The World - News from Nov. 30, 1988

Fifty people were injured when police fired tear gas and birdshot to disperse students and striking Peruvian miners at the national university in Lima, police said. The demonstrators were protesting the government’s failure to resolve a five-week-old national miners’ strike that has crippled foreign exchange earnings. Anti-riot police entered the campus of San Marcos University to quell protesters, who were throwing rocks at vehicles and blocking roads, a police spokesman said. He said 50 people were taken to a hospital in Lima, most of them hit by birdshot, and that 97 protesters were arrested.