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...grandma meeting was the high (and low) point of a week in which two bitter and ruthless camps--Fidel Castro's Cuba and Miami's Cuban-American community--battled to win Yanqui hearts and minds. It's a war on three fronts: the INS, which has ruled that Elian should be returned to Cuba; Congress, which is weighing a bill to give him U.S. citizenship; and the federal courts, in which Elian's Miami family is filing suit to win him asylum...
...Castro apparently won't let Elian's father travel to the U.S.--probably because he fears Juan Miguel would defect. But the Cuban dictator seems to have found potent ambassadors in the grandmas. They first went to Miami on Monday. The Cubans and the INS insisted on a meeting in a neutral location, but the Miami relatives would make Elian available only in their home, forcing the grandmothers to leave without seeing...
...Fidel Castro and Miami politicians are already using six-year-old Elian Gonzalez as a poster boy. Now Madison Avenue wants a piece of the photogenic tyke. As long as Elian is a guest in capitalist America - pending a U.S. court decision on his fate - companies like the popular web-search firm AltaVista want to cast him in commercials. An advertising firm based in Portland, Ore., Wieden & Kennedy, which produces AltaVista's ads, tells TIME it is making a pitch to Elian's Miami family about using the boy's image in a national spot...
...lawyer specializing in international law, Hart has traveled several times to Cuba, often conveying messages unofficially between Fidel Castro and the Clinton Administration; hence the pseudonym. "I wanted to tell these fictional stories," he says, "but I didn't want to jeopardize any value I could add to my messenger role." He unveiled himself last week because "people were beginning to ask questions about Blackthorn's identity. I didn't want to dissemble, so we decided to come...
...rests on an unlikely premise: it is 1999, and Castro steps down and calls free elections in return for a lifting of the U.S. embargo. Erstwhile communists and right-wing Cuban exiles in Miami form opposing political parties, hoping to manipulate the populace to their own ends. But out of the mountain villages, a mysterious stranger suddenly appears, bearing an eerie resemblance to the legendary revolutionary who was assassinated in 1967. His message: Cubans can reclaim power over their own lives in a "radical democracy" without pollsters, socialists or corporate capitalists. As the movement grows, the evil forces dispatch assassins...