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Castro, of course, has some experience with re-education, and he had a plan for Elian. TIME has learned from high-level Cuban sources that he considered whisking the boy and his immediate family off to a beach spa, where psychiatrists, teachers and Cuban officials could help him "reassimilate"--purging Elian of Pokemon and turning him back into a Young Pioneer. But then Castro had an even better idea: Why not have Elian's "reinsertion" into Cuban society take place inside the U.S., namely by sending Juan Miguel--surrounded by Elian's teachers, classmates, psychiatrists and family members--to Washington...
...Juan Miguel's side. INS officials were just waiting for Juan Miguel to set foot in America, and they would move to strip Lazaro of custody. Even if no one else in the entourage was allowed to come, Craig said, Juan Miguel would get custody of Elian and could decide for himself whether to return immediately to Cuba or wait out the appeals process in Washington. "The time," Craig kept telling Castro and the Cubans, "is ripe...
...there was the big-gun lawyer, who had helped save the American President from impeachment, instructing the Cuban President how best to work the system. It was enough to persuade Castro and Ricardo Alarcon, president of the National Assembly and Castro's point man on Elian, to turn on the runway lights at Jose Marti Airport. Castro personally saw Juan Miguel off at 4 a.m. Thursday. He had already ordered that diplomatic immunity at Cuba's Washington outposts be waived--to make the point that Juan Miguel would be free to defect if he wanted to, which reflected Castro...
...caught between a government with its own authoritarian rules and a family that was making them up as it went along. A month ago, when relatives assumed Castro would never let Juan Miguel out of the country, they said if he just came to the U.S. they would turn Elian over. Last week when he appeared, a thousand conditions had bloomed. In one breath the relatives promise they will obey the law, but they seem to mean only the laws that work to their advantage. Even though the courts ruled last month that this was an issue...
...Banana Republic" label sticking to Miami in the final throes of the Elian Gonzalez crisis is a source of snide humor for most Americans. But many younger Cuban Americans in Miami are getting tired of the hard-line anti-Castro operatives who have helped manufacture that stereotype--especially the privileged, imperious elite who set themselves up as a pueblo sufrido, a suffering people, as martyred as black slaves and Holocaust Jews, but ever ready to jump on expensive speedboats to reclaim huge family estates the moment the old communist dictator stops breathing...