Word: anti-apartheid
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...fact, there was widespread suspicion in Washington that Reagan was bowing to a wave of anti-apartheid protest that continued to grow last week in the capital and at least 13 other U.S. cities. Two miles from the Old Executive Office Building, where the President spoke, a steady trickle of luminaries continued to join the picket line that sprang up in front of the South African embassy three weeks ago. In all, more than 50 people, including 13 members of Congress, have been arrested in the protest. Among those charged with trespassing or crossing a police line last week were...
...anti-apartheid protest swelled, the black South African churchman who helped inspire it took possession of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Clad in a red cassock and wearing a gold pectoral cross, South African Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu accepted the Nobel committee's $181,000 cash award and 7.2-oz. gold medal in Norway's University of Oslo Aula. Shortly before the ceremony, Tutu, who a week earlier had declared in Washington that U.S. policy toward South Africa was "immoral, evil and totally un-Christian," was forced along with other dignitaries to evacuate the Oslo hall...
Nine other congressmen, arrested in Washington, D.C., protests that began November 21, also have attracted widespread attention to the anti-apartheid cause, as have two children of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy...
With such support for the anti-apartheid cause, Tutu asked, "What chance does the South African Government stand...
...brought to my attention that SYL had pestered the campus well and were tabling continuously on campus," Silvers explained. "There was a serious danger that people not familiar with the political scene on campus would perceive the SYL as leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle," Silvers added...