Media 68

01 - 10 march
11 - 20 march
21 - 31 march

21 march

Brandt re-elected president of the SPD.
[West Germany]
The UN security council condemns Israel.
[Middle East]
More occupations in Poland: in Cracow, Lublin and Warsaw.
[Poland]
The headmaster of the Mamiani reopens the high-school and recognizes the assembly of the students. Arts, Architecture, Physics, Economy and Commerce occupied in Rome.
[Italy]
Eric Clapton and three members of the Buffalo Springfield, among whom Neil Young, arrested for "being in a place where it is suspected that marijuana is used". Clapton will be acknowledged innocent, the others condemned to pay a small fine.
[United States]
One of the most important peaces of theatre avant garde is at the Durini theatre of Milan: "Sir and Lady Macbeth" by Leo De Berardinis and Perla Peragallo. It is performed by the two authors.
[Italy]
Kidnapped by the death squadrons (the "Mano Blanca") the archbishop of Guatemala city.
[Guatemala]
All-out attack of the Vietcong on the airport of Saigon.
[Vietnam]
Papandreu denounces USA support of the military junta in power in Greece.
[Greece]

22 march

After their removal in October '67, the propaganda of the tatzebao which exalt the cultural revolution, return in force in the streets of Peking.
[China]
Offensive of the Vietcong and of the North Vietnamese in the area of the Front of the North.
[Vietnam]
Attack on the office of American Express, symbol of the United States, in the centre of Paris, by the Vietnam Committees. The arrest of a Trotskyist militant in Nanterre causes an immediate reaction in the campus: the offices of the administration are occupied by the students. The "22 March" movement is born, animated by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, which overcomes traditional divisions between the different Gauchist groups.
[France]
The Catholic university of Milan is occupied.
[Italy]
In Czechoslovakia Novotny resigns as president of the republic.
[Czechoslovakia]

23 march

At an undefined moment between January and May, Miles Davis enters a recording studio to record the pieces that will end up in the album "Miles in the Sky", full of the new jazz-rock. The record (Columbia) was never released.
[United States]
Dubcek reassures the heads of other Socialist countries at a meeting in Dresden.
[Czechoslovakia]
International day of solidarity with Vietnam: demonstrations in Paris, New York, Hamburg and Rome.
[International]
In Utah (USA)an experimental military weapon kills 6,400 sheep.ovini.
[United States]
Attack of Al Fatah in Israel against general Moshe Dayan, head of the Israeli military forces.
[Middle East]
The police evacuate the Catholic university, closed immediately afterwards by the rector.
[Italy]

24 march

In Mahwah (New Jersey) Alice Guy, director, producer and scenographer of French and American cinema dies. With "La fée aux choux " he signed in 1896 the first fiction film in the history of cinema; and in 1900 the first sound film.
[United States]
The police surrounds the occupied Polytechnic of Warsaw. The students abandon the building, rejecting again the accusations of anti-Socialism and Zionism.
[Poland]
One hundred countries meet at the International conference of Stockholm, asking for "an immediate end to the USA bombings of Vietnam".
[International]
The electoral campaign of Robert Kennedy, in the United States, chooses as its objective "the ousting of Johnson".
[United States]

25 march

Removed in Panama, by the national assembly, the president of the republic, Aurelio Robles.
[Panama]
Demonstrations in Greece in favour of five left-wing militants arrested and tortured by the services of the military junta.
[Greece]

26 march

Trial in South Korea against 34 intellectuals, accused of being Communists and spies of North Korea.
[South Korea]
Arrested in Spain hundreds of workers who took part in the Comisiones obreras; among the arrested Marcelino Camacho, Communist trade union leader.
[Spain]
300 Vietcong have died in two days in the battle of Trang Bang, near Saigon.
[Vietnam]
Seven professors of the university of Warsaw removed because of anti-Socialist ideas: the arrests are more than a thousand; in the following months 20,000 students are expelled from the universities.
[Poland]

27 march

In Panama the dismissed president Robles, obtains the support of the national guard, which occupies the offices of the opposition.
[Panama]
The dictator Franco forbids the Catalan language singer Joan Manuel Serrat, who refuses to sing in Castiglian, to take part in the Eurovision song contest, which will take place in April in London.
[Spain]
The English rock band Grapefruit, of which John Lennon is producer, debuts in the Royal Albert Hall in London. After a few months, in spite of the initial launch, no more will be heard about them.
[Great Britain]
Strikes in the factories of Madrid after the arrest of 56 participants in the conference of the workers' commissions.
[Spain]

