the weight of the Assembly toward the neutralists, wanted a bigger role in the Security Council, the committees, and the Secretariat as well. "And they don't even have enough trained people to run their own countries," griped one Secretariat oldtimer. This week Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Manhattan to advance his pet scheme that an "all-Africa command" run the U.N. show in the Congo...
...more generations than most could count. But the Communists also managed to turn some of the anger against the U.S., which had never even possessed an African colony, with the argument that any ally of Belgium must be an enemy of the black man. In Ghana, crowds organized by Kwame Nkrumah's party officials pranced through the streets of Accra with placards reading UNITED STATES MURDERS LUMUMBA, besieged the U.S. embassy, ripped the emblem from over the door and smashed an outdoor light with rifle shots. Even in Western-oriented Nigeria, the U.S. embassy was attacked and its windows...
...Look. The last time Patrice Lumumba was seen alive by anyone but his captors was Jan. 17. It was the low point in the career of a man who had dreamed of bossing a united Congo in the grand style of the man whom he admired, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. He had failed, but as a Western diplomat put it, "being the best demagogue around, he kept anybody else from running it either." Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elisabethville, hauled...
Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah presents two faces when he deals with foreign investors. With one face he encourages them to come in and help Ghana grow; with the other he winks at his trusted lieutenants, who talk darkly of nationalizing foreign enterprises. A favorite target has been the seven British-owned gold mines. From exports of $28 million in gold a year, the country gets a tenth of its income...