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Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, a brave and noble voice from an almost forgotten continent...
...anti-apartheid protest swelled, the black South African churchman who helped inspire it took possession of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Clad in a red cassock and wearing a gold pectoral cross, South African Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu accepted the Nobel committee's $181,000 cash award and 7.2-oz. gold medal in Norway's University of Oslo Aula. Shortly before the ceremony, Tutu, who a week earlier had declared in Washington that U.S. policy toward South Africa was "immoral, evil and totally un-Christian," was forced along with other dignitaries to evacuate the Oslo hall...
...city bus, and there's one black man on it. The instant the black man gets off and it's just white people, they pull out music and cards and have parties." Murphy also performed in a sketch called "Milestones," depicting South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and Heisman Trophy Winner Doug Flutie. Presumably, Murphy always wanted to play the bishop, but then again . . . "They are 17 of the best dancers in the world." So says Sir Richard Attenborough, 61, appraising his cast for the film version of A Chorus Line, currently filming-where else?-on Broadway. The director...
...bishop, 53, was at the center of a sudden escalation of protests in the U.S. last week directed at South Africa's government and Washington's relations with it. Tutu's tour culminated Friday morning in the Oval Office, where President Reagan defended his policy of using "quiet diplomacy" to prompt reforms of South Africa's repressive policies. At a press conference afterward, Reagan said South Africa's policies were "repugnant" and insisted that "we have made sizable progress in persuading the South African government to make changes." Tutu was not convinced. "There may have...
...main impact of Tutu's tour was the note of moral dignity it gave to the rising protests in the U.S. "When the missionaries first came to Africa," he told a celebrity-studded audience at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, "they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land." After the laughter, Tutu switched moods. "Where is the anger?" he asked, referring to the U.S. Government. "Constructive engagement is an abomination, an unmitigated disaster...