Uranus) correlated with the most contentious period of the countercultural revolution. The Civil Rights movement entered its most violent and turbulent period to date: Malcolm X is assassinated, the Black Panther Party and Black Power coalitions are formed and consolidate, and race riots erupt all over urban centers in the United States.
In 1964, the Viet Nam conflict was considered insignificant and made little impact upon the minds of typical Americans. Within two years, however, the number of American troops in Viet Nam increased fourfold and battles and casualties escalated. Shrouded in diplomatic secrecy, without overt rationale, and with miscalculations and blunders increasing, the war in Viet Nam was being questioned by the American public -vehemently so- as media attention grew and the number of troops increased.
Late in 1965, a bloody coup erupted in Indonesia which led to the installation of General Suharto as dictator of the nation. The coup, which killed 500,000, was a bloodbath. One reporter investigating the scene described the violence as a "wave of murderous madness (that) swept the country." (5)
The cultural revolution in communist China was at its height during the mid-sixties. Communist dissenters were demonized as monsters as the cult of personality surrounding Mao Tse Tung hegemonized. The Red Guards would clash with the army of China and would kill hundreds of thousands.
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