Low Oil Prices Hurt Mexican Universities' Budgets

Mexico's proposed federal budget for 1999 would effectively freeze almost all programs at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the country's largest, and bring about significant cuts at other public institutions across the country.

The government, which gets about 35 per cent of its revenue from oil sales, is proposing an extremely austere budget for 1999 because the price of oil recently has

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