JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: In Mexico City, officials are reviewing the damage caused by a student strike. The standoff ended Sunday when police stormed the campus. But as CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports, both sides are considering what happens now.</s>HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Distrust of everybody seemed to be the dominant mood at a meeting of dissident students in Mexico City. A day after they were kicked out of the public university campus they had controlled for over nine months, those members of the Student Strike Council that were not in prison met to ponder their next move. Sunday's police action to occupy Mexico's National Autonomous University resulted in the arrests of hundreds of striking student. While some displays of support for the student movement were quite vocal, Mexican public opinion seemed to approve of the government's decision to use force to end the strike. A poll by a leading Mexican newspaper showed over 61 percent of the public supported the police move onto the campus. When President Ernesto Zedillo went on national television after the occupation, he took direct responsibility for the decision. But to some his actions were not deserving of accolades.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The government has failed to solve problem politically. This is a failure on the government's part. This is government failure. Before it was able to solve problems politically. Now it can't.</s>WHITBECK: For nearly 10 months, the students kept government negotiators at bay, changing their demands and refusing to relinquish control of Latin America's largest university campus. On Sunday, it was the government who seemed to have the last word.</s>WHITBECK: That was CNN's Mexico City bureau chief, Harris Whitbeck, reporting.
Mexican Government Uses Force to Expel Striking Students From University