GHANA DEALING WITH ENEMIES DURING HIS SIX YEARS AS GHANA'S BOSS, PRESIDENT 
KWAME NKRUMAH HAS DEALT WITH HIS OPPOSITION IN A VARIETY OF 
WAYS INTIMIDATION, JAIL, EXILE . LAST WEEK HE WENT A STEP 
FURTHER . IN A PACKED COURTROOM IN ACCRA, WHERE MINE DETECTORS 
WERE USED TO CHECK SPECTATORS FOR WEAPONS, AN NKRUMAH-CREATED TRIBUNAL PASSED 
OUT DEATH SENTENCES TO FIVE ENEMIES OF THE REGIME . THE 
FIVE MEN, FOUR GHANAIANS AND A NIGERIAN, WERE CHARGED WITH TREASON 
IN CONNECTION WITH HALF A DOZEN EXPLOSIONS THAT KILLED 35 PERSONS 
AND INJURED 300 . THE BOMBING BEGAN LAST AUGUST, WHEN THE 
BLAST OF A HAND GRENADE WOUNDED OSAGYEFO IN THE SHOULDER AS 
HE DROVE BY IN HIS RUSSIAN-MADE CHAIKA LIMOUSINE NEAR THE NORTHERN 
BORDER VILLAGE OF KULUNGUGU . NKRUMAH'S COPS HAVE BEEN ROUNDING UP 
SUSPECTS EVER SINCE . AS THE FIVE-WEEK TRIAL DRAGGED ON, ONE 
OF THE DEFENDANTS, NIGERIAN IMMIGRANT MALAM MAMA TULA, 44, TESTIFIED THAT 
THE REAL BRAINS BEHIND THE KULUNGUGU ATTEMPT WERE THREE MEN WHO 
HAD BEEN NKRUMAH'S CLOSEST CRONIES, EX-FOREIGN MINISTER AKO ADJEI, EX-INFORMATION MINISTER 
TAWIA ADAMAFIO, AND H . H . COFIE-CRABBE, FORMER EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 
OF NKRUMAH'S OWN CONVENTION PEOPLE'S PARTY . MAMA TULA SAID THAT 
THE TRIO CONFERRED WITH THE BOMB THROWERS AT A VILLAGE HIDEOUT, 
SUPPLIED EIGHT BRITISH-MADE GRENADES AND PROMISED A $560 BOUNTY IF NKRUMAH 
WAS KILLED . THE THREE HAVE BEEN IN PRISON UNDER THE 
PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACT SINCE LAST AUGUST . ONE OF THE FOUR 
OTHER TREASON DEFENDANTS BESIDE MAMA TULA IN THE DOCK, TEIKO TAGOE, 
20, READILY ADMITTED TO POSSESSION OF A LIVE HAND GRENADE AT 
A MEETING OF NKRUMAH'S PARTY LAST JANUARY . ANOTHER, JOSEPH QUAYE 
MENSAH, 57, OWNED UP TO MAILING THE REDEEMER AN ANONYMOUS LETTER 
WARNING, " DEAR DR., THIS IS TO INFORM YOU I AM 
STILL CHASING YOU UNTIL I . . . HAVE YOU KILLED, 
" BUT PLEADED THAT HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO SCARE NKRUMAH 
. WHEN THE TESTIMONY ENDED, THE THREE WIHITE-WIGGED JUDGES FILED OUT, 
SPENT ANOTHER TWO WEEKS PREPARING A 6,000-WORD DECISION THEY RETURNED LAST 
WEEK, THE CHIEF JUSTICE PAUSED SOMBERLY TO DON A BLACK CAP 
BEFORE PRONOUNCING SENTENCE, SIGNAL THAT THE VERDICT WOULD BE DEATH BY 
HANGING 