From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:20:42 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Fidel: "I''m just fine!" GRANMA June 27, 2001 'I'm just fine!'' WITH his habitual determination and the unyielding spirit dating back to his days as a guerrilla fighter, President Fidel Castro quickly recovered from a fainting spell, caused by the intense sunlight and suffocating heat, which he suffered during this speech on Saturday, June 23, in the Havana neighborhood of Cotorro. At the moment Fidel flagged, Foreign Minister Felipe P�rez Roque took the rostrum and explained to the 60,000 Cubans gathered there and the millions following the rally on television and radio and Fidel had worked hard the previous evening and even into the early hours of the morning. At the end of the rally's rebroadcast starting at 4 p.m., Fidel - obviously in a good mood - resumed his speech at the television studio. "it's my fault," he said, "because I wanted to present so many facts, documents, reconstruct events and touch on more subjects. I underestimated the heat." Concerning the Miami mafia, he joked that unfortunately they wouldn't be able to celebrate with all their bottled of rum or whiskey. His speech at the televised roundtable, attended by Vice President Ra�l Castro and other leaders, lasted over two hours. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________
