Media 68

1 - 10 june
11 - 20 june
21 - 30 june

21 june

For the fourth consecutive day Rio is theatre of very violent clashes with the police who shoot on the demonstrators. Many injured and three dead. The students occupy the university and defend themselves from the charges by erecting barricades.
[Brazil]
The Russian newspapers attack the Czechoslovakian press. In the previous days the Soviet minister of Foreign Affairs had officially protested at the embassy of Prague in Moscow asking for greater control over the press.
[Czechoslovakia]
In Venice a Biennial reduced to the bone is officially inaugurated. Artists and students meet in permanent assembly at the occupied Academy of Fine Arts. Common pickets of workers and students, in front of the Montedison factory of Porto Marghera.
[Italy]
Three black athletes (Smith, Hines and Greene) break the wall of 10 seconds running the 100 metres in 9.9 seconds.
[Mexico]

22 june

The number of deaths in the Rio Battle rises to six. The demonstrations have by now lost their exclusively student character.
[Brasile]
Second days of clashes between workers and police in Trieste where the workers of a shipyard threatened with closure had forced Andreotti to interrupt a rally and abandon the stage. Road blocks until late at night.
[Italy]

23 june

The Gaullists win the first round of the French elections.
[France]
At dawn the police arrest 10 people in their homes for the incidents of Trieste. Some parliamentarians of the PCI seek and obtain the release of some of the detained within a day. 8 people remain in prison. A general strike of the city is declared for the 25th.
[Italy]

24 june

The campaign against bacteriological arms grows in England. Under accusation the Centre for Microbiological Research of Porton Down, controlled by the ministry for Defence. The Centre would have provided the Americans with the deadly CS gas, used in Vietnam.
[Great Britain]
Joint convention of the student movement and the steelworkers trade unions (FIOM-CGIL and FLM CISL) in Trent.
[Italy]
General strike in Pisa against the threatened closure of the Marzotto factory.
[Italy]

25 june

Curfew and state of emergency limited to Washington. Abernathy, from prison invites the demonstrators to have themselves arrested. Clashes in the black neighbourhoods.
[United States]
The PCF and the SFIO decide to present joint lists in the second electoral round. The two parties will make the votes converge on the better-placed candidates. Even the PSU gives indication to vote for the single list.
[France]

26 june

Very violent attack against the dissident writer Solgenitsjn on the "Literaturnaja Gazeta" of Moscow. The writer is accused of giving bait to anti-Soviet propaganda. "L'Unità", even while criticizing the dissident, disassociates itself from the attack.
[Soviet Union]
Abernathy asks all the priests of the USA to demonstrate in Washington. Hundreds of blacks have themselves arrested by transgressing the rules of curfew.
[United States]

27 june

The marines abandon Khe Sanh, defined "unconquerable". It is a defeat but by managing to break the North Vietnamese siege, the USA are saved from another Dien Bien Phu.
[Vietnam]
A document, the manifest of 2,000 words, prepared by the writer Ludvik Vaculik and undersigned by many intellectuals, comes out in some Czechoslovakian newspapers. It asks for democratization and denounces the threat of Soviet invasion.
[Czechoslovakia]
Evacuated in Paris the Academy of Fine Arts, transformed into Atelier populaire.
[France]
Three hundred arrests and continuous clashes in Washington, while the house of representatives votes a cut of 100 million dollars in the programme for the fight against poverty.
[United States]

28 june

The Czechoslovakian parliament votes for the abolition of censorship of the press and of the other means of mass communication. Exalted the role of the Social-Democratic party persecuted during the era of Novotny.
[Czechoslovakia]

29 june

Violent clashes between students and the Californian national guard of Berkeley.
[United States]

30 june

New York. Clashes in front of the cinema showing "Green Berets" by John Wayne. The pacifists block the entrance with pickets.
[United States]
Sit-in in Berkeley. The students barricade the entrances of the campus to prevent a new irruption of police and the national guard.
[United States]
For De Gaulle the second electoral round is a complete triumph: he gains about a hundred seats and thus assures himself of an absolute majority. The French Communist party loses 39 seats, the SFIO more than 60. For the French Communists a relentless process of decline begins.
[France]

