Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moroccans, it was a question of pride. What they wanted most was some evidence that the foreigner acknowledged their new status as a fully sovereign nation no longer an appendage of France. U.S. Ambassador Charles Yost made them an offer: the U.S. would evacuate the $500 million bases after seven years. The Moroccans countered with a request for a three-year phaseout. The expected compromise: U.S. operation of the bases for five more years...
...many-balconied mansion perched on a lofty hill 22 miles from steaming Accra, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah woke last week to watch all Ghana celebrate his 49th birthday. There were thanksgiving church services in honor of National Founders Day, parades, garden parties, gala balls, free medical treatment for expectant mothers for a one-week period. The Accra Evening News published a special issue featuring a large front-page photograph captioned: "Our Indomitable Prime Minister and the founder of the new nation of Ghana, Osagyefo [Defender], Oyeadieyie [Does All Well], Kantamanto [Never Failing], Tufuhene Okyeade [Ever-Giving Leader]' Kukudrufo [Brave...
Leopard Tails & Stools. On his birthday Prime Minister Nkrumah could look contentedly at a nation in which political opposition has very nearly been driven from sight. In Parliament his Convention People's Party can muster 80 votes against the United Party's 24. Opposition leaders are discovering that the quickest route to jail is to accuse the government of malpractice. The one remaining threat to Nkrumah's power comes from the tribal chieftains, whose emblems of authority are stools and whose leopard-tailed warriors held off the British for 50 years...
Tasseled Umbrella. Nkrumah has moved more cautiously, but just as effectively, against the nation's No. 1 chieftain, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, the Asantehene or King of the Ashanti. His rich cocoa-growing and gold-mining territory furnishes the bulk of Ghana's revenue, and in the days before independence his well-stuffed treasury financed the political opposition to Nkrumah. But the Asantehene has lost the support of his young men, who prefer modern politicking to ancient tribal loyalties, and is increasingly worried by governmental investigations into the management of land and property under his control...
...Japanese Riviera"-the mountainous Izu Peninsula southwest of Tokyo -two tiny coastal villages were washed out to sea and a dozen more engulfed by the swollen waters of the Kano River. Early this week, with the full extent of the damage still unknown, Japanese police estimated the nation's casualties at 337 dead, 984 missing...