Word: elian
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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...
...used to be one of these people who would feel great angst over the lack of interest in national news displayed by many Americans. However, poor little Elian Gonzalez radically changed my mind on this subject. Is this issue important? Yes. But the other day I arrived at the crux of the issue. A friend of mine, for whom I have the utmost respect in terms of keeping up with current events, flipped off Tom Brokaw's special afternoon update in favor of the highly intellectual Fox show "Real TV." Seeing a 300-pound Marlin pull...
...relatives and put in heavy rotation by the news networks in which his six-year-old son wagged a finger at his father and said he didn't want to go home to Cuba; then the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concurred. The court issued an injunction ordering that Elian should remain in the United States pending the outcome of an appeal by his relatives for custody, and the Justice Department indicated it would hold off on efforts to reunite the boy with his father pending the outcome of the latest court battle, which the government expects will take...
...That's got to have left Elian's father a very unhappy man, inasmuch as he came to the U.S. in the belief that he'd be quickly reunited with his son, with whom he'd wait out the appeals process. Thursday's ruling suggests Juan Miguel Gonzalez may now be required to wait out the appeals process without his child. "He was encouraged to believe that by 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...
...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 to cut its p.r. losses by moving to have Lazaro and Elian's father Juan Miguel...