Strike Closes Key Mexican University;Students Oppose `Elitist' Changes From: The Washington Post | Date: January 30, 1987| Author: | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Mexico's strongest student protest movement in almost two decades shut down the huge National Autonomous University today in a strike that authorities fear could stir unrest far beyond the school's boundaries.

Moments after midnight, leaders of the university's student council draped red-and-black strike banners on school installations, beginning a closure that some said could last weeks or months. Condemning the student action, administrator Mario Ruiz Massieu said it could cause "irreversible damage to their school and their country."

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