OFFERS 100 COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES FOR GUEVARA'S BODY
If the Barrientos dictatorship and its backers in Washington thought that the maneuver to offer an exchange of Régis Debray for Hubert Matos would enbarrass the leadership of the Cuban revolution, the reply given by Fidel Castro January 13 probably caught them by surprise. Evidently they had calculated that Havana would be reluctant to respond to the offer since it would imply admission of some kind of guilt in intervening in internal Bolivian affairs.
In a speech in the Chaplin Theater closing the International Cultural Congress, Castro offered to exchange 100 counterrevolutionaries for the body of Che Guevara. "The CIA and the Pentagon can pick the 100 counterrevolutionaries if they have the courage to return the re-
mains of Comandante Guevara," Castro said.
The offer was met with a standing
ovation from the audience.
. Castro said that he was sure that
Régis Debray would not want to be exchanged
for counterrevolutionaries held in Cuba.
Castro excoriated the Central In-
telligence Agency, whose representatives
were directly involved in the murder of
the wounded Guevara last October 9.
The policies of U.S. imperialisn,
he said, were remindful of the policies of
Hitler.
"The U.S. is the most barbarous ag-
gressor in history," he charged.
GREEK JUNTA TAKE OFF UNIF
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The military junta in Greece has been trying to change its image in the last month, to become less conspicuously dictatorial and therefore less of an enmbarrassment to the American government of whom they are "clients."
Lyndon Johnson maintained diplomat-— ic recognition of the Greek regime after the April 21 coup brought the junta to power, arguing that preservation of the "anti-Communist" NATO alliance took precedence over such considerations as military dictatorships among the partners.
But the flight of King Vonstantine to Rome December 14 added another embarrassment for Johnson. Dean Rusk announced the following day that the U.S. would "wait for a while" before recognizing the now kingless junta. The American embassy in Athens, followed by the lesser emissaries of other nations, ceased communicating publicly with the Athenian upstarts.
Colonel Papadopoulos, seeing what was expected of him, moved to solve Rusk's problem. Shortly a miraculous transformation began to take place in the Greek regime.
On December 20 Colonel Papadopoulos converted himself and two other officers into civilians by resigning from the arny.
Papadopoulos' next feat was to change himself into Santa Claus -- that, at any rate, was how the New York Times reported it.
The Times carried a dispatch from Athens December 24 which said, "The Greek junta declared a Christmas amnesty today for most of the 2,500 political prisoners currently being held in jails here and on three small islands in the Aegean."
Papadopoulos made the announcement, while making a great show of receiving a copy of a new constitution. The civilian leader, on whom a black suit looked strangely like a uniform, set no date for elections and spoke only of a plebiscite which would probably not be held until September, and then under martial law. He refused to lift the press censorship.
Nevertheless, the "amnesty" was given wide play in the American press. The New York Times in a front-page headline proclaimed, "Junta in Greece Pardons Most Political Prisoners" and the correspondent said that Papadopoulos at his news conference had wished all the reporters a merry Christmas “with the smile of a Santa Claus who has just finished giv-
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