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Biographer Tad Szulc calls Cuban President Fidel Castro a "master at the game of letting his enemies trap themselves." And the aging dictator believes he has his archenemies, Miami's Cuban exiles, right where he wants them in the custody battle over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Ever since Elian was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving and handed to relatives in Miami--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--the exiles have dared Castro to let the dad, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, come to Miami to get the boy himself. Their bet was that Castro...
...first avoided showing the six-year-old saying he didn't want to go back to his father in Cuba--a statement that could have been coached. But Armando Gutierrez, the family spokesman and a veteran political operator with a heavy touch of Joe McCarthy in him, angrily accused ABC of reneging on a promise to broadcast that very statement. The next morning, the network aired it. And by week's end another family spokesman said Elian "expresses fear about being with his father. He's afraid he will be punished." Now, who could have put that idea...
Among all the images of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez that we've seen since he was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving, the most poignant is his handwriting. Lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--had the boy himself sign court papers seeking U.S. asylum. Elian, they said, is capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case...
High-powered Washington attorney Gregory Craig, who defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial, has entered the fray as Juan Miguel's lawyer--raising hopes for a quicker end to the case. But Craig, who told TIME he took the job in part because he too has a six-year-old boy, says not even he knows yet when the father will come for Elian...
...said INS representative Maria Cardona. With Fidel Castro now pushing to send Juan Miguel Gonzalez - either alone or with a large entourage of family, schoolmates, mental health professionals and political minders - to the U.S. as soon as visas come through, the game of political football over the six-year-old appears to have entered its fourth quarter. It's not over yet, but decisions taken this week may have a decisive effect on the final outcome...