Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow boat came Nikita Khrushchev, with his gallery of satellite rogues trotting at his heels. One by one the other national leaders, of various hues of dependence and independence-Egypt's Nasser, Yugoslavia's Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Cuba's Castro, Ghana's Nkrumah -were due to arrive, all drawn, as was their right, to the General Assembly session where every member has an equal voice...
...Kwame Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, the U.A.R.'s Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito had already announced that they would be in New York, and Ceylon's Mrs. Bandaranaike was making interested noises. In Latin America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...
...renouncing their angry reoccupation of the Congo that they had so recently freed. He had kept the Congo's erratic politicians, at least for the moment, from plunging their infant nation into civil war, and checked the threatened intervention of such pan-African adventurers as Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure. In the process he had stretched the U.N. Charter into shapes undreamed of by its authors and established the precedents for vastly in creased U.N. authority over member nations suffering from internal convulsions...
...thunderous noises could be heard offstage. The Russian press and radio breathed fire and rattled rockets, accusing the U.S. and the "imperialist West" of closing ranks behind Belgium in a plot to steal rich Katanga from the Congo. In Ghana, President Kwame Nkrumah lashed out with a threat to join with Guinea's Sekou Toure as allies of Lumumba in a march on Katanga...
...pressures on him, called on Hammarskjold to abandon his plans to garrison Katanga province with mixed black and white forces (Swedish, Moroccan and Ethiopian), demanded a totally black force instead. "African troops," he insisted, "are completely capable of carrying out the U.N. mission." In Accra, Ghana's Nkrumah was still talking up the formation of an "All-African" army composed of units from Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R. and "volunteers" from all the continent...