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Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara's diary of his abortive eleven-month campaign in Bolivia was first published by Fidel Castro last month and picked up in the U.S. by Ramparts magazine and Bantam Books. It was widely criticized as bowdlerized, with key dates and names edited out. Last week New York publishers Stein & Day weighed in with an unexpurgated edition entitled The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara and Other Captured Documents...
...Stein & Day book improves pointedly on the translation. Where Castro's version spoke only of "discipline" or "pressure" on the Bolivian peasants, for example, Editor Daniel James, a former managing editor of the New Leader and biographer of Che, interprets the diary's euphemistic disciplina more accurately as "terrorism." The Complete Diaries also offers a supplement to Che's account by including the diaries of three of his lieutenants, all of whom recounted the bitterness of their last days as revolutionaries. And James reveals that 13 of the guerrillas slain with Che were actually high-ranking Cuban...
...according to an illustrated spread in West Germany's Stern magazine. Stern's report shows that Rudi has progressed to the point where he can knock out a few croquet games each day, bat a pingpong ball around, and play with his six-month-old son, Hosea-Che. Within a few months he ought to be healthy enough to return home to face a series of disorderly-conduct charges picked up during his brief but bombastic career as a revolutionary...
Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara spent the last year of his life trying without success to topple the government of Bolivia. Ironically, Che has come close to doing in death what he could not achieve in life. Last week the 14-man Cabinet of Bolivia's President René Barrientos resigned in the embarrassed furor following the leak of Che's diary to his old boss, Fidel Castro...
Barrientos at first considered his favorite resort in times of stress: a flight into the hinterlands to talk with the Indian campesinos, who provide much of his popular support. But at week's end he settled down to the task of forming a new Cabinet that would be Che-proof...