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...being moved out into the country. But as the trucks drove through the streets of Accra, the officers in charge would order them halted at certain houses, would declare that there was something strange going on inside, and would then march in and arrest the owner. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's Voice of Ghana told his people just what the mysterious roundup was all about. A plot, by something called the "Zenith Seven," to assassinate the Prime Minister and to overthrow the government had been uncovered, and the government was out to get 43 ringleaders...
...Association Wards. A curious silence settled over Ghana at the news. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has been having trouble holding together his young country (which got its independence from Britain in March 1957). As eager foster parents of the new nation, the British have generally sided with Nkrumah's need to assert jurisdiction over tribal chieftains, and have made understanding noises about "growing pains." Only a fortnight ago the Mother of Parliaments appropriated $3,500 for a speaker's chair of "dignified design" to be presented to the Ghana Parliament. But was the child proving an apt pupil...
...year and a half since his inexperienced land of 65 tribes and assorted chiefs and chiefdoms won its independence, Ghana's U.S.-educated Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has shown little tolerance for those who oppose him. But one thing has kept him from having his way: a compromise constitution, worked out by the British, which set up five regional assemblies to serve alongside the traditional Houses of Chiefs as a permanent check on the central government. That sort of democratic balance has never been to Nkrumah's liking. Last week he set out to remove...
Opposition Leader K. A. Busia objected that without the two-thirds safeguard "the constitution will become a fragile document on which no one can rely, since it can be changed any day or any moment." The opposition saw Nkrumah's proposal as just one more step toward the complete abolition of the regional assemblies in favor of an all-powerful central government. Nkrumah frankly agreed; the regional assemblies, he said, were "a rape on Mother Ghana," and had produced a "leprous baby." Opposition M.P.s cried, "What's the hurry? What's the hurry?" as Nkrumah rammed through...
...Nkrumah had the votes to have his way, and the power to enforce it, and plainly intended to continue de-stooling chiefs and deporting opponents. Like the soldiers who have lately taken power all over Southeast Asia, Nkrumah, no soldier, argues that the classic restraints of 18th century constitutional liberalism do not fit the situation he confronts. But on him-and on them-rests the burden of proof that backward steps will result in greater steps forward...