In July 1975, according to the IISS Military Balance, the FAZ was made up of 14 infantry battalions, seven " Guard " battalions, and seven other infantry battalions variously designated as " parachute " ( or possibly " commando "; probably the units of the new parachute brigade originally formed in 1968 ).

The 2 Battalion 138th Field Artillery of the Kentucky Army National Guard was ordered to service in Vietnam in late 1968.

He was commissioned in the Panama National Guard in 1967 and promoted to lieutenant in 1968.

Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera ( February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981 ) was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and in response, on April 9, 1968, Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. deployed the National Guard and the Delaware State Police to the city at the request of Mayor John Babiarz.

The conflict within U. S. society came to a peak at the protests and riots at the Democratic National Convention of 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, and in the Kent State Massacre, where 4 anti-war protesters were shot dead by U. S. National Guard forces in a violent confrontation.

By 1968, he enlisted into the Army National Guard and was discharged from the US Army Reserves in 1972

In 1968 and the early 1970s, he joined the Canadian Coast Guard, where he served aboard weatherships, search and rescue hovercraft, and buoy tenders.

Then, in 1968, the Red Guard purges meant to restore doctrinal orthodoxy to China had provoked civil war in parts of the country, which Mao resolved with the People's Liberation Army suppressing the pertinent cohorts of the Red Guard ; the excesses of the Red Guard and of the Cultural Revolution declined.

The Home Guard was immortalised in the British television comedy Dad's Army ( 1968 – 1977 ), which followed the formation and running of a platoon in the fictional south coast town of " Walmington-on-Sea ", and is widely regarded as having kept the efforts of the Home Guard in the public consciousness.

He served in the North Carolina National Guard Reserve from 1968 to 1971.

X Corps was deactivated on 31 March 1968, as part of the compromise between U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara who wanted to merge the Army Reserve into the Army National Guard, and the United States Congress who wanted to maintain the Army Reserve as it then existed.

He was an officer in the United States National Guard from 1968 to 1974.

* Lieutenant General H Steven Blum ( 1968 ) – Former Chief of the National Guard Bureau ; Current Deputy Commander NORTHCOM.

George W. Bush joined the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group of the Texas Air National Guard on May 27, 1968, during the Vietnam War.

In his 1968 Statement of Intent ( undated ), he wrote, " I have applied for pilot training with the goal of making flying a lifetime pursuit and I believe I can best accomplish this to my own satisfaction by serving as a member of the Air National Guard as long as possible.

June 1968: " D-I-V-O-R-C-E " / " Changing Of The Guard " ( as Greg Allman and the Hour Glass ) </ br >-Side " A " new recording by Gregg Allman and session musicians, Side " B " from Power of Love ( 1968 )</ br >

* Robert F. Duncan ( 1968 )-Rear Admiral and Commander of the Eight Coast Guard District & Maritime Defense

After graduating from Northwestern in 1968 with a degree in journalism, he was drafted for two years into the United States Army as a ceremonial soldier in The Old Guard ( 3rd Infantry Regiment ) in Washington, D. C., and later wrote for a military paper, the Pentagon News.

In May 1968, he sent the Guard to Louisville to break up race-related protests that followed peaceful civil rights marches.

In April 1968, a group of senior military officers who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura overthrew the NRC junta.

In 1968, Saddam participated in a bloodless coup led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr that overthrew Abdul Rahman Arif.

This came as a result of a US invasion that overthrew a military dictatorship which ruled the country from 1968 to 1989.

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.

In July 1968 the Ba ' ath Party, supported by the army, overthrew the Arif government and assumed control of Iraq, returning Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr back to power.

In 1968, Juan Velasco Alvarado overthrew president Fernando Belaúnde by a Coup d ' état, closing again the Congress.

In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.

* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.

* 1968 — Joseph B. Platt ( President, HMC )

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

General Suharto politically outmanoeuvred President Sukarno, and was formally appointed president in March 1968.

This material was later used as an element of his satirical US presidential campaign in 1968, and was included on his 1968 comedy album Pat Paulsen for President.

* 1968 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

* 1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba ' ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

Ibrahim Nasir, Prime Minister under the pre-1968 sultanate, became President and held office from 1968 to 1978.

* 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of " all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam " effective November 1.

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

In mid-1968 Askin famously became embroiled in a media controversy over the reporting of several words spoken to the United States Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney on 32 July 1968 ( also the day Opposition Leader Renshaw resigned, to be replaced by Pat Hills ), in which he spoke of the October 1966 state visit by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.

* Vice President of the Republic of Iraq ( 1968 – 1979 )

No nomination for associate justice has ever been filibustered, but President Lyndon Johnson's nomination of sitting Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice was successfully filibustered in 1968.

President Jorge Pacheco declared a state of emergency in 1968, followed by a further suspension of civil liberties in 1972.

President Jorge Pacheco declared a state of emergency in 1968, and this was followed by a further suspension of civil liberties in 1972 by his successor, President Juan María Bordaberry.

Of the thirteen Presidential elections from 1956 to 2004, nine featured the incumbent President ; the other four ( 1960, 1968, 1988, 2000 ) all featured the incumbent Vice President.

Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).

* 1968 – U. S. President Richard M. Nixon was elected defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in November.