September 3, 1999

Strike Delays New Term at Mexican University

By RHONA STATLAND de LOPEZ

The official start of the fall term at the National Autonomous University of Mexico came and went on August 16 without a solution to the student strike that has crippled the institution for four months.

Striking students have occupied the university, known by its Spanish acronym UNAM, since April 20 to protest the university's first tuition increase in more than 50 years. When the boycott was six weeks old, the rector, Francisco Barnes de Castro, capitulated

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