Word: cubans
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...Elian has regularly been trotted out for display in spotlights such as Disney World, and last month was put on a Spanish-language radio station in Miami to declare how much he wanted U.S. citizenship. 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...
...Elian's brief reunion with his grannies at the home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of a local Catholic university, and the recriminations that followed, confirmed the extent to which the battle for custody over Elian has become a showdown between Havana and Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban government accused O'Laughlin of lying, cruelty and deceit in her handling of the encounter, while the Dominican nun shot back that the event had been plagued by fear instilled by Havana in the hearts of the grandmothers - and Elian's Florida relatives allowed a leader of the exile community...
...went limp on the critical issue of how to carry it out. Instead, she asked Elian's kin to "work together" to resolve that question. She sounded at once prudent and naive. This family feud "has become a canona," warns University of Miami sociologist Max Castro, using a Cuban term for bullying. "It's not some gentlemen's disagreement...
...Elian has described how Elizabet drowned. She was one of the first to go, dragged under by rough seas while trying to lash Elian to his inner tube. One day, while spreading newspapers on the kitchen floor to house-train the boy's new puppy (a gift from a Cuban-American politician), Lazaro says, he inadvertently put down a page that bore a large picture of Elizabet. Seeing it, Elian shouted and cried. He made Lazaro cut it out and frame it for his bedside. When the reality of what happened out in the ocean comes crashing down on Elian...
...rests on an unlikely premise: it is 1999, and Castro steps down and calls free elections in return for a lifting of the U.S. embargo. Erstwhile communists and right-wing Cuban exiles in Miami form opposing political parties, hoping to manipulate the populace to their own ends. But out of the mountain villages, a mysterious stranger suddenly appears, bearing an eerie resemblance to the legendary revolutionary who was assassinated in 1967. His message: Cubans can reclaim power over their own lives in a "radical democracy" without pollsters, socialists or corporate capitalists. As the movement grows, the evil forces dispatch assassins...