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...than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse but to go hat in hand to the Federal Government, which has taken billions in taxes from them and returned only token sums...
...guard, dug in behind the four concentric walls surrounding the compound, held out for several hours; but by noon, downtown Accra was jammed with jubilant Ghanaians, dancing in the streets, cheering, singing, many of them wearing white handkerchiefs around their heads and white clay on their faces as a token of victory. "Fellow citizens," announced Colonel E. K. Kotoka, one of the coup leaders, in a broadcast over Radio Ghana, "I have come to inform you that the military, with the cooperation of the police, have taken over the government. The myth surrounding Nkrumah has been broken...
...rely on backing from Wall Street, and other friends, are pleased by the early response; they estimate a circulation of 5,000 or more at $1.50 a copy. A professor of sociology at Columbia University, Bell commissions most of the stories, for which the authors are paid a token $100; Kristol, executive vice president of Basic Books, does most of the editing. Their magazine, they hope, will re-create some of the atmosphere of 19th century England when intellectuals took a passionate interest in their government, and were not satisfied merely to carp contentiously from the sidelines...
...Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with the four Communist regiments operating in Binh Dinh, the 1st Air Cav scored a notable coup last week. Its men captured Viet Cong Lieut. Colonel Dong Doan, who obligingly led them straight to a regimental headquarters defended by a token force. The 1st Air Cav took it in fierce hand-to-hand fighting, killing 150 of its garrison. And only 60 miles south of Cu Chi, South Vietnamese troops of the 9th Division killed 175 Viet Cong in their continuing sweep in the Delta...
...scrawled a final command on a writing pad: "Carry on in the most enlightened way." And indeed, his brother and successor, Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, has been behaving most luminously. First he ordered a $140 bonus for all government employees in the rich little oil kingdom-a token that set the royal treasury back by $13 million. Then he decided his own pay was a bit much, had the National Assembly cut his salary from $28 million to $22.4 million per annum, with the difference to go to "general-welfare causes...