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Tutu's remarks at the prayer service capped off a day in Boston, which also saw him receive a key to the city from Mayor Raymond L. Flynn attend a luncheon with students and faculty at the Faculty Club, and give a brief press conference in Robinson Hall. He was brought to Cambridge by the Harvard Foundation, and organization designed to foster interracial harmony on campus...
Before beginning his tour at Harvard, Tutu received the key to the city from Mayor Flynn at a Fairwell Hall ceremony
...Flynn's office responded with outrage, saying they had arranged the Fancuil Hall visit without any knowledge of the Harvard event. Mayor Flynn publicy accepted a hasty apology drafted by news office head David Rosen, but went on to imply that Boston was better fit to welcome the bishop because the city has divested from firms doing business in the racist state of South Africa while Harvard...
...rule of a minority white government. The urgency of this cause cannot be overstated and it is testimony to its extreme nature that organizations such as the city of Boston have taken the unusual step of corporate divestiture. In fact, the irony of the University's indignant comments toward Flynn's office is that they have focused attention on the contrast between Harvard's and Boston's positions on divestiture, rather than on the distinguished visitor himself...
...apology to Mayor Flynn, Rosen explained that the University had not known Flynn's office was arranging a visit by Tutu, and that therefore the comments about stealing Harvard's thunder were "inappropriate." But what renders Tutu's appearance appropriate, either in Boston or Harvard or anywhere, has nothing to do with the administrative arrangements behind the visits, but rather the substance of his call for justice for South African Blacks. That is a call which can only thunder more resoundingly the more frequently it is heard...