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...Elian's future in a family discussion without lawyers or government officials. But this dispute has, from the beginning, been about members of a family finding themselves on opposite sides of a four-decade-old war, and so much bad blood has passed between Juan Miguel and his uncles Lazaro and Delfin over the past four months that a simple family reunion looks to be an unlikely scenario. (An emotional Juan Miguel, two months ago, told an interviewer that he'd like to go to Miami to resolve the matter - with a rifle...
...questions in the coming days, then, are whether and how the Miami family plans to hand Elian over to his father, and how the INS plans to ensure that they do so. And, of course, how the hundreds of demonstrators who've vowed to stop the boy from leaving Lazaro's house might react. Then there's the drama of Elian's own reunion with a father he's known only via the telephone since last November's trauma. And even the question of whether a sojourn in a tony Maryland suburb leads Juan Miguel to contemplate a change...
...demonstrators who gather outside Lazaro Gonzalez's home each day with promises to block the little boy's removal may be less concerned about finding themselves on the wrong side of the law than about finding themselves on the wrong side of history...
...Talks between the INS and the Miami relatives are to resume Thursday, but there may be a limit to how long the government indulges the process before reverting to enforcing the law. "The federal government can simply come up with a court order that will force Lazaro Gonzalez to comply or otherwise face the prospect of going to jail," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. A Justice Department official has told the AP that failure to reach an agreement would result in the INS revoking Lazaro Gonzalez's custody and issuing a legally binding order to hand over Elian...
November 25-28, 1999 Elian Gonzalez is found on Thanksgiving Day, clinging to an inner tube three miles off the Florida coast. He's released from hospital the following day after treatment for dehydration and sunburn, and taken into the care of his father's uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez. Anti-Castro exiles make Elian the focus of their protests against Cuba's attendance at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle...