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...Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He too was half crazy--from dehydration, from the loss of his mother, from watching his other companions, after the small boat that had brought them from Cuba sank in heavy seas, slip one by one into the deep. And the sharks--TV news crews, Cuban-American activists, Fidel Castro, Jesse Helms and other U.S. politicians--were just beginning to circle...
What must this small boy, a child who loves nothing more than making and flying kites in the warm Cuban brisa, have thought during his hours on the water? And later, as he paraded before the world on television--at Disney World, in school, playing "rescue pilot" with his cousins in the backyard--it seemed possible to read everything, anything, in his deep eyes: fear, joy, courage...
...father. The INS Friday rejected a second application for asylum on Elian's behalf, on the grounds that only Juan Gonzalez is his legal guardian and has the sole right to speak for the child. Still, that's not going to stop the Florida Gonzalez family, the Cuban-American activist community and conservative Republican lawmakers from fighting tooth and nail to keep the boy here. And that could create a difficult political choice for the Clinton administration. Less so for Fidel Castro, who's reaped an unexpected domestic political dividend from the actions of the U.S. and the exiled activists...
...Cuban boat boy Elian Gonzalez's fate will be settled in court, but not in the Florida family court that ruled in favor of his Miami relatives. Attorney General Janet Reno Wednesday dismissed Judge Rosa Rodriguez's ruling granting temporary custody of Elian to a local relative as irrelevant since the court had no jurisdiction in a federal matter. Reno informed lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives that they'd have to go to a federal courthouse to challenge the INS decision to reunite the boy with his father. The Florida Gonzalez family expressed disappointment, but said they would file...
...Judge Rodriguez has ordered a full hearing on March 6, to which Elian's father would be invited to travel from Cuba. But Juan Gonzalez and the Cuban government have, until now, rejected the option of his traveling to Miami for a family court hearing, charging that Florida's courts are open to influence from the powerful anti-Castro exile lobby. Although it's still legally possible for Washington to stick by its decision to send the boy home by Friday - legal experts suggest the case falls outside of the Florida family court's jurisdiction - the option may have become...