Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tutu, who was elected to Harvard's Board of Overseers on a prodivestment slate last year, said that he raised the South African issue at the Board's regular meeting in Cambridge yesterday, and that the Board would likely discuss divestment at its next meeting...
...Tutu said he sensed the Board was committed to the South African investment issue, given the wide-spread enthusiasm over recent decisions to legalize anti-apartheid groups in that country...
...think that we are seeing a momentum in that particular situation," Tutu said in a press conference at the Charles Hotel. "And my reading is that there is a far greater willingness on the part of those on the Board to consider getting...tougher than they have been. And they are saying we ought to put it on the agenda...
Overseers President John C. White-head, who only months ago said that divestment was a "closed matter," confirmed last night that the Board would take up the matter in two months if Tutu asked...
...Tutu] would like discussion, I am sure there will be discussion," he said. "And maybe by that time, there will be changes that cause Harvard's policy to change...The general idea was to watch and wait...