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Desmond Mpilo Tutu, General Secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches, Doctor of Laws...
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the general secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches, Jacques Yves Cousteau, the marine explorer, and Milton Friedman, the Nobel-Prize winning economist, also received degrees...
...inscription reads: A churchman of great faith and courage willing to risk his life in behalf of freedom and dignity for all peoples in southern Africa...
Tutu has spoken out forcefully and eloquently against the South African government's policy of apartheid. A former Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, and dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg, Tutu currently works with the South Africa Council of Churches, a group representing 15 million people of diverse faiths and backgrounds who have urged outside nationals and corporations to provide equal employment opportunities and labor practices for South African blacks. In addition to teaching school and lecturing at different universities, he has worked as a parish priest. From 1972 to 1975, he served as associate director of the Theological...
...cold weather did not deter undergraduates and students at the Kennedy School of Government from picketing around the Charles W. Engelhard Library of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School. Controversy about naming the library after the millionaire who had publicly condoned the apartheid government in South Africa did not slacken...