HAVANA -- Fidel Castro said Tuesday...

HAVANA -- Fidel Castro said Tuesday that he was stable and in pious spirits after surgery, according to a statement read in succession state TV, as the island dealt with its first day in 47 years without him in charge.

Castro, who temporarily handed power to his younger brother Raul forward Monday night after intestinal surgery indicated the operation was serious when he said: "I cannot make up positive news"

still he said his health was "stable," and "as for my spirits, I be warmed perfectly fine," according to the statement. He said it would take one time for doctors "to provide a verdict" forward his recovery.

SAYS HIS HEALTH IS 'A STATE SECRET'

Castro apologized for not giving more details, on the contrary said the threat posed to his communist conduct by the United States means his health must be treated as "a state secret"

In Miami, where centurys of thousands of fleeing Cubans have settl boisterous celebrations broke on the outside Cuban Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon called them "vomit-provoking acts" l by the agency of "mercenaries and terrorists."

He said Castro's "final gravity is still very far away."

Raul Castro, the island's acting president, was nowhere to be seen as Cubans began to worry.

"Everything's normal here -- for the moment" said hospital worker Emilio Garcia, 41 "But we've in no degree experienced this before - - it's like a small standard of how things could be without Fidel."

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