Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 09:33:42 -0500 From: Rebecca Johns To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Fwd: CUBA: FIDEL TO JOHN PAUL II, STATEMENT OF WELCOME (fwd) Dear Friends: The translation posted by Robert of Castro's speech is, I believe, the official AP one, not the official Cuban one. The main difference in the translations is that the Cuban version uses GENDER NEUTRAL language in all instances, substituting 'peoples'. You can get the official one from the Cuban CP webpage, I think. Sorry I don't have the URL. Rebecca -- "A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man is of his bones. But if you break the nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. It will listen to no reformer , to no philosopher, and no preacher, until the demand of the nationalist is granted. It will attend to no business, however vital, except the business of unification and liberation." George Bernard Shaw Rebecca A. Johns Assistant Professor Dept. of Geography University of South Florida 140 Seventh Avenue South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 813-553-1556