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Although the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ruled last week that Elian's father Juan Miguel Gonzalez has the right to call him back to Cuba, the fight over the boy's future isn't done yet. On Friday Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican, issued a congressional subpoena designed to freeze Elian's repatriation, at least until his American relatives have a chance to appeal it in court...
Sources close to the Gonzalez family in Cuba have told TIME that to help Elian, a team of Cuban government psychologists counseled Juan Miguel on what to say to him about their separation. Just tell him he's on vacation. That all this will end soon. But isn't it time to bring this vacation, which began for Elian in the early-morning hours of Nov. 21, to an end? Isn't it time to help him understand the awful truth about what happened to his mother? The boy seems so completely a product of two loving parents--who suffered...
...little boy is caught up in a high-profile tug-of-war between two families and two cultures. A parent wants him back, but politically influential adults say they can offer him a better life. This might sound like Elian Gonzalez, but instead it's the case all of Chicago was talking about last week: Baby T, the toddler taken from a drug-abusing black mother and given to a powerful white Democratic politician and his wife, a state court judge...
...Elian Gonzalez saga is a one-of-a-kind international showdown, but it's also part of a rising American debate over parents' rights. In Chicago birth parents are pitted against foster parents, and some blacks are charging the courts with racial insensitivity. In the U.S. Supreme Court this week, grandparents are squaring off against parents over the right to visit their grandchildren. Across the U.S., courts are being flooded with cases involving custody and visitation for homosexuals who have been estranged from the children they parented. At the heart of all these disputes is a wrenching legal and emotional...
...PADGETT, TIME's Miami bureau chief, has covered Latin America since 1989, but as the parent of a 5-year-old boy, he was particularly intrigued by the international tug-of-war over this week's cover subject, Elian Gonzalez. "It's been painful as a father as well as a journalist to watch Elian have to endure this interruption in his blossoming," says Padgett. With the assistance of stringer Dolly Mascarenas , Padgett interviewed Elian's relatives in Florida and Cuba. "Both families are decent, sincere people who obviously care a lot for Elian," says Padgett. But the INS ruling...