The World - News from Nov. 27, 1986

Students have shut down at least 50 of France’s 78 public universities. The strikes, which began Nov. 17, mushroomed this week as high school students joined the protest against the conservative government’s plan to allow the universities greater autonomy in selecting students and in academic orientation. Provincial students will join Parisians in a march today through the Left Bank to the National Assembly as legislators begin debating the controversial higher education bill, and other demonstrations were planned around the country. Students say the bill would create an elitist system and deny them the right to choose a university and curriculum.