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...traumatic public scrutiny, federal agents quickly and painlessly whisked the six-year-old Cuban boy from his relatives' house in raucous Miami to an air base near Washington, D.C., where he spent Easter Sunday with his father. Thankfully, there he will stay, insulated from the violence in Little Havana and games of political football, until a court rules on his application for political asylum...
Holder turned out to be right. As Torricelli tells it, when the crowd surrounding Lazaro's house in Little Havana heard that Elian was going to Washington the next day, "the cord began to unravel." There were angry rumors that Lazaro was "selling out." When an official car arrived at 8 a.m., Lazaro would not leave his bedroom. Eventually he said the family would not be going at all. Elian had refused to get dressed, Lazaro claimed; the boy didn't want...
...pick up little boys like that," she told reporters weeks ago. "You work through the issue, and then everybody sits down and figures out how we comply with the law." So she played good cop, letting the relatives take Elian back to Little Havana, while the Justice Department fax machine delivered to Lazaro and his lawyers orders to turn over Elian at 2 p.m. the next day at Opa-Locka airport...
...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 Elian now that they no longer have possession of the boy. But while Washington, Havana, the Miami Cuban leadership and the U.S. TV networks may soon be able to walk away from the saga, poor little Elian is faced with suffering the scars for years to come...
Easter would be the worst possible time for federal agents to swoop down on a Little Havana home to take away a young boy many in that community have likened to Jesus. But while it may not happen this weekend, the U.S. government has now sent the unmistakable, and perhaps irrevocable, message that it is saddling up a posse to retrieve Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunite him with his father. First President Clinton on Thursday stepped up to the plate for the first time with an unambiguous call for boy and father to be speedily reunited. Then...