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Especially given the criticism leveled last week by Bishop Desmond M. Tutu and the Rev. Allen Boesak--widely recognized leaders of the very people the university intended to aid by sending interns--it seems likely that Bok will now have to scrap the program, at least as currently conceived. And while administrators may avoid such an embarassing conclusion to their prized project by waiting out criticism and proceeding slowly on the internships in the future, Harvard has clearly lost this round in the continuing battle to win credibility for its engagement-oriented position on relations with South Africa...
Speaking before a half-capacity crowd of 300 in Memorial Church, King, who is the president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, cited the success of the women's rights movement, the work of Bishop Desmond Tutu and Corazon Aquino...
...black leaders. The civic association called a rally in the local sports stadium, attracting more than 30,000 of the township's 100,000 residents. The crowd demanded the withdrawal of the security forces. The police commander agreed to remove patrols from the township streets and to permit Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prizewinner, to speak in the stadium. "I know we all want freedom," Tutu told the crowd, "but we must get it in a disciplined manner." The throng returned to their homes peacefully. Later in the week, however, Tutu was angrily booed when he announced that...
They point to traces of the movement which periodically appeared this fall--an October rally against divestment, a lecture by Johannesburg Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, attempts by Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC) members to meet with Bok and members of the Corporation, and the much publicized SASC report on the university's South Africa internship program...
...University has operated an internal cable system for about 18 years which is used occasionally for Medical School teaching and recording special events, says Pandiscio, such as Bishop Desmond Tutu's Kennedy School speech in January. But Harvard's old system--like MIT's cable network--is technologically obsolete, and does not allow for communication beyond certain campus buildings...