Media 68

01 - 10 february
11 - 20 february
21 - 29 february

1 february

The prime minister Moro asks and obtains three times a vote of confidence against a Parliamentary investigation of Sifar.
[Italy]
Andy Warhol films "Surfing movie" with Viva, Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro and Ingrid Superstar. Viva and Taylor Mead, married with children go hunting surfers. Never shown in public.
[United States]
A citizen throws a television set from the Eiffel Tower in protest against the government's decision to introduce publicity in the radio-television programmes.
[France]
The American embassy of Saigon, occupied Wednesday 31 by the Vietcong partisans, is reoccupied by the Americans at the cost of serious losses. The Vietcong occupy the cities of Hue and Dalat. The US B52s bomb the suburbs of Saigon.
[Vietnam]
Alexandre Debray, mother of Regis Debray, leaves Paris to meet her son, arrested by the Bolivian military a few days before the assassination of Che Guevara, and condemned to thirty years of prison.
[Latin America]

2 february

The American president Johnson states: "we will never give in in Vietnam".
[United States]
Serious tension between the USA and North Korea over the American spy-ship Pueblo, captured in North Korean waters on 23 January.
[North Korea]
Violent clashes between Neo-Nazis and left-wing students in Bonn. 1 dead and tens of injured.
[West Germany]
La rivolta arriva all'università di Roma, la più affollata d'The revolt arrives in Rome university, the most crowded of Italy. Arts, Architecture and a hall of the institute of hygiene are occupied.
[Italy]
Rome: after the protest at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography the students obtain the resignation of the extraordinary Commissioner Nicola De Pirro (replaced by Roberto Rossellini "sole Commissioner").
[Italy]
The head of the Greek police orders the disbandment of beat groups the members of which are less than 17 years old.
[Greece]
Violent fighting in Hue and Pleiku.
[Vietnam]

3 february

For the state of Israel a massive deployment of the army and special troops begins, in the first year of military control of the territories occupied in the war of '67.
[Middle East]
"Lady Madonna", still today officially attributed to the Beatles is recorded by Paul McCartney (whose contrasts with John Lennon are increasingly strong) who uses unknown musicians in the recording studio.
[International]
The Spanish regime of the generalissimo Franco mobilizes in force the police and the civil guard, against the student occupations of the universities of Madrid and Barcelona.
[Spain]
An enormous demonstration against US aggression in Vietnam marches through Paris. Anti American demonstrations also in Frankfurt.
[France]

4 february

The Springer Tribunal is formed in Berlin (by Axel Springer, owner of the largest German newspapers) against "crimes of information".
[West Germany]
Appeal of 437 French and Japanese scientists to their USA colleagues to interrupt their experiments on chemical and bacteriological weapons.
[International]
Vietcong attack on the US base of Khe-Sanh.
[Vietnam]
In Indonesia the army represses the revolt of Communist formations in Borneo, in hiding since '65, the year of the massacre of Indonesian Communists and of the Chinese minority, by the military.
[Asia]
Premier in Zurich of the "Biography of Max Frisch", theatrical drama on the crisis of the intellectual.
[Switzerland]

5 february

The exodus of the Palestinians from the Gaza strip begins; it is now militarily occupied by the Israelis.
[Middle East]
Crisis in France of the official trade union representatives. In Caen the strikes and internal corteges of the Saviem workers continue.
[France]
In South Korea, anti-American student demonstration in front of the USA embassy; the marines on guard open fire on the crowd: hundreds are injured.
[South Korea]
Convention of the protest commissions of the protesting universities of Trent. In Rome the rector D'Avack threatens police intervention. Architecture occupied in Naples.
[Italy]
After a false diversionary attack on the USA consulate, in Frankfurt a thousand students of the SDS occupy the office of the Amerika Haus and raise the NLF flag.
[West Germany]

6 february

In the United States the legal authorities of the state of New Jersey, examine the possibilities of opening an investigation of the behaviour of the national guard during the revolt of the black ghetto of Newark.
[United States]
In response to the threats of the rector, the Roman students also occupy Law, Political Science and Statistics; solidarity of the Association of the appointed professors and of 68 lecturers of Physics.
[Italy]
In China the central authorities of the Communist Party create the revolutionary committee in the province of Hubei, which has 40 million inhabitants, and recover control of the city of Wuhan, after clashes between Red Guards and the army.
[China]
A group of students occupy the rectorate of Bonn and writes under the signature of the president of the Republic Luebke "builder of concentration camps".
[West Germany]

