The World - News from Dec. 9, 1988
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Two anti-apartheid campaigners, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and the Rev. Allan Boesak, met U.S. Democratic Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and David L. Boren of Oklahoma in Cape Town and urged the United States to take a stronger lead in fighting apartheid. “We impressed upon them the need for the United States to take a much firmer lead in terms of pressure on the South African government,” Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, told reporters.
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