Word: boesak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...discussions with Black South Africans were minimal and after the decision of how to spend the monies was made. He met with South Africans for reasons of etiquette, not reasons of inquiry or discussion. Steiner understandably was rebuffed by Tutu and Boesak--leaders of the groups he was ostensibly trying to help. They rightly derided his plan as patronizing and his visit as irrelevant...
...many blacks suspect that the police are secretly advising and supporting groups like the fathers. "I wouldn't have any trouble choosing sides," says one white officer. In Crossroads, witnesses have reported seeing men atop armored police vehicles firing at comrades in support of the fathers. The Rev. Allan Boesak, a U.D.F. founder, has charged that the government is behind much of the township killing. Says he: "It is not a question only of black-on-black violence. It is a question of the South African government deliberately creating groups and supporting them, even creating situations of violence...
...contrasting with the black of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Methodios. Buddhism's Dalai Lama, traditionally regarded as a living deity, was in attendance, swathed in purple and yellow. Also there were Uruguayan Methodist Emilio Castro, chief executive of the World Council of Churches, and South Africa's antiapartheid activist Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Metropolitan Filaret traveled from the U.S.S.R. It was the "most beautiful gift to God," observed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the diminutive Nobel Peace Prize recipient...
Following criticisms from Bishop Tutu, the Rev. Allan Boesak, and faculty members, President Derek C. Bok cancels his plan to send students to South Africa...