
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, April 25, 1993                   TAG: 9304250131
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GET INVITATION TO CUBA

High school students who received a letter from Cuban President Fidel Castro this year also have received an invitation to visit the dictator's country, school officials said.

Nelson Guzman, a first secretary at the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington, faxed a note to Lafayette High School on Friday afternoon saying an invitation for the students to travel to Cuba was in the mail.

The memo said a government-sponsored high school student organization in Cuba would host the Lafayette students "any time you would like to go." Guzman visited the school last month to deliver a letter from Castro to a government class. The class had written to the Cuban leader in October.

Assistant Principal Chuck Maranzano said the School Board probably would approve the trip.

by CNB