The World - News from June 9, 1989

South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu was elected to a six-year term on Harvard University’s governing Board of Overseers despite strong opposition from the Alumni Assn. Earlier this year, Tutu vowed to return the university’s honorary degree awarded to him in 1979 if he were not elected to the board, one of Harvard’s two governing bodies. Tutu, who was nominated by a group that opposes apartheid, has been pressuring the university to unload $160 million in investments related to South Africa. As a result, the election provoked a bitter public battle. Harvard officials, normally neutral in such battles, authorized ads in the alumni magazine urging alumni not to vote for single-issue candidates.