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...more difficult through her equivocating. After all, failing to carry through on previous ultimatums, and repeatedly promising that force would not be used, appears to have simply emboldened those resisting the transfer of Elian's custody. And the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals injunction against returning the boy to Cuba before the appeals process is concluded may not have diminished the government's legal ability to reunite the boy with his father at this stage, but it has certainly been a major morale booster for the protesters outside Lazaro Gonzalez's home, and that's likely to create a bumpy...
...picked up by kindly fishermen) has been turned into something far less redeeming than a circus. When this fifth-rate soap opera began, there was talk of various positive, if peripheral, consequences. Could this little boy's plight push the U.S. government into a more reasonable relationship with Cuba? Would there be a heartwarming and speedy reunion between Elian and his father? Might the members of the American media be able to act like adults and take this for what it is: an intensely private family tragedy of a little boy lost...
...government has delayed action pending an Atlanta appeals court ruling - expected Wednesday - on who speaks for Elian, it already has the legal authority to seize him from his Miami relatives and return him to his father. Last Thursday's injunction simply stipulated that the boy not be returned to Cuba before the completion of the appeals process, and that's a condition his father has accepted. Which means that Janet Reno now faces a tough decision. "On the one hand, Reno's strategy of drawing this out in the hope of wearing down the resistance of the protesters around...
...hard to avoid conjuring in the mind alternate Elians, as if they were twins separated by different fates, one of them gone to grow up (fatherless) in America and the other returned to Cuba--and to all that may mean...
There is no good solution, only the better of two bad ones--the preferable outcome in a case of private lives torn apart by politics. Best, of course, if the son and the father's new family could come to settle in America. Or better still: live in a Cuba without Castro or communism. That day will come, though no one is holding his breath...