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Manuel's words, at least early in the week, seemed to soften Lazaro's stance, but it was New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli, whose state is home to the second largest Cuban-American community, who tried to broker a graceful exit strategy. Tracking down Juan Miguel's lawyer, Gregory Craig, Torricelli found him in Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder's office--along with Reno. Torricelli said the Miami wing continued to insist that if Juan Miguel wanted Elian, he would have to go to Miami to get him. It was a dare and a test. They knew...
Holder turned out to be right. As Torricelli tells it, when the crowd surrounding Lazaro's house in Little Havana heard that Elian was going to Washington the next day, "the cord began to unravel." There were angry rumors that Lazaro was "selling out." When an official car arrived at 8 a.m., Lazaro would not leave his bedroom. Eventually he said the family would not be going at all. Elian had refused to get dressed, Lazaro claimed; the boy didn't want...
...Redmond sympathies) said he'd "rather break up the Justice Department" than Microsoft. Republicans put Al Gore on notice that they intend to make an issue of the case this fall, but Democrats seemed just as caught up as the G.O.P. was in Gatesmania. New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli lamented that "only the U.S. would consider breaking up a company that has done this much economically to advance our national interest...
...Microsoft lovefest? It could be, as Torricelli says, that the company has done a lot of good. But it may also be because Gates & Co., having shunned the political fray for years, have become overnight capital insiders. Microsoft has made $1.7 million in campaign contributions so far this election cycle. It's now the nation's sixth largest soft-money donor, and its lobbying staff boasts four former members of Congress...
...Tuesday at a deal struck by a sympathetic legislator and the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) that would, according to government sources, have involved transferring Elian to his father at a family meeting Wednesday in Washington, where the only outsiders in attendance would have been New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli (a White House-friendly Democrat who has long been a champion of the Cuban exile community) and an INS official. After the planned meeting was announced by the CANF - which has played a leading role in efforts to keep Elian in the U.S. - the Justice Department held off on plans...