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Judge J. L. Edmondson knew a lot of emotions rested on the Elian Gonzalez appeal hearing, so before donning his robe he warned the crowd gathered inside the Atlanta courtroom of two things: No outbursts of emotion would be tolerated; and the audience shouldn't impute opinions from the judges' questions, since justices often play devil's advocate when hearing an appeal. Still, there was little surprise that the Miami family appeared a little muted after the 90 minutes of oral argument. "I think they expected that their argument that a six-year-old can seek political asylum would have...
...contrast with the period before and immediately after Elian's removal from Miami, almost all the talking Thursday was done by lawyers. "The Miami family refrained entirely from talking to the media," says Padgett. "They appear to be very subdued." Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, stayed away from the proceedings entirely, and the six-year-old at the center of the whole affair spent the day with his Cuban playmates at a farm for exotic animals near the estate where they're sequestered. Although the justices vowed to quickly review the appeal, a ruling could still be weeks away...
This is what the relocation of one little boy can do to a great nation: By Tuesday, Little Havana had padlocked its doors in silent protest at the removal of Elian Gonzalez by federal agents. That night 17 Cuban-American major league baseball players and coaches refused to show up for their games. Next, voters re-registered as Republicans in Union City, N.J., the big Cuban-American enclave in a battleground state. By Friday, Miami's Cuban-American mayor had fired the city manager and provoked the departure of the police chief for their minor roles in support...
...reasons to go in fully loaded. INS agents, who spent a week planning the raid, had observed from 10 to 30 self-appointed bodyguards who mixed with the crowd outside at any given time. Several were camped out in a tent in the backyard of the house behind the Gonzalez home; four others, members of Alpha 66, a radical anti-Castro group, often patrolled the crowd conducting surveillance, the INS said. Record checks showed that three of the four participated in a 1995 incident in which a band of Alpha 66 members took a boat to Cuba and fired shots...
Republicans like to chest-thump that they follow their conscience, not the polls. But it's just as likely that they're following the klieg lights out of their post-impeachment media wilderness. The Gonzalez family--who took to crossing the street to the media encampment calling out "It's time to go live," the way other families announce "It's time for dinner"--ran an enviable press operation. The loopy, frequently hospitalized Marisleysis was hysterical over supposedly doctored photos of a smiling Elian but savvy enough to overshadow the Attorney General's press conference with her guided tour through...