Tutu Invites U.S. Foes of Apartheid to Enthronement
Bishop Desmond Tutu has invited anti-apartheid activists, U.S. politicians such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and entertainers such as Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie to his enthronement as archbishop of Cape Town, according to an invitation list released today.
Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against apartheid race laws, will be elevated to head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa at a Cape Town ceremony Sept. 7.
Organizers said he has sent invitations to 161 people in Britain and the United States including black Reps. Howard Wolpe (D-Mich.) and William H. Gray (D-Pa.), both vocal supporters of sanctions, and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.). He has also invited Coretta Scott King, widow of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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