CUBAN ANTHROPOLOGIST SOTO PLACES PHOTO OF CHE ON COFFIN, 1997-07-12 (photo)

Cuban anthropologist Hector Soto looks at a framed photograph of guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara before placing it on the flag that covers the coffins of Guevara and three of his comrades, during the ceremony in which the Bolivian government handed over the remains to a legal representative for their repatriation to Cuba, July 12 in the courtyard of the Japanese Hospital morgue. Exactly one week after Guevara's bones were exhumed along with those of six of his comrades from a common grave in the South Bolivian mountains, a team of scientists confirmed their identities as a plane waited in the local airport to take the Cubans, including Guevara, to the Caribbean island nation. BOLIVIA CHE