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...Though the family says it has done nothing to turn the child against his father, relatives did not hesitate to tell him about the horrors of his native country whenever they had the chance--which may help explain the fear Elian is said to express when asked about seeing his father and returning to Cuba. Says a Miami child psychiatrist, who was asked by the Miami family to evaluate Elian but declined because he "didn't want to get sucked into the politics" of the situation: "Of course he's afraid of being reunited with his father--because...
...they said if he just came to the U.S. they would turn Elian over. Last week when he appeared, a thousand conditions had bloomed. In one breath the relatives promise they will obey the law, but they seem to mean only the laws that work to their advantage. Even though the courts ruled last month that this was an issue for the INS and not a custody fight that belonged in family court, the Miami relatives say they won't be satisfied until local Florida judges--the elected ones most sensitive to the Cuban-exile community--have a chance...
...commonplace scene in the nation's capital. At about two o'clock, the President of the U.S. walked out from his scheduled appearance there--a slot on his calendar, nothing unusual in the life of a President. He turned, smiled, waved to the gathered crowd, squinting a little even though the day was dull, maybe to see better because he's nearsighted and didn't always wear his contact lenses. Then came the gunshots. So quick, not loud at all. The President was shoved into his limousine. A young blond man with wide, unblinking eyes was wrestled to the ground...
...Though Mori was known as a skilled debater at Waseda, he has lately distinguished himself more for loose lips than silver-tongued oratory. For example, he has inelegantly described Osaka as a "spittoon" and "a dirty city that thinks only about making money." Last January, reflecting on the difficulties of campaigning in enemy territory, he said that "all the farmers in the field ran away as if someone with AIDS was knocking on their door." In February, he asserted that the Americans had all "bought guns" in preparation for the Y2K bug "because when electrical power fails...
...Rwandan tradition, if a boy meets a girl and decides he loves her, he finds her father, and negotiations begin. It is called an inkwano--the price a prospective bridegroom must pay the bride's family. Since this was a refugee camp, though, and personal survival, never mind personal wealth, was hard to come by, the bridal price was below market: one cow, payable in some distant future when Rwandan Hutu would have cows and land to graze them on. A Catholic priest presided over the ceremony, attended by the other refugees from Havamungo's Rwankogoto village and sealed...