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the Kremlin sent a top official, Nikolai Metutsov -- a jowly, large-eared, beetle-browed man -- to Cuba to get a fix on Che. The results were comic. Mr. Metutsov wound up talking all night with Che and being seduced not just by his revolutionary zeal (which reminded Mr. Metutsov of the early Bolsheviks) but also by his romantic pallor, his poet's eyes and his flowing chestnut hair. By morning, Mr. Metutsov told Mr. Anderson, ''I confessed my love for him because he was a very attractive young man. . . . I felt attracted to him, do you understand? . . . He had very beautiful eyes. Magnificent eyes, so deep, so generous, so honest.''