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...began on July 23 with a fight between students of two high schools. The police riot squad (the Granaderos) intervened and used clubs and rifle butts to disperse the students. Several students were seriously hurt. In Mexico, the high schools are part of the University system. The Mexican constitution states that the University is to be autonomous -- i.e., self-governing and self-policing. The use of city police to break up a high school riot is thus in violation of the constitution...
...They left screaming, "Mexico Freedom." When the people were out on the street they decided to march to the University. The army, however, was determined to scatter the mob, and did so by chasing them down the street with clubs, rifle butts and bayonets. Rifles and machine guns were used to fire into the crowd. Wounded or hurt bodies were run over by the tanks in their pursuit. Men and women alike were clubbed, beaten and wounded with bayonets. Onlookers were not spared -- one old man was beaten to death. About 30 people were killed and many more were seriously...
...Poor" also has a new meaning in Alabama. The $3,000-per-family-of-four poverty line figure used in the rest of the country is awkward to use in counties where the average family income hovers around $800. Much handier is the government's survival level" figure of about $1500 per family...
...Millers are an extreme case, Not many other families in the Black Belt make much more than Mr. Miller (about $12 a week), but not many families have 23 people to support. Miller himself didn't use to be in such bad condition--it wasn't until 1963 that he started losing children from cold and hunger. Before 1963, the family planted 25 acres of cotton and had enough money to have regular meals and to clothe the children for school...
...couldn't run the whole Gen Ed program this way," Wilcox says; "Mark Hopkins at the other end of the log may be ideal in educational theory, but that's not workable here." Though the added expense has not yet been computed with any precision, some faculty will probably use the financial argument to demand that house course be proved not just vaguely worthwhile, but worth an extra investment...