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...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...
...role without divesting, My proposal is for Harvard to use its shareholders votes in U.S. companies which do business in South Africa to elect directors who are committed to ethical and that country, and I believe that the man best qualified to be such a director its Bishop Desmond Tutu...
...already shown its willingness to divest its share in irresponsible companies. Why should it not then use its shareholder power to elect a director who will act to ensure the proper behavior of the remaining companies in its portfolio? To those who favor divestment, the election of Bishop Tutu would mean that apartheid's most notable, eloquent, and unimpeachable opponent would be able to affect the behavior of U.S. companies abroad depends upon the will of the people, and not just the position of the incumbent administration. For those who do not own stock in the U.S. companies in South...
December 3, 1984: Nobel Peace Prize winner pop Desmond M. Tutu, in a visit to Boston and Harvard, charges that the University's investments directly support apartheid...
Bearing staffs and walking with purpose, 25 South African churchmen of all races, led by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, marched on Johannesburg's police headquarters last week. There they lodged a protest against the government's six-month-long detention of a black priest. A week earlier 239 demonstrators in a similar march in Cape Town had been arrested; this time policemen simply took names and photographs while the clergymen sang hymns...