Press release reporting that the Board of Directors of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago voted 20 to 7 to withdraw its accounts from Continental Illinois Bank to identify itself with those Lutherans suffering the injustice of apartheid laws in Namibia and South Africa. The press releases notes that many synods of the Lutheran Church in America have debated the divestiture issue at synod meetings in 1980. The press release quotes form Board Chairperson Robert C. Hereth and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago President William E. Lesher.
