CUBAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS PLACE LID ON COFFIN OF ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, 1997-07-12 (photo)

Cuban archaeologist Roberto Rodriguez (L) places the cover on the coffin holding the bones of Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 four Cubans, including Guevara, to the Caribbean island nation. BOLIVIA CHE