SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- The president of El Salvador says
                  he will ask Cuban leader Fidel Castro to spare the lives of two Salvadorans
                  sentenced to death for terrorism in Cuba.

                  Salvadoran President Armando Calderon Sol and Castro are attending this
                  weekend's Association of Caribbean States meeting in Santo Domingo,
                  Dominican Republic.

                  "We hope to have the opportunity to speak with (Castro) and ask him
                  clemency for our countrymen who have been judged on the island,"
                  Calderon Sol said at a news conference Thursday.

                  Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena and Ernesto Cruz Leon were convicted in
                  March of terrorism charges and sentenced to death. Rodriguez Llerena was
                  convicted of planting a bomb in a hotel and attempting to import explosives.
                  Cruz Leon was found guilty of planting bombs that killed one tourist and
                  wounded 11 others.