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...principles of Che Guervara have quietly taken precedence over older more repressive forms of communism in Cuba, John Gerassi, editor of a collection of Guevara's speeches, said yesterday...
Doctor Zhivago made him a star, but to Omar Sharif it was just another Hollywood moneymaker. The film that the Egyptian movie hero is now making in Hollywood, Che!, is quite another thing. With his scraggly beard and cigar, Omar is a ringer for Ernesto Guevara and really feels for him. "Che was a just man fighting for a good cause," says he. "If he had not used violence, he would have been one of the great men of the world...
...students were being incited to riot and demonstrate by non-student communist forces. (This was clearly not the case -- the communists played little part in the events up to this point and were to play an even smaller part in the events that were to follow.) Portraits of Che Guevara had been adopted by the students as a symbol of their movement. The students explained that as they were willing to give their lives to defend the Mexican constitution and preserve freedom of speech and the autonomy of the University, they felt that the portrait...
Somebody was bound to try, and now Director Richard Fleischer is set to start filming 20th Century's biography of Che Guevara, Marxist folk hero killed while trying to export Castrostyle revolution to Bolivia. "We're already being blasted from left and right," says Fleischer. "The rightists don't want Che glorified, and the leftists are sure their idol will be defiled." As for the Cu bans, says Fleischer, "I don't think we'll be playing Che in Cuba-though they might acquire a print so they can shoot at the screen...
Even so, Americans have never before undergone so many sustained surprises both at home and abroad as they have in the past year. Last summer Israel smashed the Arabs, Red China exploded its first H-bomb, Johnson met Kosygin in New Jersey, the Bolivians killed Che Guevara, the Nigerian civil war began destroying Black Africa's most promising nation, and Negro rioters ran wild in Detroit and Newark...