28 march

Demonstration of solidarity with the strike of the refuse collectors (all blacks) in Memphis charged by the police and the national guard; In the clashes, during the night, the police kill a demonstrator.
[United States]
Dubcek proposes general Svoboda for the presidency of the Czechoslovakian republic.
[Czechoslovakia]
One hundred painters occupy the national gallery of modern art. Released the 52 Fascists arrested after the aggression of 16 March in Rome. Tried Corvisieri and Pellegrini, director and editor of "La Sinistra", for a report that explained and illustrated the construction of a very rudimental molotov.
[Italy]
Two hundred arrests in the battle between students and police in front of the offices of the ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo; the students ask for the total withdrawal of the USA B 52s from the base of Okinawa.
[Japan]
In the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin dies.
[Soviet Union]
Proseguono in Vietnam, con migliaia di morti, i combattimenti della "guerra delle risaie" nel Delta del Mekong.
[Vietnam]
Lock-out of the teaching body of the faculty of Nanterre, against a demonstration in the faculty. Occupation of a hall at the Sorbonne to hold a meeting on the student movements in Europe, with representatives of various countries, which was forbidden.
[France]

29 march

The Central Committee of the PCI meets; on the agenda is the stand to take before the students' movement.
[Italy]
State of emergency and curfew from 7pm to 5am in Memphis: the black revolt spreads while from the roofs sharpshooters fire at the police.
[United States]
The pressure in the siege of the USA base of Khe Sanh seems to lessen.
[Vietnam]
EsIn France "Playtime" by the comic director Jacques Tati is released. A film without dialogue and a ferocious satire of the consumer society.
[France]
Smrkovsky takes the place of Novotny as head of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovakian Communist party.
[Czechoslovakia]

30 march

24 hour strike at Fiat: the struggle, imposed by the worker base, regards the review of incentives and reduction of hours. The police charge a picket at gate 7 of the Mirafiori factory.
[Italy]
Large student demonstrations in Paris, Madrid, Warsaw.
[Europe]
Massive bombardments of the American airforce on Hanoi and Haiphong.
[Vietnam]
In Rio de Janeiro 30,000 people follow the funeral of a student killed the day before in the clashes with the police: very violent incidents in Brasilia, patrolled by armed cars.
[Brazil]

31 march

The Pope criticizes the students' movement, accusing it of having gone "beyond the limits of legality and ideal nobility".
[Italy]
The American president Johnson announces his withdrawal from the electoral campaign in course and from political life. Also announced the suspension of the bombing on North Vietnam.
[United States]
After a fire breaks out in Architecture, the Roman students evacuate the occupied faculties.
[Italy]
The streets of Memphis presided over by armed cars; the curfew is still in force: 276 arrests.
[United States]
In permanent assembly the Parisian faculties of Nanterre.
[France]


