MEXICO CITY SITREP (DELETED)

Created: 7/31/1968

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XL0WIN8 IS TYPICAL Of IMCIDDITS OBSERVED DURXHB STUDENT

DEMONSTRATIONS BETVfER IBS! AID IBM, BI JULY IBCStTER SECT ION

Of LOOSES AND CIRANARCA STRtnS STUDERTS STOPPING CA.'I ART TAKIHO

FI01ET FROM OCCUPRRTSt TWELVE -TUDENTS ARRESTED AT LATH AMERICAN

BUILDfOR DANA SI IBGROUP OP STUDEARIIB UP STREET -

CAR TRACKS ATOf CHAfULTEPEC AIO BALOERABf SIZEABLE

nST flGKT UNDERWAY AT TORREOR ARD TCKUARTtPECTOT STUDENTS

CARRY IRQALIBER PISTOLS ARRESTED AT PREPARATORYMBER

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five, students burning several cms aid tvo buses at intersection

OP OCiritAL PRIM ABO SIX A3 ELVO BUSES OVERTuRIED AT IRTERSECTIOI

Or ABl'AHAH GONZALEZ ABO GENERAL PRIM, VHZXE POLICE CALLED FOB. BjB>

CEMEITS| POLICE AND STUDENTS CLASHED AT HOTEL VERSAILLES. Rt> ENFORCEMENTS CALLED. REPORTS SUCK AS THE ABOVE HAVE DIMINISHED

HE ENTRY OF THE ARHY INTO THES UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO CUBAN) II THE EARLY RORIXIO HOURS OF SB j'JLY, II

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OF UNIVERSITY AI/TOMMY, HAS HAD THE EFFECT OF UNIFYIIB THESTUDENT BODY II PROTEST. THOSE VKO HAVE NOTHERETOFOREEHO'jSTRATIOISEADY ANDTARE PART II THEMTHE CKARBf THAT. UJUVERSXTY

AUTONOMY HAS BEER VIOLATED IS BASED. PRESUMABLT.Oi THE fPKT THAT PARATROOPERS FORCIBLY EITFRED*BEVCRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS, VHICH ARE AN IRTEBRAL PART OF *KE URAM STRUCTURE. THERE HAVE SEER NO REPORTS THAT THE ARMY HAS ENTEREDUN an CANPUSOTH THE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE (DPS) AND THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF UIAH HAVE COIFIRNLO THAT IE IT HER THE HEXICAI GOVERNMENT NOR THE UNIVERSITY HUABEHEBT MAS AST PLANS

STEADILY BET VEER THE HOURS 1CAS-1SM,

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dealing vith tke current problem op student protests wid

A MASS MEETING VAS held AT un AH AT uh-HOURS Ol Je

JULY. VXTH REPRESENTATIVES PR or THE RATIO bal POLYTECHNIC XB-cipmj

STXTUTE/XB ATTENDANCE. XT HAS AGREED THAT THE PROPOSED MASS MARCH BY UWH/IPN STUDEBTS would TARE PLACE AT ITGG HOURS ONULY. FOLLOWING THIS MEETING* THE STUDENTS HARCKED TO TKE OFFICE OP un AM RECTOR, JAVIER 8arros SIERRA, WHO APPEAREDORE TKE STUDEBTSRSORALLY LOWERED THE FLAG* TO HALF BAST, AMD STATED THAT HE WAS "WITH THE STUDEBTS" INASMUCH AS THE AUTONOMY OP THE UNIVERSITY HAD BEEN VIOLATED. ARROS SIERRA INFORMED Tiff STUDEBTS THAT THE UNIVERSITY WOULD BE REOPENED ONULY.J

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HX COMMUBIST YOUTH Of MEXICO <JCH> HAIQERERAL ASSEMBLY* AT THX URIWERSITT STADIUM TO Bill" AT

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AT THAT TIM?. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT DUX TO ICATTlHXO HEAVY RAH SHOWERS THROUGHOUT MEXICO CITY DURIII.TKX AfTkX-NOON THE SITE OP THE MEET HQ HAS BECILL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS II THX MEXICO CITY AREA HAVE mi AIEEO TO ATTEND* THE PURPOSEHIS MEETING IS TO ATTEMPT TO IIPLUIICE THE STUDERTS TOWARD THE DEMARDS OP THE JCM RELATING TO THX CURRENT DEMONSTRATIONS* XI Al EFFORT TO COUNTERACT THX JCM INFLUENCE, STUDENTS OF THE UN AM SCHOOLS OFCHEMISTRY,'MUSIC ANDREPARATORY SCHOOLS NUMBERS FOUR AND EIGHT, ARD PARTS Of THE SCHOOLS OF LAV AND SOCIAL STUDIES HAVEEETING FOR 1SB0 HOURSS JULY AT WHICH THEY PLAN TO COUNSEL MODERATION.

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iOTMERTi AS0 HOURS, THERE ARCt>OF PLAINED DEMONSTRATIONS FOR THE EVENING OF AtSTATE ARMY HAVY AIR FBI CINCSO

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