HAVANA: Thousands of youths shouting antiAmerican slogans protested yesterday [May 23] against the 1(illing of a Cuban frontier guard allegedly by United States troops at Guantanamo naval base.

The youths chanted `Yankee murderers` and `Yankees out of Guantanamo` through the streets of Santiago about 50 miles from the naval base on Cuba`s south coast.

The soldier 22-year-old Luis Ramirez Lopez died of a bullet wound received on Saturday night [May 21].

Cuba yesterday accused US troops of shooting Ramirez while he was at his post near the base`s eastern boundary.

An Armed Forces Ministry communiqué said the shot was fired from a lorry carrying US troops. It claimed American servicemen also opened fire on other posts and shouted: `Hi Cubans we have killed another.

Workers throughout Cuba yesterday held lightning protest meetings and in Guantanamo top Army Officers and Party leaders formed a guard of honour around the dead soldier`s coffin.

Agencies [Meanwhile in Lahore] the Provincial Minister for Law and Information, Mr Ghulam Nabi Memon, held out an assurance on the floor of the House today [May 24] that the moratorium announced by President Ayub on the Press and Publication Ordinance last year would be observed in `letter and spirit`.Agencies