7 february

The actor and theatre director Donald Wolfit dies in London: a great Shakespearean actor, he also did cinema and TV.
[Great Britain]
Barricades in Paris in the Latin Quarter. Clashes between students, demonstrating for Vietnam, and the police continue into the night.
[France]
The government asks the Senate for a vote of confidence on article 15 of the law establishing the Regions, blocked by the obstructionism of the right.
[Italy]
The Americans give numbers: according to the US government the number of Vietcong killed since 30 January, the beginning of the Tet offensive, amount to 22,748.
[United States]
In Turin the rector recognizes the assembly as a representative body of the students. In Rome Economics and Commerce is occupied.
[Italy]
The university of Bonn is occupied and evacuated by the police. The students ask for the expulsion from the academic senate of president Luebke, former Nazi.
[West Germany]

8 february

The Barrientos government is formed in Bolivia .
[Bolivia]
In Czechoslovakia Dubcek and the new presidium of the Communist party for the first time give a public record of their work.
[Czechoslovakia]
In New York great success for "Plaza suite", by Neil Simon, which will become a film ("Apartment at the Plaza"), three one-acts plays on marriage. From now on only one film per country is permitted to the Oscar for the best foreign film.
[United States]
In Vietnam the peaceful village of Ben Tree, in the Mekong Delta, is wiped out by napalm.
[Vietnam]
In Naples all faculties are occupied.
[Italy]

9 february

Violent artillery duels between Israel and Jordan; the Arabs living on the left bank of the Jordan are hit.
[Middle East]
Theatre, cinema and TV actors on strike for 7 days (exempted those of the theatre companies in tournée). Assembly at the Quirino theatre of Rome and demonstrations in Milan and Turin.
[Italy]
For the first time the teaching body of the university faculties in France goes on strike, especially those of Sociology.
[France]
Curfew in Orangeburg. Among the injured is the leader of the SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committe), Cleveland Sellers.
[United States]
First attacks of the partisans of Al-Fatah in the occupied territories.
[Middle East]

10 february

Mario Pannunzio, former director of the main Italian "liberal" magazine "Il Mondo", dies.
[Italy]
A meeting of Roman teachers votes by majority on a very strict motion, shared by the academic senate, in which they ask for the immediate end of the occupations.
[Italy]
Following the attack on the Amerika Haus of Munich, the president of the RFT Kiesinger states that to further tolerate the students' actions would be "guilty weakness". The German interior minister mobilizes thousands of police against the strikes of students in Hamburg and Freiburg.
[West Germany]

