Word: offing
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In the past couple of years, high-speed powerboats have begun making the run, smuggling human cargo in a matter of hours for thousands of dollars a head. (Some poor Cubans, who can't afford the steep price, pay their way with exotic birds captured in the forest and sold...
The man who arrived to carry Elizabet and Elian to the promised land was no Cigaret-boat pro. Lazaro Munero, 24, was a maceta, a hustler. He had been seeing Elizabet since 1997, when she was divorced from Elian's father. In the summer of 1998, Munero and three friends...
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On Dec. 13, as U.S. officials began to sort through the details of the case--and, according to some, to look for reasons not to send Elian back--a U.S. immigration officer stationed in Cuba met with Elian's father Juan Miguel at his Cardenas home (without Cuban officials present...
And so he shall be, U.S. officials ruled. They had hoped Juan Miguel would come to Miami to pick Elian up, but the father insists that returning Elian is the obligation of U.S. officials. Castro, who has used the incident to whip up anti-U.S. feelings at home, barred...