AUSTIN, Texas — Campus officials at the University of Texas have accused individuals from outside the school, not students, of organizing and carrying out a pro-Palestinian protest that turned violent on Monday.

Seventy-nine people were arrested at UT Monday afternoon for refusing to abandon and tear down an encampment in a park at the center of academic buildings midday Monday.

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