Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before others -or even they themselves-were aware of what was happening. Nothing is more satisfying in the professional life of a journalist. Among the innumerable examples we could cite are Willkie, Stevenson, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in U.S. politics; Eisenhower, Gruenther and Radford in the military sphere; Nasser, Nkrumah and Castro (whom we recognized as a Communist when he was still being widely hailed as a reforming liberal) among foreign leaders; Saarinen, De Kooning, Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Finney and Shirley MacLaine in the arts...
...Nkrumah's steamroller tactics to assure a yes vote for his constitutional referendum stood out as a landmark of sorts in African electoral history. Technically, citizens could vote yes or no on whether to make Nkrumah's Convention Peoples Party the nation's only legal party. But in hundreds of places the "no" boxes were sealed up or nonexistent. All the ballots carried the voter's registration number, which would make it easy to see who voted no. In Accra's Ward 22, the registration was 1,834, yet the official count showed...
...radio speech afterward, Nkrumah vowed that the "evil men and neocolonialist agents amongst us shall be smoked out." Two days later a mob shouting "Ghana yes, Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31, of Denver, fought his way through the crowd, ran the flag up again. The government denied that it had anything to do with the incident and expressed "regret," but the assault was obviously officially engineered. The mob was led by a C.P.P. sound truck, and the local Tass correspondent arrived 25 minutes...
Then began a move on the universities, whose students have protested Nkrumah's high-handed tactics. The regime ordered the expulsion of six University of Ghana faculty members, four of them Americans, after 2,000 demonstrators stormed the university shouting "Down with bookism!" The Americans were accused of "activities prejudicial to the security of the state." One of them, Negro Professor Louis Schuster, 56, was ordered to leave Ghana on three hours' notice. "We were just pawns in a chess game," he declared. "It was an organized campaign against the United States...
With Washington's patience wearing thin (U.S. aid to Ghana so far: $170 million), the State Department registered its formal protest, called home U.S. Ambassador William P. Mahoney Jr. for consultations. Nkrumah would not even deign to receive the protest. Ever since the fifth attempt on his life last month, he has not dared to show his face in public; he presumably will not even return to his office until workers complete a fourth wall that he has ordered built around Flagstaff House...