NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Protesting Students Meet With Barry
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Mayor Marion Barry, bowing to a chief demand of students occupying two buildings at the University of the District of Columbia, said he will ask 10 of the school’s 15 trustees to resign. However, the mayor added that he is powerless to force anyone on the trustee board to quit. “We had a good dialogue, a good session,” the mayor said after emerging from a 4 1/2-hour meeting with students who have occupied the two buildings at the city-run university since Wednesday.
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