The World - News from Sept. 9, 1988
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Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu courted prosecution by repeating in public that blacks should boycott South Africa’s segregated municipal elections next month. The 27-month-old state of emergency in South Africa outlaws incitement to boycott the elections. The black Nobel Peace Prize winner, addressing several thousand students at Cape Town’s predominantly mixed-race University of the West Cape, repeated the call he first made from the pulpit Sunday. At least 27 black activists, including leaders of two banned organizations, have been detained in an apparent crackdown on opposition to the Oct. 26 elections, South African newspapers reported.
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