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Elian was having trouble sleeping. He kept climbing out of his little race-car bed and going into the living room, where his great-uncle Lazaro lay on the white leather couch. The boy had been watching his relatives fight over him all this time; he had seen the news reports. It had been another long day. He snuggled next to Lazaro, who stroked the boy's hair. "I'm afraid. Are they coming for me?" Elian asked again and again. Lazaro tried to comfort him, explaining in a calm voice that everything would be O.K. "Relax," Lazaro said...
Despite all the hysteria and controversy surrounding Elian Gonzalez, most Americans are inclined to believe that it all boils down to a simple right of custody, that his best interests lie with his father--not his great uncle, Lazaro, or his cousin and proclaimed surrogate mother Marisleysis. This argument might be pertinent, if the boy were staying in the United States. But what exactly does it mean for Elian to go home with his father to Cuba...
...While Marisleysis Gonzalez and her father, Lazaro, will no doubt get to tell their story to Congress at next week's Senate hearings - and can keep their campaign alive by being turned away in a daily photo opportunity wherever Juan Miguel and his family are staying - they may find the going a little harder on the legal front. "Now that Elian has been returned to his father's custody, they appear to have no legal basis to demand visitation rights," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "However, many experts have suggested that for the boy's psychological well-being...
...tactics used in reuniting the boy with his father. And as the Miami relatives were turned away from Andrews Air Force Base for a fourth successive day because Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants more time alone with his son before he is prepared to consider a meeting with his uncle Lazaro and cousin Marisleysis, Elian moved with his father to a private residence near the Wye River Plantation in Maryland. There they'll be joined shortly by four of Elian's playmates (and one parent for each), to whom the State Department will issue visas allowing them to visit...
...boys like that," she told reporters weeks ago. "You work through the issue, and then everybody sits down and figures out how we comply with the law." So she played good cop, letting the relatives take Elian back to Little Havana, while the Justice Department fax machine delivered to Lazaro and his lawyers orders to turn over Elian at 2 p.m. the next day at Opa-Locka airport...