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Although the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ruled last week that Elian's father Juan Miguel Gonzalez has the right to call him back to Cuba, the fight over the boy's future isn't done yet. On Friday Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican, issued a congressional subpoena designed to freeze Elian's repatriation, at least until his American relatives have a chance to appeal it in court...
...vacation. That all this will end soon. But isn't it time to bring this vacation, which began for Elian in the early-morning hours of Nov. 21, to an end? Isn't it time to help him understand the awful truth about what happened to his mother? The boy seems so completely a product of two loving parents--who suffered seven miscarriages before he was born and chose as his name an elision of theirs, Elizabet and Juan--that the thing we reflexively want to do is restore to him what is left of his family...
...Though conservatives regularly uphold the sanctity of the family against intrusions by the government, Helms and others have reversed course in this case. Explains Jose Garcia Pedrosa, a lawyer fighting to keep Elian in the U.S.: "Which kind of a family is a less important factor in how this boy should be raised than which kind of state...
...obligation of U.S. officials. Castro, who has used the incident to whip up anti-U.S. feelings at home, barred Juan Miguel from making the trip, probably fearful of a defection. "This is a case of common sense," said Ricardo Alarcon, the president of Cuba's National Assembly. "This boy has to be returned here as soon as possible." The INS is committed to having the boy...
...little boy is caught up in a high-profile tug-of-war between two families and two cultures. A parent wants him back, but politically influential adults say they can offer him a better life. This might sound like Elian Gonzalez, but instead it's the case all of Chicago was talking about last week: Baby T, the toddler taken from a drug-abusing black mother and given to a powerful white Democratic politician and his wife, a state court judge...