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...Castro--who wildly warned Cubans last week that the exiles might even try to kill Elian rather than let him go--has still not pulled the trigger. A major sticking point last week was his insistence that Juan Miguel be accompanied by an entourage of some 30 relatives, officials and friends--including a dozen of Elian's first-grade classmates. And U.S. officials wondered privately whether Castro was serious about following through with his new proposal. Although Juan Miguel's U.S. attorney, Gregory Craig, presented a letter to the State Department in Washington, no one made a formal application...
More important, Castro noted that for Juan Miguel to go to the U.S., he still needs an assurance that his uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who has custody of Elian in Miami, will hand the boy over during a "transition period" in Washington. Then, should Miami lawyers lose their last-ditch bid in federal appeals courts next month to keep Elian in the U.S., Juan Miguel could fly back to Cuba with...
...give Elian, his father and other Cuban family members instant U.S. residency, and argued for moving the case into state family court in Miami. Echoing George W. Bush, who also insists Elian should stay, Gore said, "The real fault in this case lies with the oppressive regime of Fidel Castro...
...hard to understand the visceral emotions Elian stirs up among many Cuban exiles, especially those who were imprisoned by Castro or had a close relative who, like Elisabeth, drowned in the Florida Straits while rafting toward freedom. "We're Elian's true peers," says militant exile leader Jose Basulto. "We want to save him from the life we had to live in Cuba...
...poll cited by the St. Petersburg Times last week, 83% of Florida's Hispanics opposed sending Elian back to his father in Cuba, while 81% of its blacks and 65% of its non-Latino whites favored it. Regardless of who "wins" the battle over Elian, sociologist Max Castro laments, the exiles are "damaging their cause in most Americans' eyes." In short, Castro's archfoes may have trapped themselves in more ways than...