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20 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, Apri 17, 1967 # this morning said a junta led : : \ PRINTING FROM MICROFILM and the first North Amert- Connie Kudryk, an em- tion printer. Edmonton Rye: bin P , the first Canadian city to can city to sta using et ae embark on a program of microfilmed records on a city hall microfilm depart- ment, operates a produc- current day-to-day basis. microfilming all its records (CP Photo) -- they date back to 1892-- 'Coup Attempt Fails Ghana Radio Claims malcy. Last weekend, 150 per- sons, including former cabinet ministers and parliamentarians, were released from detention. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reut-jer's correspondent in Accra, re- lers)--Ghana_ radio d| ported ds of fighting were today that an attempted coup|heard briefly near Christians- lin Ghana was foiled -- a few|borg Castle, headquarters of the |hours after a three-man mili-| National Liberation Council, set |tary junta announced it hadjup after Nkrumah's overthrow. jtaken power. | He said the city was quiet} Ghana, the former British The first announcement early | after that, and appeared to be'colony of the Gold Coast, be- returning to normal. came the first British-adminis- by paratroop Lt. - Col. Assasie| COUP REPELLED tered black African country to ousted the military regime} Agence France - Presse re-|gain independence in 1957 under which ruled Ghana since it top-|ported from Lome, Togo, near|Nkrumah, an outstanding na- pled President Kwame Nkru-|Ghana's frontier, that forces|tionalist. mah in February, 1966. loyal to President Joseph Ank-| Ghana became a republic with The announcement was re-irah, former commander of|Nkrumah as its first president peated periodically. Then, sud-|Ghana's army, had apparently|in June, 1959. denly came another, brief an-jovercome the attempted coup. Nkrumah turned the country nouncement which said: }It was Ankrah who turned out/into a one-party state under his "Fellow citizens of Ghana, the) Nkrumah in a military coup}own Convention People's party attempted coup has been foiled|Feb. 24, 1966. and consolidated his rule, and all citizens should go back; Today's attempted coup came|Ghana became an active centre to their work." after signs that the country was|for nationalists from indepent- Earlier, Eugene Forson, Reut-'moving toward political nor-'dent African states. anti-Nkrumah coup. Most were in prison since the! Ghana's economy, however, suffered from a drop in world cocoa prices' and Nkrumah was forced to apply austerity meas- ure which caused political un- rest, culminating in a state of emergency in September, 1961. Nkrumah was visiting China when overthrown last year. After going into exile in Gui- nea, also on Africa's West Coast, he declared he planned to re- turn to Ghana, but in recent months was silent about future plans. Nearly 100,000,000 people, in- cluding Ghana's 7,000,000, out of Africa's 270,000,000 now live un- der avowed military regimes in 1 of the continents' 38 states. Countries which have come under military rule in the last two years are Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, Upper Volta, The Congo, Dahomeyi Central African Re- public, Togo, Burundi, and Sierra Leone. RIVER IS CROWDED More than 16,000 freighters and barges carry cargoes up Recalled By By CYNTHIA LOWRY NEW YORK (AP) --NBC's broadcasts of The Investigation Friday night and again Sunday afternoon were about as far as possible away from the old television recipe of happy shows about happy people. The adaptation of Peter Weiss' stage play was a reminder after more than 20 years of a terrible chapter in Nazi Germany. Weiss took excerpts from tes- timony by survivors of Ausch- witz extermination camp and of the defendants who ran the place like a production line of murder. Then he had a few witnesses in the box tell, in words uttered during the rea} trial, of the horrors that were perpetrated. It was, for all its shortcom- and down the River Rhine. ings in its dramatic form, a Grim Historic Episode Weiss Play \shattering experience to be re- minded of the callous cruelty and brutality that preceded the mass killings. The Smothers Brothers Show on CBS continued its high level of entertainment. It is one of the few variety shows in which the stars are more amusing than the guest stars. CBS will put an unused series, Coronet Blue, in its late Monday hour starting May 29. The series was made with CBS underwrit- ing a couple of seasons back when the "searching man" was a popular series hero -- The Fugitive started it. The series concerns a man who has lost his memory and is hunting for his identity. 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