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Desmond Mpilo Tutu, General Secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches, Doctor of Laws...
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the general secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches, Jacques Yves Cousteau, the marine explorer, and Milton Friedman, the Nobel-Prize winning economist, also received degrees...
Tutu has spoken out forcefully and eloquently against the South African government's policy of apartheid. A former Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, and dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg, Tutu currently works with the South Africa Council of Churches, a group representing 15 million people of diverse faiths and backgrounds who have urged outside nationals and corporations to provide equal employment opportunities and labor practices for South African blacks. In addition to teaching school and lecturing at different universities, he has worked as a parish priest. From 1972 to 1975, he served as associate director of the Theological...
...Cambridge Biohazards Committee approved the opening of Harvard's special containment recombinant DNA laboratory, delayed since August 1976 by controversy over the safety of DNA experimentation. Harvard shelled out $600,000 to keep genes in and Cambridge City Council out--even though new federal guidelines for DNA research effectively eliminated the need for the building...
...Harvard Square, after a brief battle with University community relations officials, the City Council voted to keep out skyscrapers, placing a 110-ft. ceiling on buildings and insuring forever (pending a court challenge) the place of Holyoke Center as the Square's World Trade Center...