From: Curtis Price <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 11:02:41 +0000 Subject: (Fwd) Students and teachers riot in Nicaragua, three injured ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 20:21:06 -0700 From: NewsHound <NewsHound-AT-hound.com> Reply-to: NewsHound-AT-hound.com Subject: Students and teachers riot in Nicaragua, three injured NewsHound article from "RIOTS" hound, score "81." Students and teachers >>riot<< in Nicaragua, three injured MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Students and teachers hurling rocks and bottles fought running battles with anti-riot police in the capital Friday in the second day of protests against a government plan to change the way it subsidizes education. At least three students were hospitalized with injuries, police said. Three trucks belonging to the Managua government were set afire on the city's outskirts. Angry students barricaded themselves inside a building at the Jesuit-run Central American University. Police, meanwhile, seized the main building at the University of Nicaragua school of engineering to keep protesters from beginning a sit-in there. In at least four different spots in the city, students threw rocks and bottles at police, who responded by firing tear gas canisters. Students also turned out Thursday to protest an effort by conservative President Arnoldo Aleman to streamline the distribution of government subsidies among Nicaragua's 10 universities. Until now, the total government subsidy, $3.1 million, was turned over to the Universities Council, which is comprised of the rectors of the 10 universities. The council then distributed the money among the schools. Aleman and a majority in the National Legislature want the government itself to distribute the money to the individual universities, whose expenditures will then be audited. Students, teachers and the council claim the new policy would violate university autonomy. ------------------------------------------------------------ NewsHound is a service of Knight-Ridder, Inc. For more information, write to: speak-AT-hound.com This material is copyrighted and may not be republished without permission of the originating newspaper or wire service. ------------------------------------------------------------ For more information, visit the NewsHound website at http://www.newshound.com or send an email to speak-AT-hound.com. --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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