Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched your speech last night were hoping you would extend universal suffrage to all South African people or at least enact something that looked progressive. I'm glad you decided to keep the white aristocracy strong, but that was very naughty of you not to meet with Bishop Tutu a few week...
Mitterand: Well, you could have met with Tutu. It would have been a symbolic gesture and might have given your police some breathing space. Don't forget, P.W., you've got a lot of very rich people on your side. Most of them would put up an enormous battle before pulling stock out of a country with such a cheap labor market. Besides, your gold mines supply 70 percent of the free world and you only have to pay the workers $55 each week. As far as some of the western exports go--do you think IBM would pull...
...support of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has helped spark a recent flurry of state and local divestment legislation in the U.S. Tutu scoffs at Americans who say they are concerned about how economic cutoffs might affect blacks in South Africa. "People ought ( to stop using us as alibis for not doing what they know they ought to do," he says. Many other black leaders agree. "Any movement toward the isolation of apartheid is a welcome development," says Neo Mnumazana, observer at the U.N. from the African National Congress, a black coalition party...
Harvard argues that its policy for dealing with its South Africa-related investments is ethical and sound, and is the best approach the University can take to improve the lives of Black South Africans. The University requires its portfolio companies with South African operations to sign Sullivan and Tutu principles, which call for reforms in the workplace and active opposition to apartheid laws...
...other side, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African clergyman who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to apartheid, complained recently in Los Angeles that "people ought to stop using us South African blacks as alibis for not doing what they know they ought to do." At a lunch last week with TIME editors, Cuomo said, "There is no question that divestment has caught on." The Governor cited Tutu's current prominence as a major reason for the rising American interest. In Cuomo's view, Tutu is telling Americans that "you're patronizing us, you're wrong. We know...