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MARIETTA, Ga., June 30-The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, 10 of which could have done the job of all 300 planes in the Berlin airlift of 1948, flew for the first time today.
Guevara diary and other papers held by Govt reveal dose Castro supervision of guerrilla movement and Guevara role (J de Onis rept); both illus; indicate Castro exchd frequent coded radio messages with Guevara for 9 mos before latter was captured in Oct '67 and that he was led by misplaced pol hopes and faulty intelligence to invest trained men, arms and millions of dollars to stir revolution; show Castro viewed Bolivia as nucleus of 'continental' revolution that was to establish impenetrable zone of operations in Andes, train guerrilla recruits for Peru and Argentina and eventually involve US forces; detail operations of secret Bolivian group that prepared for Guevara arrival; show Castro sent Debray as top-level liaison; band's failure linked to unfamiliarity with rugged terrain, failure to mobilize local and urban support; clash with Bolivian Communist party under M Monje also noted; Govt negotiating for pub of diary; Cuba claims to have authentic copy, also plans pub
Pope leads open-air mass, St Peter's Sq, ending Yr of Faith commemg 19th centenary of martyrdom
FTC, 3-2, decides to recommend to Cong that all cigarette ad be banned from TV and radio; proposal is based mainly on argument that broadcast ad has increased greatly in recent yrs despite mounting evidence that cigarettes do serious harm to many avg smokers; FTC is prohibited by law from acting against cigarette indus until July '69; majority rept detailed
union-league talks continue under Lindsay auspices; strike threat discussed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 26, 1968, covering July 1, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Cream
Bobby Goldsboro
1968Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (born 1903)[†]
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
1968The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.[†]
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, and is sometimes metonymously called "Langley". A major member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA has reported to the director of national intelligence since 2004, and is focused on providing intelligence for the president and the Cabinet.
1968The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.[†]
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. Between 1965 and 1968, the treaty was negotiated by the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament, a United Nations-sponsored organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.
1968Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.[†]
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States and southern Ontario, Canada. It was founded as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and grew rapidly from 1936 to the 1950s. The union played a major role in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of Walter Reuther. It was known for gaining high wages and pensions for automotive manufacturing workers, but it was unable to unionize auto plants built by foreign-based car makers in the South after the 1970s, and it went into a steady decline in membership; reasons for this included increased automation, decreased use of labor, mismanagement, movements of manufacturing, and increased globalization. After a successful strike at the Big Three in 2023, the union organized its first foreign plant (VW) in 2024.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]