European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday october 13, 1967 Guevara s death could finish it Castro s Export movement is in deep trouble by William l. Ryanal special correspondent even before Bolivia announced the death of Ernesto Che Guevara the in latin America was gasping for breath. Convincing proof that Che is gone can be a blow from which the Export Brand of Castro ism May never Castro ism had a Symbol in latin America it was not Fidel Castro himself but Che gue Vara. Che was one of a disappearing Breed the professional revolutionary apostle of guerrilla War and incessant violence prototype of the romantic under ground conspirator whose a peal primarily was to Heyoung. There Are not Many aspiring Ches left in latin America. In Guatemala the fiery Lui Turcios Lima has been dead for almost two years. In Brazil Francisco Juliao Youthful aspirant to revolutionary leadership of the peasants Long ago dropped out of sight. Venezuela s Young Hothead of the fall armed forces of National liberation sulk attack of support from their one time allies in the orthodox communist party. Many of their leaders Are dead the rest Are hiding and their numbers have dwindled. In Peru Colombia Ecuador and elsewhere guerrilla movements of the body of the fallen Che Are convincing Evi Dence and it will be difficult for the revolutionaries to dispute them. For the guerrillas in Bolivia As elsewhere the Symbol of their revolutionary Hopes has been snatched away. The move ment without its Knight in Armor easily loses its already was be coming a negligible Force out Side Cuba. Indeed Che himself personified its weaknesses. Hews the Standard bearer for what Fidel Castro had represented years ago but certainly not for what Castro is reason to believe in fact that Che had broken with his onetime maximum if the final chapter of the Guevara Saga Means the de Cline of the guerrilla movement Fidel Castro can Lay much of the blame upon himself. His failures brought Castro ism into disrepute and the communist movement to confusion. Castro began the process soon after he reached Power by turn comparison the bolivian army release this picture of a dead guerrilla identified him As Che Guevara and compared it to a Maga Zine photo of the revolutionary right. Up i. In ii it saboteurs plague Israel by de Blanche Tel Aviv a the old War has begun again in is Rael sabotage and terrorism. The israelis claim to have broken the Back of a month old Al Fatah phantom Campaign which they say is supported by Syria by rounding up some 200arabs and seizing Large arms caches. But terrorism continues. A guerrilla War in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan is not being ruled groups Are still hid ing in the craggy Judean Hill Sand More Are sneaking across the Low water Jordan River by night. They Are better armed and More efficient than their predecessors who raided Israel for 19 years before the june War. Soviet machine guns Syri an army bazookas and communist chinese mortars Neverseen Here before have been found. Defense minister Moshe Day an has warned in effect that Israel May make a retaliatory strike against Syria if saboteurs continue to infiltrate into israeli held territory. The leftist baath regime i Damascus denies it is behind the raids but captured terrorist claim that syrian intelligence now recruits trains and direct the Al Fatah Campaign. Informed sources say Jordan which Israel accuses of allow ing raiders to infiltrate through its territory May also be hit. Raiders have ambushed patrols mined roads and rail lines and dynamited israeli settlements killing eight israeli Sand wounding 33 since the june War ended. Diehard group shave fought pitched Battles with Tough Border troopers. Inone fight the israelis had to bring in a tank. Hundreds of saboteurs Are believed to have swarmed across the Jordan since june wit orders to organize a Vietnam style popular resistance an intimidate collaborators. As Many As 1,000 refugees unemployed syrians and Young algerians have been recruited and trained in three syrian amps since the War by syrian officers and algerian instructors reports say. Al Asifa Hurricane Elfarah s strike Arm claims it has set up its operational head quarters in the West Bank and has carried out nearly Allma Jor sabotage operations re ported in the Region and Fatah formed in 1964, is reported to have made 76 raid Between january 1965 and last May killing 11 israelis an wounding 59. These attacks later directed by the syrian army were an underlying cause of the june War. Now Al Fatah is under the direct command of the Syria general staff prisoners report. Israeli intelligence reports indicate Al Fatah and its one time rival the Palestine liberation army Flahave patched up their difference Sand now Are working together. Some reports say the Pla Leader Achmed Shukair set up