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...Cuban-exile groups moved slowly down the streets calling on loudspeakers for calm, telling the rioters to wait for Tuesday's planned general strike and march. Nearby, 85-year-old exile Pepe Troica shook his head and guarded his car with a lead pipe. "I was completely against sending Elian back," he said. "But this vandalism is ruining our cause...
...liked the idea of handing Fidel Castro a prize. In Havana the reaction was subdued; the government cautioned Cubans that the fight for Elian wasn't over yet. Nevertheless, Fidel thanked Clinton, Reno and "American public opinion." He added, "The child may have cried for five minutes, but at least he's now spared from crying the rest of his life." Cuban TV lost no chance to broadcast images of "the hysterical behavior of Marisleysis... and the desecration of the American flag by the Miami Mafia." Echoing Little Havana's piety, Cuban citizens like Virginia Sotolongo, 42, said, "The Virgin...
...Miami and in Washington, most parties agreed on one point: this was not over yet. The court case could drag on for months, and there is no telling where it will end. One of Elian's Miami relatives, Lillian Santiago, who had arrived at the house just as the raid was concluding, had these words to calm the growing crowd of protesters. "The boy will be back," she told them. "The courts will return him to us." But even if that were to happen, which most legal experts doubt, Juan Miguel won't be leaving his side...
...story of Elian Gonzalez will leave in its wake not just bitter excitement but also one of the more hard-to-figure court decisions of recent years. In a federal appeals panel ruling last week that no one could remove Elian from the U.S. before a May 11 hearing in the same court, the judges appeared to portend a new issue, seeming to claim an unexpected new right for six-year-olds to press their cases...
Throughout the Elian drama, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has held that only the boy's father has the legal right to speak for him and that a boy his age cannot be expected to comprehend the meaning of an asylum request. But in a unanimous ruling, the three judges of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit went out of their way to criticize the INS for not taking into consideration Elian's stated wish to stay in the U.S. The judges noted that when Congress wrote the 1980 immigration law, it specified that "any alien...may apply for asylum." Since...