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...American public and its elected representatives has moved on, with two thirds of the electorate having consistently favored Juan Miguel Gonzalez's right to take his son home and once-angry legislators having quietly allowed plans for a congressional inquiry into the Easter Saturday raid on the Little Havana home to drift off into the ether. The story that had supplanted the death of Princess Diana and stood second only to the O. J. Simpson trial in the extent of network news coverage had all but disappeared from the media over the past six weeks, as Elian and five Cuban...
...small overnight protest gathering in Miami's Little Havana seemed to epitomize the fate of the losing side of the Elian Gonzalez case. The demonstrators had gathered outside what had been the home of Lazaro Gonzalez in anticipation of the ruling to be handed down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, but Mr. Gonzalez - like Elian himself - no longer lives there. The court upheld the Justice Department's decision to send Elian home to his father, dismissing the Miami relatives' claim that the six-year-old is entitled to file an asylum request independently of his father...
...news for Fidel Castro and for his fiercest opponents in Miami, who've both used Elian's fate to rally their supporters behind decades-old banners. The extended Gonzalez family are, in the end, simply the latest victims of the epic mutual hatred with which the Cuban leaderships in Havana and Miami have symbiotically sustained each other for almost 40 years...
...HAVANA BALL The Cuban-American community was (again) outraged last week, when a new photo of Elian was released. Was it the Pioneer scarf instead of the TV-show T shirt, the lack of sunglasses or the switching of a $129 scooter for two wooden sticks...
...Castro had held a U.S. citizen this long, the Marine Corps flag would be flying over the rubble that once was Havana." DON BARKER Nashville, Tenn...