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...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...
...Elian has regularly been trotted out for display in spotlights such as Disney World, and last month was put on a Spanish-language radio station in Miami to declare how much he wanted U.S. citizenship. Last week his Cuban father charged in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno that the boy is being "unscrupulously manipulated." The Miami family's lawyer, Spencer Eig, says they might listen to AltaVista's idea, but "so far they've turned down" commercial offers. If so, it's a rare example of restraint in this more than two-month-long frenzy...
...These experiences are excellent preparation not only for leadership in any field, but more importantly, for a life of active and involved citizenship," said Joe N. Sanberg '00, last year's club president...
...stop working at Harvard until 1974, when he became executive director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University, where he organized local universities' efforts to install magnet schools and programs in the Boston school system following the 1974 court order to desegregate the schools...
...pull Elian back as tenaciously as the puppy that tugs at his shorts for the TV cameras. Backed by angry street protests in Miami, anti-Castro lawyers and politicos have stormed the courts and Capitol Hill, devising ways--including a congressional subpoena and a possible grant of U.S. citizenship--to stall the boy's return...