Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...
Unlike their U.S.-educated Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, few citizens of the new State of Ghana have been anywhere-even to school. They may not be aware of the hue and cry abroad at the way Ghana's government has been trampling on civil rights (TIME, Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which...
...Czechoslovakia and Korea and turned him out of office, Bing had begun commuting to West Africa to take profitable legal cases for several men later prominent in Ghana politics. By the time Ghana was set to go it alone, he was already established as an intimate adviser to Prime Minister Nkrumah, reportedly not only drafting bills, but also arranging for the champagne supply for last March's independence ceremonies...
...types, who might be expected to say I-told-you-so, but liberals and leftists. One of them, Socialist M.P. Fenner Brockway, an honor guest at Ghana's independence celebrations, last week let out an anguished cry of betrayal: "What evil genius has gained the ear of the Prime Minister of Ghana? His friends in Britain are shocked to find Ghana adopting some of the worst practices of colonial rule. This is not Kwame Nkrumah. I beg him to free himself of his advisers...
...discomfort is sometimes visible, but he sold Person to Person as a package to CBS this year in a capital-gains deal, thus is undoubtedly committed to go on with it. The show does have what one frequent viewer calls an "idiot fascination," and it is a prime moneymaker...