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Although the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ruled last week that Elian's father Juan Miguel Gonzalez has the right to call him back to Cuba, the fight over the boy's future isn't done yet. On Friday Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican, issued a congressional subpoena designed to freeze Elian's repatriation, at least until his American relatives have a chance to appeal it in court...
...hard to think rationally about Elian when your throat is swelled and your eyes wet. And it is that simple human affection for this innocent child that is the first emotion almost everyone feels about him. It's an instinct that what Elian needs most right now is to fill his big eyes with a vision of his father, a 31-year-old hotel security guard and Communist Party member who lives in Cardenas, a small town east of Havana. Juan Miguel hasn't cut his hair since Elian left, because it was their habit to make the trip...
Sources close to the Gonzalez family in Cuba have told TIME that to help Elian, a team of Cuban government psychologists counseled Juan Miguel on what to say to him about their separation. Just tell him he's on vacation. That all this will end soon. But isn't it time to bring this vacation, which began for Elian in the early-morning hours of Nov. 21, to an end? Isn't it time to help him understand the awful truth about what happened to his mother? The boy seems so completely a product of two loving parents--who suffered...
Senate Foreign Relations chairman Helms announced plans to make Elian a U.S. citizen when Congress reconvenes Jan. 24--a move that could stall repatriation procedures. Though conservatives regularly uphold the sanctity of the family against intrusions by the government, Helms and others have reversed course in this case. Explains Jose Garcia Pedrosa, a lawyer fighting to keep Elian in the U.S.: "Which kind of a family is a less important factor in how this boy should be raised than which kind of state...
There were surely many emotions in the heart of Elizabet Brotons Rodriguez when she bundled Elian into a crowded 17-ft. aluminum skiff in the predawn hours of Sunday, Nov. 21. High among them must have been hope. In the 40 years since Fidel Castro came to power, tens of thousands of Cubans have taken a fateful step to a better life in just the same way: from shore to boat, with hopes of a quick and easy landfall. And 1999 was a particularly popular year for the trip. The Coast Guard picked up more than 1,300 rafters, more...