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Jan 15, 2013
Some of the catastrophic world events during 1968 and 1969
The years 1968 and 1969 were racked with war, violence,
terrorism, and civil unrest around the world. Wars raged in Vietnam and
Nigeria; Soviet and Chinese troops skirmished in a continuing border dispute;
Soviet troops entered Czechoslovakia to quell a movement toward liberalization;
and El Salvador invaded Honduras. Coups d'etat toppled governments in 'Iraq,
Syria, Sierre Leone, Dahomey, the Congo, Mali, the Sudan, Libya, the
Netherlands Antilles, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia; states of emergency were declared
in Spain, Malaysia, and Chile; violent unrest occurred in West Germany, Spain,
Bombay, Pakistan, Argentina, Kenya, and the United States; and student protests
erupted in Paris, Mexico City, Czechoslovakia, Argentina, and the United
States. United States and Israeli airliners were hijacked, and two Israeli
airliners were attacked by terrorists. Moreover, a number of leaders were
assassinated, including Somalian president Abdirascid Ali Scermarche; US civil
rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; US presidential candidate Robert E.
Kennedy; US ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein; and Mozambique Liberation
Front leader Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane. (Footnote to November 16, 1969 message
from the Universal House of Justice; ‘Messages from the Universal House of
Justice, 1963-1986’)