Word: reno
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Last week his Cuban father charged in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno that the boy is being "unscrupulously manipulated." The Miami family's lawyer, Spencer Eig, says they might listen to AltaVista's idea, but "so far they've turned down" commercial offers. If so, it's a rare example of restraint in this more than two-month-long frenzy...
...Elian has regularly been trotted out for display in spotlights such as Disney World, and last month was put on a Spanish-language radio station in Miami to declare how much he wanted U.S. citizenship. Last week his Cuban father charged in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno that the boy is being "unscrupulously manipulated." The Miami family's lawyer, Spencer Eig, says they might listen to AltaVista's idea, but "so far they've turned down" commercial offers. If so, it's a rare example of restraint in this more than two-month-long frenzy...
Even as the Web was twanging with news of the Maxus scam, Attorney General Janet Reno proposed a crime-fighting network designed to combat just such cybercriminality. The move may protect the next e-tailer victimized by Net extortion, but it has come too late to help this...
Wringing their hands in the middle of it all are the INS and its overseer, Attorney General Janet Reno, who stated emotionally last week that Elian "should be with his father" and upheld the INS ruling. But she went limp on the critical issue of how to carry it out. Instead, she asked Elian's kin to "work together" to resolve that question. She sounded at once prudent and naive. This family feud "has become a canona," warns University of Miami sociologist Max Castro, using a Cuban term for bullying. "It's not some gentlemen's disagreement...
Many child psychiatrists side with Reno. Lazaro says Elian has described how Elizabet drowned. She was one of the first to go, dragged under by rough seas while trying to lash Elian to his inner tube. One day, while spreading newspapers on the kitchen floor to house-train the boy's new puppy (a gift from a Cuban-American politician), Lazaro says, he inadvertently put down a page that bore a large picture of Elizabet. Seeing it, Elian shouted and cried. He made Lazaro cut it out and frame it for his bedside. When the reality of what happened...