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...Well, years ago, we both shared the same agent, Sam Cohen, and he kept badgering me to look at this girl, Tracy Ullman. I wasn't working at the time, I was between films and I kept saying, "I have no interest in looking right now, but when I'm casting..." And he kept sending me tapes and letters and I put it off and put it off and then one day I was home and I put the tape on. I was just amazed and I called in friends and they were like, "Sure, she's on television...
Lazaro Gonzalez ran into the front yard and collapsed. Dalrymple screamed, "Bastards!" as he, too, ran to the front yard and hurled plastic milk crates at the agents. "It was a horror show," he says. As the motorcade drove off, agent Jim Goldman called INS headquarters to report that Elian was scared and shaken, but safe. Goldman said he was stroking Elian's back, while Mills told him of his coming reunion with Papa. "This is one tough little kid," Goldman marveled. "I was shaking...
...both sides had the picture they wanted. An intrepid AP photographer captured a federal agent holding a submachine gun as the fisherman held the terrified child. Within hours came the counterrevolution, the image of a grateful father holding his smiling son. In the end, what you made of the passion play depended on which picture stayed with you longer, and whose version of the story had the ring of truth...
...been guarding the outside of the Miami house tried to alert the small crowd that something was happening. "They're here! They're here!" he shouted. When Eddie Gonzalez, 40, saw the agents moving in, he jumped over the barricade and shouted, "What the hell are you doing?" The officers immediately began spraying a green-colored pepper spray from canisters held at their waists and pushed him down to the ground. Student Fausto Vilar, 18, was hit with the butt of a rifle as he jumped over the bars. "They grabbed me and an older man behind me and pushed...
Watching the constant replay of the raid on the networks, the staff members back in Reno's office were troubled at the image of the child cowering in the closet and crying in the agent's arms--but they had no regrets. "It was a very sad thing to see," said Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder. "I was disappointed that people who indicated they cared most for the boy were unable to do the simple things that would have prevented what happened from occurring...