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For more than a year New York City's school system, with its one million pupils, its powerful teachers' union and its entrenched bureaucracy, has been stirred and shaken by a novel concept -- decentralization. The issue has set blacks against whites, the establishment against local communities.
PRAGUE, Sept. 14 -- Alexander Dubcek, the Communist leader, went on nationwide television tonight to beg his fellow Czechoslovaks to avoid clashes and incidents with the Warsaw Pact occupation troops.
allied troops kill more than 400 enemy in series of battles along borders of S Vietnam; 8 Amers killed, 93 wounded; S Vietnamese troops kill 99 enemy near Tayninh; US troops kill 46 enemy near Locninh; action in other areas reptd; map
survey of Pres election campaign outlook in all states
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 11, 1968, covering September 15, 1968.
The Doors
The Rascals
Cream
Jose Feliciano
Johnny Rivers
1968Danny Nucci, American actor[†]
Danny Nucci is an American actor. He is best known for his supporting roles in blockbuster films, including his roles as Danny Rivetti in Crimson Tide (1995), Lieutenant Shepard in The Rock (1996), Deputy Monroe in Eraser (1996), and Fabrizio de Rossi in Titanic (1997), as well as his lead role as Mike Foster in the Freeform series The Fosters (2013–2018).
1968The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]