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...Among those prominently present: Aleida Guevara, wife-or possibly widow-of erstwhile Castro No. 2 man Che Guevara, who disappeared, leaving his family "in the care of the state." † Including an attempt last week by a 16-year-old Texas high-school student named Thomas Robinson to hijack a National Airlines DC-8 jetliner bound from New Orleans to Melbourne, Fla., with 84 passengers, including Christopher Kraft, flight director for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Muttering that he wanted to go to Cuba to protest Castro's political prisoners, Robinson pulled two pistols, fired several...
...then some. "My only fault of any gravity," Che's letter continued was in not having trusted more in you from the first moments of the Sierra Maestra, and not having understood your qualities as leader and revolutionary. I have lived magnificent days. I thank you for your lessons and your example.' As for Che's young wife Aleida and his three children, whom he left behind, "I ask nothing for them because the state will educate them and give them enough to live on." Out front in the audience, as Castro read the letter was Aleida...
...Rumors. Was the letter genuine? Washington's Castrologists doubted it. It seemed like one of those familiar fictions that Communist regimes publish to paper over the cracks in the façade. It was too mawkish in its Fidelity for a tough guy like Che, too humble for a man who once snickered that Fidel joined in only one battle of the revolution, and that "proved a failure." Nor did it explain anything about Che's fate-except that he was out of power in Cuba...
Where he was and what he was doing were still intriguing questions. U.S Intelligence professed to know nothing One possibility was that Che was still in Cuba, either dead, or in prison If not, the April date referred to by Castro revived the rumors of last spring that Che had been killed in the first days of the Dominican civil...
...Che was alive and out of Cuba he could be anywhere. Miami's anti-Castro exiles twanged with speculation that Che was with the guerrillas in Peru in Colombia, in Guatemala, that he was in the Congo trying to salvage that badly fought rebellion, or (most farfetched of the rumors) maybe even in Viet...