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Castro, of course, has some experience with re-education, and he had a plan for Elian. TIME has learned from high-level Cuban sources that he considered whisking the boy and his immediate family off to a beach spa, where psychiatrists, teachers and Cuban officials could help him "reassimilate"--purging Elian of Pokemon and turning him back into a Young Pioneer. But then Castro had an even better idea: Why not have Elian's "reinsertion" into Cuban society take place inside the U.S., namely by sending Juan Miguel--surrounded by Elian's teachers, classmates, psychiatrists and family members--to Washington...
...there was the big-gun lawyer, who had helped save the American President from impeachment, instructing the Cuban President how best to work the system. It was enough to persuade Castro and Ricardo Alarcon, president of the National Assembly and Castro's point man on Elian, to turn on the runway lights at Jose Marti Airport. Castro personally saw Juan Miguel off at 4 a.m. Thursday. He had already ordered that diplomatic immunity at Cuba's Washington outposts be waived--to make the point that Juan Miguel would be free to defect if he wanted to, which reflected Castro...
...work to their advantage. Even though the courts ruled last month that this was an issue for the INS and not a custody fight that belonged in family court, the Miami relatives say they won't be satisfied until local Florida judges--the elected ones most sensitive to the Cuban-exile community--have a chance to rule. The law may not be on their side, but loads of local and national politicians--even a mutinous Vice President Al Gore...
...wife and was too explosive to be a fit father. Juan Miguel himself had provided some ammunition: he told ABC's Nightline last January that he hadn't come to Miami yet because he was afraid he would take a rifle and "strafe the s.o.b.s" in Miami's Cuban-exile community...
...Banana Republic" label sticking to Miami in the final throes of the Elian Gonzalez crisis is a source of snide humor for most Americans. But many younger Cuban Americans in Miami are getting tired of the hard-line anti-Castro operatives who have helped manufacture that stereotype--especially the privileged, imperious elite who set themselves up as a pueblo sufrido, a suffering people, as martyred as black slaves and Holocaust Jews, but ever ready to jump on expensive speedboats to reclaim huge family estates the moment the old communist dictator stops breathing...