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...Those of us who have been concerned with the problem have an additional duty to keep them "honest." The corporate giants ought to recognize that their financial activities will remain under careful scrutiny. For us, we must, as individuals and as a community, remain willing to answer the question Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu asked when he visited here early in the year. He said, "Freedom will come to South Africa, and when we get to the other side we will look back and ask 'Were you with us?"' Let us make sure that our answer is a firm...
...remain a layman. Nonetheless, his career has almost always been in church affairs. After studying theology at London's Church Army College, he worked as a lay training adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol. In 1968 he headed for Uganda to become an adviser to the local archbishop. Even then his life was infected with a dash of danger. In 1971 he and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were held at gunpoint for some hours during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover...
...been confined to the Anglican Church. Between 1972 and 1979 he served in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities. He returned to London in 1980 to accept his current post with Runcie, thus becoming the first layman to be a personal aide to an Archbishop of Canterbury. While the job description called for someone who could handle mail and maintain links between the Archbishop and his 70 million-strong Anglican following around the world, Waite was not cut out for a desk job. The towering 6-ft. 7-in., 250-lb. envoy seems unable...
More than wanderlust, however, makes Waite the right man to carry out diplomatic chores for Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence. The intrepid envoy has the right temperament for nail-biting assignments. Last November, when he was pinned down by gunfire in the A.P. office in Beirut, he displayed characteristic good humor. At one point he broke the tension with the announcement that he would take a shower. "If you / can't do anything else," he said, "you might as well make use of the time...
...political point of view whatsoever," says a British diplomat. "He carries out his missions from a strictly humanitarian point of view." Perhaps most important, Waite is a man known to guard confidences jealously. That trait has earned him the trust of not only Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Runcie but Gaddafi and Shi'ite kidnapers...