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Reports that universities in Baden-Wurttemberg signed a collective `solidarity pact' with the state government. Promise by the universities to reduce staffing levels in exchange for the state's guarantee to continue supporting the institutions at 1996 levels; Comments from Peter Frankenberg of the University of Mannheim; Resource-sharing agreement between the University of Mannheim and the University of Heidelberg.

States that German students demonstrated in major German cities to demand more money for the state-run higher-education system. The students barricading lecture halls in Bonn, and marching through Dusseldorf to the state parliament building; University educators indicating that conditions deteriorated as government support failed to keep up with increased enrollment.