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...Africa's leading white liberals warn that disinvestment would send a political message exactly the opposite of the one its advocates desire. The views of South African blacks are harder to ascertain. Some favor disinvestment but cannot say so publicly because that might violate security laws. Those who have spoken up are generally opposed to it. On a California speaking tour last spring, Bishop Tutu gave many the impression that he favored disinvestment. In Johannesburg after his return, however, he declared, "I am not as yet myself calling for disinvestment...
...months, 23 members of a federal grand jury in Cleveland have investigated the local dealings of Jackie Presser, 58, the blunt-spoken, 300-lb. president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the nation's largest labor union. More than half a year has passed since the Justice Department's strike force in Cleveland recommended to its superiors in Washington that Presser be indicted for fraud and conspiracy. But the Justice Department seemed to be dragging its heels in asking for an indictment. Last week the jurors decided to take matters into their own hands. In an extraordinary move, they asked...
...arms for Christian soldiers, the bishops suddenly leaped forward: "We cannot avoid our responsibility to lift up the moral dimensions of the choices before our world and nation." They emphasized that they were speaking purely from a moral pulpit, "as pastors, not politicians." No sooner had they spoken, however, than many conservative American Catholics, among others, faulted their logic: the moral issue of the Bomb could not be dissociated from political processes; the bishops were at best naive, at worst disingenuous. One direct assault evidently deserved another...
Students from groups such as the Harvard Students for Israel, the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and the Harvard African Students’ Association, have spoken out against the policy and set up an online petition at travelpolicypetition.org. It is aimed at convincing Harvard administrators to remove the school’s restrictions on travel not only to Israel, but also to other nations with political unrest and dangerous conditions...
...bent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization of the landless in Brazil. Asked his priorities by Time, he immediately replied, "Evangelization and solidarity with the poor." Some outside the Third World have been almost as involved. Milan's DIONIGI CARDINAL TETTAMANZI, sometimes tagged as front runner for the papacy, famously blessed antiglobal protesters...