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Margaret is Italian and Catholic. She takes both very seriously, and we always knew it--whether she was cooking up a frittata or giving me a book on the story of Christmas as a Chanukah present, which fed my early interest in all sorts of religions. We would receive Easter baskets and she would come to the family Passover seders. Margaret is definitely family...
...Elian Gonzalez, finally some peace and quiet. Ending five months of traumatic public scrutiny, federal agents quickly and painlessly whisked the six-year-old Cuban boy from his relatives' house in raucous Miami to an air base near Washington, D.C., where he spent Easter Sunday with his father. Thankfully, there he will stay, insulated from the violence in Little Havana and games of political football, until a court rules on his application for political asylum...
...Easter would be the worst possible time for federal agents to swoop down on a Little Havana home to take away a young boy many in that community have likened to Jesus. But while it may not happen this weekend, the U.S. government has now sent the unmistakable, and perhaps irrevocable, message that it is saddling up a posse to retrieve Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunite him with his father. First President Clinton on Thursday stepped up to the plate for the first time with an unambiguous call for boy and father to be speedily reunited. Then...
...Friday media reports, based on extensive official leaks, of federal agents gathering for a forceful intervention may be a calculated attempt to raise the psychological pressure on Lazaro Gonzalez to hand the boy over quietly. The feds are unlikely to move over the Easter weekend, which begins Friday, and if the protesters are expecting them Monday, they may wait a couple of days. But as government officials told the media, off the record, when it happens it's unlikely to be pretty. After all, having come this far the Cuban-American leadership may have little to gain - and much...
...Reno does plan to order an early removal of Elian from Little Havana, Thursday is her window of opportunity ahead of the Easter weekend. "But experienced negotiators also know that you don't move when the adrenaline is pumping, and the demonstrators around Lazaro's house will be braced for confrontation Thursday," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "The feds are more likely to wait for fatigue to take its toll, and that's more likely to take this standoff into next week." Even then, it may take Juan Miguel Gonzalez going to court to get an order...