Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which might make most scholars skeptical about the prospects for real reform in South Africa. But "as we have learned from went on in Eastern Europe," Vail says, "you can never tell what is going to happen tomorrow...
...Sunday, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu dramatically stated that he would push Harvard's Board of Overseers to reevaluate its South African divestment policy in an effort to urge further reform in that country...
...when Tutu came to Sunday's regular meeting--just after South African President F.W. de Klerk had announced plans for substantial reform--he was asked to speak about his country's situation. After that meeting, he said he sensed willingness among other overseers to reopen discussion of selling Harvard's $139 million in South Africa-related holdings...
Overseer Peter Wood '64, who was elected to the Board on a pro-divestment slate, also cautions against moving too fast to reinvest in South Africa. He says Americans are too prone to invest minor reform there with more importance than they merit...
Sunday's massive demonstration by 200,000 pro-reform citizens in Moscow was arranged by Gorbachev and was intended to intimidate his conservative opponents, Pipes said...