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Tue 09 Sep 2008An Irishman's Diary
1968 was a momentous year in many parts of the world, writes Eugene McEldowney
In Czechoslovakia, the "Prague Spring" ended with the arrival of Soviet tanks to crush the burgeoning democratic movement. In Vietnam, the Viet Cong launched the Tet offensive that would eventually see them arrive triumphant in Saigon. In the United States, the civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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