Word: sackey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghanaian embassy in Peking, he had delivered Kwame Nkrumah's unheeded message asking the army to return to its bar racks. Now, dapper and smiling in a grey checked suit, he was in Accra as the distinguished prisoner of the army, holding a press conference. Alex Quaison-Sackey, Nkrumah's trusted Foreign Minister and former president of the U.N. General Assembly, had deserted his master and flown home "to submit myself to the new government."The Redeemer, he said, "was a lost cause. I was not going to defend lost causes...
...with a deep sense of pleasure and relief," said outgoing U.N. General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackey, resplendent in a Ghanaian toga of orange and gold, "that I welcome all representatives present." Relief was the operative word. It had been Quaison-Sackey's fate to preside over what Britain's Lord Caradon had rightly called the "lost session" of the U.N. General Assembly. Not since December 1963 had the Assembly been able to discuss issues freely or to vote on them. But as the white and lavender saris of Indians commingled with the rainbowed robes of Nigerians...
Most Fatuous by Far. Of all the striped-pants sorties, the most fatuous by far was launched by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Amid great fanfare, Nkrumah sent Foreign Minister Alex Quaison-Sackey off to Washington with a personal letter for Lyndon Johnson. If U.S. officials were hoping for news of an important development, however, they were in for a letdown. Nkrumah, who expects to visit Hanoi soon, was chiefly interested in making sure that U.S. bombers would not turn his arrival into the wrong kind of reception blast. Patiently, L.B.J. assured the Ghanaians that "not a bomb...
Early this year, Nkrumah arranged to have 99.9% of the electorate approve a one-party constitution, and he dissolved Parliament elected before Ghana gained independence eight years ago. His Convention People's Party then nominated 198 illustrious candi dates (including U.N. Delegate Alex Quaison-Sackey and Margaret Martei, secretary of the Women's Council), and last week Nkrumah simply declared them all elected-for lack of opposition. Explained Spark, the party weekly: "This will be an object lesson to all Africa on how democracy is organized and made to work smoothly and effectively under a one-party state...
...vote. The U.S. rationalization: the Albanian motion was procedural rather than substantive U.N. business. With that, the Assembly voted 97 to 2 against Budo and adjourned, hoping that the payments dispute might be settled during the spring and summer by a special committee to be appointed by Quaison-Sackey. The Assembly seemed clearly pleased at having averted a crisis, but in fact it had only demonstrated the absurd and sadly precarious condition of the U.N. today...