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...FAIRNESS, the divestment movement has engaged in fundraising in the past. The Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) solicited a $10,000 donation to the South African Council of Churches to bring Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu to Harvard last January, and the divestment committee at the Law School held a benefit dance last April for the Congress of South African Trade Unions...
First misconception: the anti-apartheid movement has not devoted energy to raising money for South Africans. Raising money is one part of a many-pronged approach that the movement takes. When Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke here in January, he was presented with a $10,000 honorarium which benefitted the anti-apartheid world of the South African Council of Churches...
Addressing a congregation of approximately 1200, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie decried both political militancy and unquestioning faith in religion for "depreciating the value of rigorous thought...
...Archbishop also cautioned against intellectual pride, which he termed "offensive and cruel," and unconsidered passion. A "passionate coolness," he said, would help man direct his energies into "purposeful, well-considered action," and help alleviate suffering in the world...
...that era bombs exploded regularly in Parisian theaters, cafes, police stations and courts. After two obscure terrorists bombed the Chamber of Deputies, the president of that body waited for the smoke to clear, then said, "Gentlemen, the meeting continues." In the 1870s the Communards executed 60 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known as Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, used Paris as a base and once killed two French secret-service men and a Lebanese accomplice...