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...gnawing as the problem of apartheid is the question of what opponents can do about it. The Reagan Administration maintains that the way to influence South Africa's white minority government is to continue doing business with the country. Others, including South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, claim economic sanctions are a way to get P.W. Botha's government to change its policy. Last week anyone seeking to choose between the two opinions had reason to be more confused than ever...
Finally, during the two-week-long trip, Murphy will speak to and work with prominent Black political leaders such as Capetown Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Revered Allen Boesak in order to obtain the political support necessary for implementation of programs to aid Black South Africans...
Meanwhile, the drama of the dangerous mission of Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, continued to unfold. On Jan. 20, Waite dismissed his Druze militia bodyguards and disappeared into West Beirut, apparently to meet with people holding some of the hostages. By last week there was little doubt that he had ceased to be a free agent. Nabih Berri, leader of the relatively moderate Shi'ite Amal militia, said he had learned that Waite had been arrested but not kidnaped, a distinction that offered little solace. Walid Jumblatt, head of Lebanon's Druze community, felt...
...tricameral Parliament and represent 4 million people, but they do not face elections until 1989. The country's 24 million blacks have even less of a say in running the country, since they enjoy no political rights at all at the national level. Says Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a leading black spokesman: "The election is, for us, a nonevent...
...month nine foreigners, including three U.S. citizens, were seized in the violence-torn Lebanese capital, bringing the number of foreign captives to 24. The Reagan Administration responded last week by ordering U.S. citizens out of Lebanon and strengthening its naval presence in the Middle East. In London the Archbishop of Canterbury sent urgent messages to Beirut seeking news of Waite. In Bonn authorities feared that more West Germans would be seized in addition to the two kidnaped in retaliation for last month's arrest of a terrorist wanted for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner...