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1968 Soviet party resolution criticizes state research ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party passes a resolution in October criticizing Soviet research and development and initiating reforms to improve scientific productivity and accelerate technological innovation. ●●

1968 Student protests erupt in Poland ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Student protests and political unrest erupt in Poland in March, inspired partly by a theoretical critique of Polish communism written by Warsaw sociologists Kuron and Modzelewski. ●●

1968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Soviet Union intervenes militarily in Czechoslovakia to suppress democratic reforms and liberalization. Brzezinski views this as a crucial turning point, believing that a democratic Czechoslovakia would have significantly affected the trajectory of European communism. ●●

1968 American student revolts and generational breakdown rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Major breakdown in communication between generations becomes evident during student revolts across America, rooted in the irrelevance of old symbols and values to younger people, marking a cultural and political shift. ●●

1968 while a sophomore at college, Robert rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story while a sophomore at college, Robert Berdella, Jr. ●●

1968 the year after DeSalvo was convicted. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story the year after DeSalvo was convicted. ●●

1968 I think you just cannot get to that level unless you are somewhat introverted rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I think you just cannot get to that level unless you are somewhat introverted.” (Luis Alvarez, the 1968 physics Nobel laureate, disagrees, at least where Oppenheimer is concerned.1766 He believes Oppenheimer would have won a Nobel Prize for his astrophysical work if he had lived long enough to see his predictions concerning exotic stellar objects—neutron stars, black holes—confirmed, as they have been, by discovery.) Both Oppenheimer and Teller wrote poetry; Oppenheimer pursued literature as Teller pursued music; and for a time in 1942 and 1943 the Hungarian apparently admired the older and socially more sophisticated New Yorker and hoped to count him for an ally. ●●

1968 On March 11, 1968, Walter Lippmann applied his already well-established critique of containment to V rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On March 11, 1968, Walter Lippmann applied his already well-established critique of containment to Vietnam. ●●

1968 Hanoi had decided to negotiate before the 1968 American presidential election, if only to commit bot rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hanoi had decided to negotiate before the 1968 American presidential election, if only to commit both political parties to a negotiated outcome. ●●

1968 In each year, including 1968, a truce had been agreed on for that period rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In each year, including 1968, a truce had been agreed on for that period. ●●

1968 By the end of his presidency in 1968, Johnson could no longer appear in public except on military ba rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the end of his presidency in 1968, Johnson could no longer appear in public except on military bases or at other locations from which violent protesters could be physically barred. ●●

1968 Although he was an incumbent president, he did not even find it possible to appear at the 1968 natio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Although he was an incumbent president, he did not even find it possible to appear at the 1968 national convention of his own party. ●●

1968 The “dove” platform rejected at the 1968 Democratic National Convention had called for a reduction o rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The “dove” platform rejected at the 1968 Democratic National Convention had called for a reduction of United States offensive operations, a mutual withdrawal of outside forces (including those of North Vietnam), and encouragement of a policy of recon ●●

1968 But neither the Administration nor the American people ever sought that objective; in the election c rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But neither the Administration nor the American people ever sought that objective; in the election campaign of 1968, all of the presidential candidates had advocated compromise, not capitulation. ●●

1968 A policy statement I drafted for Nelson Rockefeller’s bid for the 1968 Republican presidential nomin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A policy statement I drafted for Nelson Rockefeller’s bid for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination had stated: “…I would begin a dialogue with communist China. ●●

1968 In a magazine interview in September 1968, he stated: “We must not forget China rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In a magazine interview in September 1968, he stated: “We must not forget China. ●●

1968 In 1968, only 400 Jews had been permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union, and no democratic count candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1968, only 400 Jews had been permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union, and no democratic country had raised the issue. ●●

1968 Kliuchevsky, A Course in Russian History: The Seventeenth Century, trans, by Natalie Duddington (Chi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kliuchevsky, A Course in Russian History: The Seventeenth Century, trans, by Natalie Duddington (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968), p. ●●

1968 1968: Stewart Brand (center ) assisting at the Mother of All Demos... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 5–2013). Englebart’s first mouse. Stewart Brand (center ) assisting at the Mother of All Demos in 1968. ●●

1968 1968: In short, Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story l time. They even were able to create hypertext links together. In short, Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today. The demo gods were with him, ●●

1968 1968: The latter mission had seemed rather quirky when Engelbart b... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story irky when Engelbart began working on it, but when he showed off all of its elements in his December 1968 demo—a personal computer that humans could easily interact with in real time, a network that al ●●

1968 1968: He served two years in jail as a draft resister and then, in... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1962 and resumed his rebellious ways. He served two years in jail as a draft resister and then, in 1968, moved to Palo Alto, driving down in a Volkswagen van with a baby daughter whose mother had drif ●●

1968 1968: ” 19 The Lakeside Programming Group’s first job came that f... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story still remember his phone number.” 19 The Lakeside Programming Group’s first job came that fall of 1968. Some engineers from the University of Washington had formed a little time-sharing company, house ●●

1968 1968: A vivid example was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie, 2001: A Sp... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story s. The Frankenstein motif became a staple of science fiction. A vivid example was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the frighteningly intelligent computer HAL. With its c ●●

1968 1968: , 33 , 220 , 241 , 329 ARPA of, see ARPA de Forest, Lee, 1... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 0 , 241 , 329 ARPA of, see ARPA de Forest, Lee, 154 Delphi, 401 Democratic National Convention, 1968, 278 De Morgan, Augustus, 17 , 26 de Prony, Gaspard, 20 Descartes, René, 122 Difference Engine, 8 – ●●

1968 1968: Copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story f Loving Grace” from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan. Copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. ●●

1968 1968: ific Data Systems, which both paid off handsomely. By the time Noyce c rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ific Data Systems, which both paid off handsomely. By the time Noyce called him about finding an exit strategy from Fairchild in 1968, Rock’s partners ●●

1968 1968: d you give up.” 14 And so he did, for the moment. When he graduated in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story d you give up.” 14 And so he did, for the moment. When he graduated in 1968 (“last in his class,” he often bragged), Bushnell went to work for Ampex, ●●

1968 1968: ack but also around any attempt to impose control. ONE GIANT LEAP: THE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ack but also around any attempt to impose control. ONE GIANT LEAP: THE ARPANET HAS LANDED, OCTOBER 1969 In the summer of 1968, when much of the world, ●●

1968 1968: mmunities. This opened up beautiful possibilities. “Life will be happi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story mmunities. This opened up beautiful possibilities. “Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most st ●●

1968 1968: g Engelbart (1925–2013). Englebart’s first mouse. Stewart Brand (cente rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story g Engelbart (1925–2013). Englebart’s first mouse. Stewart Brand (center ) assisting at the Mother of All Demos in 1968. ●●

1968 1968: even were able to create hypertext links together. In short, Engelbart rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story even were able to create hypertext links together. In short, Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does ●●

1968 1968: l intelligence and that of augmented intelligence. The latter mission rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story l intelligence and that of augmented intelligence. The latter mission had seemed rather quirky when Engelbart began working on it, but when he showed ●●

1968 1968: Berkeley in 1962 and resumed his rebellious ways. He served two years rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Berkeley in 1962 and resumed his rebellious ways. He served two years in jail as a draft resister and then, in 1968, moved to Palo Alto, driving down ●●

1968 1968: phone forever. I still remember his phone number.” 19 The Lakeside Pro rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story phone forever. I still remember his phone number.” 19 The Lakeside Programming Group’s first job came that fall of 1968. Some engineers from the Unive ●●

1968 1968: kenstein motif became a staple of science fiction. A vivid example was rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story kenstein motif became a staple of science fiction. A vivid example was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the frightening ●●

1968 1968: mmunications Agency, 241 Defense Department, U.S., 33 , 220 , 241 , 32 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story mmunications Agency, 241 Defense Department, U.S., 33 , 220 , 241 , 329 ARPA of, see ARPA de Forest, Lee, 154 Delphi, 401 Democratic National Conventi ●●

1968 1968: the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan. Copyright © 1968 by rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan. Copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harc ●●

1968 Hans Bethe, “Energy Production in Stars,” Physics Today, Sep rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hans Bethe, “Energy Production in Stars,” Physics Today, September 1968, p ●●

1968 Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story function of such “flak machines” as Freedom House is to ensure that the press stays within the bounds of this patriotic agenda. The Tet offensive of January 1968 began on January 21 with a siege by North Vietnamese (NVA) regulars of a U.S. military ●●

1968 r was being lost, according to General Westmoreland. A U.S. government military-historical summary o rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story r was being lost, according to General Westmoreland. A U.S. government military-historical summary of the offensive in the Mekong Delta, completed in April 1968, concluded that “The Tet offensive in IV Corps had a devastating effect on the Revolution ●●

1968 tive reaction to the President’s handling of the war and the war itself, and a distinct opposition t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story tive reaction to the President’s handling of the war and the war itself, and a distinct opposition to more aggressive U.S. military action.” In early February 1968, when the impact of the alleged media “distortions” and “pessimism” reached its peak, ●●

1968 y be attributed to “the vicious invasion of the North Vietnamese”—which did, however, include such a candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story y be attributed to “the vicious invasion of the North Vietnamese”—which did, however, include such atrocities as killing twelve U.S. Air Force men in March 1968 at a U.S. radar base near the North Vietnamese border used to direct the bombing of North ●●

1968 ensive literature by Vietnam veterans. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ensive literature by Vietnam veterans. Braestrup claims that “one searches in vain through most of the media descriptions of the foe, even well into March 1968, for indications that the enemy’s planning, tactics, execution, zeal, and weaponry were l ●●

1968 botage missions in the North as well as fighting in the South. For McNamara’s estimate, see his stat rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story botage missions in the North as well as fighting in the South. For McNamara’s estimate, see his statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, January 22, 1968; excerpts in Big Story, II, 14ff. 122. Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, February ●●

1968 Heavy US bombing of Laos's Plain of Jars ai_extracted 1 cit. no story LAOS Laos’s Plain of Jars was subjected to some of the heaviest bombings of civilian targets in history, especially after 1968, when Washington was compelled under domestic pressure to enter negotiat ●●

1968 It is possible that the volume of inconvenient facts can expand, as it... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is possible that the volume of inconvenient facts can expand, as it did during the Vietnam War, in response to the growth of a critical constituency (which included elite elements from 1968). ●●

1968 Fulbright had found that the air force public-relations effort in 1968... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Fulbright had found that the air force public-relations effort in 1968 involved 1,305 full-time employees, exclusive of additional thousands that “have public functions collateral to other duties.”66 ●●

1968 In his presidential address to the American Historical Association in ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In his presidential address to the American Historical Association in December 1968, Fairbank characterized the U.S. ●●

1968 Event of 1968 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story We forget that one of the few certainties of that troubled time, en- dorsed in virtually identical planks in the Democratic and Republican plat- forms ●●

1968 The independence of the Italian judiciary had been reinforced by the recruitment of a generation of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The independence of the Italian judiciary had been reinforced by the recruitment of a generation of idealistic lawyers in the wake of the global uprisings of 1968. ●●

1968 Nixon had been elected in 1968 on a “law and order” platform, warning about “the city jun- gle” a... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nixon had been elected in 1968 on a “law and order” platform, warning about “the city jun- gle” and the prospect that “the brutal society that now flourishes in the core cities . ●●

1968 UN conference affirms family planning as a human right ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This consensus was codified at a 1968 UN conference, which proclaimed that “parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children.” Point... ●●

1968 “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Paul Ehrlich declared in his 1968 bestseller, The P... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Paul Ehrlich declared in his 1968 bestseller, The Popula- tion Bomb. ●●

1968 Draper to Rusk, August 22 and October 16, 1967, USNA, Nixon Papers, NSC Files, Subject Files, box... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Draper to Rusk, August 22 and October 16, 1967, USNA, Nixon Papers, NSC Files, Subject Files, box 369, “Population Crisis, 1969–1970”; “Conference on Direction and Support of Research,” May 15, 196... ●●

1968 Bell handwritten notes from Lake Como meeting, April 10, 1968, FFA, Papers of David Bell, series ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bell handwritten notes from Lake Como meeting, April 10, 1968, FFA, Papers of David Bell, series 5, box 34, folder 787. ●●

1968 It began in 1968, when the executive director of the Sierra Club, David Brower, heard a Stanford ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It began in 1968, when the executive director of the Sierra Club, David Brower, heard a Stanford entomologist speaking on the radio. ●●

1968 Cadbury to Braestrup, September 20, 1968, H&R, series 2, International Planned Parenthood, box 30... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cadbury to Braestrup, September 20, 1968, H&R, series 2, International Planned Parenthood, box 301, “Braestrup”; Lubin, “Meeting of 23rd September with USAID in Washington,” September 30, 1969, H&R... ●●

1968 Isam Nazer, “Recent Developments in Family Planning in the Near East,” November 14, 1968, IPPFA, ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Isam Nazer, “Recent Developments in Family Planning in the Near East,” November 14, 1968, IPPFA, attached to Minutes of the Thirteenth Meeting of the Management and Planning Committee, 1.4.1.1.3, “... ●●

1968 25 million threshold was breached only once, in 1968 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 25 million threshold was breached only once, in 1968. ●●

1968 f) Kim Philby, My Silent War (MacGibbon and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story f) Kim Philby, My Silent War (MacGibbon and Kee, London 1968) pp ●●

1968 h) Louis Hagen, The Secret War for Europe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story h) Louis Hagen, The Secret War for Europe (London, 1968) pp ●●

1968 Stone’s Weekly, (Washington), 4 March 1968; “The Phantom rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Stone’s Weekly, (Washington), 4 March 1968; “The Phantom Battle’ that Led to War”, U ●●

1968 Another account is that 25 Russians who made rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Another account is that 25 Russians who made up Nkrumah’s palace guard were all shot and killed when they tried to surre ●●

1968 Puharich and Ira Einhorn meet during political turmoil rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Andrija Puharich meets Ira Einhorn during a period of political turmoil when visionaries were assassinated and students were rioting ●●

1968 Manson sends Bruce Davis to London ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda states that Bruce Davis was sent to London by Charles Manson in November 1968, shortly after the murders of Clida Delaney and Nancy Warren. ●●

1968 Tet Offensive launched in Vietnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda asserts that in January 1968, the Tet Offensive showed America that the war in Vietnam was far from over, with Walter Cronkite expressing shock. ●●

1968 Richard Nixon elected President ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda notes that in November 1968, Richard M. Nixon was elected President of the United States, ending what he calls a period of Democratic dominance. ●●

1968 Beatles release the White Album ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda asserts that the Beatles released the White Album in 1968 on November 22, the fifth anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, which Manson believed contained messages to him about Helter Skelter. ●●

1968 Engelbart stages the Mother of All Demos ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Doug Engelbart and Stewart Brand staged a landmark public demonstration of Engelbart's oNLine System in December 1968. ●●

1968 Intel is founded ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Intel was founded the same turbulent year that saw the Tet Offensive and the first Whole Earth Catalog. ●●

1968 Engelbart's Mother of All Demos takes place in San Francisco rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Engelbart's ninety-minute live demonstration before a standing-room crowd unveiled the mouse, windows, and hypertext. ●●

1968 Gates and Allen form the Lakeside Programming Group ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a group of student programmers at Lakeside School. ●●

1968 Noyce and Moore found Intel ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore leave Fairchild to start Integrated Electronics Corporation, soon shortened to Intel. ●●

1968 BBN selected to build the ARPANET's routers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Larry Roberts picks Bolt, Beranek and Newman over Raytheon to build the Interface Message Processors that will route ARPANET traffic. ●●

1969 EPA established under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The Act required federal agencies to weigh the environmental impacts of their proposed actions. ●●

1969 Caleb Gattegno demonstrates his reading system ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in 1969 the reading-system promoter Caleb Gattegno was brought to his middle school to demonstrate a color-cue method, a demonstration that ended when a student clawed his face. ●●

1969 Helms erases a passage from a Soviet nuclear estimate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Under White House pressure, Helms deleted a key finding from the CIA's most important estimate on Soviet nuclear forces. Analysts said he had compromised the agency's core duty. ●●

1969 CIA stages the appearance of democracy in Thailand ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Covert action code-named Lotus manufactured an election for Thailand's ruling junta. The generals soon suspended the constitution again. ●●

1969 CIA abandons the Tibetan resistance ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kissinger questioned the value of supporting Tibet's insurgents as Nixon planned rapprochement with China. The armed resistance was abandoned though the Dalai Lama's subsidy continued. ●●

