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...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...
...sleep and was still in his office with the TV on mute when around 5 a.m. he saw the rescue unfold on the screen. He jumped to the phone and called Bethesda, waking up Juan Miguel in his room at the residence of Fernando Remirez, head of the Cuban diplomatic mission to the U.S. "Turn on the TV! Turn...
Even as the crowds boiled, SUVs from Cuban-exile groups moved slowly down the streets calling on loudspeakers for calm, telling the rioters to wait for Tuesday's planned general strike and march. Nearby, 85-year-old exile Pepe Troica shook his head and guarded his car with a lead pipe. "I was completely against sending Elian back," he said. "But this vandalism is ruining our cause...
...liked the idea of handing Fidel Castro a prize. In Havana the reaction was subdued; the government cautioned Cubans that the fight for Elian wasn't over yet. Nevertheless, Fidel thanked Clinton, Reno and "American public opinion." He added, "The child may have cried for five minutes, but at least he's now spared from crying the rest of his life." Cuban TV lost no chance to broadcast images of "the hysterical behavior of Marisleysis... and the desecration of the American flag by the Miami Mafia." Echoing Little Havana's piety, Cuban citizens like Virginia Sotolongo, 42, said, "The Virgin...
DIED. ABRAM CHAYES, 77, lawyer and adviser to the Kennedy Administration who developed the legal foundation for the U.S. quarantine of Soviet ships during the Cuban missile crisis; in Boston...