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December 5, 1984

Bishop Tutu says US guilty of helping with apartheid

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Desmond M. Tutu accused the Reagan administration Tuesday of ''immoral, evil, and totally un-Christian'' collaboration with South African apartheid. He was accorded a highly unusual standing ovation by members of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa after his testimony at a public hearing.

He offered to meet with President Reagan or Secretary of State George P. Shultz, if they would invite him, to outline his objections to the administration's policy of ''constructive engagement.