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To: marginmike who wrote (1665)	4/24/2000 6:09:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12236

There is a set amount allowed and I suppose some more leaks through contrary to UN sanctions. With the shortage of oil [actually a high price rather than a shortage] there will suddenly be a change of mind and it will be okay for Saddam to sell all his oil and buy another 100 palaces and hire another million soldiers. As long as he stays in his cage, the USA and UN won't worry. Meanwhile, check out the wacky Wall Street Journal article [assuming it's not a fake]. Message 13486149 The stupid writer didn't mention Elian's father once [okay, once, sort of in passing as though he's some prisoner of Castro] nor the two grandmothers at all. I'm amazed that some people seem to think it bad that the USA took Elian away from those people in Miami and delivered him to his sole surviving parent. If the USA stops them returning to Cuba, that will be reminiscent of the USSR stopping people fleeing the evil empire. I didn't know that the USA can take ownership of children against their parent's wishes. It's all great theatre! A real test of wackiness. Who even knows what a 'great uncle' is. How many think a great uncle or a 'cousin' [I suppose they mean a third cousin once removed since she appears to be a descendant of the 'great uncle'] should make decisions rather than a father? Where is the 'cousin's' mother? Where is the great uncle's wife? Those who are against Elian being with his father have passed the wacky test. I would not want to get him from a house of crazed Cubans who are more than likely to offer armed resistance in a city with hundreds of people armed to the teeth and angry. Those Cubans obviously didn't care about Elian to avoid the drama by simply returning him, walking hand in hand, as requested by his father. I bet Reno was scared witless that there'd be another lot of mayhem and murder! No wonder she dithered so long before enforcing the law. The Wall Street Journal doesn't like QUALCOMM either! What a wacky paper. Fancy publishing nonsense like that. Mqurice