Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, was abducted March 16, 1985, and is the longest-held of 26 foreigners missing in Lebanon. The foreigners include Terry Waite, an Anglican Church envoy who dropped from sight Jan. 20 after leaving his Beirut hotel to negotiate with kidnappers...
...means to pressure the Botha government. A crippled economy, it is hoped, will eventually force the government to make meaningful reforms. Among the defenders of corporate pullouts are the Congress of South African Trade Unions and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa...
...Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...
...whites-only national election. A jubilant State President P.W. Botha, whose party increased its seats in Parliament, went on national television after declaring victory and said, "The outside world must accept that the white electorate is here to stay and has a special duty in South Africa." To Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best-known blacks, the election carried a very different lesson. Said the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate: "We have entered the darkest age in the history of our country...
With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...