WORLD'S GREATEST SWIMMER
The Peking 1 press reported that on July 16 Mao Tse- itning, despite winds and waves in the Yangtze River, covered almost 15 kilometers in 65 minutes. This compares with the 4 hours and 56 minutes it took Travaglio, the previous long distance world champion, - to cross the 16-kilometer span of the Santa Fe River.
[We are publishing below an "Open Letter" addressed to Pablo Neruda, by a group of Cuban intellectuals, protesting the way the Chilean. poet, permitted himself to be used by American propagandists at the recent international gathering of the PE Club. The letter. raises political issues of importance to revolutionists concerned © about the defense of the Cuban revolution, the advance of the socialist revolution in Latin America, and opposition to the imperialist aggression in Vietnam. The translation of the "Open Letter" is the official one which appeared in the August 7 issue of Granma, the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Cuba.
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