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...Okinawa, was the bishop supervising American Episcopal churches in Europe, and then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City. He is the U.S. bishops' representative on the worldwide council of Anglican and Episcopal churches. A friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, Browning has invited the South African black activist to his Jan. 11 installation as Presiding Bishop. Last week's Anaheim meeting ushered in the Browning era by voting for divestment of holdings in firms that do business in South Africa, and by expressing a readiness to have women as bishops...
...national scale, violence abated slightly, but disturbances boiled up in the huge township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, as police attempted to get students to return to their classrooms, on one occasion arresting more than 700. Near Cape Town, an angry crowd killed a plainclothesman after he fired at mourners following a funeral. Said General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner: "We do not have a state of war or revolution in this country." Still, unrest and violence remain daily features of South Africa's life...
...People have to be concerned about racism in North Cambridge as well as in Johannesburg," he adds...
...consolation that Botha may have felt from the strike's defeat was certain to be overshadowed by Reagan's planned Executive actions. In addition, there were reports in Johannesburg that a group of leading South African businessmen are planning to go to Zambia within the next few weeks to meet with the exiled leaders of the African National Congress and that the businessmen have informed the Botha government of their intentions. In the face of such moves, Botha may well be wondering who his friends really...
...People have to be concerned about racism in North Cambridge as well as in Johannesburg," he adds...