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...Janet Reno is, to put it mildly, in something of a quandary. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold its injunction forbidding Elian Gonzalez from leaving the U.S. caught the attorney general off guard and left her in the position she likes least in this case: having to make a decision. Where Reno had hoped the court would issue an order for the transfer of Elian to his father's custody, it refused to rule on the custody issue but upheld the right of the boy's Miami relatives to a day in court to argue their appeal...
...Janet Reno seemed indecisive before, the latest court ruling on the fate of Elian Gonzalez may paralyze her altogether. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued an order Wednesday that Elian not be removed from the U.S. pending his Miami relatives' appeal in their bid to seek asylum for the boy. They declined, however, to rule on whether he should be handed over to his father. "The ruling leaves the immediate question of Elian's custody back in the hands of the Justice Department," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Reno is free to send marshals...
...legal authority to seize him from his Miami relatives and return him to his father. Last Thursday's injunction simply stipulated that the boy not be returned to Cuba before the completion of the appeals process, and that's a condition his father has accepted. Which means that Janet Reno now faces a tough decision. "On the one hand, Reno's strategy of drawing this out in the hope of wearing down the resistance of the protesters around the house has produced a measure of protest fatigue," says Padgett. "But on the other hand there's the fear that...
...terms of keeping up with current events, flipped off Tom Brokaw's special afternoon update in favor of the highly intellectual Fox show "Real TV." Seeing a 300-pound Marlin pull a man out of his fishing boat definitely felt more important to watch at that point than anything Janet Reno could have done or said with the family. This settled the issue for me; the media has drastically over-covered this event...
...Learjet at Dulles at dawn with his new wife and baby at his side, he would fall to the ground, kiss the tarmac and ask for asylum. Or maybe it would happen Friday morning, safe in the halls of the Justice Department, when he would look Attorney General Janet Reno in the eye and say thanks for all the help, but can we please just stay here? Then he could arrive in Miami in triumph, the angry vigil outside Great-Uncle Lazaro's house would turn into a carnival, father and son would be reunited at last, and all would...