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Amid a riot of banners, 10,000 students took time out from examinations last week and began marching toward Mexico City's giant Monument of the Revolution. They were protesting, among other things, the continued imprisonment of 40 students arrested during the October 1968 antigovernment demonstrations in the capital, during which more than 50 people died. The protesters had managed to proceed less than half a mile, however, when a skirmish line of police blocked their advance and fired off volleys of tear gas. Suddenly, as if on signal, waves of men carrying bamboo poles and clubs swooped...
Worse, the Old Guard is changing too. When the Confederate monument across from the courthouse is vandalized, nobody except Hester appears in any hurry to restore...
...whatever Phil lacked in credibility, he made up for in humor. One of the passengers' many chuckles came at the Bunker Hill Monument when Phil said. "It takes about 10 or 15 minutes to walk to the top, ten or 15 minutes to walk to the bottom and, as I recall, ten days to recover." Whatever...
...testament to the past, a monument to the future. As for the present, well, it's a mess...
Late in the afternoon thousands of students, massed behind banners carrying political slogans, poured from the campus of the National Polytechnic Institute at Mexico City's northern edge and headed towards the monument of the Revolution midtown, chanting in chorus "Mexico-Liberty," "Mexico-Liberty." Shortly a group of riot police asked that the demonstrators disperse as a permit had not been secured for the march and it was thus illegal. Several blocks on another-and larger-detachment of police reiterated the order. The marches began singing the National Anthem. The police retired and the demonstrators moved forward again. At about...