Castro Joins Elian at Birthday Party
From Times Wire Reports
President Fidel Castro helped Cuba celebrate the seventh birthday of Elian Gonzalez, the castaway whose custody battle made him the best-known boy in the world for seven months ending in June. Castro showed up for the festivities at the school in Cardenas where Elian is in second grade. “All of us must work to ensure that this boy is a symbol . . . for all the children in the world,” he told the group of about 1,000. The party was broadcast live by state television and radio.
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