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...custody case that has now cost taxpayers over $500,000, is understandable, especially within the Cuban-American community. However, the American public needs to reexamine the values that place the case of a Cuban boy so far above that of a Haitian girl. The war against Communism is ended. Castro no longer represents a dangerous threat to American national security, (if it ever did) and the Cuban Embargo may soon be lifted...
...recall reading about any of these events on the title pages of major U.S. papers and magazines. I do, however, remember that Elian Gonzalez received Play-Doh on the flight between Miami and Washington. Leaders and representatives from 133 developing countries congregating in Cuba and listening to Fidel Castro should rank higher in the order of newsworthy events than the psychological impact of Play-Doh on a kid named Elian who got to see Disney World...
...other objects thrown into the wide streets and burned. "We are peaceful people. We are not violent. Look at what they have turned us into," says Alex Lugo, 34, a math teacher. "Janet Reno is a coward. We want the world to understand that Janet Reno and Fidel Castro have hurt this little...
...liked the idea of handing Fidel Castro a prize. In Havana the reaction was subdued; the government cautioned Cubans that the fight for Elian wasn't over yet. Nevertheless, Fidel thanked Clinton, Reno and "American public opinion." He added, "The child may have cried for five minutes, but at least he's now spared from crying the rest of his life." Cuban TV lost no chance to broadcast images of "the hysterical behavior of Marisleysis... and the desecration of the American flag by the Miami Mafia." Echoing Little Havana's piety, Cuban citizens like Virginia Sotolongo, 42, said, "The Virgin...
...Castro promises that when Elin returns to Cuba, he will be treated for the psychological harm done to him during his stay in the U.S. Cubans recognize what this means: once in Cuba Elin will be taken from his father, confined in a mental institution for ideological "cleansing" and periodically paraded before TV cameras to show a gullible U.S press how happy life in a communist state...