November 26, 1999
Rector Resigns at Strike-Plagued University in Mexico
On the 207th day of a student strike that has paralyzed the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the rector of the nation's largest university handed in his resignation.
Francisco Barnes de Castro finally yielded on November 12 to repeated calls for him to step down. After nearly seven months of an increasingly acrimonious strike that has shut the country's foremost public university, known by its Spanish acronym UNAM, Mr. Barnes's resignation letter expressed hope that "new
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