Castro attends annual cigar festival

Sunday, March 3, 2002

HAVANA -- A playful Fidel Castro entertained hundreds of foreign cigar aficionados at a black-tie dinner and auction, joking with his guests and modeling a popular Cuban musician's little white sombrero before it was sold to the highest bidder.

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