File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9706, message 203


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


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Date:          Fri, 27 Jun 1997 20:21:06 -0700
From:          NewsHound <NewsHound-AT-hound.com>

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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.



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