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No wonder Havana wants the Elian Gonzalez case settled in Washington rather than in Miami's courts. TIME has learned that a political consultant who has been at the forefront of efforts to keep Elian in the U.S. and has acted as a spokesman for the boy's Miami relatives...
Judge Rodriguez has ordered a full hearing on March 6, to which Elian's father would be invited to travel from Cuba. But Juan Gonzalez and the Cuban government have, until now, rejected the option of his traveling to Miami for a family court hearing, charging that Florida's courts...
If Ehud Barak thought dealing with the Syrians was hard, wait till he faces the Israelis. The Israeli prime minister returned home from peace talks with Syria and the U.S. Tuesday to news that up to 100,000 Israelis had taken to the streets of Tel Aviv Monday night to...
Peace talks are to resume on January 19 after a tortuous week of negotiations in Shepherdstown, W. Va., wrapped up Monday without getting much beyond establishing an agenda. "Most of the first week was spent arguing over what would be negotiated first," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller. "The...
You've got to hand it to the cigarette makers. Even in the competitive field of corporate double-talk, they've cornered the market on denial and legal foot-dragging. Just a year or so after finally admitting that cigarettes do in fact cause serious health problems, and only 10...