Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...demonstrators who gather outside Lazaro Gonzalez's home each day with promises to block the little boy's removal may be less concerned about finding themselves on the wrong side of the law than about finding themselves on the wrong side of history...
...Elian Gonzalez was fated to arrive in Florida at a time when the anti-Castro lobby was desperately looking for an issue on which to anchor a counteroffensive against Washington's incremental moves to relax the embargo. No sooner was the boy out of the hospital than his face had appeared on posters printed by exile activists to protest Cuba's attendance at World Trade Organization talks in the U.S. last December. But while fear of messy protests may have kept Castro away from Seattle, the exiles are being forced to confront the reality that he has, for the most...
...moment the van's doors swing open, a teenage girl steps right up, climbing eagerly inside. Her face brightens as she greets volunteers she has not seen in weeks. Following close behind her is a boy dwarfed by his enormous pants. They sit down together and soon begin to laugh with the volunteers about jobs and mutual acquaintances...
...Elian Gonzalez case is 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...
...Monday?s talks between the INS and the Miami family suggest the U.S. government (Vice President Gore excepted) remained firm in its decision to reunite the boy with his father. "The issue is not whether we will transfer Elian to his father, but when and how," 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...