Word: fidelity
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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...
...went to Disney World, hugged Barney, celebrated his sixth birthday with the gift of a toy gun. He fell in love with chocolate milk; a Florida cousin who visits regularly told TIME that whenever Elian's cousin Marisleysis poured him a glass, she made a point of adding that "Fidel Castro won't let his grandmas make that for him in Cuba...
...Cardenas, meanwhile, Juan Miguel was growing more distraught about his son's predicament. "His hair has been falling out, and he's had stomach problems since this whole thing started," says Fidel Ramirez, 32, Juan Miguel's best friend since school days. "He was extremely gregarious, but now he has turned bitter and quiet. When it dawned on him that his Miami relatives were keeping Elian up there, he came to me and said, 'Hermano, they took my son--they're hitting me where it hurts most.' He cried for three days...
...Fidel Castro has declared that he is worried that the boy may be contaminated by something else: the way he has been paraded about for the press in America. In fact, the international press has chosen to parade around Cardenas as well, sticking mikes and cameras in the face of every possible source and stalking about the small city of 94,000 people. And so, when Elian returns, he will probably be kept in the capital of Havana, together with family, friends and schoolmates, as well as psychiatrists and pediatricians. Alas for Elian and Cardenas, even when he returns...
...FIDEL CASTRO Lets dad go to U.S.; takes edge in cute Cuban urchin p.r. war. Time for Gore to adopt Elian...