Word: reno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...enough. Enough of Diane Sawyer subjecting a six-year-old to the glare of a camera. Enough of the Miami relatives committing what amounts to child abuse right under our noses. Enough of being held hostage by a group of disaffected ex-Cubans. Enough of Janet Reno hemming and hawing her way ineffectually through what should be an extraordinarily simple process. Go in and get the kid, we'd cry, suddenly outraged. Send him home. And we'd turn off our televisions and go back to our lives...
...Reno does plan to order an early removal of Elian from Little Havana, Thursday is her window of opportunity ahead of the Easter weekend. "But experienced negotiators also know that you don't move when the adrenaline is pumping, and the demonstrators around Lazaro's house will be braced for confrontation Thursday," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "The feds are more likely to wait for fatigue to take its toll, and that's more likely to take this standoff into next week." Even then, it may take Juan Miguel Gonzalez going to court to get an order...