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...Cuban Dismissal Crisis ELIAN GONZALEZ...
DIED. HENRY GONZALEZ, 84, cantankerously quixotic former Democratic Congressman who served from 1961 to '98; in San Antonio, Texas. The first Mexican American to represent Texas, "Henry B." developed his combative style in the 1930s by boxing in illegal matches to pay his college tuition, eventually becoming a Golden Gloves champ--a skill he almost used in a Capitol Hill cloakroom on a G.O.P. colleague who called him a "pinko." In 1989 he became chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee, speaking out on the S.-and-L. scandals and Iraqi arms sales--and calling for President Bush's impeachment...
...like his style; he's a great orator," says Luis A.P. Gonzalez, Jr.'01, a student in "Justice...
Elian, meanwhile, is reported to be living happily with his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez in Cardenas. A 24-hour police guard near his home is the only sign that something may once have been different...
...lessons being taught to the young is that so many of their shared political and cultural memories have been acquired in the media circuses of the last decade - Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill, Oklahoma City, Columbine, O. J. Simpson, Clinton-Lewinsky, Diana's death, John Kennedy Jr.'s death, Elian Gonzalez and now, the post-election...