The World - News from May 7, 1989

Students at Beijing University in the Chinese capital voted to continue a two-week class boycott for democratic reforms, despite calls by protest leaders to drop the strike. The United Assn. of Beijing Universities, an independent group that has organized three weeks of demonstrations, urged that students head back to class and continue their campaign through “speeches, plays and pamphlets.” But at Beijing University, students voted in favor of continuing the boycott. Some students at Beijing Normal University also said they would stay out of school. More than 70,000 Beijing students had been boycotting classes since April 24, but students at many schools began returning to class this weekend.