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    Vol.62/No.5           February 9, 1998 
 
 
Corrections  
 Two errors appeared the article "Che Guevara, Cuba, and the Algerian revolution" by Ahmed Ben Bella that appeared in last week's Militant, dated February 2. The caption of the photo on page 8 of Ben Bella's welcome at the airport in Havana in 1962 improperly identified Fidel Castro as the president of Cuba. At the time, Castro was prime minister. The caption should have also identified Cuban president Osvaldo Dortico's, who is seated to the right of Ben Bella.

In the article, Ben Bella states that in response to U.S. president John Kennedy, "I retorted that I was a fellaga," a term that translates as "outlaw," which the French rulers used to try to slander the Algerian independence fighters, but which in turn the revolutionaries used defiantly to identify themselves. The word was incorrectly changed to fellah - peasant -in the translation.

Also, a footnote in the article was misleading. While Sukarno remained the president of Indonesia in name until 1967, he was effectively stripped of power in a 1965 coup.  
 
 
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