Voters sign petition to keep Cuba socialist

HAVANA - A petition to declare Cuba's socialist system "untouchable" has been signed by nearly 70 percent of Cubans of voting age, officials said Sunday. \nThe signature campaign, running from Saturday morning through noon Tuesday, is being carried out at more than 120,000 stations around the country.\nBy the end of Saturday, 69.6 percent of Cubans age 16 or older had signed, "passing all" forecasts, Pedro Ross Leal, head of the Confederation of Cuban Workers, told state radio stations Sunday. The legal voting age here is 16.