Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order that barred Mrs. Sisulu from political activities. Also, De Klerk was the host for three hours of what he described as "talks about talks" with three M.D.M.-affiliated antiapartheid campaigners, all of them rare visitors to Pretoria's Union Buildings, the seat of white rule: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; and the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches...
...agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of remaining political prisoners, and then within six months abolish apartheid laws and begin negotiations on a new South African constitution with the A.N.C. "If we were to get that kind of commitment," Tutu said, "we would be ready to say to our friends, 'Put your sanctions programs on hold...
Wearing a yellow hat with the slogan "Free the Beaches," and a T-shirt saying, "Just Call me Arch," the 56-year-old Tutu jogged on the beach. He then held a prayer service after persuading police not to use force on the crowd, which ignored police orders over loudspeakers to disperse...
...hope that the inhabitants of the Strand will realize that we have liberated them," Tutu told a news conference later. "They don't have to watch whether Black people are walking on their beaches any longer. They will enjoy the liberation of being able to share...
...Tutu said he was afraid that when police took the journalists away they planned to use force against the crowd. On Aug. 19, Tutu recalled, when thousands of Blacks tried to get to the Strand beach, police used whips and dogs to drive them away...