		01 - 10 february 11 - 20 february 21 - 29 february
1 february		The prime minister Moro asks and obtains three times a vote of confidence against a Parliamentary investigation of Sifar. [Italy] Andy Warhol films "Surfing movie" with Viva, Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro and Ingrid Superstar. Viva and Taylor Mead, married with children go hunting surfers. Never shown in public. [United States] A citizen throws a television set from the Eiffel Tower in protest against the government's decision to introduce publicity in the radio-television programmes. [France] The American embassy of Saigon, occupied Wednesday 31 by the Vietcong partisans, is reoccupied by the Americans at the cost of serious losses. The Vietcong occupy the cities of Hue and Dalat. The US B52s bomb the suburbs of Saigon. [Vietnam] Alexandre Debray, mother of Regis Debray, leaves Paris to meet her son, arrested by the Bolivian military a few days before the assassination of Che Guevara, and condemned to thirty years of prison. [Latin America]
2 february		The American president Johnson states: "we will never give in in Vietnam". [United States] Serious tension between the USA and North Korea over the American spy-ship Pueblo, captured in North Korean waters on 23 January. [North Korea] Violent clashes between Neo-Nazis and left-wing students in Bonn. 1 dead and tens of injured. [West Germany] La rivolta arriva all'università di Roma, la più affollata d'The revolt arrives in Rome university, the most crowded of Italy. Arts, Architecture and a hall of the institute of hygiene are occupied. [Italy] Rome: after the protest at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography the students obtain the resignation of the extraordinary Commissioner Nicola De Pirro (replaced by Roberto Rossellini "sole Commissioner"). [Italy] The head of the Greek police orders the disbandment of beat groups the members of which are less than 17 years old. [Greece] Violent fighting in Hue and Pleiku. [Vietnam]
3 february		For the state of Israel a massive deployment of the army and special troops begins, in the first year of military control of the territories occupied in the war of '67. [Middle East] "Lady Madonna", still today officially attributed to the Beatles is recorded by Paul McCartney (whose contrasts with John Lennon are increasingly strong) who uses unknown musicians in the recording studio. [International] The Spanish regime of the generalissimo Franco mobilizes in force the police and the civil guard, against the student occupations of the universities of Madrid and Barcelona. [Spain] An enormous demonstration against US aggression in Vietnam marches through Paris. Anti American demonstrations also in Frankfurt. [France]
4 february		The Springer Tribunal is formed in Berlin (by Axel Springer, owner of the largest German newspapers) against "crimes of information". [West Germany] Appeal of 437 French and Japanese scientists to their USA colleagues to interrupt their experiments on chemical and bacteriological weapons. [International] Vietcong attack on the US base of Khe-Sanh. [Vietnam] In Indonesia the army represses the revolt of Communist formations in Borneo, in hiding since '65, the year of the massacre of Indonesian Communists and of the Chinese minority, by the military. [Asia] Premier in Zurich of the "Biography of Max Frisch", theatrical drama on the crisis of the intellectual. [Switzerland]
5 february		The exodus of the Palestinians from the Gaza strip begins; it is now militarily occupied by the Israelis. [Middle East] Crisis in France of the official trade union representatives. In Caen the strikes and internal corteges of the Saviem workers continue. [France] In South Korea, anti-American student demonstration in front of the USA embassy; the marines on guard open fire on the crowd: hundreds are injured. [South Korea] Convention of the protest commissions of the protesting universities of Trent. In Rome the rector D'Avack threatens police intervention. Architecture occupied in Naples. [Italy] After a false diversionary attack on the USA consulate, in Frankfurt a thousand students of the SDS occupy the office of the Amerika Haus and raise the NLF flag. [West Germany]
6 february		In the United States the legal authorities of the state of New Jersey, examine the possibilities of opening an investigation of the behaviour of the national guard during the revolt of the black ghetto of Newark. [United States] In response to the threats of the rector, the Roman students also occupy Law, Political Science and Statistics; solidarity of the Association of the appointed professors and of 68 lecturers of Physics. [Italy] In China the central authorities of the Communist Party create the revolutionary committee in the province of Hubei, which has 40 million inhabitants, and recover control of the city of Wuhan, after clashes between Red Guards and the army. [China] A group of students occupy the rectorate of Bonn and writes under the signature of the president of the Republic Luebke "builder of concentration camps". [West Germany]
7 february		The actor and theatre director Donald Wolfit dies in London: a great Shakespearean actor, he also did cinema and TV. [Great Britain] Barricades in Paris in the Latin Quarter. Clashes between students, demonstrating for Vietnam, and the police continue into the night. [France] The government asks the Senate for a vote of confidence on article 15 of the law establishing the Regions, blocked by the obstructionism of the right. [Italy] The Americans give numbers: according to the US government the number of Vietcong killed since 30 January, the beginning of the Tet offensive, amount to 22,748. [United States] In Turin the rector recognizes the assembly as a representative body of the students. In Rome Economics and Commerce is occupied. [Italy] The university of Bonn is occupied and evacuated by the police. The students ask for the expulsion from the academic senate of president Luebke, former Nazi. [West Germany]
8 february		The Barrientos government is formed in Bolivia . [Bolivia] In Czechoslovakia Dubcek and the new presidium of the Communist party for the first time give a public record of their work. [Czechoslovakia] In New York great success for "Plaza suite", by Neil Simon, which will become a film ("Apartment at the Plaza"), three one-acts plays on marriage. From now on only one film per country is permitted to the Oscar for the best foreign film. [United States] In Vietnam the peaceful village of Ben Tree, in the Mekong Delta, is wiped out by napalm. [Vietnam] In Naples all faculties are occupied. [Italy]
9 february		Violent artillery duels between Israel and Jordan; the Arabs living on the left bank of the Jordan are hit. [Middle East] Theatre, cinema and TV actors on strike for 7 days (exempted those of the theatre companies in tournée). Assembly at the Quirino theatre of Rome and demonstrations in Milan and Turin. [Italy] For the first time the teaching body of the university faculties in France goes on strike, especially those of Sociology. [France] Curfew in Orangeburg. Among the injured is the leader of the SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committe), Cleveland Sellers. [United States] First attacks of the partisans of Al-Fatah in the occupied territories. [Middle East]
10 february		Mario Pannunzio, former director of the main Italian "liberal" magazine "Il Mondo", dies. [Italy] A meeting of Roman teachers votes by majority on a very strict motion, shared by the academic senate, in which they ask for the immediate end of the occupations. [Italy] Following the attack on the Amerika Haus of Munich, the president of the RFT Kiesinger states that to further tolerate the students' actions would be "guilty weakness". The German interior minister mobilizes thousands of police against the strikes of students in Hamburg and Freiburg. [West Germany]