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8-E-C-R-E-T-2-CS-311/13134-664. A meeting of members of the Independent Central of People's Organizations (CIOP - Contral Independiente de Organizaciones del Pueblo) was held on 19 Aujust to discurs plans to carry out agitational activities oarly in September in support of busdrivers and other unionized groups.5. The campaign in support of political prisoners has been suspended until 25 September. The situation has become more complicated because of the recent increase in the number of prisoners, although in Nuevo Leon there have been no repercussions because of the roundup of the Ugalde-Rico Galan group.6. With regard to the national meeting of university students, it cannot be said that it was successful since only three delo- gations were present - those from Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua, and Jalisco. Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, Jose Encarnacion Perez Gaytan and other members of the Party Presidium were present, which suggests that the Party attaches considerable importance to its program for university action. This meeting was considered to be the first stage, to be followed by others. It is assumed within the Party that the Nuovo Leon State Committee is exper- ienced in university mattors since it organized the University of Nuevo Loon Union (STUNL - Sindicato de la Universidad do Nuevo Leon).7. With respect to the PCM's electoral campaign, as yet no cand1- dates have been agreed upon, and it is clear that among those under consideration nono is of impressive stature.8. Of interest are the efforts of Porfirio Diaz, head of the National Youth Institute in Monterrey, who is departing from the Party lino in attempting to form a youth group in which the Institu- tional Rovolutionary Party (PRI - government party) would parti- cipate along with the PCM and other leftist organizations. Diaz has held meotings attended by Octavio Leal Moncada of the CIOP, Javier Rojas Sandoval of the PCM, Jose Luis Sustaita of the National Democratic Students' Contral (CNED Central Nacional do Estudiantes Democraticos), other members of the PCИ, and representatives of the PRI.1. Headquarters Comment: Issue No. 1845, dated 28 Augst 1966, of La Voz de Mexico, official newspaper of the PCM, reported that the Union de Sociedades de Credito Ejidal de la Comarca Lagunera 1940-1966 (LECEXL-1940-1966), headed by Arturo Orora Comiz, held its VIII Ordinary Congress in its headquarters at Torreon, Coshufio. Issue No. 1816, dated 4 September 1966, contained an article dated Torreon, Coahuila, August 1966, saying that the national plenum of the CCI had resolved to dissssoch te itself from the National Liberation Movement (MLN-Movimiento de Liberación Nacional), because of the latter's divisionist activities.2. Source Comment: In fact, the STUNL wse not forwed by the Party since, when It was organized, there were no Communists among the teachers and other university workers. The union came into being as a result principally of the activities of a group of teachers from Freparatory School H. 1, and it had the support of the then acting Rector, Alfonso Rangel Guerra, who saw in the union possibilities for creating problems for Eduardo Lives Villarreal, the Governor of Nuevo Leon. It was almost a year later that Rolando Guzman, Tomas Gonzalez de Luna, and Horacio Salazar Joined the FOH, but their influence in the union cannot be attributed to this fact. The union has continued to exist because it hos Faintained its activities within legal bounds, deconding eini vagee and improved working conditions. ICH influence in the union is negligible: since, in addition to Guaran, Gonzalez, and Salazar, there are unly four or five other 10 beabero. The usaibilities of forming a national university union would awer to be remote, and it is doubtful that present plans in this direction vill ever materialise.