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Were the wire services referring to an explosion of the tensions between China and Taiwan? Further nuclear experimentation in Pakistan? A new-age Cuban Missile crisis sparked by the likes of Elian Gonzalez...
Juan Miguel Gonzalez had a very bad day Thursday. First, he had to sit through a home video released by his Miami relatives and put in heavy rotation by the news networks in which his six-year-old son wagged a finger at his father and said he didn't want to go home to Cuba; then the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concurred. The court issued an injunction ordering that Elian should remain in the United States pending the outcome of an appeal by his relatives for custody, and the Justice Department indicated it would hold off on efforts...
...That's got to have left Elian's father a very unhappy man, inasmuch as he came to the U.S. in the belief that he'd be quickly reunited with his son, with whom he'd wait out the appeals process. Thursday's ruling suggests Juan Miguel Gonzalez may now be required to wait out the appeals process without his child. "He was encouraged to believe that by coming here he'd prevail in the end," says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But things aren't done here the way they're done in a dictatorship, and there...
...Lazaro Gonzalez had earlier defied a government order to hand the boy over at 2 p.m., declaring that "they will have to take this child from me by force." That marked an apparent shift from earlier in the week, when the standoff appeared set for an imminent end. The leading exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation, appeared Tuesday to have brokered a face-saving deal in which Elian would be reunited with his father at a meeting with Lazaro Gonzalez, but that deal was quickly abandoned later the same day. "Earlier this week it looked as though the foundation...
...That explanation is unlikely to fly either with Juan Miguel Gonzalez or with the Justice Department, which indicated that if the meeting did not happen on Wednesday it would proceed with plans to order Lazaro to hand the boy over at a prescribed time and location. The family meeting had been arranged as it became clear that the Miami family were running out of options, even as they battled to keep legal challenges alive in Florida state and family courts. The family's decision not to go to Washington may have come in response to government spin on the meeting...