October 27, 2000

Egyptian Students Injured in Protest; UNESCO Institute to Move to U. of Montreal; Myanmar Continues College Crackdown; South African Distance-Learning Plan Rapped

Thirty-one people were injured when Egyptian students protested an Israeli-Palestinian summit in Egypt, according to a local newspaper.

The newspaper, Al-Ahram, reported that 6,000 Cairo University students poured out of the main university gate on the Saturday before the talks began and marched on the Israeli Embassy. The students became enraged when Egyptian security forces turned them away. In the resulting melee, 21 policemen and 10 students were