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Then even the law seemed to abandon her. When a federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled last week that Elian might be able to decide his future for himself, Reno found herself, as a lawyer on the case put it, "in a deep, dark hole." Having promised Juan Miguel two weeks earlier that she would return his son quickly, Reno was now looking at months of legal wrangling and no guarantee that Elian would ever be reunited with his father, much less his homeland. By Thursday, White House dismay with Reno's bottomless patience was quietly rising, and so that...
...Then it turned," said a participant, who listened as Reno began to lay out for the President the reasons for an immediate rescue: Juan Miguel had promised to stay in the country through the appeals; the court order made that promise stick, so the relatives had no reason to worry about Elian suddenly disappearing; and, most of all, Elian needed to be with his father, and away from Little Havana's media circus. Normally dry as talc, Reno at one point waxed nostalgic about the Miami of her childhood. She said she wanted to make a move soon. "Her feeling...
...hotel under guard and driven the next day to Washington. (The relatives claimed they didn't want Elian to fly. Justice officials assumed someone else in the family had a fear of flying, but agreed to chauffeur them to Washington anyway.) Once in Washington, Juan Miguel would be reunited with Elian, and the two families would live in separate but adjacent quarters during a weeklong transition period. Three new child-psychology experts would be brought in to smooth the handoff; in addition, Lazaro and his wing of the family would waive all rights to sue Juan Miguel for custody later...
Craig, working in his office, put the deal to Juan Miguel after midnight. Initially the father balked at the idea of living anywhere close to Lazaro, but after some calls back and forth, he agreed. But at this point the accounts diverge: federal officials say Lazaro and his kin objected to all sorts of conditions and kept wanting to add new ones. It wasn't even clear who was making the decisions. "We were never able to say Lazaro Gonzalez had agreed with anything," says an official. "It was never clear who the lead lawyer was, and that made...
Craig, meanwhile, was still working. He had sent his client home to sleep and was still in his office with the TV on mute when around 5 a.m. he saw the rescue unfold on the screen. He jumped to the phone and called Bethesda, waking up Juan Miguel in his room at the residence of Fernando Remirez, head of the Cuban diplomatic mission to the U.S. "Turn on the TV! Turn...