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...Lapsed student-visa holder convicted in the World Trade Center bombing...
...Elian's relatives in Miami say Juan Miguel knew that his ex-wife was planning to flee to America with Elian, and they produce a Sprint phone bill to prove he had called to alert relatives to look out for them. They even say he had applied for a visa for himself on a number of occasions--all of which fueled the speculation last week that if only he could get to the U.S. and finally speak out without fear, he would never want to leave...
...including Juan Miguel's father, remained behind. "They sympathized with the communists and Castro," says cousin Marcia Gonzalez in Miami. Over the years the Miami branch often urged the others to join them. But INS officials say they have no record of Juan Miguel's ever applying for a visa, and friends in Cuba say he had made his peace with his life there. Uncle Lazaro even went back to visit in 1998--which was the only time he had met Elian before last December. Relations between the two branches of the family were warm, as long as the subject...
...entering its endgame, and the imminent arrival of the boy?s father in the U.S. has prompted a last-ditch offensive from his Miami relatives. As INS officials began negotiations with the Miami relatives over how to reunite Elian with his father, who on Monday applied for a U.S. visa, lawyers representing the Florida family have been engaging in some tricky footwork. Last Friday, Miami family attorneys Manny Diaz and Kendall Coffey insisted, separately, that the father would not be given custody of Elian, and would be allowed only supervised visits with his son. Although attorneys Linda Osberg-Braun...
...Today, most consumers cannot go a single day without being bombarded, if not pummeled, by a plethora of credit card applications wherever they turn. Whether it is Visa, Mastercard, American Express or their pygmy cousin Discover, the opportunity for appropriation of unneeded material items is forever available to the American public. Unfortunately, in addition to snazzy new possessions, this "shop 'till you drop" mentality also brings with it the acquisition of unwanted and often irreversible debt...