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Were the wire services referring to an explosion of the tensions between China and Taiwan? Further nuclear experimentation in Pakistan? A new-age Cuban Missile crisis sparked by the likes of Elian Gonzalez...
...coming here he'd prevail in the end," says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But things aren't done here the way they're done in a dictatorship, and there may yet be a lot of litigation before the boy is reunited with his father. Plainly, the Cuban exile leadership are going to do everything in their power to avoid giving...
...defied a government order to hand the boy over at 2 p.m., declaring that "they will have to take this child from me by force." That marked an apparent shift from earlier in the week, when the standoff appeared set for an imminent end. The leading exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation, appeared Tuesday to have brokered a face-saving deal in which Elian would be reunited with his father at a meeting with Lazaro Gonzalez, but that deal was quickly abandoned later the same day. "Earlier this week it looked as though the foundation might be trying...
...home of Sister Jean O'Laughlin, where he had previously met with his grandmothers, while negotiators raced to revive plans for the Miami relatives, Elian and his father to meet. The great-uncle had balked late Tuesday at a deal struck by a sympathetic legislator and the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) that would, according to government sources, have involved transferring Elian to his father at a family meeting Wednesday in Washington, where the only outsiders in attendance would have been New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli (a White House-friendly Democrat who has long been a champion of the Cuban...
...representatives had presented it simply as the family meeting for which the Florida relatives had pushed and said that Elian might even leave with his father if all went well, government officials told the media the handover was a done deal. Still, the very fact that the most important Cuban exile organization, which played a leading role from the outset in the campaign to keep Elian here, is now involved in brokering an agreement to reunite the boy with his father suggests the standoff is very near...