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...chance came Wednesday night, at her friend Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin's Miami Beach home. Police cars lined streets; patrol boats cruised on the canal behind the house. Demonstrators shouted in Spanish that Reno was a witch. For 2 1/2 hours she talked with Elian, Lazaro, Marisleysis and their Miami handlers, as Elian moved from lap to lap. At one point during the negotiations, the boy even began playing with one of Reno's security people. "You know, we could solve this real quick," the agent reportedly said. "I could walk out of here with him right...
Manuel's words, at least early in the week, seemed to soften Lazaro's stance, but it was New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli, whose state is home to the second largest Cuban-American community, who tried to broker a graceful exit strategy. Tracking down Juan Miguel's lawyer, Gregory Craig, Torricelli found him in Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder's office--along with Reno. Torricelli said the Miami wing continued to insist that if Juan Miguel wanted Elian, he would have to go to Miami to get him. It was a dare and a test. They knew...
Holder turned out to be right. As Torricelli tells it, when the crowd surrounding Lazaro's house in Little Havana heard that Elian was going to Washington the next day, "the cord began to unravel." There were angry rumors that Lazaro was "selling out." When an official car arrived at 8 a.m., Lazaro would not leave his bedroom. Eventually he said the family would not be going at all. Elian had refused to get dressed, Lazaro claimed; the boy didn't want...
...outcome a Waco-spooked Janet Reno had most feared, and yet its political fallout is unlikely to hurt the Clinton Administration. Heavily armed uniformed federal agents swooped on the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez before dawn Saturday, battered down the door and wrenched a terrified Elian Gonzalez from the arms of his Miami relatives to reunite him with his father in Maryland. Although police and federal agents used pepper spray to keep some 100 demonstrators around the house at bay, the situation around the house quickly calmed down after the van carrying Elian left. Reno, who insisted immediately afterwards that...
...Friday media reports, based on extensive official leaks, of federal agents gathering for a forceful intervention may be a calculated attempt to raise the psychological pressure on Lazaro Gonzalez to hand the boy over quietly. The feds are unlikely to move over the Easter weekend, which begins Friday, and if the protesters are expecting them Monday, they may wait a couple of days. But as government officials told the media, off the record, when it happens it's unlikely to be pretty. After all, having come this far the Cuban-American leadership may have little to gain - and much...