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CAPE TOWN, South Africa--Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious leader from all races were arrested yesterday while kneeling near Parliament with a petition against government bans on anti-apartheid groups...
Members of the procession, led by Tutu and his colleagues, recited the Lord's Prayer as police sprayed them with jets of water and loaded them into vans...
...Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has traveled the world denouncing apartheid, South Africa's system of official discrimination against blacks. But last week the black clergyman took aim at a different target: human rights abuses in black-ruled African countries. "It is sad that South Africa is noted for its vicious violations of human rights," Tutu told a Nairobi press conference at a meeting of the All Africa Conference of Churches. "But it is also very sad to note that there is less freedom in some independent African countries than there was in the much maligned colonial...
Still, many blacks support divestiture as a means to pressure the Botha government. A crippled economy, it is hoped, will eventually force the government to make meaningful reforms. Among the defenders of corporate pullouts are the Congress of South African Trade Unions and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa...
...fear to use our influence. We shun ourmoral leadership. We have isolated ourselves fromthe most dramatic chapter in the story of freedomaround the world," he said. Biden added that hehimself would deal with moderate Black leaders,including Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu...