Tuition Protesters Close Mexican University

Thousands of students barricaded buildings at the National Autonomous University of Mexico last week, declaring a strike that they said would continue until a tuition increase approved last month had been repealed.

Counter-protesters chanted slogans and waved placards denouncing the boycott, which they feared might continue indefinitely and result in a loss of academic credit for the semester. In 1987, the

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