Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tutu's remarks at the prayer service capped off a day in Boston, which also saw him receive a key to the city from Mayor Raymond L. Flynn attend a luncheon with students and faculty at the Faculty Club, and give a brief press conference in Robinson Hall. He was brought to Cambridge by the Harvard Foundation, and organization designed to foster interracial harmony on campus...
Throughout the day, the 53 year old Anglican bishop sounded a broad message about the inalienability of civil rights for his people. But Tutu's specific remarks about foreign investment were of special interest on a campus where debate has raged for more than a decade over Harvard's investments in companies doing business in South Africa...
...midday press conference before the service, Tutu said that by South African law he is forbidden from advocating foreign "disinvestment" from his country, but can only criticize investment...
...support disinvestment' because that would be an indictable offense back in South Africa," Tutu said. "But I will certainly say that I expect those who want to support us to exert all the pressure they can on South African government political, diplomatic, and above all economic pressure...
Fielding a question about the suffering among Black South Africans that might be caused by disinvestment. Tutu said, "It apartheid is going to be changed by even additional suffering it is far better to take on that rather than let us have [apartheid...