Korda took the picture from the wall of his home in Havana, and gave it to Feltrinelli.A few months later it was revealed that Guevara was dead, and the publisher decided to issue a full-face poster of the fallen warrior. It was never published.But seven years later a left-wing Italian publisher, Giacomo Feltrinelli, was visiting Cuba and wanted a picture of Guevara to adorn the cover of a volume of diaries by the French socialist author Regis Debray. “Che lives!” The revolutionary slogan born on the barricades of the student uprising in Paris in 1968 is as true today as it was then. But 30 years after the Marxist guerrilla leader became the secular saint of revolutionary causes, that famous picture of Che Guevara which adorned a million student bedrooms in the 1970s and became the universal emblem of youthful defiance has been hijacked by the same capitalist forces Guevara spent his life fighting.
Today the portrait, with its instantly recognisable piercing stare, beard and beret, is worth millions.Ever since the hard-line socialist was executed in a mud-walled school room in the tiny village of Higuera, Bolivia, on 8 October 1967, his divine countenance has appeared on countless T-shirts, beer bottles, posters, record sleeves, book-jackets, badges and designer clothes.But the man who created one of the world’s most potent icons has never profited from it.Next month, to mark the 30th anniversary of his friend’s death, the Cuban photographer who took the picture that launched an entire industry is to visit Britain for the first time.Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, better known simply as Korda, is 69 – the same age Guevara would have been had he escaped the CIA-backed government troops who finally ran him to ground.He took the photograph while working for a state-run newspaper in 1960, when Guevara was 31. “The traders apparently make billions,” he said, because they were “in a position to influence currencies” and therefore could not fail to gain from their speculation. He advocated linking currencies to economic performance which would allow fluctuations “but not wild swings”.West targets corruption, page 14. Painting a lurid picture of Western speculators raping Malaysia’s stock market and trying to set the economy back by pulling the local currency down, Dr Mahathir said “people who control the media and big money seem to want to stop Malaysia”.
Dr Mahathir was speaking in Hong Kong ahead of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund conference to an audience of international financiers and government officials.”Society must be protected from unscrupulous profiteers,” he declared.

“We are confident that no laws were broken,” a statement said.. Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian prime minister, who has been engaged in an outspoken two-month battle with currency speculators, yesterday called for a ban on international currency trading, calling it “unnecessary, unproductive and immoral”, writes Stephen Vines. The US Department of Justice has launched a probe into allegations that the President broke the law last year during a fund-raising drive for the Democratic Party, the White House admitted last night.
Republican members of Congress heading an official inquiry into campaign finance irregularities believe there is evidence to suggest that Mr Clinton made fund-raising phone calls from the White House.US law stipulates that politicians may not raise party funds from inside federal government buildings.As with the continuing Whitewater investigation, Mr Clinton could end up facing indictment, and possible impeachment.The new Justice Department initiative is purely preliminary.Under orders from the Attorney General, Janet Reno, officials have begun a 30-day review of the fund-raising activities of the President who appointed her.The White House said the President had nothing to hide. Marcus was a very professional journalist with a fine sense of humour.”. President Bill Clinton is to come under further legal scrutiny for suspected corruption and abuse of power, writes John Carlin in Washington. His colleague Berit Hookway said: “We have suffered a sad loss.

He was a devoted family man, and his wife and all the rest of us are devastated.”Finland-born Marcus Olander, 60, was returning to London after covering the Wales devolution vote for Swedish Broadcasting. Mr Traynor, who lived in Boldon, Tyne and Wear, with his wife Jillian and four children, was described by his brother John as “a most loving, fantastic and generous man – an inspiration to me. His family was too upset to speak, said a Ministry of Defence spokesman. “The Army is very saddened at the news.” Gerard Traynor, 38, the leisure and tourism officer with Easington District Council, Co Durham, was among a four-man council delegation returning home from Swansea. He was a diligent and highly capable person who did excellent work for the company.”David Eustace, 53, of Deal, Kent, had been a regular Army officer until three years ago, and was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army based at Shrivenham in Oxford.

He was a director of the agricultural products company Dalgety’s, and was on his way to a business meeting in London He leaves a widow, Joan, and two sons. Fellow director Paul Kirk said Mr Petch would be sorely missed “We are all very upset. He always said that, not in a sentimental way, he was just a very lovely boy and my best friend.”The family of Antony Petch, 52, of Thornbury, Bristol, were too distressed to speak. His mother, Maureen Kavanagh, said: “Peter lived for his work He loved it and everything about working in the City.

But he always phoned me when he was out of town.”The phone started to break up because he was in a tunnel and he rang me back again I told him he should get a better phone His last words to me were `Love you, see you later’. The thought of him being trapped and injured in the carriage all those hours and suffering is just unbearable.”Peter Kavanagh, 30, of Laindon, Essex, had a brilliant future as an environmental lawyer in the City. He was well-known and well-liked, and had “many, many friends”.His wife, their two daughters and son waited for news until 1am yesterday when police told them he was one of the victims “The police said as far as they knew he had died instantly That is some consolation for us. He was “a lovely, caring man who loved his family and his job,” said his wife Gill.