Word: reno
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...federal agents could have been avoided. By all accounts, it was not the ideal decision for Attorney General Janet Reno, who repeatedly extended deadlines for the Gonzalez family. But Elian's relatives showed no intention of ever turning over the boy to his father, even though immigration law clearly gives custody to the surviving parent. While negotiations stalled, a team of expert psychologists and pediatricians charged by the government to monitor Elian's health concluded that the boy would suffer tremendous emotional strain if he was not returned to his father. Even more troubling was a video released...
Left without any options, Reno ordered an armed operation that succeeded on many fronts. It was quick: Only eight federal agents were inside the house for three minutes. It was nonviolent: Outside, officers used tear gas to subdue the crowd, defusing a potentially ugly situation and leaving no serious injuries. And, it accomplished its primary objective: Elian is now with his father...
...Miami family now plan to take their battle onto Capitol Hill, where the Republican leadership has lashed out at the government's handling of the issue and vowed to hold a congressional investigation. But even if Congress becomes embroiled in debating whether Janet Reno was too heavy-handed or whether the Miami family's tactics left her no choice, that discussion ultimately remains a political postmortem that will pertain more to the battle for votes in November than to the future of Elian Gonzalez. Even as an election issue, the fact that millions of American voters were clearly horrified...
...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...
...Reno had been under pressure from the Clinton administration and her own department to end the standoff, and she'll be hoping that her decisive action - which passed without casualties - will have redeemed her from charges in Washington that she'd mishandled the situation by failing to follow through on ultimatums. President Clinton comes out looking like the decisive leader who prodded his attorney general into action, even though his intervention came rather late in the game. And candidate Gore, well - he looks like the Vice President everyone loves to ignore...