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...ahead in the court battle, but the relatives fighting to keep Elian Gonzalez in Miami aren't about to concede defeat. Facing a last chance Wednesday to accept an INS demand that he sign a commitment to peacefully surrender the boy if they lose their legal appeal - or else lose his temporary custody of Elian on Thursday - Lazaro Gonzalez and his family appear to remain defiant. The only circumstance under which they'd surrender the boy, his daughter Marisleysis told CNN Tuesday, was if Elian's father came to their home in Miami and the boy wanted to leave with...
...Miami family and their backers may be calling the government's bluff, on the assumption that fear of a potentially violent confrontation with the Cuban exile activists guarding Lazaro Gonzalez's home - who have vowed to die before allowing the boy to leave - may restrain the government from going in and collecting Elian. "Remember, Al Gore needs Florida votes," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "From what we've see so far, the Clinton administration has little stomach for enforcing its decision to return Elian to Cuba." The government has threatened to revoke Elian's parole status by Thursday...
...along with John, it plans to beatify Pope PIUS IX. The earlier Pius had the longest reign in history (1846-78), but he plagued Rome's Jews, repealing civil rights and forcing them back into the ghetto. He also had a role in the kidnapping of a Jewish boy named Edgardo Mortara, who had been baptized by a Catholic servant. Despite an international outcry, Pius acted as a surrogate father to the child, who later became a priest. Italian Jews are nonplussed. "The beatification of Pius IX exalts a symbol that still represents a wound," says community leader Amos Luzzatto...
...interview was broadcast Monday - may be a sign of desperation. The Miami relatives had long resisted the temptation, knowing full well how badly Middle America might judge their forcing a bereaved and confused child to share his pain on TV. But with the legal tide running against them, the boy's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez and his backers in the Cuban exile community may be gambling on more desperate measures to stop the U.S. government from implementing its decision to return the boy to his father. The segment broadcast Monday shows Elian recounting the trauma of his mother's death...
...Lawyers for the Miami relatives, meanwhile, have accepted the Justice Department ultimatum to agree to an expedited appeal process. They filed papers Monday calling for a speedy ruling in their appeal against a federal judge's decision that upheld the government's ruling that the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, remains Elian's legal guardian, and that he should therefore be sent home in accordance with his guardian's wishes. A decision may come within a week, but even that may not bring the matter to a close. "If they lose in the courts, the Miami family may again...