Headquarters in Damascus after president Gamal Abdel Nasser asked him to move out of Cairo reportedly at Hus Sein s urging to dissociate him self from extremist elements. Some reports say Shukair has been ousted and replaced by syrian col. Halil Al Wazir. Pla saboteurs Are act vein the Gaza strip and have de railed a train and killed several israelis with mines. Algerian president actively aids Al Fatah and has pressed for the unification of All underground groups under a single political command. Israeli Security forces struck Back swiftly when the raids be Gan. Small heavily armed patrols flushed out Al Fatah groups and helicopter a o r n squads stopped almost daily on suspect villages. Undercover agents mingled with villagers ferreting out suspects. The dragnet pulled in several top palestinian commanders including an algerian officer re ports say. But the Al Fatah Organiza Tion is widespread. Although frightened villagers of enforced to watch the army blow up. The houses of suspects admit knowing of the Organiza Tion they rarely report Fatah men. Two Nablus police sergeant were gunned Down because they collaborated. Al Asifa claimed the credit. Wealthy merchant Rashid Diab was wounded in an assassination attempt after he urge cooperation with Israel. Sheikh Ali a Abari mayor of Hebron and former member of several jordanian cabinets was threatened after urging co operation and openly sup porting a plan for an Independent Palestine israelis now face a dilemma if they crack Dow too hard on the arabs they May Force them into Al Fatah arms if they Don t it will be interpreted As weakness an resistance could Harden. Several terrorists have been jailed for life but military authorities Are reluctant to exe cute raiders and make martyrs out of them. Ing on heroes of his own revolution Huber Matos Camilo Cien Fuegos Anibal Escalante an Many another. At the same time the economic confusion reigning in Cuba dulled much of the glitter of Castro As a Cham Pion of the people. He soon mortgaged himself to Moscow and owed his very existence to the soviet communists. Castro had ambitious plans and overreached himself. A Case in Point was the heavy blow sustained by Castro ism in Venezuela after november ims when police uncovered a huge Cache of arms and ammunition and a cuban backed plan o overthrow the constitutional government in Caracas. The venezuelan government pro edits Case before the organization of american states. This alerted Venezuela and Many another government to Castro s plans to Export his revolution. Meanwhile the soviet Union was finding it More profitable to rely on traditional Means of in fluence and infiltration in latin America and was cautiously shy ing away from overt connection with guerrilla and terrorist violence. Castro ism lost import ant support. Castro himself frequently gave vent to his bitter Ness on this score. But probably More serious blow to Castro s Hopes was his own falling Outwith Che Guevara. That came in the Spring of 1965, after Guevara had made a trip to red China and Africa. Guevara palpably had been unhappy about soviet interference in the latin american revolutionary movement in the Wake of the 1962 cuban missile crisis showdown with the United � states. = in 1963, Guevara wrote an 5 article insisting it. Would be an s unpardonable error to neglect go armed struggle. Probably Castro Felt the same Way but he relied wholly on Moscow. Summoned there in 1964, Castro got the full treatment and later appeared to Compromise with the cautious View. Guevara took off for peking and then Africa. He re turned to Havana in march1065. All the evidence indicates he had a violent Row with Castro then. Che disappeared and Castro said he was on a revolutionary Mission elsewhere. Che in the eyes of Many Payoong revolutionary was deserted by Castro. The real Leader of the guerrilla movement has passed from the scene and Castro s Cuba i unable to fill the vacuum caught As it is in Moscow economic grip. For latin americans Guevara s death can signify the vulnerability and even the futility of guerrilla violence As the Road to social revolution. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa ,j,2uchael or Usan Deputy d prank Mana Alno editor end a a path a production manager Henry r. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed Force published by the commander in chief . European command and printed daily at . Military address the Stan and stripes Apo 09175. International mails the stars and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. Tel Greet Helm c prefix 06155 2071 m Darmstadt air strip prefix 2376 741. New York off cel 641 Washington st., new York 10014, Tell area code 212 620-5771. Second Clai Pottage paid at new York . The United states is an open society in which the people s a Glitto know i cherished and president Lyndon Ujj. Ifo Lansou
