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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...
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...
...great mysteries surrounding Che Guevara's diary of his ill-fated guerrilla campaign in Bolivia is how it reached the hands of Fidel Castro. Almost immediately after Che had been captured and executed by Bolivia's army last fall, Western journalists swarmed to La Paz to bid for the publishing rights. "If I had the money," said Bolivian Minister of Government Antonio Arguedas at the time, "I would buy the diary myself and resell it at a profit." It seems, however, that money did not stand in Arguedas' way after all. Last week, less than a month...
When the Bolivian army summarily executed Che Guevara last October in a remote mountain town, soldiers found in his possession a diary chronicling the eleven-month guerrilla campaign that Che had expected to set the torch to Latin American revolution. Publishers from as far away as India flocked to La Paz, where the government had locked up the diary in a safe, to negotiate for the rights to print it. Last week Fidel Castro, Che's longtime comrade-in-arms and boss, pulled a publishing coup on all of them. He presented Che's diary to the world from Havana...
...black militants; another charges that the rash of violence on U.S. campuses is Communist-inspired and part of "Mickey Mao's trap." A comic-strip hero called Super Square participates in such right-wing victories as the resignation of Defense Secretary McNamara and the downfall of Che Guevara. His identity, however, is a mystery. Square asks: "Is he Al Capp? Bill Buckley? Joey Bishop...