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...everyone as sick of the Elian saga as I am? If it did not involve the Cuban-American community, the story would have been over long ago. As a lifelong Republican, I am ashamed of my party for not supporting Reno. Cubans in America should be glad that we have laws and that they have the same rights and responsibilities as other Americans. Elian was used by the Cuban community in Miami, by politicians, by lawyers and by Castro. The whole affair was a pathetic display of human selfishness. KEN CAMMENGA Hudsonville, Mich...
This is what the relocation of one little boy can do to a great nation: By Tuesday, Little Havana had padlocked its doors in silent protest at the removal of Elian Gonzalez by federal agents. That night 17 Cuban-American major league baseball players and coaches refused to show up for their games. Next, voters re-registered as Republicans in Union City, N.J., the big Cuban-American enclave in a battleground state. By Friday, Miami's Cuban-American mayor had fired the city manager and provoked the departure of the police chief for their minor roles in support...
This year the macarena's not going to cut it; Al Gore had better work on his salsa moves. With the Cuban-American political leadership already enraged at the administration over the Elian Gonzalez case, Wednesday's raid on protesters at a Navy base in Vieques could certainly dampen Puerto Rican enthusiasm for getting out the Gore vote. U.S. marshals and FBI agents began in the early hours arresting protesters who're trying to stop the U.S. Navy from reopening its bombing range on the island, among them nuns, priests, labor leaders and U.S. congresspeople from Illinois and New York...
...emotional outcry over Elian, a 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 Castro no longer represents a dangerous threat to American national security, (if it ever did) and the Cuban Embargo may soon be lifted...
...very close to a deal as late as 3 a.m., and that it was Reno who suddenly balked. The neutral safe house would have to be around Washington, she said, not Miami. Even if he could get the family and the lawyers to agree, he was worried about the Cuban-American leaders. "They couldn't wake everyone up to ask them if they would accept moving the safe house to outside of Florida," he says. "I had the Attorney General on hold while I was talking to [family lawyer] Manny Diaz. And then he says, 'Wait a minute. Here come...