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Elian Gonzalez's Miami family are hard at work to find a face-saving mechanism for reuniting the boy with his father, but the U.S. government's patience may expire Wednesday. Lazaro Gonzalez moved the boy Wednesday to the home of Sister Jean O'Laughlin, where he had previously met with his grandmothers, while negotiators raced to revive plans for the Miami relatives, Elian and his father to meet. The great-uncle had balked late Tuesday at a deal struck by a sympathetic legislator and the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) that would, according to government sources, have involved transferring...
More important, Castro noted that for Juan Miguel to go to the U.S., he still needs an assurance that his uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who has custody of Elian in Miami, will hand the boy over during a "transition period" in Washington. Then, should Miami lawyers lose their last-ditch bid in federal appeals courts next month to keep Elian in the U.S., Juan Miguel could fly back to Cuba with...
...Justice Department officials want Lazaro to agree to that demand. But he said, "I won't cooperate." Neither will his media-savvy daughter Marisleysis, 21, who tearily portrays herself as Elian's new mom. And no one at Justice seems to have a clue about how to break a "human chain" of thousands of angry exiles--who practiced the resistance tactic last week--and pluck Elian from Lazaro's home without setting Miami ablaze in violent protests...
...upbringing.) After a federal judge backed her two weeks ago, Reno started talking tough to the exiles, hoping to stop their bid to return to state family court--where elected judges have shown in this case that they can be manipulated by Miami's political leadership. Reno demanded that Lazaro agree to speeded-up federal court appeals--and sign a pledge to hand over the boy should he lose them--or risk having the Justice Department immediately revoke his temporary custody of Elian...
...even as Reno held that sanction over Lazaro, the exiles held one over her: the threat of ugly unrest, which Reno, who was once the top state prosecutor in Miami, wants to avoid at all costs. "She doesn't want to end her career with another Waco," says a Justice official. Responding to Mayor Penelas' pandering, Reno shot back that "the people I know in the Cuban community believe in the rule of law." But late last week she yet again extended the deadline for Lazaro to sign a deal, and negotiations were set to resume this week...