HAVANA -- (AP) -- U.S. writers led by playwright Arthur Miller and novelist
 William Styron visited the southern colonial city of Trinidad on Thursday during a
 trip aimed at increasing contacts between U.S. and Cuban intellectuals.

 The group arrived in Cuba on Wednesday as guests of the Culture Ministry,
 official news agency Prensa Latina said.

 The group was scheduled to meet later in Havana with Foreign Minister Felipe
 Perez Roque and Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly,
 Prensa Latina said. The Americans will also talk with Cuban writers, playwrights
 and actors.
 

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