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...Tutu's request, which was also seen as an illumination of Black despair, came at the same time that the government dropped restrictions preventing the wife of jailed Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela from returning to her home in the township of Soweto...
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu this week called for immediate punitive economic sanctions against South Africa, in an apparent move to urge Western governments to pressure Pretoria into liberalizing its racial policies, The New York Times reported yesterday...
University Vice-President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 returned from a fact-finding mission to South Africa, claiming that Blacks in that country wanted Harvard interns. But in the face of subsequent denunciations of the program by Bishop Desmond M. Tutu and other South African leaders and vocal oppostion from several faculty members as well as students, the committee charged with administering the internships voted to cancel the program. In the context of Harvard bureaucracy at least, they moved with an alacrity that deserves commendation...
What so inscensed Bishop Tutu about Harvard's ostensibly philanthropic desire to send interns to his country was the arrogant and paternalistic way in which Harvard conceived and established the program without regard for the views or concerns of those the program was supposedly designed to help. It is the same paternalism that bolsters Harvard's decision not to divest. And instead of helping Black South Africans in a way that many of them have requested, the University decided it knew better. It didn't, and it doesn...
...Bishop Tutu has so clearly stated, it is time for the leaders of the majority population to take control of their own destiny. And every overture from concerned parties must now conform to their struggle for freedom, as outlined in their own words--not by a university on the other side of the world...