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Created: 7/31/1968

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1. DURING THE MORMltG OFULY8 NO INCIDENTS OF ANY CONSEQUENCE INVOLVING LTUDE9TS HAVE BEE! OBSERVED. AROUNT NITS OF POLICE, INCLUDING RIOT riUADS, HERE BEING DEPLOYED THROUGHOUT IHE CITY, BUT THESE COULO PAVE BEEN ROUTINE. AT THE SAME TtHSf RE-Hm.NING CLOO.TS OF ARMY TROOPS VERE BEING REMOVED FROM SOME OF THE PREPARATORY SCHOOLS. P

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WITH APPROXIMATELY THENTY FIVE HUNDRED PARTICIPANTS. UlAFi RECTO, JAVIER BAM OS SIDBU, ADDRESSED THE GROUP STATIBB THAT 'Oft THZ FAST FORTY YEARS THERE HAD BEEB BO VIOLATION OF UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY UBTXL THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. FOR THIS REASON, HE SAID, HE HIMSELF HILLARCH OUTSIDEUBIVERSITY GROUNDS BE6IIBIB3 AT ITB8 HOURSUGUST

Ii STRATEGY COWHIITXET, umiui THE DIRECTION OP HI BISTERERKMEMT LUIS ECHEVERRIA. IS OF TKE OPINION THAT THE CURRENT HAVE OF STUDENT DISTURBANCES HAS BEEN BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL,. FURTHER PROTEST, PRINCIPALLY IB THE FORM OF HIHTTEB MANIFESTOS, OPEN LETTERS, LEAFLETS, ETC. AND SPONSORED BY COMMUNIST ELEMENTS, ARE ANTICIPATED, BUT NO FURTHER SERIOUS ACTS OF VIOLENCE ARE EXPECTED.

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