Word: sackey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Positive Neutrality. Meanwhile, the Assembly conducted business by acclamation in order to avoid voting. It admitted three new nations-Malta, Malawi and Zambia-and elected its first black African president. Ghana's Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey, 40, festively garbed in orange and yellow tribal robes, took the chair alongside U Thant and Indian Under Secretary C. V. Narasimhan, symbolizing the U.N.'s ever-increasing Afro-Asian cast...
Like his boss, Kwame Nkrumah, the "Redeemer" of Ghana, Quaison-Sackey espouses "positive neutrality," but he has a far less abrasive personality, and has spoken out against "Communist colonialism" as well as the Western variety. He winces at the abusive anti-Western jargon tossed around by hardcore African leftists, is affable and accessible (he once served as chairman and honorary drummer of an international jazz festival in Central Park...
Lisa's next target was Fidel Castro. For nearly a year she wrote to him through neutral embassies, slipped a letter to Fidel into the hands of Anastas Mikoyan, and persuaded miscellaneous ministers and ambassadors to ask Castro to see her. Finally her friend Alex Quaison-Sackey, Ghanaian Ambassador to Cuba and the U.N., helped get Lisa a visa. She stayed in Cuba four weeks, kept pelleting Castro with the pleas of her contacts. Castro succumbed, spent eight hours talking privately with her, and recorded a 40-minute interview after that...
...first time, Morocco's Ahmed Benhima presided over the Security Council. Turning to the chairman, Ghana's fiery Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey cried in an inverted echo of Churchill: "He has been called upon by destiny to preside over the liquidation of the Portuguese Empire...
...prepared statement, Quaison-Sackey also emphasized African national not European `benevolence," was for the development of institutions in Africa. Africans were granted the suffrage under "extreme pressure," he declared...