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...efforts to get the diary, according to her version in the current Ramparts, were filled with intrigue. First she called on Bolivian President René Barrientos and planted the idea with him that her own bidding would drive up the price of the diary. She "borrowed" a key in order to rifle the hotel room of the chief U.S. negotiator; in the meantime, she wrote, the Bolivian police visited hers. When it looked as if the U.S. consortium might get the diary, Michéle offered $400,000, though her backer had no intention of paying that much. The Bolivians...
...that it is all over, Bolivian President René Barrientos finds himself in the unusual position of being somewhat thankful for the guerrilla uprising led by Che Guevara and his Cubans. The guerrillas gave Barrientos and his government a bad time for several months, but since Che's death the band has been whittled down to about five men, on whom the Bolivian army is closing in this week in central Bolivia. With their campaign of violence and terror, Castro's followers did what Barrientos had never been able to do: consolidate and unify public opinion-however temporarily...
...some direction, coupled with the proven inability to do so, has caused Castro's regime to lean more and more on such spectacles as last week's cultural congress. As the congress ended, Castro came up with yet another diversion. Countering the suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner Régis Debray be swapped for Castro Prisoner Huber Matos (TIME, Jan. 12), Castro offered to release 100 political prisoners in return for the body of Che Guevara. He may have in mind something like Lenin's tomb...
...small provincial town of Choreti, he is living under guard in Bolivian officers' quarters, getting the same food and accommodations and busily reading and writing, apparently on philosophical themes. Debray continues to be an un usual prisoner in other ways. Last week Bolivia's President René Barrientos Ortuño offered to trade him for an anti-Castro hero now imprisoned in Cuba, and Debray himself let it be known that he had been saved from execution by none other than the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency...
...Presse. Working under the umbrella of France's cordial relations with some of the world's prickliest countries, A.P.P. men report from 144 nations and territories outside France. Now that the Reuters man in Peking has been placed under house arrest, A.F.P.'s Jean Vincent and René Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi, and during the six-day war between the Arabs and Israelis, the agency maintained service from Cairo, Damascus and Amman from...