Word: cubans
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Last week his Cuban father charged in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno that the boy is being "unscrupulously manipulated." The Miami family's lawyer, Spencer Eig, says they might listen to AltaVista's idea, but "so far they've turned down" commercial offers. If so, it's a rare example of restraint in this more than two-month-long frenzy...
Before Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers arrived in Miami to see him last week, Cuban Americans confronted the nun at whose home the meeting would take place. They demanded that Jeanne O'Laughlin, a Dominican sister and president of Miami's Barry University, prove there were no trapdoors in her house from which agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service could jump out to seize the boy. Then when the grandmothers landed in Miami, their Cuban handlers kept them on the tarmac for an hour to deliver words of warning. Beware, they told the 51-year-old matriarchs: Miami's Cuban...
...grandma meeting was the high (and low) point of a week in which two bitter and ruthless camps--Fidel Castro's Cuba and Miami's Cuban-American community--battled to win Yanqui hearts and minds. It's a war on three fronts: the INS, which has ruled that Elian should be returned to Cuba; Congress, which is weighing a bill to give him U.S. citizenship; and the federal courts, in which Elian's Miami family is filing suit to win him asylum...
...middle is Elian, the little boy plucked from the Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day after the boat carrying him, his mother and 12 others capsized on its way to the U.S. Elian, one of three survivors, floated for two days on an inner tube. The Cubans insist he belongs with his only living parent, his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez, 31. The Cuban Americans say Elian should be allowed to live with the freedom his mother wanted...
Castro apparently won't let Elian's father travel to the U.S.--probably because he fears Juan Miguel would defect. But the Cuban dictator seems to have found potent ambassadors in the grandmas. They first went to Miami on Monday. The Cubans and the INS insisted on a meeting in a neutral location, but the Miami relatives would make Elian available only in their home, forcing the grandmothers to leave without seeing...