		1 - 10 june 11 - 20 june 21 - 30 june
21 june		For the fourth consecutive day Rio is theatre of very violent clashes with the police who shoot on the demonstrators. Many injured and three dead. The students occupy the university and defend themselves from the charges by erecting barricades. [Brazil] The Russian newspapers attack the Czechoslovakian press. In the previous days the Soviet minister of Foreign Affairs had officially protested at the embassy of Prague in Moscow asking for greater control over the press. [Czechoslovakia] In Venice a Biennial reduced to the bone is officially inaugurated. Artists and students meet in permanent assembly at the occupied Academy of Fine Arts. Common pickets of workers and students, in front of the Montedison factory of Porto Marghera. [Italy] Three black athletes (Smith, Hines and Greene) break the wall of 10 seconds running the 100 metres in 9.9 seconds. [Mexico]
22 june		The number of deaths in the Rio Battle rises to six. The demonstrations have by now lost their exclusively student character. [Brasile] Second days of clashes between workers and police in Trieste where the workers of a shipyard threatened with closure had forced Andreotti to interrupt a rally and abandon the stage. Road blocks until late at night. [Italy]
23 june		The Gaullists win the first round of the French elections. [France] At dawn the police arrest 10 people in their homes for the incidents of Trieste. Some parliamentarians of the PCI seek and obtain the release of some of the detained within a day. 8 people remain in prison. A general strike of the city is declared for the 25th. [Italy]
24 june		The campaign against bacteriological arms grows in England. Under accusation the Centre for Microbiological Research of Porton Down, controlled by the ministry for Defence. The Centre would have provided the Americans with the deadly CS gas, used in Vietnam. [Great Britain] Joint convention of the student movement and the steelworkers trade unions (FIOM-CGIL and FLM CISL) in Trent. [Italy] General strike in Pisa against the threatened closure of the Marzotto factory. [Italy]
25 june		Curfew and state of emergency limited to Washington. Abernathy, from prison invites the demonstrators to have themselves arrested. Clashes in the black neighbourhoods. [United States] The PCF and the SFIO decide to present joint lists in the second electoral round. The two parties will make the votes converge on the better-placed candidates. Even the PSU gives indication to vote for the single list. [France]
26 june		Very violent attack against the dissident writer Solgenitsjn on the "Literaturnaja Gazeta" of Moscow. The writer is accused of giving bait to anti-Soviet propaganda. "L'Unità", even while criticizing the dissident, disassociates itself from the attack. [Soviet Union] Abernathy asks all the priests of the USA to demonstrate in Washington. Hundreds of blacks have themselves arrested by transgressing the rules of curfew. [United States]
27 june		The marines abandon Khe Sanh, defined "unconquerable". It is a defeat but by managing to break the North Vietnamese siege, the USA are saved from another Dien Bien Phu. [Vietnam] A document, the manifest of 2,000 words, prepared by the writer Ludvik Vaculik and undersigned by many intellectuals, comes out in some Czechoslovakian newspapers. It asks for democratization and denounces the threat of Soviet invasion. [Czechoslovakia] Evacuated in Paris the Academy of Fine Arts, transformed into Atelier populaire. [France] Three hundred arrests and continuous clashes in Washington, while the house of representatives votes a cut of 100 million dollars in the programme for the fight against poverty. [United States]
28 june		The Czechoslovakian parliament votes for the abolition of censorship of the press and of the other means of mass communication. Exalted the role of the Social-Democratic party persecuted during the era of Novotny. [Czechoslovakia]
29 june		Violent clashes between students and the Californian national guard of Berkeley. [United States]
30 june		New York. Clashes in front of the cinema showing "Green Berets" by John Wayne. The pacifists block the entrance with pickets. [United States] Sit-in in Berkeley. The students barricade the entrances of the campus to prevent a new irruption of police and the national guard. [United States] For De Gaulle the second electoral round is a complete triumph: he gains about a hundred seats and thus assures himself of an absolute majority. The French Communist party loses 39 seats, the SFIO more than 60. For the French Communists a relentless process of decline begins. [France]