Since coming to power, a disproportionate number of leading positions have been awarded to members of the Alawi sect in a move akin to Saddam Hussein's Ba ' ath Party governance in neighbouring Iraq between 1968 and 2003 when persons from Saddam's home town of Tikrit were appointed in prominent roles.

A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba ' ath Party and its regional organisation Ba ' ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba ' athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.

After the Ba ' athists took power in 1968, Saddam focused on attaining stability in a nation riddled with profound tensions.

According to former CIA Near East Division Chief James Chritchfield, after al-Bakr and Saddam seized power in 1968, " America slowly developed, not a hostility, but enormous reservations about the ability of the Ba ' ath to constructively bring Iraq along.

Al-Bakr appointed Saddam Hussein, as Vice President upon attaining power in 1968.

In the decade following the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, various regimes ruled the country, each responsible for the government's treatment of its citizens and for protecting citizens, until the 1968 coup that brought the Ba ' ath Party to power with Saddam Hussein as one of the coup leaders:

The second regime of the Ba ' ath Arab Socialist Party began with a coup in July 1968, with Saddam Hussein, one of the leaders of the coup, growing in power and eventually assuming the presidency of the country in 1979.

Raghad Saddam Hussein () ( born 2 September 1968 ) is the eldest daughter of former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein and Sajida Talfah.

He was also an outspoken critic of Saddam Hussein's rule: " The regime's criminal acts, beginning in 1968, have been never-ending.

On July 16, 1979, Ahmed Hassan al Bakr, who had ruled Iraq following a coup in 1968, stepped down from power and appointed his cousin Saddam Hussein, a strongly anti-Shiite Sunni, to be his successor and the Syrian government officially closed it's embassy in Baghdad soon afterwards.

After the Ba ' ath Party seized power on July 17, 1968, Saddam expanded the Special Apparatus and took control of the Amn ( State Internal Security Department ).

From 1968 to 1978, he and Paul Samuelson participated in the Economics Cassette Series, a biweekly subscription series where the economist would discuss the days ' issues for about a half hour at a time.

He stayed with Davis until 1968 ( when he was replaced by Dave Holland ), and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970.

He participated in the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Hippies were often pacifists, and participated in non-violent political demonstrations, such as civil rights marches, the marches on Washington D. C., and anti – Vietnam War demonstrations, including draft-card burnings and the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.

* Although Derrida participated in the rallies of the May 1968 protests, and organized the first general assembly at the École Normale Superieure, he said " I was on my guard, even worried in the face of a certain cult of spontaneity, a fusionist, anti-unionist euphoria, in the face of the enthusiasm of a finally " freed " speech, of restored " transparence ," and so forth.

On 21 February 1968, Palme ( then Minister of Education ) participated in a protest in Stockholm against the U. S. involvement in the war in Vietnam together with the North Vietnamese Ambassador to the Soviet Union Nguyen Tho Chan.

American Ray Heppenstall joined Howmet Corporation and McKee Engineering together to develop their own gas turbine sports car in 1968, the Howmet TX, which ran several American and European events, including two wins, and also participated in the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans.

He participated in hurdling events in four Olympic Games, winning the title in 1968.

Lichtenstein later participated in documentas IV ( 1968 ) and VI in ( 1977 ).

Ryun participated in the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics, but the gold medal eluded him.

He began speaking in public at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan ( Meeting of all faiths ) held at Jabalpur, organised by the Taranpanthi Jain community into which he was born, and participated there from 1951 to 1968.

Within a year after he graduated from St Martin ’ s, the artist became closely associated with the emergence of Land Art ; he also participated in the first international manifestations of both Arte Povera, in Amalfi, Italy in 1968, and Earth Art, at Cornell University, New York in 1969.

Caldera participated in educative and political circles, like the direction of the Venezuelan Institute of Labor rights ( 1958 – 1966 ) and the presidencies of the Venezuelan Association of Sociology ( 1958 – 1967 ), the Christian Democratic Organization of Latin America ( 1964 – 1968 ) and the Worldwide Christian Democratic Union ( 1967 – 1968 ).

He participated in the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Musicians who were part of the movement include Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Torquato Neto, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa and Tom Zé, all of whom participated in the 1968 album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis, which served as a musical manifesto.

