Word: sackey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghana's ambassador to the U.N. predicted last night that the development single-party system is nearly inevitable in most African nations. Speaking at Law School Forum, H. E. Alex Quaison-Sackey declared that the "general tendency in Africa is toward the emergence of strong parties...
Speaking on the topic, "What is the for a Democratic Africa," Quaison-Sackey maintained that the concept of "Loyal Opposition" is alien to Africa. British of `Loyal Opposition' exist in Africa," he explained, the inability of opposition to get their own way in Parliament brings about frustration which to make such parties adopt extra- methods and thus become...
...single-party system, Quaison-Sackey maintained, is not undemocratic. "The of the governed cannot but paramount," and any government on popular support is by democratic, he declared...
...incident seemed undramatic. As the Assembly got ready to vote, Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana-a nation on which Khrushchev was counting heavily-rose from his seat. In clipped British accents, he asked Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin to drop his resolution condemning Hammarskjold for exceeding his powers in the Congo. Stunned, Zorin meekly complied, then sat in frozen silence as the Assembly, by a historic vote of 70 to 0, gave Hammarskjold a ringing endorsement and demanded that no nation ship arms to the Congo except through...