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...what Latin Americans really need, as proved by the recent Communist guerrilla uprising in Bolivia and the death there of Guerrilla Tactician Che Guevara, are the basic bread-and-butter weapons of a fighting man: rifles, mortars, machine-guns, helicopters and spotter planes. Unfortunately, these are not the stuff that flashy parades are made...
...Acrimony. The demonstration began under a crystalline noonday sky at the Lincoln Memorial. It took on special impact by climaxing a week of antiwar protest across the nation. Beneath the marbled gaze of Lincoln's statue, red and blue Viet Cong flags mingled with signs affirming that "Che Guevara Lives," posters proclaiming "Dump Johnson" and asking "Where Is Oswald When We Need Him?" The meeting had hardly begun before three Nazis were arrested for jumping a British trade-union orator who criticized U.S. involvement in Viet...
...likely to get an invitation than those who straddle the center line. The most desirable speaker, if only he were available, insists one Berkeley student leader, would be Ho Chi Minh. Almost as good, a Harvard student sighs sadly, would have been an other Communist, the newly deceased "Che" Guevara...
Despite the army's clumsy handling of the situation, few doubted that the dead man was Che, and the sigh of relief throughout Latin America was almost as audible as a breeze whistling down from the Andes. "Guevara's death," said Rio's Jornal do Brasil, "is a dramatic warning to the planners of systematic subversion among us." In Camiri, where he is on trial as a member of Che's guerrilla band. French Marxist Regis Debray wept at the news of Che's death. "I would like to be at his side," he said...
Died. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 39, professional guerrilla and long-missing Castro sidekick who hoped to Communize South America; of gunshot wounds; in Bolivia (see THE WORLD...