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...Elian Gonzalez's Miami family are hard at work to find a face-saving mechanism for reuniting the boy with his father, but the U.S. government's patience may expire Wednesday. Lazaro Gonzalez moved the boy Wednesday to the home of Sister Jean O'Laughlin, where he had previously met with his grandmothers, while negotiators raced to revive plans for the Miami relatives, Elian and his father to meet. The great-uncle had balked late Tuesday at a deal struck by a sympathetic legislator and the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) that would, according to government sources, have involved transferring...
...challenges alive in Florida state and family courts. The family's decision not to go to Washington may have come in response to government spin on the meeting: While CANF representatives had presented it simply as the family meeting for which the Florida relatives had pushed and said that Elian might even leave with his father if all went well, government officials told the media the handover was a done deal. Still, the very fact that the most important Cuban exile organization, which played a leading role from the outset in the campaign to keep Elian here, is now involved...
...hard-line Cuban-American leadership also wants to preserve the political clout it enjoyed during the cold war. And it is increasingly isolated, even within Florida. In a poll cited by the St. Petersburg Times last week, 83% of Florida's Hispanics opposed sending Elian back to his father in Cuba, while 81% of its blacks and 65% of its non-Latino whites favored it. Regardless of who "wins" the battle over Elian, sociologist Max Castro laments, the exiles are "damaging their cause in most Americans' eyes." In short, Castro's archfoes may have trapped themselves in more ways than...
...made for great TV. There was Maxine Waters, an outspoken member of the congressional Black Caucus, live on CNN defending the Clinton Administration's efforts to return Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba. Suddenly, on air, Waters learned that Al Gore had come out in support of the Cuban exiles who are trying to keep Elian in Miami. Waters exploded, saying she would "rethink" her endorsement of the Vice President. The next morning, Gore phoned Waters to make peace. It seemed to help. "He apologized profusely," she recalled. "We disagree, but I think he's sincere...
FIDEL CASTRO Lets dad go to U.S.; takes edge in cute Cuban urchin p.r. war. Time for Gore to adopt Elian...