ANTHROPOLOGISTS WITH COFFINS OF CHE GUEVARA AND HIS COMRADES, 1997-07-12 (photo)

Cuban forensic physician Jorge Gonzalez (second from right), along with his Argentine and Cuban colleagues, (clockwise from bottom left) Hector Soto (Cuba), Roberto Rodriguez (Cuba), and Alejandro Inchaurregui (Argentina), surround the flag-covered coffins of Che Guevara and three of his Cuban comrades while thanking the Bolivian government July 12 for their collaboration in the search and identification of the guerrillas killed fighting the Bolivian Army 30 years ago and exhumed after a recent 19-month search. Exactly one week after Guevara's bones were exhumed along with those of his comrades from a common grave in the South Bolivian mountains, the team of scientists confirmed their identities as a plane waited in the local airport to take the four Cubans, including Guevara, to the Carribean island nation. BOLIVIA CHE