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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Miracle Child, delivered from the sea for a sacred purpose, and so it was no surprise that when they awoke Saturday morning to news of his seizure, the exiles arrived in force, one man carrying a crucifix with a bloody doll nailed to it, and accused Janet Reno of playing Pontius Pilate. For Elian's Miami relatives, the morning was a kind of death, after five months of hope and power and fame and the satisfactions of righteous rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...months Janet Reno had been trying to solve the crisis in her own lonesome way. She tried to play every role herself: Attorney General, family shrink, hostage negotiator and grandmother manque. It meant assuming that everybody involved would behave rationally and put the child's interest first. And she believed above all that she could wait out her rivals in Miami and absorb hit after hit about her go-slow approach, certain that the law was on her side, even if nobody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Then even the law seemed to abandon her. When a federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled last week that Elian might be able to decide his future for himself, Reno found herself, as a lawyer on the case put it, "in a deep, dark hole." Having promised Juan Miguel two weeks earlier that she would return his son quickly, Reno was now looking at months of legal wrangling and no guarantee that Elian would ever be reunited with his father, much less his homeland. By Thursday, White House dismay with Reno's bottomless patience was quietly rising, and so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...reviewed the ruling and her options for taking Elian from the Miami house, Reno said she had to prepare for the worst: that there might be guns in the house, or in the crowds outside; that old women would throw themselves in front of federal vehicles; that dump trucks filled with gravel would block intersections. The INS team wanted to go in before dawn, but Reno worried about the image of a nighttime raid. So grim was the picture the Attorney General was painting, it appeared to the aides that she would prefer to wait some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Then it turned," said a participant, who listened as Reno began to lay out for the President the reasons for an immediate rescue: Juan Miguel had promised to stay in the country through the appeals; the court order made that promise stick, so the relatives had no reason to worry about Elian suddenly disappearing; and, most of all, Elian needed to be with his father, and away from Little Havana's media circus. Normally dry as talc, Reno at one point waxed nostalgic about the Miami of her childhood. She said she wanted to make a move soon. "Her feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

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