Word: reno
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What even Reno may not have realized was that the mediators weren't dealing only with the Gonzalez clan: they wanted the blessing of the Cuban-American leaders too, so there would be no picketing or problems. "We wanted everyone to be able to leave the family alone," says Aaron Podhurst, one of the mediators and a longtime Miami lawyer who has been a friend of Reno's for 30 years...
Clinton had come to the same conclusion the night before, aides said, but was pleased that Reno got there on her own. "Janet," he said, "I think you're right." And a few hours later in the Rose Garden, he began to prepare the nation. "I think [Elian] should be reunited," Clinton said, "and in as prompt and as orderly a way as possible...
...Reno was not completely tone deaf. It was a week of harrowing anniversaries: Columbine, Waco, Oklahoma City, the Bay of Pigs. She was not about to go in on Good Friday or on Easter Sunday. But she told INS officials that Saturday or Monday were both possibilities if negotiations stalled, and they in turn said whatever happened had to occur before 6 a.m., when the traffic lights in the neighborhood switch from blinking yellow to red, yellow and green, and the streets start filling with cars, and the sidewalks with anxious, angry people...
Thanks to widespread leaking, just about everybody in Washington and Miami woke up Friday morning confident that Reno was ready to move. But instead, in a last-minute twist, the Attorney General was in her cavernous fifth-floor office at Main Justice, on the telephone with a group of fellow Miamians who thought they could still persuade the relatives to turn the boy over to his father...
...Miami president Tad Foote, proposed a cooling-off period: both sides of the family would repair to a neutral retreat until the appeals process concluded, where Elian would be allowed to make a gentle transition from his new home to his old. The idea made some sense to Reno, but she had two conditions: first, Elian had to be put immediately into his father's custody, and a deal had to be inked fast. Reno told the go-betweens that if they couldn't work out the details overnight, there would be no deal...