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More important, Castro noted that for Juan Miguel to go to the U.S., he still needs an assurance that his uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who has custody of Elian in Miami, will hand the boy over during a "transition period" in Washington. Then, should Miami lawyers lose their last-ditch bid in federal appeals courts next month to keep Elian in the U.S., Juan Miguel could fly back to Cuba with...
...Justice Department officials want Lazaro to agree to that demand. But he said, "I won't cooperate." Neither will his media-savvy daughter Marisleysis, 21, who tearily portrays herself as Elian's new mom. And no one at Justice seems to have a clue about how to break a "human chain" of thousands of angry exiles--who practiced the resistance tactic last week--and pluck Elian from Lazaro's home without setting Miami ablaze in violent protests...
That task looked doubly difficult after Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas, a Cuban American, made his vow not to help federal officials enforce any order to return Elian. Penelas then all but tossed a match into the city's powder keg by declaring he would hold Clinton and Reno "responsible for anything that may occur." But Penelas--a Democrat who dreams of a Cabinet post if Gore wins next fall--felt affirmed a day later when Gore backed congressional bills to give Elian, his father and other Cuban family members instant U.S. residency, and argued for moving the case...
That has been Reno's line since she ruled three months ago that only Elian's father could legally speak for a child so young. (Juan Miguel, a Communist Party member and tourism employee, was divorced from Elisabeth but was granted joint custody of Elian and has been closely involved in his upbringing.) After a federal judge backed her two weeks ago, Reno started talking tough to the exiles, hoping to stop their bid to return to state family court--where elected judges have shown in this case that they can be manipulated by Miami's political leadership. Reno demanded...
...hard to understand the visceral emotions Elian stirs up among many Cuban exiles, especially those who were imprisoned by Castro or had a close relative who, like Elisabeth, drowned in the Florida Straits while rafting toward freedom. "We're Elian's true peers," says militant exile leader Jose Basulto. "We want to save him from the life we had to live in Cuba...