Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...
...that of course is what happens. The former beach girl becomes the wife and then the widow of an important black revolutionary, assassinated by South African security forces. She later marries another black, who becomes President of his (unnamed) liberated country. She hobnobs with Indira Gandhi and Bishop Desmond Tutu. She and her husband are honored guests at the ceremony marking the accession of black rule in South Africa...
...Tutu's endorsement signals additional clarityon the divestment issue," said Messinger. "I thinkthere will be lots of people voting based onreading our statements...
...Tutu's vote of confidence will influence thealumni voters because he is "one of the mostmoderate of major black spokesmen and the mostwidely known internationally," said Wood...
Hartman said he has not asked for theendorsement of other Black South African leadersand does not know if he will. He said that onereason Tutu's endorsement was solicited was thathe received an honorary degree here...