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...Elian Gonzalez saga is all over but the shouting, and while there'll be plenty of that, it's unlikely to materially affect the outcome. Cuban-Americans vented their anger in Miami Tuesday by closing down Little Havana in a "general strike," while Attorney General Janet Reno next week faces a Senate into the raid that reunited the boy with his father. The Miami relatives asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to appoint a guardian to monitor Elian's wellbeing, having been frustrated for four days in their efforts to see the boy because Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants more...
...tell their story to Congress at next week's Senate hearings - and can keep their campaign alive by being turned away in a daily photo opportunity wherever Juan Miguel and his family are staying - they may find the going a little harder on the legal front. "Now that Elian has been returned to his father's custody, they appear to have no legal basis to demand visitation rights," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "However, many experts have suggested that for the boy's psychological well-being it behooves Juan Miguel Gonzalez to allow the boy access...
...asylum against the wishes of his father. "It seems questionable that a court will uphold that principle," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "It's very difficult for the Miami family to win legally, because they're arguing that the political situation in Cuba makes it wrong to send Elian back even if that is his father's wish, but the family perspective tends to trump the political perspective in U.S. courts. The case is certainly uncharted territory, and could well end up in the Supreme Court for a groundbreaking decision...
Papa, I do not Want to go to Cuba. If You want to, stay here. --Elian Gonzalez...
...Elian deserves An asylum hearing. That's What we're fighting for. --Linda Osberg-Braun, attorney for the Miami relatives