Word: pri
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...presentation to the events of 1968. I pointed out that it was the unwarranted brutality of the "granaderos" or riot police that provided the "trigger" and that a major predisposing background factor was the students dislike of the corruption and excessive power of the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), a party that generally garners about 90-95% of the presidential vote. I ended by calling for the freedom of the students in prison...
Opposition to the report has been pri-marily focused on the section dealing with marijuana. State Senator Beryl W. Cohen, Senate chairman of the committee, said Tuesday that ten of its 11 members would refuse to sign the report until the provision recommending legalization of marijuana is deleted...