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...residents of Little Havana, this has been, from the start, a passion play. Elian was the Miracle Child, delivered from the sea for a sacred purpose, and so it was no surprise that when they awoke Saturday morning to news of his seizure, the exiles arrived in force, one man carrying a crucifix with a bloody doll nailed to it, and accused Janet Reno of playing Pontius Pilate. For Elian's Miami relatives, the morning was a kind of death, after five months of hope and power and fame and the satisfactions of righteous rage...
...immediate rescue: Juan Miguel had promised to stay in the country through the appeals; the court order made that promise stick, so the relatives had no reason to worry about Elian suddenly disappearing; and, most of all, Elian needed to be with his father, and away from Little Havana's media circus. Normally dry as talc, Reno at one point waxed nostalgic about the Miami of her childhood. She said she wanted to make a move soon. "Her feeling was the boy needs to get out of there and get to his father," said a participant...
...heart of Little Havana, there was a gauntlet of concrete benches, garbage Dumpsters, newspaper boxes, STOP signs, chairs and other objects thrown into the wide streets and burned. "We are peaceful people. We are not violent. Look at what they have turned us into," says Alex Lugo, 34, a math teacher. "Janet Reno is a coward. We want the world to understand that Janet Reno and Fidel Castro have hurt this little...
...Elian Gonzalez saga is all over but the shouting, and while there'll be plenty of that, it's unlikely to materially affect the outcome. Cuban-Americans vented their anger in Miami Tuesday by closing down Little Havana in a "general strike," while Attorney General Janet Reno next week faces a Senate into the raid that reunited the boy with his father. The Miami relatives asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to appoint a guardian to monitor Elian's wellbeing, having been frustrated for four days in their efforts to see the boy because Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants more...
...Elian Gonzalez saga is all over but the shouting, and while there'll be plenty of that, it's unlikely to materially affect the outcome. Cuban-Americans vented their anger in Miami Tuesday by closing down Little Havana in a "general strike," while Attorney General Janet Reno was called to a meeting with U.S. senators to account for the tactics used in reuniting the boy with his father. And as the Miami relatives were turned away from Andrews Air Force Base for a fourth successive day because Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants more time alone with his son before...