Word: debrayism
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...same heroes; among them are such disparate Americans as Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with students abroad than at home. The far-out radicals idolize not the old leaders of Eastern Europe but such revolutionaries as Ho Chi Minh, Regis Debray and, above all, Che Guevara, around whom grows the martyr's myth...
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...
Diminutive, dark-eyed Elizabeth, who comes from a well-to-do Caracas family, first met Debray when he visited Venezuela in 1964 to film Castroite guerrillas in the hills for French television. Moving in the same left-wing circles in Caracas and sharing the same interest in philosophy, the two saw a lot of each other, began living together on and off in Paris and Cuba. When Réis left Cuba and went on to tie up with the guerrillas in Bolivia last year, Elizabeth stayed behind on the island, then flew to Paris after Debray's arrest...
...weeks after his conviction, Debray approached the army about getting married; the French consul in La Paz handled the negotiations. Perhaps to make up for Debray's harsh sentence, the army finally agreed to the marriage-on condition that no reporters cover the ceremony. At the wedding, the only witnesses were the French consul and Debray's mother, Janine Alexandre-Debray. The couple spent their first night under guard in a cottage in Choreti, five miles from Camiri, and the next few nights in Debray's room at the officers' club...
Married. Regis Debray, 27, French-born Marxist, currently serving a 30-year sentence in a Bolivian prison (see THE WORLD...