On the whole, Cohn-Bendit had participated little in the May 1968 Paris events, which continued without him, but he had become a legend, which was to be used later in the 1990s upon his return to France.

He studied for a year at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, before enrolling at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he studied philosophy under Vladimir Jankélévitch He participated in the 1968 student riots in Paris against the Charles de Gaulle government, and was hit in the head by a police baton, causing a permanent disfigurement above his right eye.

It is difficult to identify precisely the politics of the students who sparked the events of May 1968, much less of the hundreds of thousands who participated in them.

Agamben participated in Martin Heidegger's Le Thor seminars ( on Heraclitus and Hegel ) in 1966 and 1968.

He participated in documentas I ( 1955 ) and IV ( 1968 ) in Kassel.

The NVA never took part in full-scale combat, although it participated in a support role in the suppression of the Prague Spring of 1968 and NVA officers often served as combat advisers in Africa.

In 1968 he participated in the first opera telecast in Australia ( Tosca, with Marie Collier in the title role and Donald Smith as Cavaradossi ).

On 19 November 1968, following progressive economic decline, the Keïta regime was overthrown in a bloodless military coup led by Moussa Traoré, a day which is now commemorated as Liberation Day.

On November 19, 1968, a group of young officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member Military Committee for National Liberation ( CMLN ), with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

On 19 November 1968, a group of young Malian officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member military junta, with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

On July 17, 1968, while Arif was sleeping, his own assistants along with members of the Ba ' ath Party, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, overthrew him in a bloodless coup.

General Velasco seized power on October 3, 1968 in a bloodless military coup, deposing the democratically-elected administration of Fernando Belaúnde, under which he served as Commander of the Armed Forces.

President Massamba-Débat's term ended in August 1968 when Captain Marien Ngouabi and other army officers toppled the government in a coup.

* In 1968, a coup in Iraq led to the overthrow of Abdul Rahman Arif by the Arab Socialist Baath Party.

In 1968, the Guard overthrew President Arnulfo Arias in a coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Omar Torrijos and Major Boris Martínez.

He had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1966 and in 1968 he and Major Boris Martínez led a successful coup d ' état against the recently elected president of Panama, Arnulfo Arias, after only eleven days in office, when he tried to order Torrijos to a foreign post.

He was later part of the 1968 military coup that brought Marien Ngouabi to power and was a founding member of the Congolese Labour Party ( Parti Congolais du Travail, PCT ) in December 1969.

Further land reform occurred after the 1968 coup by left-wing colonel Juan Velasco Alvarado, and again as part of a counterterrorism effort against the Shining Path during the Internal conflict in Peru roughly 1988 – 1995, led by Hernando de Soto and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy during the early years of the government of Alberto Fujimori, before the latter's auto-coup.

Al-Bakr and the Ba ' ath Party regained power in the coup of 1968, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution.

The coup of 1968, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, brought al-Bakr and the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party to power in Iraq.

After Keita was ousted by a coup d ' état in 1968 organized by General Moussa Traoré, most of Keita's support for the arts was cancelled, but the " Semaines Nationale de la Jeunesse " festival was retained and renamed to " Biennale Artistique et Culturelle de la Jeunesse ".

After a sort of " palace coup " in 1968 he had to share power, and in 1972 he gave up all editorial responsibility on the journal, although his name remained on the masthead.

After a series of coups, Ba ' athists seized the presidency of the politically unstable country in 1968, with possible KGB support, although the Iraqi military carried out the coup.

Born into a poor family, Moscoso became active in the 1968 presidential campaign of three-time president Arnulfo Arias ; when he went into exile following a military coup, she followed him and married him.

The Ba ' th Party came to power in July 1968, in a coup which Pachachi has claimed was supported by the CIA, in an effort to distance Iraq from Gemal Abdel Nasser.

The Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council was established after the military coup in 1968, and was the ultimate decision making body in Iraq before the 2003 American-led invasion.

The Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) was established as the de facto ruling power in Iraq after the military coup of 1968.

The coup in 1968 led to the rise of the Ba ’ ath Party as it regained control.

The coup in 1968 led to the establishment of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council which became the ultimate decision-making body in Iraq during the Ba ’ ath ’ s rule from 1968 to 2003.

Since its creation have had strong ties with the military regime that ruled Panama since the military coup of 1968.