Word: cubans
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...capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case and agreed with Attorney General Janet Reno that only the Cuban father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, can speak for a child that young. "Each passing day," Moore wrote, "is another day lost" between Juan Miguel and Elian...
...part by ignoring the advice of his own foreign policy team and signing into law the Helms-Burton Act, an anti-Cuba legislative package sponsored by two of the most conservative legislators on Capitol Hill. But Clinton's move came amid the nationwide revulsion over the shooting down by Cuban MiGs of an unarmed plane flown over Cuba by exile activists; America appears considerably less enthusiastic about a political campaign over a six-year...
...custody case by a family court. Gore's announcement, which will almost certainly stiffen the resolve of Elian's Miami relatives to defy the INS demand that they sign a pledge to hand the boy over once they've exhausted their appeal process, appears designed to court Florida's Cuban-American voters, but may spark something of a backlash elsewhere. "It's difficult to see how this can actually help him," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The Cuban-American exile leadership is staunchly Republican, and the opinion polls show that most Americans believe this kid ought to be back...
...Miami family and their backers may be calling the government's bluff, on the assumption that fear of a potentially violent confrontation with the Cuban exile activists guarding Lazaro Gonzalez's home - who have vowed to die before allowing the boy to leave - may restrain the government from going in and collecting Elian. "Remember, Al Gore needs Florida votes," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "From what we've see so far, the Clinton administration has little stomach for enforcing its decision to return Elian to Cuba." The government has threatened to revoke Elian's parole status by Thursday...
...exile activist community that has organized the campaign to keep Elian in the U.S. is unlikely to give the last word to lawyers or legislators. "At stake for the Cuban-American National Foundation is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall - and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy," says Padgett. "Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba." And even as the anti-Castro exiles use the Elian case as a make-or-break campaign to revive their fortunes, it's working wonders...