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...Fidel Castro's Cuba. Just months ago such a move appeared to be on the horizon - President Clinton talked last summer of revamping America's "archaic Cuba policy" and travel restrictions to the island were eased, paving the way for top U.S. officials to visit Havana. But then the Elian Gonzalez imbroglio erupted, a case that has increased passions for both keeping and easing restrictions. And now Operation False Blue will surely help the pro-embargo lobby as well as hardening anti-American attitudes among Castro's top brass...
...Mary __ 30 Blue or green shade 31 J.F.K. terminal listing 32 Exile of 1979 36 Heartsick one 38 Verboten 39 Apple-pie order 41 Name in court decision supported by Gore, Bradley 43 Wacko 44 Shopaholics' meccas 45 __ Blue (show that firefighters want boycotted) 47 One of Elian's grandmothers 50 Warner Music chairman Ames 53 Environmental prefix 54 __ Service (Melisse Shapiro e-novel) 55 Give the slip to 56 Use a keyhole 57 Agent's take 58 Targets for McNair...
Fidel Castro and Miami politicians are already using six-year-old ELIAN GONZALEZ as a poster boy. Now Madison Avenue wants a piece of the photogenic tyke. As long as Elian is a guest in capitalist America--pending a U.S. court decision on his fate--companies like the popular Web-search firm AltaVista want to cast him in commercials. An advertising firm based in Portland, Ore., Wieden & Kennedy, which produces AltaVista's ads, tells TIME it is making a pitch to Elian's Miami family about using the boy's image in a national spot...
...Elian has regularly been trotted out for display in spotlights such as Disney World, and last month was put on a Spanish-language radio station in Miami to declare how much he wanted U.S. citizenship...
...Washington the next day, the abuelas tearfully lobbied against the citizenship bill. And they won a key victory: the INS ordered that Elian be made available at a neutral site. At the meeting, the Cubans shrewdly had the grandmothers carry in a cell phone so Elian's father could talk to him--and the Miami camp just as shrewdly got the phone taken away...