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This is how Elian's fairy tale was supposed to go: the loving father, Juan Miguel, had never been able to signal his true hopes for his son because Fidel Castro had him in chains. But once he broke free and made it to America, once he stepped off the Learjet at Dulles at dawn with his new wife and baby at his side, he would fall to the ground, kiss the tarmac and ask for asylum. Or maybe it would happen Friday morning, safe in the halls of the Justice Department, when he would look Attorney General Janet Reno...
Biographer Tad Szulc calls Cuban President Fidel Castro a "master at the game of letting his enemies trap themselves." And the aging dictator believes he has his archenemies, Miami's Cuban exiles, right where he wants them in the custody battle over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Ever since Elian was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving and handed to relatives in Miami--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--the exiles have dared Castro to let the dad, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, come to Miami to get the boy himself. Their bet was that Castro...
Cuban sources say these statements wounded the father so badly that Castro, under increasing criticism for keeping Juan Miguel at home, had little choice but to arrange for his trip to the U.S. A Castro friend says letting the father travel "was a cartridge that Fidel had to wait until this moment to spend...
...give Elian, his father and other Cuban family members instant U.S. residency, and argued for moving the case into state family court in Miami. Echoing George W. Bush, who also insists Elian should stay, Gore said, "The real fault in this case lies with the oppressive regime of Fidel Castro...
...FIDEL CASTRO Lets dad go to U.S.; takes edge in cute Cuban urchin p.r. war. Time for Gore to adopt Elian...