At 05:41 AM 7/28/01, Jeroen wrote:
>At 05:10 28-7-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
>>>> >REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
>>>> >IN ADDRESS TO FACULTY AND STUDENTS
>>>> >OF WARSAW UNIVERSITY
>>>> >
>>>> >Warsaw University
>>>> >Warsaw, Poland
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >Listen to the President's Remarks
>>>
>>>Was that an invitation... or an order?   <grin>
>>
>>
>>
>>In the US, it's an invitation.
>>
>>In Cuba (for example), it would be an order.
>
>And at the University of Warsaw, Poland?


I'd say that listening to the president of that country changed from an 
order to an invitation for its citizens around the late 1980s (IIRC the date).


--Ronn! :)

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