		01 - 10 march 11 - 20 march 21 - 31 march
21 march		Brandt re-elected president of the SPD. [West Germany] The UN security council condemns Israel. [Middle East] More occupations in Poland: in Cracow, Lublin and Warsaw. [Poland] The headmaster of the Mamiani reopens the high-school and recognizes the assembly of the students. Arts, Architecture, Physics, Economy and Commerce occupied in Rome. [Italy] Eric Clapton and three members of the Buffalo Springfield, among whom Neil Young, arrested for "being in a place where it is suspected that marijuana is used". Clapton will be acknowledged innocent, the others condemned to pay a small fine. [United States] One of the most important peaces of theatre avant garde is at the Durini theatre of Milan: "Sir and Lady Macbeth" by Leo De Berardinis and Perla Peragallo. It is performed by the two authors. [Italy] Kidnapped by the death squadrons (the "Mano Blanca") the archbishop of Guatemala city. [Guatemala] All-out attack of the Vietcong on the airport of Saigon. [Vietnam] Papandreu denounces USA support of the military junta in power in Greece. [Greece]
22 march		After their removal in October '67, the propaganda of the tatzebao which exalt the cultural revolution, return in force in the streets of Peking. [China] Offensive of the Vietcong and of the North Vietnamese in the area of the Front of the North. [Vietnam] Attack on the office of American Express, symbol of the United States, in the centre of Paris, by the Vietnam Committees. The arrest of a Trotskyist militant in Nanterre causes an immediate reaction in the campus: the offices of the administration are occupied by the students. The "22 March" movement is born, animated by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, which overcomes traditional divisions between the different Gauchist groups. [France] The Catholic university of Milan is occupied. [Italy] In Czechoslovakia Novotny resigns as president of the republic. [Czechoslovakia]
23 march		At an undefined moment between January and May, Miles Davis enters a recording studio to record the pieces that will end up in the album "Miles in the Sky", full of the new jazz-rock. The record (Columbia) was never released. [United States] Dubcek reassures the heads of other Socialist countries at a meeting in Dresden. [Czechoslovakia] International day of solidarity with Vietnam: demonstrations in Paris, New York, Hamburg and Rome. [International] In Utah (USA)an experimental military weapon kills 6,400 sheep.ovini. [United States] Attack of Al Fatah in Israel against general Moshe Dayan, head of the Israeli military forces. [Middle East] The police evacuate the Catholic university, closed immediately afterwards by the rector. [Italy]
24 march		In Mahwah (New Jersey) Alice Guy, director, producer and scenographer of French and American cinema dies. With "La fée aux choux " he signed in 1896 the first fiction film in the history of cinema; and in 1900 the first sound film. [United States] The police surrounds the occupied Polytechnic of Warsaw. The students abandon the building, rejecting again the accusations of anti-Socialism and Zionism. [Poland] One hundred countries meet at the International conference of Stockholm, asking for "an immediate end to the USA bombings of Vietnam". [International] The electoral campaign of Robert Kennedy, in the United States, chooses as its objective "the ousting of Johnson". [United States]
25 march		Removed in Panama, by the national assembly, the president of the republic, Aurelio Robles. [Panama] Demonstrations in Greece in favour of five left-wing militants arrested and tortured by the services of the military junta. [Greece]
26 march		Trial in South Korea against 34 intellectuals, accused of being Communists and spies of North Korea. [South Korea] Arrested in Spain hundreds of workers who took part in the Comisiones obreras; among the arrested Marcelino Camacho, Communist trade union leader. [Spain] 300 Vietcong have died in two days in the battle of Trang Bang, near Saigon. [Vietnam] Seven professors of the university of Warsaw removed because of anti-Socialist ideas: the arrests are more than a thousand; in the following months 20,000 students are expelled from the universities. [Poland]
27 march		In Panama the dismissed president Robles, obtains the support of the national guard, which occupies the offices of the opposition. [Panama] The dictator Franco forbids the Catalan language singer Joan Manuel Serrat, who refuses to sing in Castiglian, to take part in the Eurovision song contest, which will take place in April in London. [Spain] The English rock band Grapefruit, of which John Lennon is producer, debuts in the Royal Albert Hall in London. After a few months, in spite of the initial launch, no more will be heard about them. [Great Britain] Strikes in the factories of Madrid after the arrest of 56 participants in the conference of the workers' commissions. [Spain]
28 march		Demonstration of solidarity with the strike of the refuse collectors (all blacks) in Memphis charged by the police and the national guard; In the clashes, during the night, the police kill a demonstrator. [United States] Dubcek proposes general Svoboda for the presidency of the Czechoslovakian republic. [Czechoslovakia] One hundred painters occupy the national gallery of modern art. Released the 52 Fascists arrested after the aggression of 16 March in Rome. Tried Corvisieri and Pellegrini, director and editor of "La Sinistra", for a report that explained and illustrated the construction of a very rudimental molotov. [Italy] Two hundred arrests in the battle between students and police in front of the offices of the ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo; the students ask for the total withdrawal of the USA B 52s from the base of Okinawa. [Japan] In the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin dies. [Soviet Union] Proseguono in Vietnam, con migliaia di morti, i combattimenti della "guerra delle risaie" nel Delta del Mekong. [Vietnam] Lock-out of the teaching body of the faculty of Nanterre, against a demonstration in the faculty. Occupation of a hall at the Sorbonne to hold a meeting on the student movements in Europe, with representatives of various countries, which was forbidden. [France]
29 march		The Central Committee of the PCI meets; on the agenda is the stand to take before the students' movement. [Italy] State of emergency and curfew from 7pm to 5am in Memphis: the black revolt spreads while from the roofs sharpshooters fire at the police. [United States] The pressure in the siege of the USA base of Khe Sanh seems to lessen. [Vietnam] EsIn France "Playtime" by the comic director Jacques Tati is released. A film without dialogue and a ferocious satire of the consumer society. [France] Smrkovsky takes the place of Novotny as head of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovakian Communist party. [Czechoslovakia]
30 march		24 hour strike at Fiat: the struggle, imposed by the worker base, regards the review of incentives and reduction of hours. The police charge a picket at gate 7 of the Mirafiori factory. [Italy] Large student demonstrations in Paris, Madrid, Warsaw. [Europe] Massive bombardments of the American airforce on Hanoi and Haiphong. [Vietnam] In Rio de Janeiro 30,000 people follow the funeral of a student killed the day before in the clashes with the police: very violent incidents in Brasilia, patrolled by armed cars. [Brazil]
31 march		The Pope criticizes the students' movement, accusing it of having gone "beyond the limits of legality and ideal nobility". [Italy] The American president Johnson announces his withdrawal from the electoral campaign in course and from political life. Also announced the suspension of the bombing on North Vietnam. [United States] After a fire breaks out in Architecture, the Roman students evacuate the occupied faculties. [Italy] The streets of Memphis presided over by armed cars; the curfew is still in force: 276 arrests. [United States] In permanent assembly the Parisian faculties of Nanterre. [France]