The ČSLA offered no resistance to the invasion mounted by the Soviets in 1968 in reaction to the " Prague Spring ", and was extensively reorganized by the Soviets following the re-imposition of communist rule in Prague.

In 1968, track and field and swimming were the first two official sports offered by Special Olympics.

He was promoted to reader in 1965, and in 1968 was offered a professorship in mathematical physics, a position he held until 1979, his students including Brian Josephson and Martin Rees.

The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 offered federal aid to local school districts in assisting them to address the needs of children with limited English-speaking ability until it expired in 2002.

Subsequently ( beginning in 1967 in Europe and 1968 in the United States ), VW offered an optional semi-automatic transmission — marketed as Automatic Stick Shift and also called AutoStick ) — which was a 3-speed manual coupled to an electromatic clutch and torque converter.

Robson was dissatisfied by this situation and when, in January 1968, Fulham offered him a contract as their manager, he accepted the position at Craven Cottage.

In the fall of 1968 Slayton offered command of the first landing to Borman, who turned it down, choosing to retire instead.

In 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret.

In 1968, as a result of problems with contract negotiations with Lew Grade ( they were not offered enough money or allowed to continue making their shows in colour ), Morecambe and Wise left ATV to return to the BBC.

Located on over of reclaimed land near Conesville in Coshocton county, MVSR has offered Scouts a wide variety of options to expand their camping experience since its opening in 1968.

While the previously introduced Ford Maverick offered either straight-6 or V8 engine and twin bench seats, the Pinto offered an inline-4 engine, and bucket seats – more in keeping with small imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle, available since 1949, the Toyota Corolla, introduced to North America March 1968, and the newly introduced Datsun 1200 which appeared in 1970.

Le Mesurier was offered a role in a new BBC situation comedy in 1968, playing the part of the upper-class Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army, although he was the second choice for the role behind Robert Dorning.

The new model offered a sportier, high performance, somewhat smaller and lower-priced alternative to the other personal luxury cars then on the market such as Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, Lincoln Continental Mark III and Oldsmobile Toronado, The 1969 Grand Prix production ending up at over 112, 000 units, far higher than the 32, 000 1968 Grand Prix built from the full-sized Pontiac body.

Rambler also was an early pioneer in offering an automatic shift indicator sequence ( PRN21L, where if one selected " 2 ", the car started in second gear, while " 1 " started in first gear ) which is similar to today's " PRNODSL ", made mandatory in 1968, which requires a neutral position between reverse and drive, while General Motors still offered a shift selector that had reverse immediately next to low gear ( PNDSLR ) well into the 1960s.

" An opinion poll commissioned by the BBC television programme Panorama in December 1968 found that 8 per cent of immigrants believed that they had been treated worse by white people since Powell's speech, 38 per cent would like to return to their country of origin if offered financial help, 47 per cent supported immigration control, with 30 per cent opposed.

1968 was also the last year the GTOs offered separate vent, or " wing ", windows — and the only year for crank-operated vent windows.

Originally offered as just a 2-door saloon, an attractive 3-door estate joined the HB range in June 1967, but the advent of the 4-door in October 1968 saw the HB breaking sales records worldwide.

By the time of the readership poll, the HB Viva was within a year of being replaced even though the 1600 version itself had only been offered since 1968, so the sample will have been relatively small: it appears that the low satisfaction rate may have reflected not so much the car ’ s design but rather a lack of effective quality control in the manufacturing processes.

The Vietnam War brought new controversies to the church when in 1968, the secretary of the national Evangelism and Social Service Committee, the Reverend Ray Hord, offered emergency aid to American Vietnam draft dodgers ; the General Council Executive disassociated itself from the decision but within two years it became church policy.

The transfer became permanent on 26 June 1968, at which time all TDY members were offered the opportunity to volunteer for a full year's tour.

In 1960 when Griffith was offered the opportunity to headline in his own sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show ( 1960 – 1968 ), Knotts took the role of Barney Fife, the deputy — and originally cousin — of Sheriff Andy Taylor ( portrayed by Griffith ).

In the spring of 1968, Bob Seger & the Last Heard signed with major label Capitol Records, turning down Motown Records, who offered more money than Capitol.

The earliest of the 1968 models were available only as 2-door pillared coupes ( with a B-pillar between the front and rear windows ), but later in the model year a 2-door " hardtop " model ( sans pillar ) was offered.

Although there were faster cars for 1968, the Torino GT when equipped properly offered an excellent combination of power and handling.

In 1968, various steps were taken to reduce the severity with which the “ wage-stop ” operated, a regressive mechanism which restricted the amount of assistance payable to an unemployed person.

Sixteen DPMs appeared between 1961 and 1968 on such topics as strategic offensive and defensive forces, NATO strategy and force structure, military assistance, and tactical air forces.

There were no families in the school district on public assistance in 1968, and the patrons of the district never voted down a tax increase for their school ; they wanted the very best for their children.

International Artists pulled together the various studio recordings from 1968 and with the assistance of drummer Danny Thomas added some horn arrangements, which became the Bull Of The Woods album, released c. March 1969.

In 1968, 4. 1 % of families were headed by a woman receiving Welfare assistance ; by 1980, the percentage increased to 10 %.

Between 1968 and 1974, Loblaw sold $ 164 million in holdings to corporate parent George Weston Limited in an apparent extension of " financial assistance.

Later, in 1968, excavation of the western portion of the site — the portion owned by the Franciscans — was restarted by Corbo and Stanislao Loffreda, with the financial assistance of the Italian government.

* Who ’ s Who in the CIA, a book published in East Berlin in 1968 with the assistance of the KGB and the HVA purporting to reveal the identities of thousands of CIA officers.

In 1968, Western Australia ceased to be a net recipient of federal financial assistance.

From 1968 to 1972, the Soviet Union and COMECON nations sold large numbers of weapons and provided technical assistance and training to Sudan.

Concurrent with this growth, a transport blueprint, developed with American assistance, was presented in 1968: the Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study ( MATS ).

It was implemented by Computer Sciences Corp. in 1968 with design assistance from Intermetrics.

The Pearson Commission on International Development investigated the effectiveness of the World Bank's development assistance in the 20 years to 1968 and made recommendations for future operation of the organization.

The 1968 Michenzani apartment blocks in Zanzibar were part of East German development assistance and brought a Soviet-style of living to rural Africa.

#* Recorded in California in November 1968 with the assistance of Bernie Krause

Over the course of 1968 to 1970 and with the assistance of the local redevelopment authorities, Penn acquired, cleared and redeveloped the 4 block area between 38th, 40th, Spruce, and Walnut streets.

A 1968 CIA report stated that: " With some assistance from Cuba, the small band, under the leadership of Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, engaged in sporadic terrorist acts, including harassment of communications lines, buses, and railroad tracks, pillaging of military supply points and plantations for money and arms, assassination of army collaborators, and attacks on commercial and official installations.