GHANA: The Law in His Hands

In the year and a half since his inexperienced land of 65 tribes and assorted chiefs and chiefdoms won its independence, Ghana's U.S.-educated Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has shown little tolerance for those who oppose him. But one thing has kept him from having his way: a compromise constitution, worked out by the British, which set up five regional assemblies to serve alongside the traditional Houses of Chiefs as a permanent check on the central government. That sort of democratic balance has never been to Nkrumah's liking. Last week he...