castro offers doc training

[Les Schaffer]

        Castro Offers Americans Medical Training
        HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba is ready to give free medical training to
low-income Americans who could then return to the United States and
provide treatment to the poor and underserved, Fidel Castro said
today during a meeting with members of the Congressional Black
Caucus. Castro offered the training after Democrat Rep. Bennie
Thompson told him that parts of his Mississippi Delta congressional
district has an infant mortality rate second in the United States
only to Washington D.C. ``It would be hard for your government to
oppose such a program,'' Castro said.