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...taking office six months ago. "The President has shown who is President of Mexico," said Novelist Carlos Fuentes. Echeverria, 49, also seemed to have won over many students, who have distrusted him since the 1968 Tlateloco massacre when he served as Interior Minister in the government that ordered in riot police and federal troops; their indiscriminate firing caused at least 33 deaths...
...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...
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...
While the right-wing youths, numbering as many as a thousand, charged back and forth clubbing everyone in their path, including reporters and photographers, the riot police shot tear gas canisters into the remaining conglomeration of marchers. As pistol shots began to ring in the air tanks pulled up behind the column of demonstrators. They were trapped. Some students took refuge in the Normal subway station, others hid in private houses and a nearby hospital. Some of the marchers tried to get away in cars...
Ping Pong Samba. Last year Williams put down a Black Power riot that coincided with an attempted mutiny by elements of his 750-man army. In the recent campaign he attacked his leading opponent, A.N.R. (for Arthur Napoleon Raymond) Robinson, 44, as a "halfwit" and said the others "could change places with the jackasses in the canefields." He told voters: "I have the power. I say come, and they cometh, I say go, and they goeth." The boast inevitably inspired an opposition sign: COMETH, GOETH, VOTETH...