Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very earnest and quite uninebriated fellow, and engaged him in a discussion on doctors incomes that on the reception given to President Nkrumah Ghana when he paid Tito a visit before the Belgrade Conference. Exercising uncanny ability to sniff out a political discussion--even from the other side a pitch-black room that fairly tremble from the blasts of Satchmo's horn--the others shouted at the host to "cut this Communist propaganda...
...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...
Also dismissed were the British chiefs of Ghana's small navy and air force and seven moderate government officials, including Health Minister K. A. Gbedemah, who helped Nkrumah found his Convention Peoples' Party and is probably the ablest man in the Cabinet...
...campaign. One paper accused Britain of fomenting labor unrest, another charged it had plotted the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Accra Evening News, angry at the proposed November visit of Queen Elizabeth (''the head of a bloated kingdom"), called on the government to cancel the invitation. But Nkrumah is still unwilling to give up his position in the Commonwealth. In London. Ghana's Acting High Commissioner Kwesi Armah called a press conference to erase any thoughts that the Queen would be unwelcome. Said he: "A hilarious and dignified welcome awaits the Queen and Prince Philip...
...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...