Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cancellation came after it became public that Black South African leaders, including Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, never were consulted about the program's value. They believed the initiative would harm South Africa's Black majority...
...time passes, the chance of racial compromise seems to be getting slimmer. Scarcely two months ago Western leaders still hoped to persuade Botha to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years. Now some Afrikaners are agitating for the arrest of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace laureate who is due to be installed on Sept. 7 as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa. Two weeks ago Manpower Minister Pieter du Plessis gave Tutu a "friendly warning" that his calls for sanctions against South Africa "border on high...
...backs are against the wall, we will have no alternative but to stand up in self-respect and say to the world: You won't force South Africans to commit national suicide. Leave South Africa to the South Africans." Just as South Africa's black Anglican Archbishop-elect, Desmond Tutu, had told the West to "go to hell" the week before, now it was South Africa's white President, P.W. Botha, saying virtually the same thing. The defiant stands on both sides of the embattled nation's apartheid clash focused on the same subject: sanctions. While Tutu had reacted angrily...
...meant to calm the debate over sanctions, it brought the issue to such a head that by week's end Reagan's aides were scurrying to hint that his policy could change. The Senate, led by rebellious Republicans, proceeded to draw up a bill to apply further sanctions. Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop-elect of South Africa, called the speech "nauseating" and added that "the West, for my part, can go to hell." As New York Times Columnist James Reston put it, "Reagan tried unsuccessfully to persuade the extremists on both sides and lost the moderates in the process...
...wrote this letter? Ted Kennedy? Bishop Desmond Tutu? A prominent divestment activist? No, none of the above. It was President Derek C. Bok, who has spent many years justifying Harvard's colossal investments in South Africa, protesting the state of emergency and urging the U.S. to impose sanctions on that country...