Word: bishops
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...SASC's stated reasons for building the shantytown. But a deeper reason, it seems to me, is frustration over the continued absence of peer support. There has been no student groundswell, even after a year of increasing violence in South Africa, and visits to Harvard by Jesse Jackson and Bishop Desmond W. Tutu. After years of "consciousness raising" without divestment, no one seriously expects the Corporation to change its collective mind. Now the activist tactic is not to raise consciousness but to raise the ante--that is, to increase protest pressure...
...Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best known Black leaders, cautioned Blacks to "be aware of the small print" in the government policy statement...
...divestment movement has won support from a number of Black South African leaders and brought Bishop Tutu to the University to speak in January. It has forced Harvard to scuttle its ill-conceived South African Internship Program. And it has forced debate and put the University administration on notice with the successful erection of a shantytown. But so far, Harvard officials have ignored the shanty building and seem determined to ignore students' demands...
...three candidates were self-nominated by petition and received the endorsement of South African Anglican Bishop Desmond M. Tutu in a January 10 speech at Harvard...
Impatience with the apartheid regime pushed Bishop Desmond Tutu last week to call on the international community to impose economic sanctions against the South African government. Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Tutu warned that he would openly support sanctions unless the government dismantled apartheid within two years. Last week he said his patience had run out. "I have no hope of real change from government unless they are forced," he declared. "We face a catastrophe in this land, and only the action of the international community by applying pressure can save us." The government- controlled broadcast...