Survey for Kwame

Of all the so-called "neutralists" who actually follow the Communist line, the U.S. has become especially wary of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. Last week President Kennedy assigned retired Steelman Clarence B. Randall, 70, to visit Ghana for "a final hard look" at Nkrumah's request for U.S. aid on the Volta River Project.

Three years in the planning, the project would include a $196 million dam and a $128 million aluminum smelter. Ghana would pay $98 million, and the U.S. would ante up $133 million in long-term loans. Anxious to get his enterprise under way, the worried Nkrumah twice in the past month has sent hurry-up letters to President Kennedy.

In Ghana, Clarence Randall will try to determine whether the dam is economically feasible--and whether Nkrumah really deserves aid. The onetime chairman of Inland Steel, Republican Randall served as chairman of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy under Dwight Eisenhower and knows the ins and outs of foreign aid. He is also a very tough customer.

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