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new anti-Communist army and police rulers are rapidly disnantling key features of Nkrutxah's power structure and pressing ahead withmeasures amid further signs of popular approvul of thecoup. Their intra-Alrican relations will be complicated, however, by the more radicalregimes' emotionalto Nkrumah's ouster.
arch the rulingLiberation Council (NLC) abolished the Ghanaommunist-supportedestablished0 to indoctrinate youthariant of Marxism- The coup leaders had earlier closed down the Institute at tfinnebat near Accra, where successive groups of adult cadres of Nkrumah's now dissolved party had been exposed to foreign Communist instructors. Nkrumah favorites who headedhave been replaced by respected nonpolitical figures,
The new regime is evidently encouraging theree, Vestern-style labor movement within theof the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC)- Nkrumah had long ago converted this important mass organizationocile appendage of his party and also opened it wide to Communist Now. ewlyanti-Communist leader, who seems to have rank and fileasic reorganization is about to be launchederies of union elections. The GTUC's extensive ties with the Communist world are apparently
being severed. According to the new GTUC chief, this will include withdrawal from the Communist-backed All-African Trade Unionrimary instrument of Nkrumah's African subversion program.
The evacuation ofere incompletedarch. The Soviet exodus, echnicians and their families, will probably continue for about another week. Both Communist powers are being restrictedman embassies.
The new regime has already resumed diplomatic relations with Britain, which Nkrumah had severed last December over Rhodesia. It appears determined to press ahead with economic reforms keyed to earlier recommendations of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Although the NLC continues to fear that Nkrumah may soon try to return to Ghana, the ousted leader now appears to havehis present inability to reverse the coup. He is still in Guinea but may move on soon to Cairo, Despite the large number of African states which havethe new Ghana regime, Kasir now appears inclined toeading role in organizingAfrican expressions ofof the coup. Zambia has moved formally to terminaterelations with Accra, while the NLC has itselfupture with Guinea.
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