GUEVARA’S DIARY
250,000 Copies | Sold (N.Z.F. A.-Reuter—CopgHght) HAVANA. July 4. The first printing of the diary of the Cuban guerrilla leader, “Che" Guevara—some 250,000 copies—■was exhausted in Havana on the first day of distribution. The 345-page book, the purported diary of the Argentineborn revolutionary, who was killed in Bolivia last October, was released in Cuba on Monday. Queues formed at Havana bookstalls long before distribution started in the early afternoon, and the first printing was exhausted by nightfall. A second printing of a further 250,000 copies and a third of 100,000 wiU be dis tributed this week. In New York, “Ramparts” magazine today devoted its entire edition to the diary which it published with an Introduction by Fidel Castro. The Introduction Mid the diary would also be published in several other countries. Rampart’s editor-ln-chlef, Robert Scheer, said the Cuban Government wanted to undercut any Bolivian attempt to sell the diary for a large sum to a publication unsympathetic to Guevara.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 7
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