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Cuba says Castro's life not in danger

"The Cuban leader will always fight until the last moment. But that last moment is very far away," National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon said in the first word from Cuba on Castro's condition since Monday evening's announcement he was handing over power provisionally to his brother. Monday's news that the 79-year-old Castro was undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding set off street parties in Miami by Cuban exiles who yearn for the demise of the West's only communist government.

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