Word: lazaro
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...time, she gave him five more minutes to work something out. When the five-minute deadline came and went, Reno told Podhurst his time was up, but she remained on the phone, not talking but on hold while Podhurst tried to get the family lawyers to wake up Lazaro and change his mind. Reno later explained that even at this late hour she wanted to go the extra mile. "She's always looking for consensus," observed a longtime Reno watcher a few days before the raid. "She wants Lazaro to be happy, Juan Miguel to be happy, the Justice Department...
...Lazaro Gonzalez ran into the front yard and collapsed. Dalrymple screamed, "Bastards!" as he, too, ran to the front yard and hurled plastic milk crates at the agents. "It was a horror show," he says. As the motorcade drove off, agent Jim Goldman called INS headquarters to report that Elian was scared and shaken, but safe. Goldman said he was stroking Elian's back, while Mills told him of his coming reunion with Papa. "This is one tough little kid," Goldman marveled. "I was shaking...
Just before 5 p.m., Reno was sufficiently encouraged to brief Clinton on the deal. By midnight the feds had put a nine-point plan on the table: Lazaro and his family would hand over Elian to the government at 3:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Miami; the family would be put up at a hotel under guard and driven the next day to Washington. (The relatives claimed they didn't want Elian to fly. Justice officials assumed someone else in the family had a fear of flying, but agreed to chauffeur them to Washington anyway.) Once in Washington...
Craig, working in his office, put the deal to Juan Miguel after midnight. Initially the father balked at the idea of living anywhere close to Lazaro, but after some calls back and forth, he agreed. But at this point the accounts diverge: federal officials say Lazaro and his kin objected to all sorts of conditions and kept wanting to add new ones. It wasn't even clear who was making the decisions. "We were never able to say Lazaro Gonzalez had agreed with anything," says an official. "It was never clear who the lead lawyer was, and that made...
...anything took the wind out of the demonstrations, it was the fact that the leading players had exited the stage. By mid-afternoon, Lazaro and his relatives and Dalrymple had hopped a flight to Washington to force a meeting with Juan Miguel, or Bill Clinton, or whatever sympathetic Congressman they could get to take them in. Juan Miguel refused to meet with his kin, and they were turned away at the gates of Andrews Air Force Base...