1969 cit., pp. 61–72; Alain Guerin, Le General Gris (Paris: Julliard, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story cit., pp. 61–72; Alain Guerin, Le General Gris (Paris: Julliard, 1969); and Charles Whiting, Gehlen: Germany’s Master Spy (New York: Ballantine, 1972). For Himmler’s “peace proposa... ●●

1969 cit. (Schellenberg’s testimony offers the physical description of A... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story cit. (Schellenberg’s testimony offers the physical description of Akhmeteli.) Secondary sources include: Alwin Ramme, Der Sicherheitsdienst der SS (Berlin: Deutscher Militarverlag,... ●●

1969 In 1969 he was long real estate. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1969 he was long real estate. ●●

1969 Allen Dulles dies at Walter Reed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Allen Dulles dies from influenza complicated by pneumonia at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His room is located near the one where his brother Foster died ten years earlier. ●●

1969 In 1969, Mobil Oil wanted rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1969, Mobil Oil wanted to buy a German oil-production company, Gelsenkirchener Bergwerk, then trying to ward off French suitors. A majority of its... ●●

1969 Soviet-Chinese clash at Damansky Island ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A serious military clash occurred between Soviet and Chinese forces at Damansky Island, causing the Soviet Union to dramatically increase troop deployments along the Chinese border. ●●

1969 Nixon becomes US President ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Richard Nixon became president in January 1969 and immediately began reassessing American Cold War strategy toward pragmatic diplomacy with rival superpowers. ●●

1969 US troops in Vietnam peak at 542,000 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American military presence in Vietnam reached its maximum of 542,000 troops, yet generals demanded even more soldiers to defeat North Vietnamese forces. ●●

1969 Sesame Street begins broadcasting ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sesame Street, an innovative educational television program combining entertainment with instruction, began broadcasting. The show was embraced by children, parents, and educators as a solution to teaching American children to read while entertaining them. ●●

1969 Montreal students destroy university computer in protest ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In an act of protest against the system, rioting students in Montreal destroy a one-million-dollar university computer with fireaxes, exemplifying radical rejection of technology. ●●

1969 Hurkos was involved in organizing a Black rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hurkos was involved in organizing a Black Arts Festival scheduled for Halloween day, 1969. ●●

1969 When Nixon came into office in 1969, neither political party had ever advocated unilateral withdrawa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Nixon came into office in 1969, neither political party had ever advocated unilateral withdrawal and no public-opinion poll showed any support for it. ●●

1969 By September 1969, the United States had offered the NLF participation in the political process and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By September 1969, the United States had offered the NLF participation in the political process and mixed electoral commissions, had withdrawn more than 10 percent of its forces, and had agreed to the total withdrawal of the remainder after a settlem ●●

1969 Nevertheless, on September 25, 1969, Republican Senator Charles Goodell of New York proclaimed that rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nevertheless, on September 25, 1969, Republican Senator Charles Goodell of New York proclaimed that he would introduce a resolution requiring the withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam by the end of 1970. ●●

1969 Nixon expressed these views in a letter to Cabinet members concerned with national security on Febru rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nixon expressed these views in a letter to Cabinet members concerned with national security on February 4, 1969, two weeks after taking the oath of office: ●●

1969 In The New York Times of April 18, 1969, “officials” described arms agreements with the Soviet Union rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In The New York Times of April 18, 1969, “officials” described arms agreements with the Soviet Union as “an overriding goal of the Nixon foreign policy. ●●

1969 On June 3, 1969, The New York Times called American trade restrictions linked to other issues “self- rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On June 3, 1969, The New York Times called American trade restrictions linked to other issues “self-defeating. ●●

1969 On April 1, 1969—two months after Nixon took his oath of office—Lin Piao, China’s Defense Minister, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On April 1, 1969—two months after Nixon took his oath of office—Lin Piao, China’s Defense Minister, who was about to be named Mao’s heir, in a report to the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party dropped the heretofore standard designation of ●●

1969 Willy Brandt elected West German Chancellor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Until Willy Brandt was elected Chancellor in September 1969, successive West German governments had insisted that the sole legitimate German government resided in Bonn. ●●

1969 Secretary Rogers presents Middle East peace plan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1969, Secretary Rogers presented a plan, subsequently named after him, which endorsed Israel’s 1967 borders with “minor” rectifications in return for a comprehensive peace agreement. ●●