Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout a hostile campaign, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) supporters had said Tutu's presence on the Board could force a vote on the University's $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments...
...known how the other four successful candidates--Labor Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, researcher Dr. Bernadine P. Healy, actor John A. Lithgow '67 and attorney Peter L. Malkin '55--stood on the divestment issue. Yet HRAAA supporters said Tutu's election alone could tip the scales their...
...before Tutu's election was announced, the Board approved most of the report's recommendations, even though HRAAA supporters said it was just a heavy-handed attempt to defeat their pro-divestment movement...
Meanwhile, HRAAA officials announced that Tutu would not be able to attend the Board's first meeting. University administrators sounded the "I told you so's," and HRAAA officials said they couldn't say when--or even if--Tutu would begin regular attendance...
HRAAA officials said they were not disappointed and insisted that Tutu was a moral force for the Board even from Cape Town...