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Sources close to the Gonzalez family in Cuba have told TIME that to help Elian, a team of Cuban government psychologists counseled Juan Miguel on what to say to him about their separation. Just tell him he's on vacation. That all this will end soon. But isn't it time to bring this vacation, which began for Elian in the early-morning hours of Nov. 21, to an end? Isn't it time to help him understand the awful truth about what happened to his mother? The boy seems so completely a product of two loving parents--who suffered...
...past couple of years, high-speed powerboats have begun making the run, smuggling human cargo in a matter of hours for thousands of dollars a head. (Some poor Cubans, who can't afford the steep price, pay their way with exotic birds captured in the forest and sold to the U.S. black market.) But most fleeing Cubans make the trip the old-fashioned way: in rickety craft with weak motors. A good trip takes 10 hours. A nightmare takes days. And for uncounted Cubans swept into the Atlantic during a storm, the journey is eternal. At least 60, including Elian...
...officials began to sort through the details of the case--and, according to some, to look for reasons not to send Elian back--a U.S. immigration officer stationed in Cuba met with Elian's father Juan Miguel at his Cardenas home (without Cuban officials present). They met again on New Year's Eve in the Havana home of a United Nations diplomat. The latter location was deliberate: U.S. officials were worried that Juan Miguel might be manipulated by Castro and wanted a location that was unlikely to be bugged. The goal of the inquisition was to determine just how close...
Even as Elian fury peaked on both sides, diplomacy between Washington and Havana was getting chummier. Castro stoked Cubans' anger over Elian for domestic benefit and diplomatic leverage, but he was quietly acting more neighborly. When Cuban immigrants held at a Louisiana prison took hostages just before Christmas, Castro agreed to take the prisoners back after their surrender. When a former South Vietnamese fighter pilot flew over Havana early this month to drop anti-Castro leaflets, Castro's air force didn't blow...
Perhaps as a result, Cuban officials say privately that the Clinton Administration appears to be enforcing immigration accords more stringently. Those require that the U.S. send back any Cuban rafter intercepted at sea. But Washington has indulged--and Havana has railed at--a loophole known as the "wet feet, dry feet" rule, which allows any Cuban who makes it onto U.S. soil to claim asylum. That has only encouraged illegal balseros--rafters like Elian and his mother--to attempt the voyage across the straits. U.S. immigration officials in Miami tell TIME that "wet feet, dry feet" may come under serious...