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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...
...their supporters were on the air instantly, telling their harrowing story and denouncing the government. "If this had been your son, would you have wanted a gun to be pointed at his head and have him dragged out of your house that way?" Marisleysis said. "Bill Clinton and Janet Reno betrayed this country--not just my family, but this country...
...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...