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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...
When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...
Kishi thought he knew where some of the blame lay for the crime and violence that has rocked Japan since the end of the war: it lay on the good intentions of U.S. occupation reformers, and their determination to safeguard the Japanese against intimidating cops...
...order to protest the overthrow meeting and avert similar incidents, the SGA approved the resolution passed by the Harvard Student Council Monday. In addition the group recommended that Radcliffe and merged organizations include in their constitutions "provisions designed to safeguard their original purposes and most basic aims...
...coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all their passengers in case of emergency. Manufacturers have installed "automatic presentation" systems in all jets, so that the pilot can make each passenger's mask pop out of an overhead compartment by pressing a button. All the passenger has to do is hold the rubber cup over his nose...