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...Michèle Ray, 29, a comely French journaliste, is something special. Michele views the world as a vast fairy tale. There are the cruel oppressors, who are mainly Americans. And there are the cruelly oppressed, who range from the Viet Cong to Castro's Cubans to Bolivian peasants. Michèle's own role is that of the fairy princess who has come to break the spell and liberate them. As she often says, "I think with my heart...
...efforts to get the diary, according to her version in the current Ramparts, were filled with intrigue. First she called on Bolivian President René Barrientos and planted the idea with him that her own bidding would drive up the price of the diary. She "borrowed" a key in order to rifle the hotel room of the chief U.S. negotiator; in the meantime, she wrote, the Bolivian police visited hers. When it looked as if the U.S. consortium might get the diary, Michéle offered $400,000, though her backer had no intention of paying that much. The Bolivians...
Suitable Heroism. The diary business out of the way, Michéle concentrated on the mystique of Che's death. She came across a young Bolivian journalist named Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study. Michéle agreed. With Torrico's help, she re-created the events leading up to Che's execution in La Higuera. Those who supervised the murder, she asserts, were two CIA operatives named Ramos and Gonzales...
BOLIVIA Jail withAll the Comfort For a man sentenced to 30 years in prison, French Intellectual Régis Debray enjoys many of the comforts of home. At the officers' club in the south ern Bolivian town of Camiri, where he has been locked up for helping Che Guevara's guerrillas in their abortive attempt to topple the Bolivian government, Debray's jailers generously allow him to have a radio, his books, paper and pencils. Food is sent in from a restaurant. Last week the Bolivian army threw in the ultimate, if only temporary, comfort: a wife...
Married. Regis Debray, 27, French-born Marxist, currently serving a 30-year sentence in a Bolivian prison (see THE WORLD...