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...Mallin, a new book that in brief (114 pages), pointed style systematically analyzes the Viet Cong's use of violence. Mallin, a longtime Caribbean reporter (five years for TIME in Cuba) who flew to Viet Nam in 1965 to research his grim inquiry firsthand, quotes Che Guevara for the Red chapter and verse on terrorism. "Violence," asserted Che, is "the midwife of new societies." It is also for the Viet Cong, adds Author Mallin, "a highly developed, highly refined political weapon...
...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...
...Aleida Guevara, dressed in black and fighting tears, listened as Fidel Castro read a servile, six-month-old farewell letter from her husband Che, once the dictator's trusted lieutenant-who may or may not be alive. The incident revealed the deep fissures in Castro's regime. See THE HEMISPHERE...
...letter bore no date-only "Havana, Year of Agriculture."* It was signed by Argentine-born Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Castro's longtime No. 2 man, who has been missing for seven months after a bitter doctrinal dispute with the dictator; Che preferred a hardline, Peking-style Communism, Castro the softer, Moscow variety (TIME cover, Oct. 8). Two weeks ago, Castro promised a document that would explain Che's absence and his status. Now before 5,000 Cubans in Havana's Chaplin Theater, Castro said that Che gave him the letter last April, asking him to read it publicly...
...variously as "Red Beard," "M-l," and "Petronio"-oversees everything from guerrilla training to cash disbursements for Castro's Latin American agents. The DGI has trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans in guerrilla warfare, including 500 Venezuelans, 300 Peruvians, 200 Panamanians, 75 Dominicans, 60 Salvadorans. Trainees receive Guevara's La Guerra de Guerrillas and another handy pocket guide called 150 Questions on Guerrilla Warfare, written by Castro's old mentor, Alberto Bayo, a Communist veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Bayo's dedication reads: "To those who have died and are dying in the filthy...