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...outcome a Waco-spooked Janet Reno had most feared, and yet its political fallout is unlikely to hurt the Clinton Administration. Heavily armed uniformed federal agents swooped on the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez before dawn Saturday, battered down the door and wrenched a terrified Elian Gonzalez from the arms of his Miami relatives to reunite him with his father in Maryland. Although police and federal agents used pepper spray to keep some 100 demonstrators around the house at bay, the situation around the house quickly calmed down after the van carrying Elian left. Reno, who insisted immediately afterwards that...
...Although Juan Miguel Gonzalez is bound by this week's court decision to remain with his son in the U.S. pending the outcome of the relatives' appeal, his reunion with Elian will change the political facts of this case. It now becomes a campaign to remove a six-year-old from the care of his father and transfer him back to some relatives in Miami, and that's unlikely to elicit much sympathy from either the public or the courts. To be sure, the Miami relatives and their supporters may struggle to maintain the momentum of their campaign to keep...
...Court of Appeals injunction against returning the boy to Cuba before the appeals process is concluded may not have diminished the government's legal ability to reunite the boy with his father at this stage, but it has certainly been a major morale booster for the protesters outside Lazaro Gonzalez's home, and that's likely to create a bumpy ride for federal marshals or INS officials sent in to collect Elian...
...Friday media reports, based on extensive official leaks, of federal agents gathering for a forceful intervention may be a calculated attempt to raise the psychological pressure on Lazaro Gonzalez to hand the boy over quietly. The feds are unlikely to move over the Easter weekend, which begins Friday, and if the protesters are expecting them Monday, they may wait a couple of days. But as government officials told the media, off the record, when it happens it's unlikely to be pretty. After all, having come this far the Cuban-American leadership may have little to gain - and much...
...this point, it probably doesn't make much difference if or when Elian Gonzalez is finally extricated from the clutches of his Miami relatives. The damage has already been done. In 10 or 15 years, Elian's much-discussed psychic injuries will or will not have manifested themselves in some regrettable way, but we'll just have to wait and see. And when we get the news of his inevitable breakdown, we'll sit around and tsk-tsk, trying to remember specifics of the half-year melodrama that brought Elian so relentlessly into our homes and water-cooler conversations...