Word: janet
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...Elian was the Miracle Child, delivered from the sea for a sacred purpose, and so it was no surprise that when they awoke Saturday morning to news of his seizure, the exiles arrived in force, one man carrying a crucifix with a bloody doll nailed to it, and accused Janet Reno of playing Pontius Pilate. For Elian's Miami relatives, the morning was a kind of death, after five months of hope and power and fame and the satisfactions of righteous rage...
...months Janet Reno had been trying to solve the crisis in her own lonesome way. She tried to play every role herself: Attorney General, family shrink, hostage negotiator and grandmother manque. It meant assuming that everybody involved would behave rationally and put the child's interest first. And she believed above all that she could wait out her rivals in Miami and absorb hit after hit about her go-slow approach, certain that the law was on her side, even if nobody else...
Clinton had come to the same conclusion the night before, aides said, but was pleased that Reno got there on her own. "Janet," he said, "I think you're right." And a few hours later in the Rose Garden, he began to prepare the nation. "I think [Elian] should be reunited," Clinton said, "and in as prompt and as orderly a way as possible...
...disturbing that The Crimson defends Janet Reno's decision to seize Elin Gonzalez (Editorial, April 24). The seizure was not a triumph of "the rule of law" but an alarming abuse of federal power...
...Government presume that it knows what is in the best interests of Elian? Has Janet Reno ever lived under the yoke of a communist dictatorship? Let's ask ourselves this: who knows more about what life is really like in Cuba--Janet Reno or the Cuban-Americans who fled Castro's regime to look for a better life in America...