Word: six-year-old
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...waist, and headed into a residence at Andrews Air Force Base. Later Juan Miguel invited agents Mills and Goldman to join him and his family for a while, to thank them for taking care of his son. Elian, they said, was playing on the floor--"like any six-year-old...
Early this week, the Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA) launched a postering campaign to protest the government's forceful removal of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives. Elian was reunited with his father later that day in Washington...
Given all the uncertainties and the different angles presented, the best solution is to allow an impartial family court to decide the best interests of the boy. In the Los Angeles Times, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz explained that there is precedent for a six-year-old child to receive individual legal representation in a court of law. We firmly believe that Elian deserves his day in court...
...order to prevail in the appeals process, the Miami relatives and their lawyers have to convince U.S. courts to accept in principle that a six-year-old can apply for asylum against the wishes of his father. "It seems questionable that a court will uphold that principle," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "It's very difficult for the Miami family to win legally, because they're arguing that the political situation in Cuba makes it wrong to send Elian back even if that is his father's wish, but the family perspective tends to trump the political perspective...
...withdraws his request, the case would collapse," says Cohen. "But a court might order that the boy be examined by a neutral third party, and if that examination found that he actually wanted to stay in the U.S., the issue would revert to a question of whether a six-year-old can claim asylum against his surviving parent's wishes...